Great problem to have :-)

Nice work. I love how easy the gritty mix is to use.

Josh

Hi Michael,

I see you're in PA. I'm in NYC & I'd pay postage & share them w/ my local plant society (to whom I gave some plants last Summer, thinking I'd have to downsize my collection to move). I also have friends in the local C&S Society as well, if there are so many.

I even have gritty mix for them. I don't use it but DO have some (a friend shared). How often do you water them in that? Way more often than I do now, maybe every 7-10 days.

I could always experiment, using some of that vs. a mostly pumice mix I usually make.

OR, if others are interested, give away the larger 4-5 pups & send me the smaller guys for postage & I'll grown them on for my Group.

They're lovely & look great in those pots, nice job!

I give any plants I have too many of away to friends and family. It is easy and it makes everyone happy. I just pot them up in little terra-cotta pots with a sheet of very basic care instructions and hope that the receivers follow them.

One can never have enough haworthias Michael! (Not in my opinion anyway.)

Just sit and enjoy them :-)

make little parcels and surprise all your succulentfriends.

Put them on Ebay. I sell my extras on our local equivalent of Ebay and it pays for my hobby.

I am in the same boat with having too many puppers from prolific succulents. And I have VERY limited room and well limited friends... They only take so many haha.

I live in a college town with lots of apartments and students, so I have started to just leave pots at people's doors who have succulents outside :) hehehe

I have put plants on the curb with a "free" sign for walkers to pick up (they do). Give to someone who works to take to the office, teachers like classroom plants, ask neighbors, put a ribbon around and make small gifts to receptionist in doctors office, etc. Who wouldn't like that? I wouldn't do any of that with cuttings but those are nicely rooted, fine pants

That's one prolific plant! It's hard to toss cuttings, but rooted ones are even more difficult to throw away.

Josh: I agree! I only wish some of my other plants had this same problem. :)

Karen: Sure, that could work! If you click on my profile, you should be able to send me a message and we can figure out the details. For established plants, I water roughly once a week, and they seem to do fine (it'll depend on climate, of course); I don't have a lot of experience with offsets, but my inclination would be to treat them about the same, although I'd be more careful to not let a week stretch out to two. There are probably more optimal approaches. :)

succulentsavvy: Good suggestion! I know my sister would like one.

Kevin: That would have been a lot faster, I'll have to remember that for next time! You have quite the colonies going there, and some nicely colored and variegated plants.

Conny: My heart agrees, but my shelf space doesn't. :(

Harry: I need to make more succulent friends!

s g: I figured people wouldn't buy these, if they can get them from a garden center, but maybe I'm wrong! It would be nice to offset my hobby somehow...

Gabby: Succulent-bombing strangers' doorsteps, I love it! Reminds me of having too much zucchini.

socks: I know if I were walking along and saw free succulents, I'd take one! Good idea about receptionists; maybe there are a few people at work who'd be interested.

I have given about 30 small jades (propagated from cuttings - they were all quite similar in size, so everybody was happy, haha) to my granddaughter one year to give to each of the classmates at the end of school year - it was her idea...and also donated bunch of plants for a sale to raise $$$ (also for school)...

Rina, those are very nice ideas!

Year later after giving plants to schoolmates, most of them still have the plant! These are all young kids - Grade 3...:) It seems to be bit of competition: my plant is growing...my plant is still alive...my plant has baby...

That's pretty impressive! I liked plants as a kid too, but I don't know if I would have been diligent enough to keep one alive for a whole year when I was that young. :)

It my be that she asks about them - I ask her about her plants (and pets - she has bearded dragon, a cat, also a bunny - it is Zoo there :) and she asks her friends. Otherwise, they would be just like one of the old toys - nice, but...there are new ones!

gifts!

Michael19, Since your mix seems to be 100% inorganic, I wonder how much you fertilize

You realize there is actually no such thing as too many offsets? :)

Manuel: I'm not super consistent, but on average I probably fertilize with dilute Foliage Pro (0.35 mL into 500 mL of water, I think that's 1/4 strength?) once or twice a month.

odyssey3: It is pretty fun having so many, once I figured out how to get rid of them!

If a plant wants to grow as a clump, let it be, why break it up like this?

Hi Michael,

Remember me? :>) Don't remember if I acknowledged receiving the pups, but DO recall popping a check in the mail for ya, trust you got it.

May I say I'd ease up a bit on the fertilizer, that seems rather frequent. Many folks grow succulents w/ little to no fertilizer. I use it maybe once a summer if I remember. For my Haws I'm going to try to remember to feed them in the Fall when they seem more active.

I suspect I'm underwatering my pups, I'll try to take some pix soon. I've got a few pots in different spots around the house to see which they prefer.

Thanks again for sharing the wealth! Hope mine grow up to be as cute as yours. Maybe I should use some of that Foliage Pro after all!

Andrew: Sure, that works too! For some of my plants I really like the clumped look. (For instance, I'm patiently waiting for my Mammillaria vetula ssp. gracilis to turn into a nice big clump.) For this Haworthia, I liked it better without quite so much company. :)

Karen: I'm so sorry! I basically never get mail at work, so I had completely forgotten to check my mailbox here. I just looked and there it was! You're right, many people on here use very little fertilizer. I decided to try to go with a little more often, but quite dilute, since my medium won't hold onto the fertilizer (unlike organic mixes); I think this is the model I've seen folks like Kevin use. (This very well might contribute to my abundance of pups.) But if I remember right, people like Rina hardly fertilize and still have great plants. I've been experimenting a bit with watering, stretching out the interval a bit more than usual (up to two weeks, usually I'd do 1 to 1 1/2), and so far many plants seem less plump, but otherwise doing fine. (The desert cacti, of course, haven't noticed a bit.) I'm definitely still learning. :)

michael19 nice roots (let alone the plant) can I kindly ask what type of soil do you use? is it a gritty mix?

Michael

You are right about my (non)-fertilizing....but I do not have plant growing so many offsets either! Maybe because of that? I get some but not so many. Except for Aloe rauhii, that had lots of offsets regardless any conditions it lived thru (some underwatering, am sure, and no fert in 4 yrs since I have it). What is in your gritty mix? - while it drains well, ingredients hold 'enough' water/ferts well. Your watering intervals could be just bit long?

Albert: Yes, it's a gritty mix. I've played around with different proportions, but right now I'm mostly using something like 30% Turface / 70% granite grit (all sifted). I used to include a small amount of perlite, but decided I didn't like it and it wasn't doing much.

Rina: I bet you're right. My current mix is around 30% Turface and 70% granite grit. I agree that with this mix (and this heat!) two weeks is on the long side; some of my otherwise plump Haworthia (like H. cooperi) aren't looking nearly as plump. I'll need to stop procrastinating so much. :)

Michael

It may help if you add some perlite; it has water holding capacity about 28% comparing to grit at approx. 15%, according to data supplied by ewwmayo -here-