Aww no i put it under wet soil while waiting for respond..

I put it back where i found it like you describe!

I hope it still looks healthy even i make it wait under soil for a hour and add a little amount of water

It will be fine. I always put soil on top of the root but leave the end of the leaf open, because that is where the leaves will form, and start watering a little if the leaf looks dried-out like yours is

i put it under soil but leave the starting of root and water it a little

like that

looks good to me

No water, no water, no water. Pls., WHAT PART OF NO WATER is unclear to you?

"WHAT PART OF NO WATER is unclear to you?"

...wow...why...?

Desen is getting conflicting information. Probably confused as to who and what is best to follow. Water. Don't water. More than understandable as to how the confusion could occur. If one forum member has more experience than another and Desen is asking for advice, how would Desen know whose advice to follow? ...or NOT follow?

Tyler

Hey Desen, exciting to watch them grow huh?? Your little leaf will make a new plant with very little help from us:-) But it's upside down, and better if you always put the succulent leaves on the edge/side, that way you don;t need to know which is the top or bottom side of the leaf. No water is better, but a little if the leaf is shriveled is not bad advice,just better to wait and water once it starts to grow. With succulents less water is always better than too much:-) Enjoy!!! and after this success you can gently pluck some more lower leaves and grow even more plants!!:-)

im sorry Karen.. i cant say that i know much about succulents and im just trying to learn here. I searched on internet too but advices were confusin again.. But i still want to take care of them best and learn more

Stewart
yes im very confused and you can tell that i have no experience at all. Just trying to take care of them best.

lisa!
Very excited to watch them grow :). Im not a serious hobbyist or growing plants is not my job heheh. Just a 15 year old trying to keep her plants happy and excited to see the baby echeverias! Thank for lettin me know its upside down! I will just turn it put it on soil and wont water i guess!

In the initial response, I gave clear & detailed instructions. But she couldn't wait for a response before watering. There was nothing conflicting, just the OP's lack of patience.

I know you did Karen and thank you for your help. Well sorry that i was open for another suggestions too

looks bad?

@ Karen: Because you are convinced that your approach is the only way and everyone else is wrong, impatient or perhaps stupid.

Just for the record here are my pachys - this type is notoriously difficult to get to grow. After many failed attempts by normal methods I decided to drop them into a container of water for 24 hours and then put them back on the soil. Suddenly, a few days days later, I had roots. I covered the roots with soil, watered and now I have leaves. They are still being watered whenever the soil is dry.

There are many different ways ppl root the leaves - my method is: forget about them :) What I mean by that, is not to be 'helicopter mom' and constantly fuss about them, over water, overspray, lift/disturb all the times to see if they are rooting...

Leaves could be just laying on surface of mix. Or stuck in it. Many will root without any soil - here is photo (again!) of the leaves that were left sitting on a saucer; I left them there on purpose to be able to show how they grow without soil and water - I am not saying they should be 'tortured' like this, and probably not all plants will respond this way (2 different plants); I am just showing that they need to be hovered over:

(Photo above was just taken now, and I have showed the progress before.)
They should be kept in bright spot but not in strong sunlight. They should have good air circulation. And above all, should not be constantly disturbed.

Mother leaf has lots of moisture and that is usually enough for roots and/or plantlet to start growing. Mother leaf should be left on until it is 'spent' - it will eventually dry up, shrivel and detach.

I don't water or spray them until the mother leaf is almost gone. They are more-or-less ignored, so they can do what they want to do. Not all of the leaves will grow, and some plants are more difficult than others. Some will not propagate from leaves at all. It doesn't happen overnight, some will grow in days, some will take weeks or even months.

Nik finds pachies difficult - I don't. It may depend on species, maybe climate/temps - I don't know.

I usually pot them up into their own pots when bigger and container gets crowded - now I wait even longer before doing it than I did when photo below was taken:

I also propagate hundreds of succulents from leaf cuttings a season. It's super simple. I break off leafs and let them sit laid out in a tray in lower light than what they were in so they so t all burn and shrivel up. i don't touch them (sometimes for a month) until they grow roots and little rosettes. Once this is done I break out new media and a plug tray or pit and I lay them down on the soil and allow them to start letting their roots find the soil. It's super easy and eventually as the leaf gets smaller and leafs start to disappear I'll sprinkle them with water when I water my other succulents. The trick is to ignore them til they have roots and little rosettes, which can also be the hard part.

Few more, growing right now:

Rina, your pachys seem to have a pointed tip, what species is that? Mine has a completely round end and I still haven't figured out what they are. They are typical pachys in that they shed their leaves if you so much as look at them. My neighbour, whose plant these leaves come from says that in all the years he's had it and had it shed, not one of the shed leaves has ever made roots or anything else

They all look so little and healthy!! Love it! I guess there is no exact right way to propagate from echeveria leafs! Hoping mine will be successful too!

and i notice those roots on these succulents which i circle with blue pen. What are these? Roots come from like the parts i cut some of the leaves (i sent the photo of leaves too) and i notice little leaf coming out! Circled with green pen.

i think i will try to propagate more and i will learn from mistakes :)

Nik

Pachyphytum 'Blue haze' are the longer leaves; in next post in oval dish there are also P. oviferum (at least I think that they are) - more oval and shorter leaves.

thanks! but i meant that they started to grow roots from the parts that i cut the leaf! Why they do that?

When I look at P. Oviferum, some have a slight point and some don't, that's why I'm unsure of mine, I think it may be some kind of hybrid

It's not uncommon for that to happen, Desen

Great thread, God bless the internet when I can talk to someone in Turkey who is experiencing something I experience everyday!!!! No, I am not religious, OK maybe succureligious. There ARE many ways to grow, water propagation even, but you need to know, or learn how to do it. or heck, just fail over and over again until you figure it out, like Edison, you will! People don't grow plants because they want to be patient and do nothing. They want to help nature, touch nature....water nature, see nature grow something from nothing.

Thanks nik!! Im not good at spotting succulent names though. I will just give them human names like i usually do? (For example my fittonia's name is Belladonna and my fly trap's name is Constantine) It's easier to memorize lol

Desen, just keep at it. You'll get there. Believe me, there are PLENTY of giving, knowledgable, FRIENDLY, patient people here who are happy to share their experience and advice with all of us new and not so new succulent admirers. Everybody can't know everything about every plant so even people who have a lot of experience can learn something new from others who have more expertise or just a different experience with a particular plant.

Best of luck. Keep trying. Keep asking questions. By far, there are more friendly than unfriendly people here. Ignore the unfriendly ones (as you can see most forum members do by not even bothering to dignify some posts with a response) and get what information you can from the rest.

This is a safe place to ask questions, share your successes as well as your failures. We all learn from each other, the good as well as the not so good. No judging going on here.

Tyler

lisa
oh wow you really speak what exactly i was think! I really didn't buy those cheap but cutie plants just to be all serious about them! I give them human names and i talk to them about my day while i take care of them lol. Bought them so i can leave my school or daily life stress behind and connect with nature which is hard to find in crowded cities! Well but i wouldn't be here learning more and more with every question i ask and every respond i get from amazing people around the world!
Being succureligious is good thing ;)

Tyler
just notice your name is probably Tyler so im sorry for confusion! (called you Stewart before heheh)

This forum is really the safest and friendliest one i found! Its full of people who wants to help others without any expectations! I really learned lots of new things here. And possibly earned new friends! Succulent pals!
There is no succes if i stop trying! So i will be asking questions here or reading responds to other people's questions and learn more and more.
Im really so thankful to all of you that patiently replied my questions which i asked lots and lots before and now
Wish i could throw a big thank you party and bake you guys cookies :) (mmm chocolate chips)

ooh and i just notice you guys were talking about pachyphtum (oh my... im very bad at names) oops sorry! though you meant the photos i sent and misread it! silly me

These are some graptosedum 'bronze....' something.

Like a mentioned earlier I will collected a bunch of leaves lay them out in a tray with no soil until they callus and start to sprout roots and plantlettes after that I lay them in a plug tray or pot and start watering. Easy peasy!

Very cute shade of red!

Desen

If I may, I would encourage you to try to remember - or make notes next to a photo - proper, botanical names of plants. Nothing wrong with you giving them any name you like, BUT: if you are looking for any info about the plant, you need to know it's proper name. Many have common name by what they are known, but the common names could be quite misleading since sometimes, same name is given to completely different plants. Good example: zebra plant - a common name often used for two different Haworthia succulents; and also for a plant Aphelandra squarrosa - #3 (now that is hard to remember name!!!). See photos below (photos from internet) - they are different plants:

1:

2:

3:

So keep calling your plants names you like - but also keep record of a botanical name so you can look it up when needed. Easy to do on computer - if you keep photos in files, you could name the file folder your favorite name for that plant, but also make a note of botanical name.

(Btw, you are picking pretty good names...Belladonna, Constantine...:)

about the names- if you can try to use scientific names for the forum and your personal names for them for yourself. trust me, you will start to be able to name them. When I first began I had no clue about anything, and I still am learning. But now I can go to Home Depot and know the exact names of common succulents on the spot! You could put a little label on their pot if you can't remember the name. I used to do that:)

rina and succulentss

thank you so much for your advice. I will be more careful about names from now on! I sometimes know about their common names but like rina said i had some confusions when i searched my plants with common names. Now i understand why its important

Desen,

I just saw the part of your comments that said

"Just a 15 year old ..."

that alone makes me apologize. If I'd understood you were a youngster I would have been more gentle & understanding of your excitement / impatience.

I am sorry for being harsh w/ you. Good for you for being interested in & determined to learn more about growing.

Karen

Karen

apology accepted! :) I know i should have be more patient Karen and thats my fault to not waiting for responds so im sorry too.But im sure i will be more patient from now on!