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title: "I love love love this plant but it's getting a little unruly. If I…"
description: "I love love love this plant but it's getting a little unruly. If I snip off the bottoms can I propagate them and how?"
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author: "MummaDeb"
published: "2024-05-31T16:20:51.511935Z"
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# I love love love this plant but it's getting a little unruly. If I…

_Posted by MummaDeb on 2024-05-31_

I love love love this plant but it's getting a little unruly. If I snip off the bottoms can I propagate them and how?

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## 10 comments

### Kirsten commented on 2024-05-31

I just took care of my unruly succulent that was looking wild. I cut the tops off of the crazy pieces and took off some of the leaves to make a longer stem and set aside for it to callous before planting back into the pot. Then I carefully removed the leaves off of the rest of the long stem and put aside to propagate. Attached is a pic of mine before!

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#### MummaDeb replied on 2024-06-01

Every time I take a leaf off of any of my succulents to try and propagate it, I follow all the directions I've seen in the YouTube videos and they always die anyway. Any hints? And after the ends that I cut off of the stem callous over,do I just stick them in some cactus soil? And then when do I water them? That's another problem. I always tend to water too soon and they rot. I'm growing succulents but I'm horrible propagating them.

#### MummaDeb replied on 2024-06-01

That was supposed to say I'm great at growing succulents but horrible it propagating them.

#### Kirsten replied on 2024-06-02

This is my first time propagating - all of my recommendations above were based on researching. The bigger hunks that I took off I read that they just need callousing and then can be put in cactus soil. I have read that dipping them in rooting powder helps which I grabbed some to try. As for the leaves, once they callous they go stem down in soil and get misted every couple days as far as I understand.

#### Kirsten replied on 2024-06-03

Following up with the status of my crazy sedum - I put some rooting powder on the stems I took off and repotted the whole plant in a new pot. Then I put some leaves in the pot with hopes that they will root themselves there :)

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### Chrissy commented on 2024-05-31

You can! I make so many props from mine it gets a little ridiculous.

### Cait2k3 commented on 2024-05-31

Cool plant what is it?!

#### MummaDeb replied on 2024-06-01

Mine says Golden sedum but there's no gold. lol

### Elle Woods commented on 2024-05-31

I second! What is it? 😃

### Kirsten commented on 2024-06-01

Golden Sedum!

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