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title: "Haworthia cooperi - What’s the best course of action for this guy? Do…"
description: "Haworthia cooperi - What’s the best course of action for this guy? Do I cut, propagate, use stakes?"
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community: "Propagating & Sowing"
author: "leaf"
published: "2025-12-18T21:33:42.643007Z"
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# Haworthia cooperi - What’s the best course of action for this guy? Do…

_Posted by leaf on 2025-12-18_

Haworthia cooperi - What’s the best course of action for this guy? Do I cut, propagate, use stakes?

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## 2 comments

### Waspinator commented on 2025-12-19

I would cut and just restart the whole thing as one big cutting. If you want to prop in addition to that, you could use some of the lower leaves for that; there's plenty of height to do both

### jlsKenzy commented on 2025-12-19

It even looks like you have pup that you could separate off too.

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