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title: "attempting to propagate my succulent after its stems started…"
description: "attempting to propagate my succulent after its stems started blackening - cut off the seemingly healthy part of the stem and now waiting for ends to callus-…"
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community: "Propagating & Sowing"
author: "bea 🌿"
published: "2024-12-01T18:39:52.341999Z"
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# attempting to propagate my succulent after its stems started…

_Posted by bea 🌿 on 2024-12-01_

attempting to propagate my succulent after its stems started blackening - cut off the seemingly healthy part of the stem and now waiting for ends to callus- this is what it looks like after 2 days: the ends now look black inside, is it just dead now?

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## 2 comments

### Lisa commented on 2024-12-01

Two days is plenty. It doesn’t look dead to me. Just calloused like u want. I would just set them on the soil now. They will grow roots easily. Then plant them. OR, u could chop it again in the middle of each node stem that is bare and end up with lots of babies that would make a pretty full plant in the future! OR (lol), u could put each strand on top of soil and pin them down with paper clip pieces. Works like a charm.

### Wolfen 🐺 commented on 2024-12-01

If your concerned the fungal is in those too. You could clip again woth sanitized shears, and dip in peroxide. Then leave to callus over.

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