The Crassula Capitella was the first succulent I owned that showed me there were different ways these plants could reproduce themselves. While pulling weeds one day I saw some new baby plants laying alongside the original plant. I can’t explain it, but I felt a kind of joy and excitement that comes with learning something new. Something new that you had never contemplated before about a subject you loved. If you look closely at this photo you can see the new plants that have dropped away from its mother plant:
Aren’t they gorgeous? This plant propagates by producing small plants on its stems. Some will fall to the ground, but you can also pick off the buds and replant them in soil to propagate. They also drop leaves that will grow roots, then a new plant will form. Not all the leaves will produce a plant, but most will. I gather them up, collecting them onto a plate and bring them over to my potting area:
Once I’m ready to plant them, if I don’t have a specific project I’m working on, I’ll just start to add them to whatever container I have to use. For this round of propagating, I used the large rectangular container pictured below. I’ve found it to be a great container to propagate a large amount of the same plant all at once. Then as I want to use them, I don’t have to search for that plant, but can go to the large container of them. I pull them out one at a time or as a bunch, and then reuse the space left behind for new babies as they are born.
Pick off one bud at a time, make a small hole in the soil, place bud into indentation:
Look at the beautiful green color you’ll see in the most healthy plants, these plants change colors depending on the weather, the water and the sun they get. The pastel coloring actually is a sign of stress, but nothing to worry about.
