How to Propagate Succulents from Leaves

Heres how I successfully propagate succulents from their leaves! Have fun!

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[MultiRain]

Do you water them like a normal succulent?

[r.a.o.h.]

Mom said I can only buy one succulent. So I am going to try to grow my own 🙃 she didn't say anything about that

[NikkiJeanAtterberry]

Finally a video that shows what to do with the original leaf! All the other videos I watched they just *magically* disappear lol

[ItsChristy]

I love your confidence, just yanking leaves off like 'no biggie, ' I'm afraid if I just look at them funny they'll die. 😂 Very informative, beautiful centerpiece. Thank you!

[terieharrington]

I agree, this is the only site that tells you clearly how to take care of your succulents 👏

[NEnigma]

I’m so glad you mentioned that you can just drop them in soil without letting them callous first. Succulents are meant to reproduce, so they drop leaves to survive and re-propagate themselves! I’ve never had to let them callous! Also, I never leave them on their side like you shows I literally just take a leaf and put in in the dirt and it becomes a whole new plant! I have copious succulents by doing this method. It’s very hard to mess up a succulent propagation!
Out here in California, all we do is just drop succulent leaves in areas where we want them to grow and they grow! We never worry about the soil or fussing over the water or light. They are resilient plants and humans make it too complicated! I’ve tested this out by planting the succulent leaves in various kinds of dirt/terrain and then I come back to check on them a month or so later, and they were alive and growing! No need to be so fussy! Just let them do their thing!

[dfinite]

I have been taught that it is important to leave the orig leaf on, because the baby plant gets it’s nutrients from the original leaf. In time, that original leaf will wither, and will detach itself, when the baby doesn’t need it anymore, and is mature enough to get it’s nutrients from its own roots that by then, have grown into the soil.

[isabellaep]

i love heading to lowe’s and taking the already fallen leaves!

[NY-]

Ok, I laughed at the gigantic water sprayer. It's almost taller than you in the video! Too funny. (But hey, it works!)

[gforcekaras]

Interesting. You're the only video that don't let the leaves callous out. Saves me 3-5 days of waiting! Thanks for the tutorial!

[howtowithelizabeth]

People may claim this is fake NOPE just be careful taking the leaves off and it works 🙂

I have a ton going myself at the moment


Also if they get “leggy” or stretched out cut them down pull the leaves and continuing watering the stem it will grow new leaf bunches and become bushy

For the tops pull the leaves off so there’s about half an inch to an inch of stem, let it callus then plant it and the top part will also root (if given the right conditions) 😁

I also tried this with my leggy propagations and it’s surprisingly working not only is the residual stem (which I left a few leaf nodes on) is growing new leaves the tops rooted along with the leaves rooting and growing into baby plants 🙂

I’d post pictures if I could

[maxxpyron]

That arrangement is gorgeous! Great video, it really helped me troubleshoot when I wasn't seeing any results with props. After watching this and following your advice, I've had way more success!

[Simplystf_]

I already know how to do it, I'm here just cause I love watching succulent babies become mature plants.

[MuMu-fuqe]

Your arrangements are goalssss. Right now mine are growing hella crazy but I haven't arranged them ever.

[koko]

Thank you. Yours is the only site that explains clearly how to take care of your succulents.

[arthurzackaryabrin]

I didn't know that this was actually possible!! One of my echeveria's lost a leaf today and I was so sad about it and thought I was doing something wrong so I did some research and found this video here!! Now I'm just really excited and will try to propagate with the leaf!! I'm so happy that I don't have to throw out the leafs!! It just feels weird to me to throw aways something from my plants.

[raystoric]

Thank you! I finally now know how to properly grow mines. I had no clue how to get it to look so gorgeous.

[kaytaylor]

Thank you!! I’ve watched 5 or six videos for the whole process, and you nailed it! Much appreciated. 🌈♥️🙏

[firstlast]

Great video, straight to the point without all the annoying fillers that other videos have.

[yolandapierce]

Would love to see a video on how you out the centerpiece together; it's gorgeous!