Should I prune more?
I gave my super leggy #FloristKalanchoe a haircut. I’ll propagate a lot from those cuttings. I have a few others propagating already. If it branches out from where I cut it, it’ll still be a trailing plant. It should be upright and compact, and the vines are pretty fragile. Maybe I should leave it and just grow the cuttings correctly. If the props work out, I can cut the mother way back. The roots are good
8” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 days ago
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Hey Kat! I’d probably trim it up. These little dudes are pretty resilient. You can trim towards the bottom leaves, and then just stick it back in the dirt, and it will root itself. You might have a little dieback, but it will bounce back. It’s very healthy though! If you don’t want to cut it back, you can always prop it up with a bamboo pole and some clips, but it will take over your pot pretty darn quick! 😂
@Idplantthat Thanks! I have some clonex goop to help props. I’ll dip them and stick them in the soil. I’ll chop the little one back, too. I’d like them to fill out the pot with healthy, upright plants. It sure is resilient. Somehow it never rotted and stayed alive for years of us not knowing it was a succulent
@DivineMelon93 I’m honestly not too surprised. These are super resilient plants. I guess that’s why they call them mother of a thousand! So just FYI when you cut them back, the stocks will turn brown and die back. What I did with some of mine was cut out the non-leafy stocks and cut it back to the soil, so that they promote growth from the bottom up. (If that makes sense.) And then any cuttings you have from them, just stick them back into the soil and a plant will grow from those that you put in. (I hope I’m making sense?? 😂) I mean even the stocks can be chopped and put back in, or just simply a leaf. This plant will just reproduce itself like crazy. It looks like it got leggy from trying to find light, they like a lot of light. 💡 ☺️😉 but it looks like it really loves 🥰 you all! It’s so green and great new growth.
@Idplantthat Omg, look how far apart the nodes are 😭 I’ve learned to never put them in a NNE facing window no matter how big it is. It was outside, but I had to bring it in bc it keeps raining by surprise. Now it’s sharing a huge grow light
@DivineMelon93 that’s what I do. I put them out for summer and in for winter. ❄️ They do it well! And they don’t mind grow lights. They are hilarious plants; they are the most laid-back, demanding plants I’ve ever had. They get Gumby-like when searching for lights. 😉 (okay? I really hope you know who Gumby is 🤣)
@Idplantthat I pruned a bit aggressively, but the shape was awful. I left some props with leaves and some without. We’ll see what roots
We received one as a gift. It's very full and full of blooms. BUT when reading about it I found that it is EXTREMELY toxic, even a taste of a fallen blossom is dangerous. We have 2 dogs and one is very curious and will taste anything. I moved it outdoors but once winter hits I will need to move it in. I'm afraid it will drop a blossom, I won't see it, and i will lose a dog. Any suggestions??
@ZanyTorgrass27 I would ask your vet about it. My dogs keep eating lantana, and we were super scared. The vet told us they would have to eat a ton of it to be a problem even though my dogs are very small. For the lantana on our property, I sprayed it with vinegar to make it unpleasent for the dogs. They stopped eating it. Some dogs are weird and like things they shouldn’t, so test vinegar on something safe first