Growing jelly bean babies
My mother plant had grown too much out of the plant so I chopped some stems and prepared them to propagate by taking a few leaves out. I have heaps of leaves too! How do I propagate these carefully so I succeed? I had so many failed attempts at leaf propagation. Stem has worked wonderfully for me before. #HappyPlants #PropagationStation #JellyBeanPlant #SucculentLove #Succuquad
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I’m just doing my “jelly beans” now too. I propegate them like I do my others. Let the cut leaf tips dry out (1-2 days) then take a plate with slightly raised edge (I use either plastic water catcher trays or glass pie plate) fill with typical succulent soil mix. Then take each leaf and place on top of soil just pressing the dried end down a bit into the soil. I arrange them around in a spiral giving each about 1/4 inch of space. Then I wet them with a spritzer/spray bottle. Not to soak the soak but moist enough. I spritz them every day. After about a few weeks to a month you’ll see “florets” coming up. With their like 1/4-1/2 inch you take them out (you’ll see they e got roots) and root them!
@LynGreenThumbs the last time I propagated these, I put the dried end into the soil, like what you did and I didn’t have a ton of success. The next time, I laid them on the soil and just pushed the dried in a tiny bit into the soil where you could still see the dried end and I had much better success. I’m not sure if that’s the reason why the first set failed, but the results were night and day. can someone else comment if this could be the reason for success/failure? I don’t want to mislead anyone with incorrect information. 
@SirStretchberry think they need more room. Their roots are going to spread out a bit. If you’re using those containers I’d put no more than three in the four-square black ones, half the amount in the clear circular one and same for reddish square container. And I agree with @RLsucculents about my comment. Don’t really need to push them in. Just the dried tips should “lean in” a bit more to encourage little roots to take! Most importantly I messed this up in the past by not misting them regularly. They’re relying on those leaves for life so the leaves need moisture way more than you’d ever give a rooted succulent!