The Flaming Katy or Kalanchoe is one of the lush flowering indoor plants that bring cheerful colors into the living room with their mostly red, pink or orange flowers. These plants are often only cultivated as an annual, but can also be encouraged to flower every year and also propagated quite easily by shoots or leaf cuttings. The only thing that the plant does not produce is offshoots, which only have to be separated from the mother plant and planted separately.

Flaming Katy's offshoots take root very easily

Almost always works: propagation via cuttings

The propagation of cuttings works excellently with the Flammenden Käthchen. The cut offshoots - you can use whole shoots or just individual leaves - root themselves very easily, so that you can grow a whole range of new plants easily, cheaply and quickly through your own breeding. The best time to cut the cuttings is immediately after flowering, although you can always remove the offshoots in spring or early summer. Conveniently, you combine the propagation with the resulting pruning.

Propagation via shoot cuttings

If you want to propagate the Kalanchoe using shoot cuttings, it is best to proceed as follows:

  • Cut off shoots that are about 10 to 15 centimeters long.
  • These should be healthy and not have flowers.
  • It is best to use a sharp and clean knife,
  • to avoid squeezing the plant and destroying sensitive pathways.
  • Let the cut surface dry for about a day.
  • Then plant the cuttings in a loose substrate.
  • This should be kept slightly moist, but not wet.
  • Place the plant pot in a light and warm location,
  • however, avoid direct sun.

Propagation via leaf cuttings

If you prefer to use leaf cuttings for propagation, you can proceed with individual large leaves as described above or in this way:

  • Cut off single large leaves.
  • Score the large leaf veins on these.
  • Place the leaf side, with the scored veins down, on the substrate.
  • Weight the blade down with a stone or something similar.
  • Periodically spray the leaf with water from an atomizer.

The new plants will emerge from the scratched leaf after a few weeks and can then be transplanted into individual pots once they have grown large enough.

tips

Instead of planting the shoot cuttings straight away, you can first root them in a glass of water.

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Vegetable garden