A few months ago, I acquired an interesting plant. It’s doing quite well for itself.

Getting pretty big

The photo is a little dated. I took this back in May, when I was photographing the farmers’ market haul from that day. So, the plant has sprouted a few more leaves than it has in the picture here and probably is a little bit taller. Unfortunately, I knocked a few leaves off it about two weeks ago while reaching over it to try to crank open the window in my home office. (Hee, I have a home office!) Rather than just be sad and toss the dropped leaves, I’ve decided I’m going to play botanist and turn the leaves into new plants. This plant is a succulent, and many (most? all?) of them can be propagated from cuttings. My leaves broke off at the perfect places for propagating this kind of succulent, so I googled some info about it to make sure I was doing it right, or at least reasonably well enough. I don’t have a spare pot for succulents right now, so I’m taking a somewhat unorthodox approach.

Not quite a pot with a bag on it, buuuuut....

This photo was taken on Monday, after they’d been sitting in the soil for about two days. I let the broken ends dry up and scab over to prevent any kind of rot or fungus, then I actually did try keeping them in the pot with the parent plant. But I felt that trying to keep that soil moist enough for roots to grow would be too damaging for a more mature succulent, which led me to try the extremely makeshift greenhouse plastic baggy.

They’ve now been sitting like that for nearly a week, with only minor disruptions from me as I eagerly take a peek to see if I can see any roots growing. There’s nothing yet, but I’ve read that I might see something somewhere between 7-10 days. It’s so hard to have patience. I want plant success, especially with succulents! They are definitely my favorite kind.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do with these if they actually do sprout the roots. I guess I’ll see if/when the time comes.