My work for today:

taking a whole lot of cuttings, and potting the rooted cuttings up.

Heres an Aeonium zwartkop that was propagated from a flowerstalk. You can tell by the scissors next to it what im gonna do...


various cuttings, rooted and unrooted. - lily pad, zwartkop, 'firecracker',


Im gonna be potting them up as you read this post, probably...

well doing a lot of propagation. I need to upgrade my space...
Got some 'velour', decorum, decorum variegate, and kiwi

Now is the season for Aeonium propagation!

That is not Zwartkop, which is purple and has flatter rosettes. I would not know what to call it, though. I don't know if it colors up in the sun.

You will get better results from your Aeonium propagations if you trim those long stems back to half an inch or roughly where the stem changes color from green to brown. There is no advantage in keeping a long stem (the bare, leafless kind anyway) when propagating Aeoniums.

No particular propagation pics here at the moment, so how about this offset I separated a month ago (with some roots), now established and growing in its new pot, and the mother plant, after having given up 9 offsets. And the grandmother, out in the public garden, busy with her own new family.





Here is a photo from a month ago showing what that offset looked like before being potted up.



I would consider those fairly good roots for a pretty careless agave separation (no disturbance to the rootball of the mother plant). Timing is everything.

Well... I thought it was Zwartkop... Someone sold me it as zwartkop...... DId I get cheated

Now I think its an Cyclops/voodoo type plant. The rosettes should get bigger with time...

Ive got another plant that I also bought as zwartkop... Can you confirm that its an zwartkop??

I don't think so.

Spend some time looking at the images on this page

Black Rose (Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop')

to get an idea of the range to expect, even under very low light conditions. If the plant is not mostly purple, it's not Zwartkop (assuming decent light). This is about as green as my plant ever gets, and only at the very center.



Note leaves are rather long, even in strong light.

ugh, well ill have to get an id on those in the future.

Well I potted all of the cuttings up. (don't worry I shortened the stems)

I have observed the following:
Cuttings with a pure new growth stem - that is not brown (Probably light pink/green) Root slower for most arboreum type species, and arboreum hybrids. An exception to this is Aeonium 'lily pad' which seems to root pretty well with a new growth stem.

Cuttings with a partially brown stem, at least 1 cm of old brown stem root faster, within 2 weeks.

Then again I grow lots of hybrids. Maybe the hybrids are more vigorous at rooting then pure species?

Well tomorrow I will be chopping some plants! Be heading an old bare stemmed Aeonium arboreum atropupureum. Its developing pups got burned in the hot california summer sun.

I tooks some cuttings of Aeonium Simsii today. I am actually letting them callous over (not my normal procedure with Aeonium cuttings) as they are quite green. I don't usually take cuttings when they are so young, but since the mother plant had some bugs, I decided it was time to take off all the pups.