This plant from several months ago, the leaf cluster stem coming towards the camera at the bottom:



Didn't notice then the branch was snapped right off the stem.

Neat part is that as it slowly droops, this plants is already sending tiny coarse roots down (from all the branches, but in this case I see why).

The roots on this barely broken branch just hit the pumice yesterday morning and have already latched.

Figure I can either:

leave it, let it root and cut it from the mother but hurt the roots if I transplant it which I probably would

cut the branch at the stem now and root it

excavate the 1/4" that taken hold, carve out enough substrate for a shallow dish of soil and pumice, some sharp sand if I still have some, and let it root into that, then sever it.

I'm thinking excavation.

Pictures coming but it's dark by the time I get a chance to take photos, sorry.

I think i would dig it out but cut it from the main plant and put it in another pot. To me plants seem to be good a healing themselves .But I have been wrong befoe.

herrwood said: I think i would dig it out but cut it from the main plant and put it in another pot. To me plants seem to be good a healing themselves .But I have been wrong befoe.

Thanks.

Tempted to crutch the branch and clean/seal the wound, might as well let it do what it wants.

Probably been like this since I got almost a year ago.

Should root fine regardless, but I assume it'll lean down even more as the roots take hold and the breaks opens.

Photos from mid-March:





Wonky lower stem.

I'd cut it off and pot now. Tough love?

Living in a very humid climate, I don't grow many succulent plants but I'd sprinkle ground cinnamon on the cut (both the main stem of the mother plant (if the branch breaks, or is removed), as well as the cut end of the removed stem. Cinnamon acts as a natural fungicide.

plantladylin said: Living in a very humid climate, I don't grow many succulent plants but I'd sprinkle ground cinnamon on the cut (both the main stem of the mother plant (if the branch breaks, or is removed), as well as the cut end of the removed stem. Cinnamon acts as a natural fungicide.

Good to know!

sallyg said: I'd cut it off and pot now. Tough love?

Tempted, definitely the easiest and most straightforward.

Really want to watch the roots do their thing on this one though.

I figure an extra kick from the stem while still connected can't hurt.

It being midsummer and ideal growing time, leans me to cutting now. Any other season, I agree, it could use the help.

It doesn't really matter. They root incredibly fast and the roots growing on it now won't pull it down further; they'll just prop it up eventually. Their branch connections are very weak and constantly break. Eventually they form big clumps.