Hi!! My Silver King has a lot of babies and I was wondering how I go about starting new plants? Do I just snip the little buds off and plant them?

Hi Delight, to the Sempervivum Forum.
Can you take a photo of your plants? So we can see if the offsets are mature enough to separate from the mother rosette.
Can't wait to see them.

Hi! Thanks for the warm welcome!

Here is a picture of the mother plant and some of the babies. Also, does the mother plant need a larger pot? I'm not sure how rootbound these plants need to be :)

Thank you for all the help! It's so greatly appreciated

Delight, very healthy looking semps. Some of the offsets look like they might be mature enough. The best way to tell is on those larger offsets, look to see if you see small white roots starting to form. If so you can transplant them.

Delight, I see you don't have any Profile information. Like the area you live in, and the growing zone. First name is great also if you don't mind doing that?
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valleylynn said:I just sent you a few acorns to get you started.
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Hiya!! Thanks for the acorns. I updated as much as possible. I don't live in the states so I'm not sure how eligible I would be for raffles :)

If there are white roots do I just clip the baby off the little stalk or plant the whole stalk? Does the mother plant need transplanting into a larger pot?

I'm so thankful and grateful to have found this forum

Yeah!!! Look at you Victory. You can put your country?
You can still win the acorn raffle prize. You can buy badges with acorns.
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And sometimes things like books can be mailed. I know plants can't be mailed out of the U.S.

valleylynn said:Yeah!!! Look at you Victory. You can put your country?
You can still win the acorn raffle prize. You can buy badges with acorns.
https://garden.org/ideas/view/...

And sometimes things like books can be mailed. I know plants can't be mailed out of the U.S.

Oh awesome!! I will edit profile again

And I typed Victory, instead of Victoria.

Hahahaha it's no big deal

Hi Victoria and welcome... To answer your question about the stem (stolon) that attaches chicks to mother plant, I keep it attached to the chick because it helps anchor the new planting until it develops more roots, but I bet people have different ways of doing this.

Hi Victoria
Welcome to the forum.
I will be very interested to see how your semps do over the winter. I think if they are under some snow they should be fine even @ -30 C. My sister grows beautiful lilies in Gunn (north of Edmonton).
You don't have to cut the babies off. You can just give it a little tug and the stem should detach from the mother. Some semps grow a few roots on the stem but most of the roots grow from the bottom of the rosette. If you just press the rosette,gently onto a free draining soil mix, it will root all by itself. Greg's advice about keeping at least some of the stem and sticking it into the soil is what I do as well. It helps stablize the chick till it roots in. I see there is a tag in your pot.
Does your Semp have a name?

ricos said:Hi Victoria
Welcome to the forum.
I will be very interested to see how your semps do over the winter. I think if they are under some snow they should be fine even @ -30 C. My sister grows beautiful lilies in Gunn (north of Edmonton).
You don't have to cut the babies off. You can just give it a little tug and the stem should detach from the mother. Some semps grow a few roots on the stem but most of the roots grow from the bottom of the rosette. If you just press the rosette,gently onto a free draining soil mix, it will root all by itself. Greg's advice about keeping at least some of the stem and sticking it into the soil is what I do as well. It helps stablize the chick till it roots in. I see there is a tag in your pot.
Does your Semp have a name?

Hi! Thank you and Greg for the advice on keeping the stem. Some are definitely ready to re-pot. Here's a photo of the tag.

Cool to see the bilingual labels! Vivace has a nice sound to it!