This is a single cutting that branches at the soil line. It took a long time to reduce plants to the size where a cutting would be fine enough fit in a Chapstick cap:
Larger cutting in a Chapstick cap. Sempervivum in Chapstick cap on left. The wood block is just to keep the tiny pots from blowing over and spilling all the soil.
Great way to root Aeonium cuttings. Drill an appropriate size hole (very slightly wider than the stem) in a piece of 2x4. Leave a small rosette of leaves at the top of the cutting. Insert cutting into hole and forget about it. I leave them on my workbench in the basement where they get VERY little light. They'll remain viable for 6 months or more with no care at all, not even an occasional mist.
You don't have to be satisfied with the normal growth habit of a rosette of foliage on a long stem that wants to flop over on its side .... with maybe a branch here and there.
Al
