Welcome Pat! I agree with Lorn and Rick. I would pop off a few scales and put them in a bag with slightly damp vermiculite. It's not hard and easy to do. Once you pop them off, put them in your medium and I put my bags in an old shoe box to keep the light out. After they've reached sufficient size plant as you wish. Theres more info on the stickied thread, "Adventures in Scaling" at the top of this forum. Again, you could put the scales in the dirt outside but why play roulette when it's easy enough to do the best way.
