I am new to gardening and have just moved into a place that has a beautiful Aeonium Arboreum Succulent Plant in front. Sadly, during my housewarming party someone stepped on it and many of the branches have broken off and the roots are pulled from the ground. What can I do to save it and help it regrow?? Thanks, Holly
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Re: Saving Succulents
Thu, February 23, 2006 - 11:15 AMtrim the dead branches and replant it. then dont touch it.
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Re: Saving Succulents
Fri, October 13, 2006 - 11:34 AMI love succulents for their hardiness.
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Re: Saving Succulents
Fri, November 24, 2006 - 8:41 AMAeonium arboreum can be propagated from the branches let the wound heal for a couple day 3-4. Then plant in a extremely porous mix. Water once then water when bone dry. -
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Re: Saving Succulents
Sun, November 26, 2006 - 4:41 PMI've actually saved damaged, dying, and in some cases ROTTING succulents by lopping their entire root systems off, then re-rooting the plant. Risky, but I've had some success this way. I had a jade someone gave me that had such severe rot that the rot had worked it's way halfway up the stems. Another plant was my mom's that had gotten torn to bits (she now has four of the same plant. ;-) )
If it's a serious case, might be worth the risk.
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Re: Saving Succulents
Mon, May 28, 2007 - 4:51 PMI have great luck propagating aeoniums by decapitating the rosettes (leave an inch of stem) , laying them on the ground, and watering them. Or sticking a longer broken stem (with a rosette) into ivy, or any other loosely growing ground cover. For your broken plant, I would trim what's left to it's best habit, and lay the rosettes at it's feet. sprinkle lightly daily. I have a brick retaining wall with vines on top, I lay snipped rosettes of the black aeonium on that (because they looked cool) , sprinkle with water periodically, and they root. They're kinda hard to kill.
good luck
