Despite the recent plant mom trend, my username, and my appreciation for all things green, I haven’t invested too much on plants. Plants are easy to kill. Plants spruce up a room but can be quite finicky and ultimately you’re putting in all this effort for something that’s just pretty. I’m much more of a cat mom.
However, I got a few succulents because they are pretty kill-proof so they get along marvellously with my general neglect. The only way you can kill them is by caring too much ie. overwatering.
I attempted to propagate my succulents for the first time due to necessity. No, really. Literally all the leaves of one of my succulents fell off when I forgot to adjust my watering schedule with the changing seasons and one succulent got so overwatered to the point that its leaves fell off with barely a touch. The original plant became a stick and died shortly after.
So I Bing-ed* how to propagate succulents from a leaf and tried to salvage my succ with this last ditch effort.
Honestly? Propagating succulents is so exciting! Mainly because it’s actually working. For about 2 weeks, I had no idea if anything was happening. Then I saw something coming from the leaf. Then the sprout turned red and I started panicking – was I watering them too much? Not enough? So I decided to remedy this situation by doing nothing at all and now they’re doing pretty good! (Turns out the red thing was a root.) Like I said: kill-proof.
I’m so proud of my little sprouts. I check on them every morning and I like playing them plant music. My favourite album is “Plantasia” by Mort Garson. I like to think it makes them happy.
*There’s no Google in China. By the way, I am currently living in China.
