First, I'd like to apologize for my beginner's ignorance- I'm new to being a plant father and I've read a few articles to get started & used a plant identifier app to gain familiarity with the ones I have.
Secondly, yes, there are a lot of succulents here so I labelled them accordingly:
1: Echeveria perle von nurnberg from a bouquet of flowers my boyfriend got me.
2: Unidentified succulent (found on the ground from a plant store) within a pot of perhaps dead aeonium haworthii (they were abandoned from previous house owners in a weird plant pouch thing on a wall?).
3: An unidentified succulent that used to have hot pink roots that I've tried to bury to what I assume is the correct way (droppings from a plant store) and some jade money plant leaves I found at a park.
4+5: Two unidentified succulents I too found at a plant store floor.
I hope my question isn't too vague, but what do I do with them now that they have taken root?
I started with them laying on top of the soil and thankfully some roots appeared.
Though I am unsure if I stick them into the soil, leave them alone, or bury them in a certain way.
Do you notice anything wrong or out of place?
by ugliestasian
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I’m not very good with succulents but general advice for roots:
Don’t move the plant. Let the roots anchor undisturbed.
Bottom watering (butt chugging!) will help encourage the roots to go deeper in search of the water.
I think you could also start blowing on the surface dirt (or use a fan) to move some dirt on top of the roots slowly
I move them and any dirt they are attached to into a pot of succulent mix. Done.
Since succulents are so weird about water, I wait at least a week to water. I have two that I put in pots yesterday that I watered immediately, I’m looking forward to seeing if they progress differently.
Notably, not everything that gets roots makes it. Plants are funny like that. But most do.
So i had a perl von numberg just like that, had roots just like it and
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everything. It looked paper thin for so long. Now its finally taking off. The key is to leave that one alone. Since it has roots, they need to establish themselves in the soil and support the plant and supply the plant with nutrients and such. Its so hard because i always wanted to check it.. but it really is the only way. Gott a leave it be. And maybe get the soil atound it wet. The others generally are the same concept i usually let them do thier thing. With the baby plants and props they usually will root themselves as long as you dont pick them up and move them around. I hope i answered something.
I mean you pretty much just have a plant growing. You let it grow in dirt that’s usually how it works 🙂
Unless you intend to put them somewhere else you can just let the be, don’t pick them up anymore and they will root into the soil on their own. The ones with new plants coming out should stay connected to the momma leaf/part until it’s dried out, that bit is still providing nutrients to the baby plants
If you are going to repot I’d suggest doing as little as possible and let them do their thing, nature is smart.