they're healthy, growing fast and chunky but I'm starting to wonder about the original leaf. How does it works? do they absorb it when they lack nutrients and/or water? does it always get reabsorbed or do some just randomly keep it?
also, I have one microscopic green blob that already discarded it's leaf and just float in the air at the end of two roots (quite a curiosity, hope it's going to make it).
by SycheosChaos
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I find that if I water them regularly then they keep the mother leaf longer. Usually I just wait till the mother leaf dries out them water. Also I do have a couple plants that never discarded the mother leaf, like my Crassula justeyis-corderoyi, but its gotten big enough now that you can’t tell.
There is no need to make sure the mother leaf gets absorbed. It will continue to provide for the offset even if it has its own roots. In some cases it was still attached even when the new plant was almost bigger than the leaf. Some are even able to reuse it for another propagation again when removing the mother leaf from the new offset.
Make sure to only water when the mother leaf needs water because you will make it rot. I lost one like that. ☹️