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aeonium schwartzkoff
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Posted by hedgie qld aust (My Page) on Wed, Jan 14, 04 at 23:44
| Does anyone in SE Qld know anything about if these flower up here, Mine is about 3 years old and nearly 1m high still in a pot and has about seven of the black leaf rossettes. According to the ticket that came with it it should flower on the original stem in the winter and then that stem dies. Mine is looking a bit tattered and I don't know whether to take off all the branches and try to strike them, cut off the top and hope for the best or whaT. Help. |
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RE: aeonium schwartzkoff
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Hi Hedgie,
Aeoniums start looking pretty scraggly by the time they reach heights of about 2 feet. The reason being offcourse that, the leaves below the rosette die and fall off. Most of the time you do get bracnhes from down below, but that is not gauranteed. What I do, is to simply cut off the rosette , taking care to leave about 6 to 8 inches of stem on the rosette, leave it to callous and them plant in some good potting mix. The bare stem that is left behind, ususally gets about 2 to 8 offsets, that again grow into rosettes - a very pretty sight. Alternately, if you have a bare stem about a meter high, I would cut off pieces of the stem at 8 inch regular intervals, and plant each of them in order to get a large number of rosettes. I currently have 3 clumps of aeonium rosettes, out of which 2 of them are the schwartzkoff species. |
RE: aeonium schwartzkoff
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| Thanks a lot. I'll try that because i really like the plants and would hate to lose them. It is a bit intimidating to suddenly take to a plant with a pruning saw and cut it into bits but if I don't I think that it will just disappear. hedgie |
RE: aeonium schwartzkoff
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| Remember that Aeoniums are Winter growers. Maybe leave it a bit longer to behead ? |
RE: aeonium schwartzkoff
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| echemaniac is quite right. I would postpone the beheading to about end of autumn. |
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