Help me understand this 🤔
I saw a YouTube short where someone carefully plucked all leaves of an aeonium head, and that resulted in an explosion of new heads. So I sacrificed one of my propagations to science, and I'm mind blown at how well it worked!
(Sadly, mealybugs are also mindblown 😑 I'm finding baby mealybugs in between the rosettes every day, and they're so had to remove with a q-tip and alcohol. I also used a spray for mealybugs, but they keep coming back...)
Anyway, scroll the pics to move back in time.
Now I'm wondering. Does this work if you deflower the bottom half of the rosette? The top half? A narrow middle section ring? Will different types of aeonium respond differently? I need to know!
Once leaves drop naturally, it seems a lot more difficult to stimulate that bare area to branch. When I cut a head off the mother plant, it only produced two new heads. Deflowering doesn't produce new plants, but it seems to work much better for branching and getting a super full aeonium.
Would love to hear about your experiments!!!