Mother Of Thousands Babies. Growing mother of thousands kalanchoe daigremontiana provides an attractive foliage houseplant though rarely blooming when kept indoors the flowers of this plant are insignificant with the most interesting feature being the baby plantlets continually appearing on the tips of the large leaves. I received my first mother of thousands as a gift and when i received the plant it was bursting with baby plantlets.
I have grown viable plants from the platelets of a pink butterfly only difference i have noticed is the mother of thousands green wide leaf nearly all the babies will root and the pink butterfly not all the babies will take root. I took a number of plantlets from my kalanchoe mother of thousands plant and put them on some moist soil. The plantlets on these leaves only grow at the end of the leaf near the tip.
Kalanchoe daigremontiana formerly known as bryophyllum daigremontianum and commonly called mother of thousands alligator plant or mexican hat plant is a succulent plant native to madagascar like other members of bryophyllum now included in the genus kalanchoe it can propagate vegetatively from plantlets that develop on its leaf margins.
Watch as they grow from tiny little plantlets fre. I m currently using black gold cactus mix for my cacti and succulents it contains pumice perlite and sand which allows it to dry out quicker. Kalanchoe daigremontiana formerly known as bryophyllum daigremontianum and commonly called mother of thousands alligator plant or mexican hat plant is a succulent plant native to madagascar like other members of bryophyllum now included in the genus kalanchoe it can propagate vegetatively from plantlets that develop on its leaf margins. Mother of millions on the other hand has very narrow leaves.