Hi, this is Nell Foster for eHow.com, and today I'm going to show you how to take a cutting of a Sedum. I have many Sedums in my own front yard, and I'm going to start here, with Sedum Angelina. It is a fairly common ground cover, as you can see, it started as just one small plant and it has spread all over the place. This is a tiny one, I'm going to take this right down here, on the stem and I'm going to get it as long as I possibly can. There's a few, little new ones coming on here. And then, I'm just going to take those off, I'm going to clean up the cut. And this one, because the stem is so small, you can probably just put it back in the ground, if you want to, or in a pot, or you can let it heal off for just a week. A lot of the succulents, you've got let them heal off a lot longer, but this one is actually such a small stem. You don't have to worry about that. And if you wanted to get a two to four inch plant, then you would probably want to take at least, probably about eight cuttings of these, eight cuttings, just to get a good size plant going on it. And what you would do, is you would put it in a very light mix, like a cactus mix. Or, you could put it in a light organic potting soil, that would be good too. And then, you keep it dry for a while, before you actually give it some water, because you want them to stay dry. So, they can really heal over. And the next one I'm going to show you, is the Burro's Tail Sedum, and that one is a Trailing Sedum. And I'm going to go in and take another cutting here, right here, here's a nice, good size one and a lot of leaves have already fallen off for me. So, you just pull them off here, and I'm going to leave this part here. And then, you'll, I always do my cuttings at an angle, that's how I learned, so I always do it that way. And then, I would just let it heal over a bit and then, you are ready to plant this Burro's Tail Sedum again. I'm going to show you how to take a cutting of one more Sedum. This one is Sedum Pork and Beans, or Jelly Beans Sedum. And these are floral snips, I use them to take cuttings of things that have smaller stems that, they're quite a stick. I don't need to use these on these, this is another kind of a succulent. And I would use these on these, as you can see, this is, this Kalanchoe has a really big stem. But for this one, this works just fine. And I would highly recommend for you have your clippers as clean and as sharpened as possible, because it's better for the plant. Makes a much cleaner cut and it is so much easier for you to do also. So, I'm going to take a cutting of this one, which, oops, you just kind of knock off the dead leaves here. And I go into, back here, and I'm going to go in all the way, and I'm going to take it down to where it started. And because I'm probably going to put it right back in here, I'm going to cut it to like, here. And as you can see, this one already has some roots on it. But I'll just, I'll just stick it right back in there and it's going to help to fill the plant out. And here's one in the back, I'm also going to take to show you, I'm going to go all the way, back in. And there's one there, and as you can see that one has one stem. So, on this one, you can even do this because they are so easy to root. I can just lay this in the soil here, and it will just root actually, even there too. This is Nell Foster for eHow.com, and I have just shown you how to take a cutting of a Sedum.
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