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Plant ID

Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
Hello all,

I was hoping you could help identify the plant in the photos please?

Also, would you recommend cutting back once it has finished flowering?

Thank you.


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  • That's a Kalanchoe. They're quite hard to get to rebloom-- the nursery trade uses extra lighting to get them to come into bud. You can propagate them fairly easily from a leaf, if you want to start over with a new, more compact plant, but you may struggle to get them to flower. Maybe others have cracked the technique and will comment. 
  • Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
    Great thanks Cambridgerose
  • I have a white one that reflowers, in fact it is flowering now.
    Mine lives on a south facing window sill all year round, with some of my other succulents. It's a low sill with a radiator beneath, so it is usually warm and dry.  It gets all the light and sun available, which isn't always that much, up here in the cloudy hills.
    I don't think I've ever repotted it, and I've had it a few years, though I will this year, as it really is too big for its pot now.
    It gets watered when I think it seems a long time since I did it, or the leaves start to lose their plumpness.
    That's it. I'm not sure about cracking the technique, unless it is a good dose of neglect!






  • I have a pink one that re flowers, I have repotted it a couple of times and it is fairly sizeable. I keep it in an unheated porch so it is very cold in winter but heats up like a greenhouse in summer. It's about to flower again now so I just gave it a liquid feed. I give it slightly more water than I would do a cactus. When the flowers and stalks go brown and crispy I snip them off. I occasionally give it a bit of a shake to get the dead leaves off also.
    Wearside, England.
  • Mark-EMark-E Posts: 184
    Great thanks both for the tips
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