There are only a few ways to propagate plants. By seeds or cloning. Unlike animals, cloning plants is easy. When you root a stem cutting, you cloned that plant. When you buy a named validity, it is a clone of the original plant that was named. This guarantees you get exactly what you wanted. All named fruit trees are grafted stems from the cloned parent of that fruit. It is the only way to get that exact fruit.
So the question is how do you clone a succulent. The most easiest way is to remove a bottom growth or sucker coming out of the plant. Many Hen & Chicks, Agave and Aloe plants are done this way. Stem cuttings left to callus over then planted in fast draining medium is another way. Leaf cuttings left to callus and placed on top of the soil for many Sedums.
Seems most people have their own way of doing this.
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