All About Kalanchoe luciae (Succulent Flapjacks)

In this video and on the Kalanchoe luciae page of my site, you'll learn all about this highly popular red-orange succulent. You'll also meet its multicolored variegate 'Fantastic' and smoldering 'Dragonfire', a tough-yet-gorgeous new cultivar.
KEY POINTS: FIND OUT HOW TO...
-- Maintain plants' stunning red, orange and burgundy hues.
-- Prevent leaf edges becoming dry and brittle.
-- Provide optimal sun, shade, soil, water, fertilizer, temperature, and humidity.
-- Avoid smudging leaves' powdery white coating.
-- Propagate from plantlets and cuttings.
-- Pest control
-- Be smart about stalks: To cut or not to cut? If so, when? What if blooms regrow?
-- Plus an important caution for pet owners.
For more on Kalanchoe luciae, visit the corresponding page of my site, which includes a 30-photo Design and Idea Gallery:
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MORE ABOUT KALANCHOES
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ABOUT DEBRA
Award-winning garden photojournalist and bestselling author Debra Lee Baldwin shares her expertise about “plants that drink responsibly” in print, photos, videos and her “Celebrating the Joy of Succulents” newsletter. Debra is based in Southern California, home to more succulent specialty nurseries and growers than anywhere else in the world.
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[@QueenofSucculents]

Kalanchoe luciae is one of the most popular succulents. Do you grow it? What do you like most about it?

[@DeetherTan25]

I like that this Kalanchoe has a stacked look and its colors are so vibrant and looks neat and adorable ❤❤❤

[@QueenofSucculents]

@@DeetherTan25 It might grow well for you. It's more tropical than most succulents.

[@hawk7102]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@IAMSUPREME22]

FINALLY someone is showing Dragonfire some love. I've been a proponent of them since they came out. They're wonderful. Of course it would be the queen of succulents that does it with her sultry voice 😁

[@QueenofSucculents]

They are indeed. I keep adding more! (Yeah, my voice...I was trying not to cough, LOL)

[@stevevicki5671]

Always great info; always great photography. Thanks

[@QueenofSucculents]

Thank you!! Always great to hear from you 😉

[@marisolresendiz-garcia573]

One of my favorites!

[@daleandrews3552]

I've fallen in love with this plant and I don't even have one! I plant to get one at my locak nursery or online is a couple of weeks.

[@marthaochoa6148]

Thank you Deborah and happy new year

[@QueenofSucculents]

Thank YOU, and same to you, Martha ❣️🤗

[@BritInvLvr]

My husband and I saw this beautiful plant at a restaurant. There was a piece of it on the ground. My husband took it and planted it. We now have two beautiful plants in our front yard. I gave some to my best friend to plant in a memorial garden. I didn’t know about cutting the blooms off to keep them fuller.

[@QueenofSucculents]

I'm glad you found the video helpful! And that you're enjoying growing these lovely succulents 🤩

[@Psionicbomb]

I’m not going to lie. If I see amazing plants in a big business landscape and it looks like it’s in need of help, I so take a cutting from them

[@QueenofSucculents]

Oh, Simon. What a way to justify theft! If you saw a leashed dog outside a convenience store that looked sad, would you take it because "it looks like it's in need of help"? @@Psionicbomb

[@sannaericditsler4034]

Thanks for the video. I am in Indiana and grow paddle plant inside during winter then outside during summer. I enjoyed the videos you made buying pots for your succulents. Please do another.

[@QueenofSucculents]

I'm glad you enjoyed them! Have you seen the other videos in my Container Gardens playlist? kzbin.info/aero/PLfBjDimnqpMoyB_PysBsZxUVxmUSr2_Nw&si=dNV_ez7VrOl_Y3nK

[@gabrielleroy7255]

Thanks this video helped

[@fishinthesea3454]

New subscriber here, thank you!

[@QueenofSucculents]

Welcome 🤗

[@Psionicbomb]

Oh my goodness those towers!!!!

[@Psionicbomb]

You used the word gallery. I love your arrangements, but do you think you could do (I know especially you can) arrangements with them being a gallery in mind? I feel your outdoor spaces are already like this, but I live in a tiny apartment and I’m looking to learn how to make gallery gardens.

[@QueenofSucculents]

What an interesting idea: a gallery garden. Love it! This is the closest I've come: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npOnmWCrmcaMe9Esi=qprCkPMF4l9Keu_h

[@Schoen7]

Hi Debra, I have a paddle plant that has a very long flower stalk. I have watched your videos of the care they require, but I'm still nervous about cutting this stalk. I'm ready to do it, but just wanted to ask you for some guidance. LOL! So, I cut the base of the stalk, but what do I do with the stalk? Should I cut it in many different pieces and plant them all? If so, where do I cut the stalk? Thanks so very much!

[@QueenofSucculents]

Hi Schoen -- A lot of the plant's energy has gone into the formation of a flower stalk, so the plant is less robust than if you had cut the stalk when it began to form. That said, it looks healthy and I would expect it to recover nicely and branch at the cut, wherever you do it. I'd probably cut it about half way up the total height of the plant (not counting the flower stalk). Cut right above where a pair of leaves emerge from the stalk. Be sure to protect leaves that are suddenly exposed to sun, so they don't burn. A lightweight dish towel laid over the plant will do it, or move it into dappled shade. Even so, you might get some withered tips, but that's normal. You also might get mini flower stalks at the cut, just pinch them out. As for the stalk you've cut off, you can take cuttings along it, right above each pair of leaves. Let them sit for a day to heal, then insert the cuttings into a pot of commercial potting soil, using their stalks as anchors. Roots (hopefully) will grow below the leaves, so their bottoms (where they emerge from the stalk) should be at soil level or just below. Hope this helps! LMK how the patient progresses.