(upbeat music) >>House plants have many benefits from improved air quality to aesthetic appeal.

For me, I really enjoy decorating with houseplants.

And while I may not be the best keeper of house plants, I enjoy gardening outside.

Succulents are a really great way to add that appeal to your house.

You can start with just a few and propagate many, and it's very simple to do just starting with a single plant that you might pick up at your hardware store or at your garden center.

Now these are ghost plants.

They're very easy to propagate, and one of the things that I like to do is clip off the rosettes.

I cut this with some clean scissors.

You wanna make sure that your scissors are always clean because you don't wanna introduce disease into the plants.

And then I use these smaller ones to take these leaves on the sides off.

Now if you can see, this one has a leaf that doesn't look quite so healthy, so we're gonna remove that one and just discard that guy.

You wanna start with the healthiest plant material that you can to ensure success.

Starting with the right soil mix is very important.

What you're gonna wanna do is use a pretty easily commercially available cactus, palm, and citrus mix.

You can get this at any hardware store or garden store in the area.

Once you've got all these little guys here, we're just going to put them around on the top of the soil here, close as you can.

Each one of these guys is gonna become its own plant.

Now there's a difference of opinion.

Some people like to spray them once or twice real quick, once they lay them out here.

I like to leave mine dry for a couple of days, three or four days just to kind of harden off those little ends.

You can just take them and very simply, one or two sprays.

You don't wanna make them too wet.

They're from arid environments generally, so they're used to being dried out.

What's going to happen is each one of these little leaves is going to start putting off something that looks like this little guy.

This is called a pup on this end, and it's putting roots down on this end.

And as you can see, because it's been left alone, it's extremely rubbery.

It's not turgid like these leaves are over here.

And that's completely fine because this is going to feed this pup and this little root right here, and eventually this will basically wither and dry up and this will become your new little plant.

Think about this, you pay $2, $3 for one of these guys, and you can really propagate hundreds and hundreds of plants.

Succulents are a really easy and great choice.

If I can do it, you can do it.

And just remember to have clean scissors, the proper soil, and don't over water them.

And soon you'll have more plants than you know what to do with and you can share with family and friends.

Happy gardening.