An easy and cost effective way to have new plants in your home and garden can come from the plants that are already around you!
Propagation cutting is the process of removing a small portion of a growing plant and treating it so that new roots develop.
Clipping off a stem and placing it in a cup of water is a basic approach to most propagations. The cutting will grow roots in the water after about one week.
The cutting can then be transplanted in it’s own soil and in time will grow into a mature plant.
Plants that root readily in water:
African violet (Saintpaulia)
Begonia- see picture
Cissus (Grape Ivy)
Coleus
Cordyline terminalis (Ti Plant)
Ficus pumila (Creeping Fig)
Hedera (English Ivy)
Helxine (Baby’s Tears)
Impatiens
Peperomia-see picture
Philodendron oxycardium (Heart Leaf)
Philodendron pandureaform (Fiddle Leaf)
Plectranthus (Swedish Ivy)
Scindapsus (Pothos)
Syngonia (Tri-Leaf Wonder)
Tradescantia (Wandering Jew)
Zygocactus (Christmas Cactus)
Many perennials can be propagated by forcing a leaf to root. Plants with thick fleshy leaves, like begonias and gloxinia, are particularly suited to this method of increasing their number. The leaf stem is inserted in the rooting medium (soil or sphagnum moss) and kept moist. Some plants can be propagated by placing the leaf flat on the rooting medium and weighting it down with pebbles.
The little amount of effort put into propagating is wild in comparison to the output. The cost is so minimal that the return on one plant is almost limitless. Keep cutting and keep growing!!
I like to give my clippings to friends and family as a house warming present or for birthdays. It is really one of those gifts that keep on giving!
It’s could be a revolution in your plant production! Try it!
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