This blog was written 25/03/2020 and published translated on 23/01/2021 Translated with the help of Deeply, read the original blog here: Hup je schaar er in! Stek je kamerplant. Houseplant cuttings, a much discussed topic. In almost every book that has something to do with plants there is a chapter about propagating your plants, also online you are flooded with tips & tricks. So what I'm going to write below is probably not new, but it is my experience! I would like to talk about what ways there are to take cuttings and how to do this as successfully as possible. So here I go!
Cut or trim your cutting with a clean and sharp knife (or pruning shears) just above an node, where a leaf or bud begins. Remove the bottom leaves from your stem, that is where the roots will form. Clean material is important to leave a clean wound. ROOTING You can root your cutting in water, soil or (sphagnum) Moss. Many cuttings can easily be rooted in a glass of water. Put your cutting in a glass or vase of water and check regularly to see if there is enough water left. Smaller vases are useful to put your cuttings in, no vases in the house? A glass, bowl or empty jar will also work perfectly! To help, you can pull a piece of plastic foil over your glass and make small holes in it through which you put your cutting. I am all for reusing stuff, so also for cuttings everything that qualifies is put to use! At the moment I have a spice rack in use as a cutting rack, handy with this is that the bottles are a little firmer when our jungle tiger (our cat) comes to meddle again. A piece of charcoal at the bottom of your glass would help keep your water clean, a tip I'm definitely going to try out!
Cuttings with large leaves often evaporate water faster, to slow down this process you can (partially) roll up the large leaves. With many tropical plants it happens that they evaporate a lot of water even before they have been able to form roots. To prevent dehydration you can put them in a greenhouse or cover them, but make sure that the plastic is not touching the cutting. Put your cuttings in a warm light place and do not forget to ventilate them in time to prevent mold. Some plants can be propagated by leaf cuttings, for example some begonias or the peperomia. Currently I am trying out both watercuts and leaf cuttings from the peperomia watermelon, very nice experiment! You can take cuttings with pieces of a leaf or with a complete leaf. Cuttings with a piece of leaf work well with fleshy plants like succulents or the sanseveria. Take a healthy, fully grown leaf from your plant with petiole. Cut your leaf into strips across the width and insert them into the soil with the side of the leaf vein. To make a leaf cutting from a whole leaf take a healthy leaf with part of the stem attached. You can also make small incisions across the width of your leaf, place the leaf with the incisions down on your soil. TEARING Not all plants can be propagated in the above ways. I think for example of the calathea, to propagate plants like this one take them out of their pot and tear the root ball into 2 or more parts & give the parts their own pot afterwards. The tearing can be done by gently pulling the roots apart or cutting them with a clean knife, trying to damage the roots as little as possible. Make sure that each part has enough roots when you repot it. PARTS Some plants also make their own 'babies', they grow little plants next to themselves. You can split these from each other by cutting them off and letting them root or tearing them from the root ball. The most common example is the Pilea (Pancake plant) these are known to multiply themselves many times.
Of course you can also grow your plant from seeds and pits, you can buy these but also just get them from your own kitchen! I'd like to talk to you about this later, at the moment I'm germinating some seeds and pits for the vegetable garden & some flowers!
Further propagation can also be done by means of a piece of stem, a piece of rhizome, by marcetting or laying off. I won't go into that now, I don't have any experience with it myself. Would you have questions about this I will certainly help you on your way with the info I have acquired about it. I hope I have been able to inspire/inform you! Feel free to share your cutting experiments with the #greenplantmom! I'm curious!
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5/10/2024 01:18:23 am
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AuthorCrazy plant lady who likes to inspire others! Everything I write here comes from my own experience, knowledge that I gained by reading books and on the internet. If I would literally copy someone's info, I would do my best to link it of course! Do you spot typos or do you have other concerns, let me know! Have fun reading! I've only just started writing English blogs since January 2021, that's why there are many Dutch blogs and not so many English ones.
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