Neverending winter has me really research for any plant - link up activeness I can find . April just also happens to be a outstanding prison term to repot and/or propagate houseplants , so I recently took stock of my own collection to see what I could do . Here are the effect — and these are just a handful of the many houseplants that can be propagated .
Q : Which houseplants are well-situated to propagate ?
A : Quite a few of them . Here are some examples .
Let ’s start withsucculents . Several of these have outgrow their pots or are so long-shanked they belong in a Dr. Seuss book . In the compositor’s case of thejade plant , I ’d simply wish more of them because it ’s one of my favorite .
Here ’s a close - up of one of the leggier succulents . See how it ’s develop roots in mid - zephyr ? Time to part and repot .
I use normal garden cut sheers to clip off section of my jade plant . Cutting it like this encourages fresh , bushy emergence .
I edit the tops off the leggy plants , plus some leave . Whenever potential , I seek to leave at least ½ ” to 1 ” of stem . I depart the cutting out of direct sunlight on a plate for several days so the cuts have time to heal over .
After the cuts have healed , it ’s simply a thing of stick the cuttings in soil . I ’m using a long , shallow pot with drainage gob and cactus mix pot soil .
I place rock and roll on the soil surface to cast anchor the baby plants in position and make the planter more attractive . Then I water them in . It ’ll take some meter for the plants to reverberate back from transplantation stupor and start growing again , so be patient .
From the succulents I was n’t able to get a stem cutting , I take the leaves and perplex them in a little lush baby’s room .
This is one of the babe I just grasp out of my previous succulent greenhouse . The leaf sent down ascendent , then a new plant start grow . The original leafage will finally shrink away , or it can be very gently take . Not every leaf that I start in the greenhouse will successfully grow a new plant , but it ’s fun to try .
If you ’ve ever grownPilea peperomioides , you lie with how they practically broadcast themselves by grow “ pups ” right on in the pot you planted them in .
The pup are connected to the primary plant ’s root arrangement , so you ’ll take to cut them free with a incisive tongue . After cutting the connection , cautiously stab the puppy out — the more roots it has , the faster it will start growing . I ’ve had pups subsist and thrive with hardly any roots , though , so do n’t be monish if you do n’t get any .
Place each whelp in a modest pot of its own , keep it watered ( but let it dry out out between waterings ) and eventually you ’ll have more pileas than you love what to do with . I have even composted a few of them , I ’m not ashamed to say .
I also divided my peace of mind flora . I ’ve had it several years and it was looking decidedly overgrown for its sens . This is another of my favorite plants ( who said I have to have one darling ? ! ) so I root for it out of its plantation owner and cut it in half with a sharp tongue . The cognitive process is similar to split up a genus Hosta .
After cutting it in half , I cautiously teased each half aside into 3 or 4 single plants , then replant them into two pots . It ’s normal for the flora to look a small dismayed and wilty the first few Day . Just give it meter to adjust and verify to keep it water .
Final extension idea : I ’d be silly to not mention Scindapsus aureus , because they are terribly easy to disperse . Simply cut off the terminal of a vine , stick it in piddle in bright but indirect light for 2 - 3 week , and voila ! It will start to produce roots and be quick for found .
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Jennifer Rensenbrinkis a University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Volunteer for Hennepin County . She somehow has two mini - prairies on her tiny south Minneapolis property .
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