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citrusbud 1 year
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villagers and plant sprigs 馃
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I have a totally normal amount of plant cuttings. In unrelated news, who wants a purple heart plant? 馃槃
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velveteengreen 10 months
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Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (Livingstone Daisy) cuttings I took from my brother's plant starting to bloom! 馃尯
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reviewinglemons 1 year
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Hoya obovata 'splash'
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I very much adhere to the Crowley school of horticulture. Only with slightly less theatre. The plant doesn't do what you want it to? We get out the scissors. Such was the case with this Hoya obovata 'splash'.
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These two are now looking for new homes because their level of splash was not satisfactory.
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mkstrigidae 2 years
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This week, in 'I swear to god this all started from like six individual tiny succulents'. Anyways, 'tis the season for plant haircuts and moving some of my tomato seedlings from their 'lil makeshift egg carton greenhouse and into their temporary home in a series of yellow solo cups. Because I can't eat enough to re-pot them all in empty yogurt containers. Some of these non-succulent cuttings are currently being water propagated, and I'm running out of room on my porch for the rest 馃槀
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floraaurora420 1 year
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My only philodendron
Just a cutting but hopefully she will grow up nice
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turkeyhillicedtea 2 years
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End of season flower pickings
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a-welsh-spoonie 2 years
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I have an exciting plant cutting that should be arriving on Tuesday. I'm practically vibrating with excitement
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oca-rinn-a 2 years
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prospective propagation specimens
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audley-and-cherry 1 year
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I knocked a leaf off of one of the jades when I was moving the succulents outside today, so I did what any plant witch would do and decided to try and clone it.
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I've rooted plant cuttings before- most notably my mom's jade (in the green pot) and my ridiculous pothos that I swear has a personality.
["Don't anthropomorphize your plants! What's wrong with you?" Listen, when you get to know a plant well enough that you've seen it move, you're going to start treating it like another animal.]
I'm working with much better soil this time and I ordered succulent fertilizer that should be arriving this weekend, so I have high hopes for that little leaf.
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Bubbles! And yes, I took the leaf out of the water. I don't know how long it would have taken for me to notice if I hadn't been taking pictures, everything was out of the water when I put this together yesterday.
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velveteengreen 11 months
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Black Pagoda Lipstick plant cutting
Found this on the floor of the plant shop I visited the other week, asked about it and the owner gave it to me! Hoping it'll root eventually馃馃徏
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ysknabton 1 year
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buschlightyear 1 year
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krisspysthings 2 years
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New plants to come. I'm having way too much fun multiplying these.
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katiajewelbox 2 years
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In the great tradition of "mad scientists", I'm creating an army of clones in my "secret lab" (AKA the greenhouse). This clone army comes from the natural process of asexual reproduction called "fragmentation". Fragmentation is where a piece of a plant develops roots from its shoot tissue, known as "adventitious roots". This shoot plus roots drops off the main plant body to form a new genetically identical copy of the original plant. This helps plants colonise new habitat without having to produce flowers and seeds. Fragmentation is a boon to houseplant enthusiasts since it means we can "clone" our favourite plants! The Jade Plant (Crassula ovata) is a popular houseplant species from South Africa and Mozambique. It is easy to propagate via detached leaves or shoots cut off a mature plant. The detached leaves show the natural process of habitat colonisation via fragmentation, since each leaf sports adventitious roots ready to grow in new soil. The shoot cuttings were cut off a large plant, allowed to dry out for a few days, and then smeared with honey and cinnamon before being placed in water. Why honey and cinnamon? This combination is a popular "all natural" treatment for encouraging root growth in plant cuttings. Honey contains a diverse mixture of plant hormones, which ends up in honey because the raw material is flower nectar gathered by bees. Among these hormones are indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA). These compounds are auxins, a plant hormone that stimulates root growth. Cinnamon contains cinnamaldehyde, which is a natural fungicide in the cinnamon tree's bark (Cinnamomun sp.). Although there's ample anecdotal evidence of honey and cinnamon coaxing cuttings to root, the scientific evidence suggests the combo is more effective in some plant species than others. In my experience, the treatment does correlate with healthy root growth in water-propagated Jade Plants. Try it out on your plant cuttings and let me know how it works!
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