Hello plant people Nora the Leca Queen. Today we're going to talk about propagation. We
will be propagating some plants. This is my Painted Lady Philodendron and I've got some
Pothos plants here. We're going to be propagating directly in leca and I'm going to show you how
I do that. So normally I propagate my plants using my special sauce and that's Clonex Clone
Solution and root zone in water in a bottle and I see all those roots coming through because I
love to look at roots but you can also propagate your plants directly in leca. In order to do this
of course you are going to need some leca. So this leca has been soaking for not less than 24 hours,
not less than 24 hours in my Special Sauce. So it's my Clonex clone solution and this solution
just helps with the rooting process it's been soaking because that's what's going to help the
roots, the moisture in the leca is what's going to help with the rooting process. So you need that,
we're going to need some pots obviously and we've got our plants. Another thing I will be using is a
rooting hormone this is a rooting gel this is not a necessary step I must emphasize that you don't
need to use this and you don't need to use this particular product this is a Growth Technology
Rooting gel. It's Clonex. There's so many rooting hormones and rooting gels that you can find out
there whatever you can find you can use. I use this because it just jump starts the process that's
what it does. It's whole role is to promote rooting so why wouldn't I use it? So I use it just to make
things easier. Okay, we're gonna go down and I'll show you how I do that. I've got my potting mat
there, I'll grab my Clonex and I am not dipping my plant in there, I am going to put my Clonex
on there and I've got my little brush and I'm going to use my brush to brush
that. I've got my cutting there that's where the roots will be coming from so I put
that there. That is my Painted Lady and I'm just brushing that where all those roots are.
It's already got the aerial roots but I'm just brushing there.
Again, this is not a necessary step it's just a step that helps things along because I'm thinking
you know if I'm going to do this I might as well do it properly you know what I mean!
So I just grab all my little cuttings you can see this one
there's some roots aerial root points there those bumps there those are going to be roots
so I cover all that with my rooting gel
and before I close off my bottle I'm gonna wash that and I'm gonna wash that so I put all that
away. I grab my pot I've got my pot here I fill it up a third of the way or so with leca.
I've got my leca there, I grab my plant
position it right in the middle and I fill that pot with leca.
That's my Painted Lady there and she is completely filled up with leca
in that pot so I put that aside and do the
others so fill that pot with a little bit of leca and then I grab
my cuttings
fill that with leca.
And that's my two plants potted up in leca I am going to get some cache pots. These are my cache pots.
I'll put this I'll use my painted lady to demonstrate I'll put the plant in the cache pot
I then grab my Special Sauce, so this is a Clonex Clone and root zone solution
that is going to help with the propagation process. I will put that in the cache pot
so as you can see that's the level at which it's at I know my roots are up there so those
roots are not going to be exposed to this water and this plant is going to root purely because
that nutrient solution is being sucked up by the leca by capillary action. That's my painted lady
propagating in leca and that's my Golden Ivy living in leca in a cache pot. So I will put
these on my heating mat, keep them warm keep them in a nice humid environment and within a few weeks
that cutting will have rooted and so will this one and after a while if I need to move it to a bigger
pot I will then do that but once that rooting has taken place I will change my nutrient solution
from Clonex Clone solution to Foliage Focus but another more important thing is at least every
week I will change this nutrient solution because I really want this plant to have a good chance at
rooting quickly. I want to change that as often as I can just to make sure that the plant is, the
roots are receiving oxygen and they're receiving nutrition at the right ph and at the right rate
that they need. So that's my plant I hope you try it propagating in leca, it's quite rewarding, it's
really quite simple. There's no need for repotting after the plant has rooted in water so it's just
it lives where it's going to eventually live. Thank you very much for watching. If you
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