hi everyone it's Marianne
and welcome to mywastelesslife
in this video i'll show you three different ways on how you can propagate your hoya kerrii.
hi everyone, happy valentine's day! since it's valentine's day
i thought it will be appropriate to talk about the hoya kerrii and how to propagate it.
so the hoya kerrii is a very popular plant around this time
because of its heart shaped leaf.
it's often sold a single leaf plant in a pot,
and to be honest before I had a hoya kerri,
I almost bought one of those.
but then i got warned by one youtuber, i will
link it down in description, that says that
if you get a single leaf hoya kerrii
they are most likely not to grow into a plant.
and i want something that will grow into a plant.
so i got this one from House Plant Shop for
$7.99 which is quite a steal, coz i also got
it during the time they were offering free shipping.
and i think they still have this on their site, and it's a really good plant.
i got this 4th of july last year, so i got for half a year or so now.
When i first got this it only has these two leaves at the bottom. and since then it has
grown one, two, three, four new leaves.
it would've grown a fifth leaf - if you've seen my indoor jungle bedroom makeover & tour
- it had a leaf here but I accidentally knocked it off, so that one is gone now.
But I've been thinking for a while now to propagate this hoya kerrii, either for a give
away or sell it on Etsy. so i think this is the best time to do it now since it's Valentine's
Day and the popularity of the Hoya Kerrii is at its peak during this time.
but as you can see from my hoya kerrii there's some damage to the leaf, like this one.
I think it's a leaf burn coz i probably had it too close to the window a couple of times.
and underneath the leaf over here, there's some like, not really browning, but black
spots, that i'm not really quite sure what's that about.
and i also not too fond of the shape of the two leaves over here. and the top two leaves
have the more heart shaped leaf that it is known for, but then it got leaf burn.
so what i think I'm going to do is, i am going to propagate all four of them.
i don't mind starting anew with this plant to be honest.
when i got this hoya kerrii, this stem is already very long.
I suspect because it was searching for light, and I kinda want the leaves of my hoya kerrii
to have shorter nodes in between, like what's has been growing on top already.
so what i am going to do is propagate these four leaves, and see what happens.
but i am actually gonna propagate into three plants so i can show you the three different
methods that i am going to propagate this hoya kerrii.
so this is the hoya kerrii and i am going to prune it first, and i am going to show
you the three different mediums that i going to propagate my hoya kerrii in. and none of
them is straight up water propagation. this is a bit nerve wracking but i am going to
do it.
anyways these are the hoya kerrii that is going to be cut:like the first two is going
to be one plant, and this one is going to be one plant, and this one with the long stem
is going to be one plant.
and if you look closely, the hoya kerrii - and this is true for any hoya - you would see...you
would see some bumps on the stems, and those are actually nodes where roots can grow from.
So i can make sure that each cutting that i do would include some of those bumps, to
ensure at least, better the chances that they will actually grow roots.
so if this leaf, the one on top that got broken, if this one was actually successful, i could
have done that as a separate propagation, but since it wasn't, i am just gonna go ahead
and cut below these two leaves. and make that the very first propagation. and there's going
to be some sap that will come out of the vines, so if you have a napkin or a towel ready,
just to wipe that off your shears, then that would be good.
okay so i am just gonna do it like this...so this is the first one, as you can see...there
is sap that's coming out from the hoya kerrii, and i don't think that i need to let it callous
before I propagate it.
i wish I knew but there's very few propagation videos on hoya kerrii itself.
so i am not sure if i should let this callous first before I start propagating it, that
i am just gonna propagate it now.
okay so this is the first cutting...this one right here will be the second cutting, and
i am going to make sure there is nodes on this one.
i am just gonna cut this way, so it's gonna be like that when i propagate it.
then for the last one, i am gonna cut down here coz i want the stem to be shorter.
but i think what's gonna happen is that it is gonna grow another stem anyways, so i am
just gonna cut it as low as i can.
there we go, sorry plant!
and put that aside, so this is my hoya kerrii now, it's back to
its original state when i got it.
sorry plant! i'm gonna put that aside... and this is the other one, i am just gonna cut
off the stem. as you can see right there, if you can see it, there's like a node up
there, so i am gonna cut below it, and propagate the plant that way.
but i suspect if you want to just do a leaf cutting, and for it to be a successful leaf
cutting, is to make sure the stem of the leaf would have nodes on it, otherwise i think
it would have a hard time to propagate.
So here are my cuttings right now.
so i got cutting number one here, cutting number two, and then cutting number three
that has these two leaves.
so i am gonna separate them and see if i can get this one to root by itself.
i doubt it, but i'm gonna do it.
so let's put that aside for a second.
and these are the mediums I'm gonna use to propagate.
this one is the ziploc method, which i saw bebee plants do for her hoyas, and she specifically
propagated a hoya kerrii using the ziploc method, so i trust her, and i think this would
work for the hoya kerrii.
so let's do the first method first, the ziploc method, I am gonna stick this one which is
the best cutting out of the three or four that I did.
Then I'm just gonna put it in the ziploc , coz this is probably the one that has the best
chance of propagating and propagating fast.
I am also going to stick in this leaf cutting.
i think this is the best method for this one, and i'm just gonna stick it down there too,
just stick a little bit down, just make sure that it is fully covered.
and what i need to do is to spray water in it...but i don't have my spray bottle...so
hold on.
i got my spray bottle.
so i think what i need to do is just to spray it, just to encourage humidity.
just spray it very generously, then after i am supposed to blow into the bag..and then
seal it. and that should be done like that,
and just put it close to a light source.
so that is one propagation.
and the next one, is the sphagnum moss,
which is my tried and
tested method.
i have been propagating with sphagnum moss if i am not doing water propagation. and i
have very good success with propagating with sphagnum moss, so this the method that i most
comfortable with, is doing it via sphagnum moss. and i think i am going to do it for
this cutting, coz i think this is the second best looking one.
so for sphagnum moss, i have it pre-moistened and i just squeeze out as much liquid as i
can, water as i can, from the sphagnum moss.
i am just gonna wrap the stem of the hoya kerrii with the sphagnum moss, but aside from
that, what i am going to do, is to try to bury at least a third of the hoya kerrii into
the sphagnum moss, just to give it proper anchor once it starts growing roots.
as you might have seen in any nurseries or --- i haven't really seen big box stores sell
hoya kerrii --- but in plant boutiques and nurseries when they sell the single leaf hoya
kerrii, they almost have a third of the hoya kerrii buried all the way into the soil.
so that's what i am gonna do with this hoya kerrii.
that is the sphagnum moss and like
i said, this sphagnum moss is moistened but i am also gonna squirt water just to also
clean the leaves, and just to make sure that the sphagnum moss is properly packed, and
holding the hoya kerrii in place.
so that is the second propagation.
and this one is the newest method that i am going to
try, which is propagating in perlite.
so this is kinda like a passive hydroponic way of propagating.
as you can see there is
some water at the bottom.
FUN FACT: perlite actually doesn't hold water,
so the water i gave it to soak the perlite
just all went down.
i actually had to drain out some of it because it was a bit too much water.
to do this i just put a third of way of water on the perlite.
the perlite on top is wet but it is not swimming in water.
so that is the third method, the perlite method,
which i think is easier than the sphagnum
moss method, coz i just have to dig through
and just make sure it is all the way down,
and try to bury like the bottom third of the leaf down,
just to give the leaf a bit more
anchor.
so see i like this perlite one coz it looks prettier.
i feel like you can give it to a person like this already even before it grows roots.
but then they might kill it coz they don't know what to do with it, since it's in propagation
stage.
so maybe never mind.
but it kinda looks cute, right?
now that it is in the perlite.
so these are the three different ways i am propagating my hoya kerri.
first one is the ziploc method, i have two cuttings in here, one is just a leaf cutting,
one has a stem. and this the sphagnum moss, which is my tried and tested method, it has
worked for most of my plants.
and this one is the newest way that i am trying to propagate,
which is passive hydroponics
using perlite.
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if you want to see updates and the progress
of my hoya kerrii propagations.
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