hi everyone it's marianne and for today's video i'm sharing with you plants that i successfully
grew from single leaf cutting
thank you so much for joining me today an inspiration behind this video is unplantparenthood
she did a video exactly on this and i thought this would be a great video for me to make
as well because i do have a number of plants that i successfully grew from single leaf
cuttings and they are my pride and joy but the caveat to this is these are plants that
i did get initially as a single leaf cutting these are not propagations where i have the
mother plants or plants that i tried to rehab these are single leaf cuttings that were largely
unrooted when i got them actually they were all unrooted when i got them and i was able
to get them to become established plants so yeah i'm really excited to share this video
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me your thoughts i would love to hear them so the very first one that i want to talk
about is my scindapsus silver splash i did get this as a single leaf cutting i bought
it off facebook marketplace for 15 yes i bought a single leaf cutting for fifteen dollars
on a facebook marketplace i had to drive like 40 minutes into washington dc into a not so
friendly area a little bit sketchy to get a single leaf cutting and it is this one and
honestly when i first posted this on tiktok and some of you if you've been watching me
for a while you've heard this story numerous times tiktok was roasting me for buying a
15 single leaf cutting for a scindapsus and people thought this was like the scindapsus
argyreus or the exotica which is common and very easy to find but this is the silver splash
and when i got this this was still very uncommon and honestly even now at least in my area
it's still very much uncommon to get a silver splash but if you buy one online you can definitely
buy one for 15 that is a full plant or a four inch plant and not a single lift cutting i
was successful in propagating this into a full plant as you can see right now i do often
trim this that's why it hasn't trailed or grown really large yet but the reason i do
that is because well one i want to keep it small and second i want to encourage you to
keep out pushing largely so whenever it has runners and all of that i do trim it off but
as you can see there's new growth already popping out this is a synapses that i really
wanted to add to my collection so i'm really glad that i was successful in propagating
a single leaf cutting into a full plant so i'm actually talking about a couple more scindapsus
in this video so i'm just going to go through them down and the next one is my scindapsus
silver hero so this one is part of my etsy order but it was an import order from indonesia
so i'm planning to do a video on importing plants in the future hopefully i'm just like
trying to work out timing and logistics because i am working with a company for that one for
this one i did order it from etsy and honestly i would highly highly discourage you to import
plants over etsy because i felt like i got scammed with this because you can see how
you get scammed such a beautiful full plant but no when this arrived to me it was a practically
a node when i got it and luckily long story short but i think i could make a video where
i talk about it extensively i was able to get a full refund from etsy for the order
that i made but that's not always the case for a lot of people i know a lot of people
just got scammed out of their money when ordering or importing plants especially from etsy but
this one luckily i was able to salvage the notes and get it to grow into this beautiful
synapsis silver hero but honestly for the longest time since i only had a note i wasn't
even sure if the planet i got was actually a synthetic silver hero because it was just
like yellowing leaves and the node but i was able to successfully propagate it and now
i'm trying to grow it on this bamboo plank and it has pushed out this really large leaf
so i'm really excited about that and it's starting to kind of like stick it's not really
sticking itself on the bamboo blanket but it is anchoring itself on the bamboo plank
so i really hope that it would continue to do that and possibly shingle because scindapsus
are shingling plants so i'm really excited that this one worked out even though it was
like from a struggling node and the third and last scindapsus is the scindapsus silver
lady again one of the scindapsus that i really wanted to add to my collection it was actually
initially part of my indonesian etsy order but the one that i got from that etsy order
wasn't a silver lady luckily i was able to trade for this with a local plant nursery
plants alive they gave me a single leaf cutting in exchange for my manjula pothos well actually
it was a single cutting that had like three leaves in it like one large one and two small
one and i took a chance of like cutting it into like three different cuttings and luckily
all three survived and they all rid it and now became this if you have any experience
propagating scindapsus before you know they're kind of hard to propagate compared to epipremnum
or even like philodendron hederaceums and i definitely had failures with propagating
scindapsus like with scindapsus treubii moonlight i also had a chance to get a scindapsus treubii
dark form and i killed that one so scindapsus is notoriously hard to propagate so i was
really lucky and grateful that i was able to successfully propagate this one as well
as the first two that i just showed you next is my shangri-la pothos i also bought this
off etsy now but this one was a local buy and it was from a seller i think in the west
coast and she sold a single leaf cutting of the shangrila pothos kind of like with a silver
lady it was like three leaves in one cutting but it was unrooted and i had to root it myself
and i paid like 30 dollars for the shangri-la pothos and for me at that time at least i
could justify the price because this was very much uncommon and this one is actually pretty
easy to root it's just like any other epipremnum plants like a golden pothos it's very easy
to root you just have to make sure that you're not over watering it or over saturating whatever
medium that you are putting it in i have this in moss so basically i just put it in moss
and put it in the prop box until it started to root and now it's actually out of the prop
box i have it in my ikea greenhouse cabinet and now i have like several cuttings of this
shangrila pothos in here next is my tradescantia i got a single leaf cutting of this meaning
probably a cutting maybe of this size and it became this full plant i actually recently
made cuttings of it and just stick the cuttings into the soil and i've been trying to like
reroot everything because i just want a really full plant of this it kind of looks like the
zebrina but not really and this one is so easy to propagate just like any tradescantia
yeah this one i'm keeping is the only tradescantia in my collection if you see my lashes popping
out you didn't but next one is my hoya fishtail i got this as a two leaf single cutting when
i traded my thai for an albo and i got this one as well as a bonus i did end up killing
the albo but i was able to successfully propagate and grow this plant into this i actually also
recently just popped a stem of it and stuck it in the soil so that i'll have a third stem
of this and i'm thinking of propagating it again because it's so easy to propagate for
a hoya i think this is one of the easiest care hoya that i ever had even compared to
like my hoya carnosas because it's just so easy to propagate and take care of and this
one has a more thinner foliage so it's more like a regular foliage plant compared to like
the more succulent hoyas so you just have to be careful and make that adjustment just
because it's a hoya don't think you can take care of it like your other wax plants but
for me honestly this has been an easy care easy to propagate never had issues with it
this is why i'm kind of like confused why this one is so expensive or hard to find and
again compared to other hoyas this one is such a fast growing hoya and a very beautiful
hoya and next is my fourth and cream splash i got this as a single leaf cutting from a
plant trade i traded a bunch of my micans cuttings for one single leaf of the philodendron
cream splash but i'm really glad i did and this one is now a full plant just from a single
leaf cutting and i'm really happy honestly i'm not even sure if this is a philodendron
cream splash it's definitely a philodendron brazil sport but i'm not sure if it's like
a rio a cream splash or silver stripe i can show you what the original single leaf look
like as you can see it's very variegated but this one the ones are coming out is looking
more like cream splash or silver stripe like with the earlier leaves but as you can see
with the new sleeve it start it's trying to show a lot more of that cream variegation
so we will see as this plant grows or if we can get more variegated leaves out of this
one but i'm really happy that i was able to successfully propagate this from a single
leaf casino this plant is still very expensive i think only gabriella plants is the one reliably
producing this i think the most satisfying part of being able to grow something from
a single leaf cutting into a full plant is especially when they're uncommon or rare or
just something that is like priced ridiculously high and you're able to grow a full plan of
it it is very satisfying because if i buy this now i think it would cost me about at
least 50 dollars if i buy this plant as is right now so i'm really glad that i was able
to successfully grow this from a single leaf node and now have a full plant and not have
to pay fifty dollars to add this to my plant collection the next one is my monstera steadily
and albo and this one actually is probably the hardest one for me to propagate and honestly
this is still kind of like going through the propagation stage but since this has been
growing it's already on a lack of hole and it has been relatively stable for a while
now i added it in this video but the initial propagation of this i was able to grow it
into a large plate as well then it suffered root rot and i had to like chop it off and
among all the single leaf cuttings that i chopped off only like three rooted and survived
so for me monstera standleyana albo or monstera standleyana in general are kind of tricky
to propagate from single leaf cutting so i'm really glad that this one survived and i'm
really happy that it is growing large again and hopefully i'll get more leaves that are
a little bit more variegated and i will definitely keep you updated as this monstera standleyana
albo grows i have a few more plants that i grew for single leaf cuttings successfully
but i'm only going to talk about one more and if you're interested to find out the other
plants that i grew successfully from single leaf cutting do check out my youtube shorts
or my instagram reels or if you want me to make a much more detailed fuller video as
a part with this one let me know down in the comments but you will definitely see the rest
of the plants that i was able to grow from single leaf cuttings in my youtube shorts
or instagram reels i would link the youtube shorts somewhere up here and also down description
but the last one that i was able to successfully propagate from a singly cutting is my autograph
plant and this one i got as a single leaf cutting from a hotel in miami and i was able
to grab one it was falling off and if you've ever been to miami this is everywhere in miami
so i was able to grab a piece brought it back to maryland and tried to propagate it i didn't
think it would actually work but it did and i think this is considered invasive in miami
it is definitely considered invasive in hawaii i saw like really huge autographed trees in
hawaii and they're considered invasive there so i think this might also be considered invasive
in miami because they are everywhere and i was able to take a cutting and i was able
to successfully propagate it and this one has actually also been through a ringer i
have removed some leaves because they do suffer leaf burn easily which is kind of surprising
since it came from like miami and it's also like sort of native in hawaii where it's like
there's all sun all the time so those are the plants that i was able to successfully
propagate from a single leaf cutting and if you have any successful propagation stories
like that please let me know down in the comments and if you found any value in this video i
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