hey there my name is memo this is my channel house planty goodness and essentially it's a place where
i like to geek out about my big passion you might be able to see some of it behind me which is
tropical houseplants now today's topic that i want to talk about is something a bit different and i
know i've kind of mentioned about different ways of propagation i don't think i've ever touched on
a method that i've been trying recently it's nothing new it's not anything groundbreaking
i know other people have tried this as well but i thought what i might do is talk to you about
my experiences propagating direct from a node cutting into the choose upon with water reservoir
and i know that this is kind of a slight riff on propagating in perlite it's very very similar
if anything i find that actually propagating straight into the choose upon especially if
that's where you're intending the plant to live in permanently is much faster generally speaking
maybe not for all plants and i will tell you the plants that i have tried it with and tell you
about things that i've learned along the way like let me pick up one of the plants that i can show
you that's done exceptionally well going straight from a cutting into the cheese upon with the
water reservoir and that is the philodendron burley marks varigata and you can see it's doing
really well some of the newest leaves have started to come through one thing i have noticed about
this and it was exactly the same in pond is until this gets established it's got great aero roots
at least the big mother plant that i have here the aero roots are almost the same length as the plant
but and the reason why i took this cutting by the way just as a bit of a side note is there was a
massive side branch that i hadn't realized it was growing towards the window and it was tipping the
plant over so i just went you know what snip that off snip it into little smaller bits shove it
into the cheese upon and it was this was the first plant that i did this and it was because i'm just
like if it doesn't work it doesn't work but that's part of the fun of doing things like propagations
is a bit of experimentation i'm just like this was a plant that i have a huge plant of if it didn't
do too well it's fine i lost a bit of a branch it needed a trim anyway so this one however did
exceptionally well but as i was mentioning it does take a while to get established and get rooted in
before it starts then pushing out the new leaves it did have some new leaves that were ready to go
from when it got cut and a lot of those now are activating the leaves are slightly smaller until
they get a bit more established and then i'm sure this will start getting huge like the mother plant
and i'm pointing to it you can't see it but it's on this side of my conservatory right let me show
you another plant that's doing exceptionally well in going straight from a cutting into the chooser
pond so this one might not be a surprise for most people mainly because this is a plant that will
generally propagate easily enough anyway but that would be a synchronium this specifically
is an elbow syngermium which at the moment i think i've got probably about 100 different propagations
like cuttings of this all over the place and it started from one plant and it's i then propagated
it into other plants and they're growing fast now so i have to keep chopping them back and
shoving them into the shoes upon and you might be able to see if i bring this in a bit closer
hopefully that was getting picked up you might be able to see some of the roots in there
exceptionally well straight into the pond straight into a water reservoir this one is i've taken it
out of the water reservoir obviously to show you i do keep them in plastic cups which i reuse
mainly because i want to be able to see the roots develop and then eventually when this gets
too large for this i will move it into a proper self-watering pot with the indicator just to
make my life a bit easier but yes this really does enjoy going straight into the choose upon
and it doesn't really skip a beat it keeps growing quite fast but again i'm preaching
to the choir especially if you've ever tried to propagate a syngonium i struggled with mine to
begin with when it was in soil with most of my syngoniums but actually moving them into pond
they're loving life basically i could never keep them happy they were either too wet or too dry
pond hands down they are super happy in so let me put this down and pick up another plant and
i'll show you that it really went well going straight into pond again so the next one might
be surprising to some people and it was a bit of a gamble when i tried it but i am happy to report
that the philodendron florida ghost ignore some of the browning that you're seeing on the leaves
this was from before i took the cutting part of the reason why i took the cutting these weren't
the most aesthetically pleasing leaves but they're still photosynthesizing so i've left them on there
doing exceptionally well and it's just recently started pushing out new growth and i think i moved
this into the pond off straight after the cutting and this is maybe about a month later so did it
really really quickly really really well obviously the one thing i will say about this it did have
some decent aerial roots on it probably about that long i know that would be inches or centimeters
probably i can do centimeters a bit better uh probably between five seven or ten centimeters
but yeah really really well did not skip a beat at all so i'm trying to think of what else you
might be able to see possibly here behind me you can see here this is the never paranormal pinatum
that went straight into it doing great trying to think if there's anything else that i can kind of
show you without picking anything up um another thing that did do okay but not great
was assist this color that one the ones that i've started in a water propagation and then moved into
pond are doing a lot better but let me put this down and i'll give you some of my tips and some
experiences that i've learned along the way about propagating in pond okay so some of the
things that i've learned along the way is do not when you're starting with the water reservoir do
start with a water reservoir because it will wick up through the pond and it will keep that node
evenly kind of moist around while still getting loads of variation do not start straight away
with putting in feed so i only start introducing feed when i start seeing that the roots have
established within the pond and the plant is trying to actively grow new foliage because at
that point in time when the roots are so new and the plant is still trying to establish itself the
smallest bit of something like a fertilizer could burn those roots off quite quickly
because they're not ready they don't need that nutrition just yet they are still growing based
on the essentially the the micronutrients and the nutrients that they've already got within the stem
of the cutting that you've basically put into the pond the other thing is
i can't talk about i'm trying to think now no i can i was gonna say i don't think i could talk
about growing in this manner outside of a slightly higher humidity environment like my conservatory
but no i have actually done the same thing especially with the philodendron padatum that
was another one that did okay it's a slow grow when you're propagating anyway that doesn't change
when you're using pawn so that one and again the syngonium album a different synchronoum album
propagation syngonium elbow propagation like i can use words uh that was actually put into pawn into
a self-watering container in a household humidity almost directly above a radiator as well so it
really wasn't getting great humidity and that was placed in a south-facing window granted it's very
sheltered by other plants but that did as well it did really well as well so it it doesn't really
skip much of a beat now the one thing i will say is if you want to give your cutting the
best chance of surviving i would say get ones that have got even a tiny bit of aerial roots on there
that will give it a bit of a kick start i have found that some of my other plants that i've done
uh specifically i'm thinking of a cutting that i've had from a lovely dear friend uh and a
beautiful cutting of a philodendron pink princess tried propagating in water for almost two months
no root development it did push out a new leaf because apparently that's what i wanted to do
um but it didn't start putting any roots out i have since put that in pond it didn't have any
aerial roots on it or this very small nub and it's struggling a bit but i think it's slowly starting
to push out some roots again i've not really ever propagated a pink princess before not one that is
as highly variegated as this one so this might be normal i don't know the other thing that i
will say is i've also put water propagations so it's easy to move it's easier to move from water
propagation rather than a soil propagation into pond because essentially it's a riff on
water roots that work within pond so i've even done some begonia so begonia amphioxus that i had
that was rooting in water i have since moved it in pond and it's doing really really well
i think that's everything i wanted to say if you guys have got any questions comments do
drop them down below i know this was a bit of a waffley video but hopefully that's given you a
few tips and maybe if you're thinking about doing something like going straight from a cutting into
pond these are the ones that have worked well for me i'm sure things that propagate easily
anywhere else probably propagate really easily in pond as well so for instance if you're cutting
a pothos and you're putting it in there guess what's going to happen it's going
to root relatively easily but yeah i think that's everything hopefully you've enjoyed
hopefully i shall see you here soon and i truly hope you have a great rest of your day thanks bye