I recently did an experiment where I turned this blank white wall into a plant propagation station
this piece you're seeing down here is actually an indoor garden
we have some plants growing in this nursery right now but as soon as they're big enough
they'll be transplanted into the rise garden and we're growing lettuces,
tomatoes, peppers and lots of herbs our hope is eventually this garden will look like this
our apartment is filled with plants some we've had for years and some we got more recently but when
we left the city throughout COVID we couldn't take our plants with us and many of them died
thankfully upon our return we've pretty much nursed them all back to life and they're
looking really good we have a whole variety of plants from snake plants to succulents
to a money tree, a pancake plant and a whole lot more I love filling up my space with greenery and
I love taking care of plants watering them is one of my favorite activities and I've loved
watching them grow and change I watched a ton of YouTube videos about how to propagate various
plants in water and basically my goal here was to create clippings and cuttings most people do this
so that they can repot the plants in soil and actually grow another version of the same plant
and I may do that one day in the future but I've also learned that plants can just live in water
and it's a really nice interior design idea so my goal right now is to keep them in water the
first thing you probably want to know here is what glass tubes I used I ordered these off of Amazon
and I'll share a link for them down below in the description box they're basically glass cylinders
with a hole cut in them so it's easy to slip over this hook and hang on the wall they come together
in a pack of four for $19.99 and I ordered 12 of them so my order was about $60 and that includes
the hooks too but more on that later my first step was to make the plant clippings there's
a different way to do this for each plant so I watched a bunch of informational videos to learn
but for snake plants you could basically just cut the leaf so I chose one on the outside
then I put the cutting into some fresh tap water while I cut the rest
ultimately I cut another snake plant. leaf
then for my jade plant I probably cut it a bit lower than I had to just to leave a long stem
but as I've learned you should cut it about a quarter-inch beneath the node
and the node is the place where the bud leaves and branching twigs originate from
I'm not an expert at nodes or cuttings so I'm going to share
a link down below for more information if you're interested in learning more
I did this to a couple of my other plants including my money tree,
my pancake plant
and a couple of other succulents and I put them all in water to sit in the meantime I
also had a few other plant clippings in here that I had taken from my mom and a friend
that's where I got the vineyard ones that will ultimately hang down then it was time to get
started so I washed each test tube out with Estelle soaps and began setting up the wall
here's a closer look at the hooks you could just use command hooks here that stick onto
the wall if you didn't want to leave any holes in the wall but I was nervous that the command
hooks wouldn't hold the weight of the test tube and this is a nice in-between because
each hook leaves four tiny holes in the wall instead of one big hole from a nail
first, I mapped out on the wall where each tube was gonna hang I took a little bit of
washi tape and put a little tape marker on each spot of the wall
at first I arranged them a bit off-center but I decided that they looked best in even columns
so I moved the tape and even got a ruler to make sure they were equidistant
and then I started hammering in the hooks
I hammered so hard that my camera fell
oops thankfully it was okay so I continued shooting this video
once all the hooks were in place I put the glass tubes on each just to make sure they fit well
and looked right and then I took a photo of the wall with the blank tubes and I used my
Instagram stories to mock up visually where I wanted to put each clipping I knew which plants
I had for these tubes so now it was just about arranging them in a way that looked aesthetically
pleasing and balanced afterward I got started by filling each test tube with a bit of water
popping the proper plant inside picking off any low down leaves if I had to just
to make sure that only the stems or bases were in the water and then I
added water to top each of them off just to make sure each plant was touching the water
so ultimately the amount of water in each cylinder was related to how long each stem was
and then I went ahead and put them on the wall in my mapped out the arrangement
my plan is to move them around and rearrange every so often if I want to try something new
but for now, I really liked this arrangement and it was a very easy way to create a beautiful
DIY plant propagation wall in my new york city apartment
it really brings a lot of fun to the space and it looks playful but also minimal and simple
and once I have the greenery from the garden growing beneath it this entire wall will transform
from a blank white space into a living green wall this was just an experiment for me so I will keep
you updated on how they do I'm assuming some of these clippings might not make it and that's okay
but stay tuned in a future video and follow me on Instagram @luciebfink to see updates
I hope you like this video let me know down in the comments if you're currently propagating
any of your own plants or if you plan to do something like this in the future and let
me know if you have any questions sending so much love from New York City and I'll see you next time