Name: Plant propagation for beginners » 5 indoor plants
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I think it goes without saying that I absolutely adore plants and today I'm going to be making some new ones.

I'm propagating some plants and I thought I'd bring you along and show you how I do it.

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So propagating plants is just the process of creating these new baby plants out of some existing mature mama plants and it's just a really easy affordable way to fill up your house full of plants just based on what you've already got.

You don't necessarily need to go and buy anything.

One of the other reasons I do it is it's just such a rewarding feeling to see that you're kind of creating this new life, you know.

So I'm going to show you how I propagate five of my favorites.

One of them is pothos, which is the one you see here and hanging behind me in the kitchen.

Monstera deliciosa with its big beautiful leaves.

I'll also show you how to propagate the pancake plant or the pilias and a couple of others as well.

I do want to take a brief moment before we begin to thank Audible for partnering with us on today's video but we're going to chat more about them at the end.

For now, we're going to get started on propagating some plants.

The pothos is probably my favorite plant.

I think it looks so beautiful the way it waterfalls out of a pot if it's hanging on the ceiling or the way it cascades down the side of a surface.

So I've got this pothos here and it's beautiful, but it's getting really long and it's hitting the ground.

So it needs a trim and the lovely thing is we can use the trimmings to create a new baby plant.

So all I'm going to do is I'm going to cut the vine just at a point below where a leaf is coming out of the vine.

So I'm just going to snip it like that and you don't need to worry about the fact that you've just made this incision.

A new little vine or piece is going to stick out from here and grow and it's going to hit the ground again within a few months.

So we're going to hang on to these trimmings and I'm just going to continue this all the way around the plant.

The first thing we need to do is find the nodes on this vine.

It's pretty much just any point where a leaf is coming out from the vine.

So what we're going to want to do is take some sharp scissors, a knife, and we're just going to make a cut about one centimeter on either side of a node like so and we're going to repeat this all the way up the vine.

So one centimeter on each side and any little bit of vine that we cut that was just these pieces here, we actually don't need these.

We're just going to put these to the side and this here, these cuttings, are what we're going to put in water.

And if I actually get you to take a look at these nodes, at one node in particular, let's look at that one.

You can see these little protrusions that are coming off of it.

That's actually very likely where the roots are going to pop out from once we put this in water.

So now that we've got all these trimmings, all we need to do is dunk it into some water.

You want to make sure that those nodes stay submerged because like we said, that's where the roots are coming out from.

And then comes arguably the hardest part which is to patiently wait for these to root which can take anywhere between two to four weeks.

Now one really important thing in that time is you want to make sure that you're topping up your little vessel, your cup, whatever you're using with water because you're going to notice those water levels are starting to drop as the plant is using it up and as it evaporates.

And maybe even more important than that is about once a week you actually want to completely dump out the water that's in here and fill it up with some fresh water.

The reason for that is tap water has some oxygen in it and roots of plants need oxygen in order to grow.

And then in terms of where to store it, you just want to put it somewhere that has a good amount of sunlight and somewhere that's preferably a little bit warmer.

So maybe keep it away from windowsills because that's a lot of fluctuating temperature.

Potting the pathos is actually really straightforward.

Once it roots about two centimeters or an inch, you're good to go.

I'm just going to actually show you this one here.

I put this in water probably at least three or four months ago.

And the cool thing about that is it shows you that pathos can actually live in water.

So if you don't have time to put it in soil, or if you even if want to just keep it like this because it looks decorative, you definitely can so long as again, you're replacing the water to keep it fresh.

But you can see these roots have actually gotten longer than they need to be.

You only need a couple centimeters or so.

So what I've got here is some soil and I like to moisten it first by adding some water to it before we transplant our cuttings into the soil.

Because you got to keep in mind that the pathos just came from being in a water environment for quite a while.

And so they're going to want the soil to be moist, not wet, but just moist enough that it kind of sticks together.

So once you've added some water, just get in there with your hands, give it a mix.

And once you kind of get it to that point where it's it sticks together a bit, it's good.

And then the only other thing that you're going to need is an inner pot that has holes on the bottom.

That is incredibly important that it has holes because when you're going to water your plant later, you want it to be able to drain the water out so that the roots don't rot.

So all I'm going to do now is I'm going to transfer some of that moist soil into this inner pot.

And now I'm going to take this plant that has a lot of roots.

I'm actually going to cut it because I don't think it needs all that much root and it makes it easier to plant.

I'm just going to cut it to make the roots about an inch long and then we're going to put that into the soil.

So I'm using a four inch or 10 centimeter pot here and I'm going to plant about somewhere around 10, maybe 15 of these cuttings into the soil.

Not all of the cuttings are going to take.

It's still going to grow into becoming a beautiful, luscious, healthy plant.

And then we're going to pour a little bit of water on the soil as well.

And for the first couple of weeks, we want to try to keep that soil moist to promote the roots to continue to grow and just get used to their new environment.

You've made yourself a little baby pothos plant and within a few months, hopefully, and I'm sure you're going to have a lot of success with it.

You're going to end up with a plant that's going to grow its own vines and become its own mom at some point that you can trim because it's becoming so long.

That's how you make your own pothos at home.

Now that we've propagated the pothos, this part is going to be a breeze because you understand a lot of the key principles.

So we are now going to be propagating the string of hearts, which is such a beautiful, delicate plant.

So in much the same way as we did before, we are going to take one of the vines from the mother plant and we are going to give it a snip on the vine somewhere around the halfway point.

So now what we could do is we could just put this straight into the water.

The node, again, is where the roots are going to come from.

But if we put this in the water, the node in the water with the leaf, with that leaf being submerged, it's actually going to rot.

So one of the major or main differences here is we actually want to take that leaf at the node and just pluck it off.

And so then we're creating a little naked node and that's what we're going to dunk into the water.

And what I usually like to do is keep about two nodes worth here, attached, and then I give the vine another snip and then we are going to find another node.

Before we submerge it in the water, we're going to pluck off these leaves to create a little naked node and we're going to put that in the water as well.

So wait about three to four weeks for this to root.

But if I can be honest, what I actually like to do sometimes is to just keep it in the decorative glass jar, vase, or whatever you've got.

Because I think it looks really pretty when you put it on a shelf like this, just even in solitude, it looks really nice.

But if it does start to root and you're ready to put it into a pot, if you take a look at this one, for example, I've had this sitting in water for I think a couple of months now at least.

And once it starts to show you roots like this, you can put it into a pot.

Make sure again, it has some drainage holes.

Make sure that for the first week or two you're keeping the soil moist, just like we did before.

It needs to acclimate to being in soil again.

But after the one or two weeks are up, really taper back on how much you're watering this because it is a succulent after all, actually.

So you don't want to over love it because you could risk losing it in the process.

The next plant that we're going to be propagating is the Monstera deliciosa, which I think is just so beautiful.

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