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Aug 25, 2016 6:26 PM CST
Name: Baja
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bwv998 said:Soil is dry now. I put the leaves on the soil today. So, I should water them right?


Sure. Within a few days. It doesn't matter. You might water once a week in good light. Everybody has their own rituals with these things, and some people might like to mist or water lightly, more often to favor the development of new roots, but I treat my leaf propagations like stem propagations. Which is to say watering them carefully until the soil is saturated, then allowing the soil to go dry or almost dry before repeating. Leaf propagations are not as reliable as offsets, and there is a certain failure rate involved (different depending on the plant) that I have come to accept and expect.

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