You and I are twins. I would even kill the cuttings that would root if you dropped them on the ground and forgot about it. I found 2 methods that work for people like us.
The first thing is the container... NO GLASS INSIDE THE HOUSE. Use a Styrofoam cup... yes use the stinking cup. Why you may ask? It is 95% air so the stems breathe in water... no kidding.
Now you only need to change that water ever other day. And no more then three cuttings per cup. And use a Brita Filter to remove the chlorine.
The second thing is sphagnum moss... Moisten the moss with warm water. Squeeze it out. Stuff it in that stryrofoam cup. Make a small hole in the moss. Put in the cutting. Snuggle it up!! Put on a heating mat... walk away. You will have plantable roots in one week... again... no kidding. You will need to remove the moss before putting the cutting in the soil.
One additional think. Ask who ever is sending you a cutting NOT to put rooting hormone on it. Most don't need it but here is the kicker... if you do not know the rooting hormone is already on the cutting and you re-dip it... that cutting is a good as dead.
That was a $200.00 mistake.
Now I will show you a picture of my setup. This is a large dry fish tank with a small personal fan inside for circulation. It has a glass clover to keep my bad kitties out. I root in water for one week in what???? that Styrofoam cup!!!
Then I move them into 6 oz plastic cups with drain holes at the bottom and water them in ONCE with water only. They stay for another week inside the house. Then outside under the umbrella for a week and watered again ONCE with 1/4 strength liquid fertilizer. By this time they have decent roots so a little fertilizer works nicely. Then to the sun they go and are watered regularly with 1/2 strength liquid fertilizer. Once they are 6 weeks old they are plants and get full strength fertilizer.
That is my 2 cents.
Rhapsody
