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Jan 7, 2023 3:31 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Grew this Monstera Albo from a top cutting. Chopped it off another plant, stuck it in the dirt, and it grew. It's not rocket science. No special equipment needed
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Also grew this big white wizard from this little cutting the same way. Cutting + dirt + water =plant
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Jan 7, 2023 4:33 PM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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Nothing near as stunning as those are!
I grew my " maybe White Wizard that's lost much of the white" from cuttings from Gene.
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Ha, kind of crappy picture Rolling my eyes.
Philo took some patience but taking off
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Plant it and they will come.
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Jan 7, 2023 6:00 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
You did a great job!
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Jan 7, 2023 8:44 PM CST
Name: Vera
ON CA (Zone 5b)
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Oleanders. I had a young one - single stem, about 3' tall, barely started to grow woody at the base - and my rescued squirrel climbed it. It broke in half, of course. I was sad, but I thought, well why not try to root the broken top? Worked like a charm! When they both grew into great big shrubs, I pruned them every fall before bringing them indoors, and rooted a good many of the cuttings to give away.

Also African violets. I don't particularly like them myself, but my mother loved them, had a whole indoor garden of them. Whenever I saw a nice one she didn't have yet, I'd ask the owner for a leaf, propagate it and give her a new plant.

Don't potted plants make the best presents?
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Jan 8, 2023 7:43 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
yes, Serpent they do. we have a small group here (we have 15 members) locally who root and share many plants with each other. We all met through a larger Facebook group, a BST (Buy Sell Trade) but for us, the B and S part of that equation never worked out. Most people on the page were greedy trying to extract large sums of $$ for tiny plants, in many cases unrooted cuttings, from the other less experienced members. No one was focused on the T, trading. So we ditched that group and formed our own of traders. We don't sell to each other, we meet up every once in a while and do nothing but trade (and eat, and drink, and talk). We all figured out that what we wanted at that juncture wasn't to be in a 'plant group' but a 'plant community'. If it was difficult and we had to jump through hoops to do it like heat mats, humidity domes, perlite, aliflor and who knows what crap people think they have to do to get something to root, none of us would. We are all old school, cut below the node, leave plenty of adventitious roots, plop it in soil or if we think it needs coddling at all (or if its going to grow as a true epiphyte) sphagnum moss, and we give it away. We don't lose cuttings.
This is a Philo Jose Buono I decided to prop for myself from one of my mother plants. I wanted to trial one outside, so I just took the cutting, and buried it at the base of a tree. It rooted almost immediately and started climbing. Unfortunately, during Hurricane Ian, a larger tree fell on this smaller tree and broke it so we had to cut the top off. I'll have to move this to another tree eventually
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Jan 8, 2023 10:54 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Argh. Out to the greenhouse for the very first time since I got COVID and what did I find? The squirrel who found her way into the greenhouse tried to destroy one of my Syngonium albos. And this one was just getting to the mature 5 blade stage. I assume she was scavenging bedding material. Because she didn't;t eat it, just chewed the stem and gave me a nice top cutting. Its ok, the base is fine and will branch. And this is easily rooted. It had some fine adventitious roots, so I just stuck it in dirt in my favorite choice of pots (clear recycled drinking cup from the fast food place) and watered it. Should have a new plant in no time, and since I am starting off with a mature 5 leaf firm, it will be better LOL
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Jan 8, 2023 11:35 AM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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Looks ready to go!
Plant it and they will come.
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Jan 8, 2023 1:29 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
As much as I hate to do it I'm going to have to take measures against this particular squirrel. I've had a squirrel in there in winter for most of the time I've had the greenhouse. Usually the main st damage they've done has been to pull tags out of pots and toss them around and bury hickory nuts in the pots. And they usually leave in spring. This one has been different. It's eaten an orchid, torn up this syngonium, and I desperately it was the one that ate the spadix of red cristallinum berries a bit ago.
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Jan 9, 2023 1:43 PM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
This is an absolute favorite thing I salvaged from a cutting. Monstera delicious aurea-variegata. Some would say this is a 'try-color' like that is something special, but the truth is, many aurea's show this natural variation in colors with shades of greens, white, cream, silver and yellow.
This one is really old, I got the original plant prior to 2010 by a few years. It was growing well but froze in 2010 when my greenhouse heater failed.
Years later I found a very small couple of leafless nodes laying in the detritus on the greenhouse floor. I just stuck one end under a flat rock by my greenhouse stream, and left it to its own devices, and its regrown. Its pinnating now. Took a while, these are extra special super slow. But its back.
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Jan 9, 2023 2:14 PM CST
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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It's a doozy!
Plant it and they will come.
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Jan 9, 2023 3:54 PM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
Opp, AL @--`--,----- ðŸŒđ (Zone 8b)
Region: United States of America Houseplants Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Garden Sages Plant Identifier Garden Ideas: Level 2
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Some beautiful things here!

Most of my plants are propagated, the original long discarded. Especially if it's something that has to stay in a pot but wants to be huge. There's a limit to how much space some things can be allowed to have. My house isn't growing.

A list of all of them would be too impractical to compile but I do have categories in my plant list, sps for successful propagation in soil, swp for success in water. I have propagated a lot of plants that are no longer on my list, but there are a lot indicated in the current list. Lots of pics over the years in the propagation forum.

I start propagating most plants the same day I buy them. That's why I have plants, to do stuff with 'em. Just staring at them is fun, but I like more action, something to do. Once a prop gets going in good soil, that's going to be the main plant. The store-bought roots in store soil almost always die within a few months. And if I like it, I'll want it in more than just 1 pot.

Most of our landscape is propagated from starts of plants in my mom's or MIL's yards. Shrubs have always been expensive & the fru-fru cultivars are about all that's available out there. It's too hard to know what you're getting. With an annual plant/landscaping budget of about $100, it would take decades to start looking like something w/o propagation.

For about the 8th time in my life, I started over from scratch again 9 yrs ago, where there was nothing but some grass/weeds and hard-packed concrete dirt where cars used to park, and some snippings brought from the plants at the other place, which were placed as snippings from somewhere else...
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Jan 9, 2023 4:10 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
When I'm propagating from stem cuttings, I'm usually propagating aroids. I do t usually mess with other stuff.
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Jan 14, 2023 9:44 AM CST
Name: Carmen
Lake Tahoe, Nevada/Reno, Nevad (Zone 7a)
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Houseplants Region: Pacific Northwest
𝓗ð“Ūð“ĩð“ĩð“ļ! 𝓘 𝓭ð“ē𝓭 𝓞ð“ļð“ķð“Ū 𝓎ð“ūð“―ð“―ð“ē𝓷𝓰𝓞 ð“Ŋð“ŧð“ļð“ķ ð“ķ𝔂 𝓖ð“ļð“ĩ𝓭ð“Ū𝓷 ð“Ÿð“Šð“―ð“ąð“ļ𝓞. ð“Ģð“ąð“Ū ð“ķ𝓊ð“ē𝓷 ð“ŧð“ļð“ļð“―ð“ž 𝓊ð“ŧð“Ū 30 𝔂ð“Ū𝓊ð“ŧ𝓞 ð“ļð“ĩ𝓭! 𝓘 ð“―ð“ąð“ļð“ūð“°ð“ą 𝓘 ð“ĩð“ļð“žð“― ð“ēð“―. 𝓑ð“ūð“― 𝓘 ð“―ð“ļð“ļð“ī ð“―ð“ąð“Ū ð“ŋð“ē𝓷ð“Ū𝓞, ð“đð“ĩ𝓊𝓎ð“Ū𝓭 ð“―ð“ąð“Ūð“ķ ð“ē𝓷 ð”€ð“žð“―ð“Ūð“ŧ 𝓊𝓷𝓭 𝓊 ð“Ŋð“Ū𝔀 ð“ķ𝓊𝓭ð“Ū ð“ēð“―. 𝓑ð“ūð“― 𝓊 ð“Ŋð“Ū𝔀 𝓊ð“ŧð“Ū 𝓞ð“đð“ŧð“ļð“ūð“―ð“ē𝓷𝓰 ð“ĩð“ēð“īð“Ū 𝓎ð“ŧ𝓊𝔁𝔂! ð“Ķ𝓗𝓔ð“Ķ!
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Thank you for reading and your comments! I love any and all help! I know a lot about plants, but I am only one leaf on the plant! ðŸŠī
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Jan 14, 2023 10:10 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Nice work
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Jan 14, 2023 10:12 AM CST
Name: Tiffany purpleinopp
Opp, AL @--`--,----- ðŸŒđ (Zone 8b)
Region: United States of America Houseplants Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Garden Sages Plant Identifier Garden Ideas: Level 2
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Very nice, Carmen! How are you changing the font?
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Jan 14, 2023 10:15 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Yeah I wondered about that font too
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Jan 15, 2023 7:49 AM CST
Vermont
I haven't done a lot of propagating, but I did cut back some Chicago Hardy figs and stuck the cuttings in the soil. Three or four plants grew, and now those are planted out back. I'm excited to see if they will have faired through my Vermont winter, albeit, a mild one so far.
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Jan 15, 2023 7:52 AM CST
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Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
I find it fascinating to hear what others propagate and how. Thank you for sharing
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Jan 15, 2023 8:09 AM CST
Vermont
Having met with some success, I hope to propagate more things. Last year, I divided an ancient rhubarb into 14 more plants, and of course, I have hostas lining just about every bed and building on the property for ease of mowing. I started a food forest a few years ago, and hope to propagate the honeyberries, gooseberries, elderberries and other things to extend the garden. I started with 50 strawberry crowns and hope to transplant many of the runners as my primary groundcover. I also have mint, but that's a no-brainer and only used in places that I don't mind it running. (I discovered that I really like mojitos!)
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