Plant propagation

I have been experimenting with plant propagation for a while. There is something satisfying about turning plants into new plants. And apart from the fun, it also saves you money because you don't have to buy these plants from the shop.
The results have been a bit mixed so far, but I'm still learning. In this blog I'm sharing some of my experiences with the propagation my houseplants.

Scindapsusses

On the photo above you see my recent cuttings from two species of Scindapsus; an Aureum Epipremnum and a Pictus Trebie.
These plants are quite easy to propagate by cutting long vines and putting them in water.
Within two/three weeks they develop enough roots to move them into soil.

I've already successfully propagated the mother plant earlier this year and moves three cuttings into a new pot together.

As you can see it is doing quite well and the vines continue to grow. I want to keep this one myself, so I have two plants to take new cuttings from. The following ones will be given away or maybe traded or even sold.

Snake plant

I have recently bought a Snake plant. We have seen a lot of these beautiful plants during our recent summer holiday in Africa. Both in nature as in some of the accommodations we visited.
During our holiday I had already decided to buy a snake plant when I got back, so we would have a physical reminder of our wonderful trip.

I've found a very nice one with light green edges and a cool pattern on the leaves (see the photo above). When I was checking the different Snake plants in the garden center, I noticed that one of them had a small shoot coming through one of the holes in the side of the nursery pot. The plant itself also looked good. I chose that one because I wanted to find out if I could grow the shoot into a new plant.
Back home I removed the plant from the nursery pot and carefully loosened the soil and roots around the small shoot and teared it from the mother plant.

The small shoot had some tiny, fragile roots which I managed to keep intact. It seemed like a healthy shoot to grow into a new plant, so I filled a small nursery pot with some seed-starting and propagation mix and put the shoot in it.

I hope the shoot will continue to develop roots and eventually grow into a big snake plant, although I think that will take a long time.
I know you can also propagate Snake plants by cutting of a leaf and let it grow roots in water, but for now I didn't want to cut a leaf of the mother plant. I might try that once my Snake plant grows bigger.

Nephentes

The last experiment is with my Nephentis (Monkey Jars) pitcher plant. I started 1,5 year ago with one plant. This mother plant already grew a new plant next to itself in the first year. This plant is a grown plant itself now and produced its first pitchers this year.
Earlier this year I pruned one of the long vines of the mother plant and put it in sphagnum moss. The plant didn't grow a lot, but I did manage to keep it alive. I hope it will start growing next season.
Today I cut off two other long vines, placed them in special carnivorous plant soil and gave them a lot of water. I'm curious what these two will do. It needs a bit of wet feet, humidity, warmth and sunlight, so I do need to take good care of them. But I will...

Well this was it for now. I will post a new update in a few weeks.
If there are more people on Hive that propagate plants, let me know in the comments. We might be able to learn from our experiences.

Friendlymoose