Do Cuttings Need Light to Root?

I’ve done a fair bit of research on this, and the consensus seems to be that cuttings do best with long hours of indirect light. On a cloudy day, put them in your brightest spot, on sunny days, pull them back from the window. If your cuttings have leaves, they do need light Plants get …

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How to Propagate Syngoniums

Syngoniums are awesome propagation project. They’re pretty reliable rooters, pretty speedy to root AND Syngoniums are vining plants, so if you want a bushy plant, you’ll need to chop and prop a bunch of cuttings to achieve that. How to take a Syngonium cutting You need a node to propagate a Syngonium. They’re vining plants, …

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Can You Grow A Monstera From a Leaf?

No. You can’t grow a Monstera plant from a single leaf in water or soil (or moss or perlite or whatever substrate) without a node BUT you can root a leaf and have it live its happy zombie leaf life. If a Monstera produces a new leaf, it has a node – you can’t grow …

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What Does Chop And Prop mean?

Chop and prop (or chop n prop) is a term we see bandied all around house plant groups and forums, and it can be a bit confusing to newbies. I think it’s because it seems such a casual phrase when what we’re actually discussing is chopping your plant up into several new plants because the …

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Do Top Cuttings Root Faster?

In my many, many propagation experiments, I haven’t found any evidence that top cuttings root any faster than mid-cuttings. There are some properties of top cuttings that can help them root faster, but if you have a mid-cutting that has those same properties, it’ll root just as quickly. What’s the difference between a top-cutting and …

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