How to re-root a plant?

dank7oo · 10-28-03, 07:02 AM

Well, its been amost 2 weeks now, and the clippings i have gotten from trace have yet to re-root. The clippings have not died however, but does anyone know how to get them to root?
Let me know!

Jason

Trace · 10-28-03, 08:30 AM

To elaborate... it's Pothos we are discussing.

Jason, are you sure no roots have started? The roots don't start from the bottom of those clippings, they start from where a leaf grows off the stem and it looks like a small, white carrot.

Anyways, those clippings I gave you were about 8 to 12" long, so place about half of that into the glass of water and you should have roots in no time.

Cheers!

Trace

Collide · 10-28-03, 10:59 AM

humm I kinda have a green thumb, with pothos you take a clipping and pull the bottom leaf off (the leaf closest to the cut)then u stick that cliped end in soil nice and deap and secure(make sure that the part where u pulled the leaf off is in soil). If you put them in water they will grow but then when u put them in soil again they will have to ajust again and growth will stop in the ajustment time soo just putting them in soil is fine. keep them watered like normal. I have no problems with this one big pothos plant I have provides me with tunns of clippings for all my chams and Im up to 8 not not as many as trace lol. Oh well hope that helps let me know if u need more advice

Oh forgot if you have a long clipping take two or three leafs off and make sure they are in the soil

meow_mix450 · 10-28-03, 11:07 AM

Does anyone know how to re-root ficus tress???

Meow

Collide · 10-28-03, 11:32 AM

Im really not sure with ficus if your talking benjamina im pretty sure that it is the same although every book I see says to use the starter stuff (a hormone powder used to accelerate growth) but I dont trust the stuff with the chams soo I wont use it, Ill have to take some cuttings of my ficus plants and see I have never acually tryed to propagate a ficus. humm ....

meow_mix450 · 10-28-03, 11:34 AM

Ya i have to cut some off, and i left it in the water, and its still staying alive, but growing no roots, grrrrrrrr

Meow

dank7oo · 10-28-03, 04:16 PM

AH!! THANK YOU TRACE!
I actually do not see any 'white carrots' but i dunno ... i will leave them for a while longer, then plant and see what happens!
Thanks again!

Jason

Wuntu Menny · 10-29-03, 04:29 PM

I normally root the cuttings hydroponically before trasnsplanting to soil. With pothos, I usually add a couple of drops of fertilizer to the water. Also, wrap the container or put it a darker or shaded area as light will inhibit root growth.

With woody specimens like ficus benjamina the "air layering" method is most common. You can take cuttings of new growth and dip them in rooting hormone as someone already mentioned. There is no reason to be concerned about it harming your cham as it will be several years before any cutting is large enough for them to climb on.

Air layering involves scoring the surface of the bark and wrapping moist sphagnum or peat moss around the wound. Secure it with some plastic wrap, sprinkle some rooting compound in if you wish, and wait. After several weeks, roots will appear at the site of the injury. Cut the branch off below the new root ball and place in a pot with suitable medium.

The latter method allows you to produce larger clones that are better suited to using shortly after repotting.

WM

Charm_Paradise · 10-29-03, 07:37 PM

Jason-

As I am sure you know, I wrote an EZine article on prorogating the different plants. I have been doing it for sometime now and have yet to have a single cutting die. The pothos will take a few weeks to start producing roots from the leaf node, if there was not already a root stub on the cuttings. Also not the longer/bigger the cutting the longer it will take to root and the higher the chance of the cutting dieing/rotting. With the pothos it is best to take the large cuttings you have and cut them into smaller cuttings with only 1-3 leaf nodes per cutting. The pothos do not need root hormone, but they will need a good potting soil that allows for good drainage. Keep them well watered until they start to root. The roots on pothos plants are very hardy and close to impossible for them to rot. Put 3-10 small cutting per pot.

For the Ficus any species I also use cuttings and have had very good success with all the cutting rooting. The hardwood cutting like the ficus take longer to root, but once they do they take off. The cuttings should be the brown hard wood not the softwood (green) part of the tree. The cuttings should be under 12" in length and the roots will start from the leaf node as well. If you have different fiscus trees you can mix them for color contrast. The cutting will need the root hormone to help root the cutting and protect it from rotting. Dip each cutting in the hormone and place them in groups of 3-7 per pot. The cuttings should root with in 2 months at the latest. The potting soil should be kept wet all the time during the rooting process, then cut back to prevent the roots from rotting. The cutting should be kept in a warm environment, and in shade.

FYI-

Just about all the plants we buy for our chameleons are grown from cuttings with a root hormone.

Hope this helps!

ChokeOnSmoke · 10-29-03, 07:44 PM

I have a question about cloning another kind of plant..... lol

J-Man · 10-29-03, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Collide
humm I kinda have a green thumb

that rhymed.... good job