Submitted 11 hours ago by glimse@lemmy.world to houseplants@mander.xyz
I’ve propagated a dozen different plants but this one just won’t happen for me. I’m using all the methods I’ve had success with elsewhere and always end with a dead vine.
I’ve tried right into soil, right into water. Letting a cutting dry overnight. Dabbing rooting hormones on it. Sharing a cup with other rooting plants. Nothing!
So if you’ve had success, what did you do? Did you find it any harder to propagate than others?
is your cutting tool clean ?
I’ve done it several times from a mother plant with success, in water and in soil, like in this tuto (bloomingbackyard.com/propagate-monstera-adansonii…)
Did not have any issue
Yep, I’ve got my special plant cutters that I keep clean with alcohol! They aren’t rotting away, they wither away before ever making a root.
I skimmed the page (will read it later) and saw a few tips I haven’t seen. I haven’t been bagging it and I haven’t tried laying it down flat on the soil!
Another thing I haven’t tried: rooting while still connected to the mother plant. I might try draping a vine or two over a pot on a lower shelf
Polkira@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
In water on a window-sill has worked in the past for me with that one. I make sure to cut close to the node, nor more than 1 cm under the node and I like to have at least 2 leaves on the stem. I leave the bottom node leafless. The window I put them on is south-east facing.
glimse@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That sounds like my standard method! Sitting right next to the parent so I know it loved the conditions. I’m even struggling at my “prop station” with grow lights.
I feel like I could throw cuttings from any other monsteras on the floor and they’d somehow find a way to root so I’m starting to wonder if this plant is just an outlier.