How to transfer WATER propagations to SOIL successfully 3 different ways! | Propagating with Fluval

[Music] foreign [Music] my name is Melissa if you're new here for today's video I figured I would show you three ways to add some propagations back in to your plants I have some props that have been rooting for a while so I figured I would go ahead and pot some of them up and I'm going to show you a few different ways to do that we're going to be also I think taking a couple more cuttings off one plant to fill it out and then I'll probably repot one of these with you just to have like a different way of adding some props in so I'm excited I have three different plants here and I'm going to show you what I do to kind of make propagating and adding props back into your pots to be successful so the three plants that I have I will show you what we're working with so this is my syngonium Aria it has the yellow variegation although some of the the leaves are like more creamy that's the new one there you can kind of see the variegation and I have one leaf that was burnt by my grow light so I took a cutting right here you can kind of see where I had chopped it and it has a node growing here on the bottom that is pushing a new Leaf from that chop and I had already cut this plant once and you can see that is a prop that I had added in do you see that on the edge so I'm going to be adding another prop of this in it has a new leaf and it has quite a bit of roots in there this has been ready to be potted up for a while but this one I'm going to repot to show you how I do that when you just want to repot the plant and add the props in together the next plant is going to be my skin tapsis 2bi Moonlight and I have these in propagation tubes that have been rooting for a while it's actually the same um propagation vessel behind me there on the wall that I did on a separate video on my channel if you want to see that and all the cuttings I took to put in there I'll link that video up here for you instead of adding these back into my main pot like I'm going to do with the other plant I'm going to show you a different way and for these I'm just going to pot up in a separate pot and let them get situated in a much smaller pot to root and then I will add them back into my mother pot when it's time so I'm going to show you this way I was like my second way the third point I'm gonna do is my Hoya linearis it's gotten so long this plant was just one Short Vine maybe like seven inches when I first got this plant so it has grown it has actually has you know grown so many more nodes I have one up top and then I have one here and then two long ones so you can kind of see the roots haven't gotten too long in this propagation vessel but I'm gonna go ahead and pot these cuttings up because I don't like them to stay in water for too long and so with this plant I'm going to just be adding them back into this one I'm not going to be repotting this one at all get my little potting mat out here I think we'll just work on this so that I'm not making a huge mess so all of these propagations are coming from water so I just want to like reiterate that these when it comes to water propagations and I know water is a little bit more difficult to add props in because the water roots are different um than like from another substrate water roots are just a little bit more delicate and they can take a little while to adjust to a soil so you just have to be mindful about keeping the pot a little bit more moist and normally I would just dig a hole I have a little tool that I like to use I can link this down in the description this is like my succulent tool kit it's the perfect little hole maker to add props in I love this thing I swear by this thing and so normally I would dig a hole and add my prop right in there but the only downfall to that is if you don't dig far enough down your roots aren't going to reach the bottom of the pot meaning if they don't get far enough down as your soil dries out it's going to dry you know it dries from the top down so the bottom is where the moisture is so if your roots are up here they're going to dry out and your propagation isn't going to make it and sometimes you don't really want to water the entire plant because then you can risk like over watering it so when I'm adding a prop in what I'll do is like with a water bottle like this is I will just add water to that area maybe like every four to five days and for like two weeks and that pretty much ensures that the cuttings have transition in there and they can root and grow for you and not just like die off so that's my little secret is getting them far enough down into the pot if you let your propagations go just a little too long like I have here for this one and I don't even know if I can get this guy out of here because I think he's stuck oh no oh that's not good the stem I made the stem too long maybe I can squeeze my shears down here and cut some of the stem off there we go so you see it has quite a good amount of roots here and you see all those little fine root hairs those secondary roots so that's kind of what I'm looking for and this actually has some even some like tertiary Roots starting is when you get like little root hairs off of the secondary Roots so sometimes a cutting like this is hard to add into the pot because there's so many roots sometimes what I'll do is this space here I will wrap the root around and then like stick it in that way or what might be easier just to repot the plant together and add this back in just to ensure the roots do get far enough down into the pot so that's what we're going to do for this one this ingotium Aria I repotted not too long ago so I'm not going to completely Disturb This plant that much at all he's kind of rooted and stuck in there I don't want to stress this plant so I'm not going to like um mess with his roots too much I just want to take away some of the soil so that I can add this cutting right down in here and you want to get him far enough down into the pot that's the secret and we're just going to slide that right back in and then you can position the cutting in the pot the way that you think would look nice so my plant is leaning this way towards the light so I'll probably add the cutting and turn them a little bit to face kind of that same way like that and then all I want to do is just fill up I'm just going to use the same soil because this plant does not need to be repotted now if it's a plant that you need to repot then I would remove some of the soil that comes off easily I wouldn't mess with the roots too much and then you can add fresh soil and repot them up together since I repotted this one I know that I did not that long ago I don't need to repot the whole thing and this is one way that I like to fill out my pots and make them full and bushy which I just love I'm just taking a little bit of my normal mix and just kind of fill it up a little bit where I had jostled around some of that soil there it's literally as easy as that my cutting is in it's down far enough into the pot that it can continue pushing new growth and the soil was pretty moist and so I wet this plant already but I'm just going to give this side where I add that cutting in just a little bit more water and probably in like four or five more days I will do the same thing just squirt a little bit of water over that cutting and yeah it'll do great it'll transition it shouldn't die I do this all the time to fill my pots out and once this plant probably grows some more I'll probably end up propagating to add like a couple more back in to fill this pot out but it was one Vine growing and it's already starting to fill out I have lots of new growth on this one so yeah very very excited about that the next one that we'll do is the skandopsis and this one is really easy because you're just adding the cuttings into you're just basically potting them up so I'm just going to add a little bit of my soil down here on the bottom if you struggle with propagations like water propagations and adding them back into the pot and you feel like they just die sometimes it's easier to just pop them in a smaller separate pot wait for them to grow a little bit more and then you can add them back in I know some people say it doesn't really matter how much like root growth you have you know if you have like an inch root growth go ahead and pop them up and I find that most people don't let their Roots get long enough and they don't put them far enough down into the pot which causes the water roots to dry out because if you think about water Roots they like are submerged in water they're not getting enough like airflow and so when they're going into soil they need that hydration that water just a little bit longer to help them transition that's like the most important thing is just not keeping the soil where you added those in like moist enough and so the roots on this cutting look how curly that one is isn't that cute look at that little curl there so this is just one root here it doesn't have a secondary root so we're going to lay him here this is my other one look at that Curly one I have one cutting so we're going to add him in here and you can rearrange these in the pot any way that you'd like and then these two are about the same they have about the same amount of roots so I have four cuttings and I'm just going to place them all down in here kind of just like that so they're all kind of down in there and then what I'll do is just honestly just fill up with soil just make sure that you're getting the roots like all the way down there and it's okay if you bury the node and the stem like really far down into the soil because the new growth will push out of the soil so I pretty much get my cuttings down into that soil pretty far and so when you're adding props like this in they're going to focus on their Roots they're not going to push new leaves right away and depending on the particular plant or cutting that you have I find some plans just take a while to push New Growth so depending on the plant that you have it could be a while honestly I don't like pre-wet my soil first because I'm gonna water it like right after this I just don't have to like pre-moisten it and I forgot my fertilizer I usually don't add fertilizer so with fertilizer you don't have to worry about fertilizing your new cuttings right away because this soil base that I have is is it has a lot of nutrients this fox farm ocean Forest there's a lot of good healthy nutrients that this plant will uptake and do just fine for a while for months even especially now that we're going into like the off season I don't need to worry about fertilizing this plant right away so this awesome coat I don't even really need to add it it's not that necessary but it is slow release it releases over six months and I'm not using any type of other fertilizer right now and I'm just going to add just a tiny bit just to supplement this plant because I'm not going to be adding any more fertilizer to my plants until the springtime so whatever is left in there is all that they're going to get so I feel like slow release is fine to add in but if you're using a liquid fertilizer and you're just potting up a plant there's really there's no need to fertilize right away a lot of potting mixes have lots of nutrients in the soil and eventually you know those nutrients are going to get depleted when you water the plant they're going to drain out of the holes you know when you water the plant and you're going to want to add those important nutrients back in you know eventually but you don't have to worry about fertilizer right away so that one is all done you can see I got them pretty far down in there and so this plant is going to transition and do just fine as long as I don't let this soil dry out completely I don't think I have enough water I'm gonna have to go get some water at the sink probably I got a little bit in there so yeah that one is all done and last up is our Hoya linear Harris this is my favorite way to add cuttings back in is just adding them in with the tool I just think it's just easier and you don't have to repot the plant you don't have to make a new pot I just prefer this way I don't know so I'm going to clean this little tool because I haven't cleaned this in a really long time actually and I'm just going to clean my shears real quick since we are going to take a couple more cuttings all right so the linearis here has all these Vines growing in the front and then one up top and so I'm going to focus on the back part of this plant because I want to fill this back part out and I have several cuttings in here so we're just going to do one at a time or you can do two at a time oh wow I have one that didn't even root in the water it just like rotted I probably let this get too dry because I've been so bad about keeping those props watered behind me yeah they didn't root very much at all you can see a little bit of roots on that one and then there's a little bit on that one too I don't know if you can see them so the base on some of these are kind of mushy so I'm gonna get rid of this linearis is touching my leg down here and I thought it was a spider I was about to go crazy so it has a root on this middle part but I'm going to get rid of this Leaf here without cutting this root off so that we're just left with a stem and a root there and then this bottom is a little mushy so I'm going to get rid of that so this is one cutting here that we're going to add in all I'm going to do is use my little tool and I'm just going to go down far enough into the pot I just twist this tool right in sometimes the soil falls back down into the hole so I have to like be mindful and then I'm just going to stick this as far down as it'll go just to make sure those roots that are growing are down in there far enough just like that and then just place the soil back over top of the cutting and there's that one and so this one again didn't really root from the bottom I'm going to get rid of that bottom and I'm going to get rid of these two leaves it has one little root I don't even know where that leaf is coming through has one little root here it's so fine you can barely see it so I'm going to stick this down in a separate hole just like that and then just make sure that root gets down in there and it's okay if you have some aerial roots that grew in the water from the other nodes then I would just say you know those roots are probably going to dry and what I didn't what I forgot to mention to you too is make sure you're potting them the right way because some of these cuttings if you pop them the wrong way the new growth you want to pop them like the right way into the pot so you just have to be mindful of that same thing I want to get rid of these two leaves okay so I have a little root on that one and we're gonna make a home somewhere else and I just get that little tool down there far enough so that my cutting and root sometimes I just have to like finagle the root and get it down in there and some you know and like I was saying before I'll twist the root around if it's really long and then place it down and it's totally fine and so this is the top cutting and I'm surprised it didn't root I think I let it dry out I think that's what happened all right so we're going to take a couple more cuttings off of this one to propagate and I'm going to do both Vines just because one doesn't grow like super long so I'm just going to cut there and just to make it a little even and there so we took two more cuttings so we have this one here and I'm going to cut off the little two leaves on the bottom foreign maybe instead of water I can use some Fluval so I feel like messing with that so I have three cuttings so you can root these and you can root Hoya cuttings and perlite sphagnum Moss Fluval water like any substrate you prefer to root in since I haven't rooted Hoya and Fluval yeah I wonder if I should try a scoop of fluid and then stick these down in there I had mixed reviews on or mixed suggestions on whether or not people have been rinsing their Fluval and I feel like some people say to rent some people say not to rent so I'm not going to rinse this time oh actually so this is just a little mini like clear propagation plastic cup so I put a little bit of flu bowl there on the bottom some people put coals and they're Fluval and set it in a different container like in a semi-hydro setup and then you know it'll wake up moisture to keep the fluid moist so that it doesn't dry out and get like too dry but I think I can do a good job at keeping it moist so we'll see I might set it up that way if I feel like they're drying if it's like the substrates drying so I'm just placing those down in there and then I'm just going to fill up around I'm just going to use the lid to this just making sure that nodes are covered yeah and it's clear and we'll be able to see the roots so I'm not sure if Hoya will like flugel to Ruden but we're gonna find out my allocation quorums are doing phenomenal by the way in Fluval I'll have to do like an updated video on that just like that and I filled up my water we're just gonna water it so that it's done we're gonna let this one prop in the Fluval and I'll unpan the camera so you guys can see them up close too so those are the fresh cut inks this is the main plant now when I added those cuttings I added all these cuttings here to the back that you can see and since I jostled around the soil a bit I'm just going to add like a little scoop of fresh soil on top just to ensure that they're all covered I have to be mindful of this linearis lives in my South window and it gets so hot during the day so I'm just going to be mindful to keep this plant watered or at least like the cuttings you know and then I'm just going to give these cuttings a good drink I'm pretty much just going to water this whole plant because I can tell it's thirsty again I think the linearis is a thirsty Hoya in my opinion yeah so we have all three done we have our cuttings here and our May pot so they are all done I'm going to give you guys a closer look at everyone and yeah that'll be it for this video so I ended up doing the semi Hydro setup for this I poked holes in the bottom of this so that water can drain and then I added some water in like the cash pot so that it will Wick up I'm just worried that I would accidentally let it dry out so I did do that for that one here's the linearis up close you can see all those little props that I added in one two three and it's going to continue growing from where I chopped it here on the bottom as soon as those start to grow and yeah I'm really happy I'm excited to get this plant full and bushy from where it started here's our skin dapsis pot that we made you can see all of them are down in there like that and yeah I just have to make sure to keep the soil a bit moist on that one and here's our Aria syngonium and you can see this is the prop that I just added in and I just made sure to get it far enough down and this is a previous prop that I had done already and you can see how well that took and has pushed out a couple new leaves thank you guys so much for watching I love propagating and I think it's just so much fun I learned so much about certain plants and how well they root how well they don't root what they like what they don't like it's honestly how I learn so much so I hope you enjoyed and learned something from this video thank you guys so much for watching and being here and I will talk to you all again very soon foreign [Music] [Music]

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Length: 23min 19sec (1399 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 14 2022