Yes. I use a large salad tub. I also use plastic soda bottles for really small pots; just cut it off near the bottom and slip the top part inside the bottom part. Works like a charm!

Korina

What about using a glass cake dome? Would the glass attract too much heat, or could that work? I think it would look neat, at least.

I religiously use a Rubbermaid container dish, with potting medium inside, covered by a sheet of glass. Alongside, I have a Hurricane vase, with medium and also covered by glass. Both are under a gro-bulb in a lamp, and have prop'd countless AV leaves, begonias and other terrarium oddities this way for years. SO easy.

Baggie method doesn't work for me either. I think it's a myth......;-)

Hi:

I am trying the baggie method now on a Space AV leaf and working hard at not letting the leaf touch the sides of the ziplock. The above are some excellent suggestions, I will try them.

Thank You

Hi All:

I bought a small "plastic flip-top" container at WM yesterday for less than $1.00 to start a few AVs in. I am going to try that and see what happens.

I'm feeling sorta cheap here, which fits in with the myth of Yankee frugality....I save and use the containers that the box stores use to package rotisserie chicken. Some of the lids have a couple of vent holes, I just put tape over it. I also go to my local supermarket bakery and purchase the cake containers for a buck each. The large ones for a quarter sheet cake usually have domes with varying heights, so I get the tallest ones. Stores will occasionally use a lidded clear plastic container for lettuce and other greens, and these work well also. For wick watering, I buy from the the deli dept. the 1/2 pint containers with lids, $7.50 for 50. I suppose I could buy 1 olive in each of 50 containers and get the containers free, but I am not that cheap!

Barbara

I've started leaves in baggies quite a few times...Sometimes I just place the rooting medium directly into the bottom of the bag and stick the leaf in it, and other times I put the leaf into a tiny pot and place the cup and leaf together in the baggie. Then I just blow some air into the baggie as I'm sealing it off to keep the sides away from the leaf, then I hang the baggie from my plant shelves on the side by the window. I've come to like the look of little plantlets hanging on the side of the plant stand LOL Just like with the other methods mentioned here, if you start getting too much moisture in the baggie, you need to open it for a little while.

I have used the 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/4 sheet cake pans. I get the ones that have clear top that comes with it. I use the top to put baby AV's in and water from the bottom in these. you can use a turkey size oven bag to put the sheet pan in, that works ok.

I am trying the baggie method for the first time. I am using the heavier baggies and keep them blown up with air. They seem to be holding up pretty well. No leaves touching the sides yet.. Hope it works.