That's fantastic! I especially like it because it looks low-maintenance and easy to set up, lol.
Thank you for sharing, I will definitely try it.

Very Cool! I've never seen this method before. Thanks for sharing!

Genious!!!

so cool! i love new and exciting contraptions! i'm trying this one! A+!

Great idea, especially if you have a few different cuttings that you need to root. As soon as they are rooted they can be transferred to their 'home' pot. It will save lots of time in watering small cuttings.

Neat. Thanks for sharing, kids. ^_^

Very smart idea - wonder if Perlite would work just as well ? Do you have to cover the cuttings with a plastic-baggie, or spritz them w/water ? Thanks, sally

Perlite would work just as well for this method, as it performs well with a semi-hydro rooting strategy, which is pretty much the same thing.

I don't think you'd really need a plastic baggie this time of year, particularly with the open pool of water there, and most particularly if you're in FL. Maybe in the winter - or with a very delicate species.

Personally I've never tried perlite, but I would think the process would be the same. As for baggies or spraying- I didn't do either. We don't have a problem here with humidity, especially lately.

What a great idea! and not just for hoyas. I will have to try this too. Thanks for sharing.

K+C, that a great idea, thank you for sharing. Definetely I will try such good idea.

I saw this at another site just a week or 2 ago.

Seems quite a good idea & I appreciate that one doesn't have to close it up in a bag 'cause I really hate that look.

Also came w/ another idea like using a bread bag or newspaper bag, sort of an oblong, or rectangle.

One fills the bag w/ vermiculite or perlite, pours water into the bag, gives it a minute, pours off the excess water.

Using a twister tie, close off the bag, & set it on its side. Make a couple of small slits into the bag & insert cuttings like stem or tip cuttings.

Think I'll try both. Thx for the reminder.

I have had great success with the way I have always rooted my hoya cuttings which is right in the same soil that they will eventually be planted in,using 4"pots. I normally don't stray from rooting /growing methods that work well for me because as mama always said "if it ain't broke don't fix it" but I have half a mind to try this and see how it works!!!!

Kids thanks for sharing

David

I agree, David. I normally just root them in the pot they are going to live in, but I made this, then wanted to try it out, and the only thing I've had to root in a while is Hoya cuttings! lol I must say a number have gone straight to their pots, but some I just HAD to try in this. These bella cuttings(and the Dischidia in the back) came from a very nice person here- weren't they generous?! I was shocked!- and they have rooted, I just haven't moved them out yet. Trying to decide where they will live!

I agree that rooting in the final pot is my favorite method, but it's nice to have some tricks up your sleeve for the cuttings that don't seem to love the usual.

Personally, I think a forsythe pot would be a good thing to have hanging out around the place, b/c it seems like I always have a fleet of Gesneriad leaves working away, and it would be nice to be able to stick other sorts of propagation materials in with them.

Thanks kid&cats, also I appreciate all the input from other folks on this Forum, I have never had Hoya before and of course I am learning... I do have roses and have been trying to root them, so this method sounds good... another ??... do you ever use a rooting-gel ? or do you give the cuttings a soak in a cloning-medium?? they recommend this method for rose-rooting, to drop the cutting in a cloning-medium and let them soak and then put into the perlite, or dip the cutting-end in a gel first...our rose society recommends Olivia's cloning and gel... thanks again, from another cat-lover ! sally

Sally- I do use a rooting hormone- normally Rootone powder- on things that I'm not sure will root well. I did not use it on the bella, or the Dischidia that is in the pot with it, and both rooted beautifully and are thriving in their own little pots now :)I've never tried a rooting gel or cloning medium, honestly.

Agreed--way better than the plastic baggie look! :) The way the design leaches water reminds me of this pot I saw on QVC called the "Wet Pot", except in reverse.

Thanks a lot for sharing, Kids!

Here is a link that might be useful: photo of the

I just recently learned of this method of propagations and Im very excited about it after watching this on you tube from the Iowa extension center. I just started mine on the 26th of sept so it will be another month before I find out how mine works.

Heres what mine looks like , Im trying several different kinds of cuttings, dont expect to have 100% but I would like some success.

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