You should be able to get some soil in between two fingers and press it to determine if it feels dry, moist or if drops of water come out of your fingers (which means the soil is wet). If the soil is wet and you cannot explain why then I would assume you might be watering too much. The only time when this is normal is if you test the soil moisture immediately after you water the soil; I would then expect the soil to be wet and drop to come out.

If the soil feels dry then you need to water more often. Try not to water if the soil feels wet. And maybe not water if it feels moist. With time, I can sense when the soil moisture is in between dry and moist; if it feels like that, I know it needs to be watered.

By the way, make sure that water can exit thru the bottom holes and that nothing is preventing the water from coming out thru the holes. Also, water based on how the soil feels as opposed to automatically watering just because it is day number 5; use the finger method to confirm that water is indeed needed.

See instructions below from the Virginia Camellia Society:

http://genserva.com/vcs/propagating.htm

Email: info@vacamelliasociety.org

PS - I have seen some people's cuttings loose a few leaves and, with just two, the cuttings do fine but I was not sure if, in your case, each individual plant cuttings lost all the leaves or just a few leaves.

Thank you for your reply!

I don't think my soil is too wet as I cannot feel any drops coming out. I know there is moisture as there is condensation in my container.

There are holes in all of the pots that I planted them.

I have 2 leaves on my cuttings, some now have only one and some have none at all, just the stem remaining so I gather these are not going to root.

thank you for the link, I seem to be doing the right thing, maybe my soil lacks drainage as I have been using sand.

Sand drains "too well" and water requirements for plants in sand usually shoot upwards of 50% more than if planted in other types of soils. So if I normally give the shrub 1g in other types of soils, I may need to give it 1.5g in sand. Just an example.... You may have to water more often too if the top few inches (where the roots are) dry out quickly due to sand draining "so well".

thank you for the tip. Im going to try again but use perlite instead of the soil

PIcs? Could be overly wet medium. Could be the cuttings dried out before being stuck. Could be the growth was too young and tender. Lots of variables.