Loropeatlum (witch hazel)

Trailing Jade (Kleinia petraea)

Kalanchoe luciae (flapjacks)

getgoing100-7b_nj how long did your Gardenias take? I'm not seeing anything yet.

Porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Brugmansia suaveolens

Here’s a pineapple top after about 5 days in water.

Tiffany, gardenia rooting time can be quite variable. Some are quick, a few days, others take ages and some fail. I think they are quicker when it is a bit warmer but not too warm. The semi hardwood root the best and quickest. I have never had any success with pentas. Any tips?

Another Rex/rhizomatous Begonia leaf starting to grow a lot of new leaves.

Persian shield (Strobilanthes)

Hoya bilobata

Peperomia tricolor

Tropical milkweed (A. curassavica)

Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar periwinkle)

Angelonia

I'm curious why root the jade in water? We just stick our trimmings or breakages back in the potting soil, in one of the existing four pots if there's space ... we'll probably have to start another at some point.

We've had a number of plants rooting or pretty much living in a vase, but right now it's some swedish ivy. It's been going for a few days and actually does have some baby roots. I'll have to get a picture of it when the roots get a bit bigger.

Picked this bit off the ground in the street last week. It had been knocked out of a municipal flower box and trodden on. It’s got roots already.

Blueberry, I'm doing these water props for the same reason I have plants at all - to see what happens. Staring at plants is fun, but doing something more active is more fun, to me. Agree, Jade roots readily in soil, and I've rooted most of the others in soil before too, but one can't see what's going on under the soil surface that way. I think being able to see how different plants form roots can be helpful. Some only root @ the nodes, while some can root all along a stem. Some grow a few fat roots, while others form masses of very fine, hair-like roots.

For Jade in particular, plopping trimmed bits into water to root provides this observational entertainment for me, and for others who look @ this discussion. It's also a good example of how there is no single right/wrong way to do things. If someone has an idea and some plant material with which to experiment, go for it!

I am not advocating one method over another, just experimenting & reporting what happens.

That's pretty, Flora! One of my favs. ; )

floral, we had one just like that for years ... similar source, too! I think it was half run-over in a parking lot, haha. I don't recall what happened to it.

Ah, okay ... I was curious whether it provided some additional benefit by rooting jade in water. I'll probably stick with stuffing the jades back in the dirt ...

Anyways, here's the swedish ivy with its baby roots:

That looks good. :)

Philodendron vine that got out of control.

Monstera adansonii vine also got out of control.

"lucky bamboo" Dracaena braunii/sanderiana stems trimmed from the pot below.

In the pic above, the brown tips have been trimmed & stumps peeled off of the stems.

After trimming all of the "bamboo", I stuck a lot of little propagations all around the outside of the pot. Most of them appear in pics somewhere above while being propagated. The Dracaena 'Tricolor' in the middle was scheduled to be snapped from a tree that had once again grown too tall to get enough light inside, so it was handy to have a place to put it. I don't bother doing any rooting prior to sticking stems of that into a pot, just cut (or snap, like celery,) and stick it in a pot all the way to the bottom. This particular piece didn't reach all the way to the bottom, but almost. I wanted to leave the junction of where it was cut previously & has branched into two stems above the soil level.

Brugmansia in ½ gallon jug, giant leaves removed.

6-packs of tiny snippings, ready to come inside @ a moments' notice whenever Jack Frost threatens to expose his reviled self. (DH is an equal-opportunity beer sampler.)

What are people propagating this year? Glad I saved the stuff I did. Won't be buying any plants this year.

Some of the winter-saved Brug cuttings went into this pot, with some saved Coleus stems. This pot cost nothing to assemble. Just the effort of cutting some stems and adding water to their bottles occasionally over winter.

Another saved/rooted Brug stem is in this giant pot

This is an update on a pot posted "7 months ago." That's helpful. No idea exactly what day.

An orphan black zz plant stem, some random broken bits of tradescantia zebrina, petunias, a nemesia, calendula (no sign of roots on this one), red marantas...

Begonia leaves

Plectranthus forsteri

Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia). These are suckers with a heel of trunk. Other cuttings have not performed.

orchid moved to water. It suddenly (in a few months) grew a big new section.

The tall stem is new, and the one to the right. The roots have a good grip on 2 rocks for ballast.

Begonia 'Frosty'

Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata)

variegated thyme

Kalanchoe 'Maroon Krinkle'

Begonia 'Benigo'

lucky bamboo

purple waffle (Hemigraphis)

Callisia elegans

Tradescantia pallida (purple heart) does not stop blooming while rooting

Kalanchoe delagoensis

oyster plant (Tradescantia spathacea)

More T pallida

I don’t know if this qualifies as roots but it’s what’s developing on the bottom of a (“Heaven Scent”) rose cutting after a few months in water over winter. Fingers crossed.

I think that is root primordia, which some plants form before actual roots. Excitement! It looks like success to me.

Did your rose continue on its rooting journey?

Callisia fragrans

Sansevieria

Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera truncata)

Hawaiian Ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa). Sorry about the rough background in this pic and the next. It's borrowed warehouse space. If it was nice, somebody would be using it. But there are 2 great windows and reasonable expectation it will stay above freezing. Overflow extra plants can't be too picky about their winter housing.

angel trumpet (Brugmansia suaveolens)

lucky bamboo (Dracaena braunii), held upright with slice of pool noodle. A new stem has started from the base of one of the stems, in defiance of the braid.

My rose cutting died- alas!

So sorry.

Never mind. I’ve had some success rooting my neighbour’s half dead orchid in water with a touch of tea bag.

I would chop of all the dead roots any of the dead stem (anything black or brown). Removing the infection will speed up recovery

Some things that are blooming as cuttings in bottles of water...

striped inch plant (Callisia elegans)

tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

purple heart (Tradescantia pallida)

Kalanchoe rosei

Some pics of what gets done with all of these propagated stems, that only need to come inside for a few months. One important factor is being able for them to cluster close enough to sunny windows to stay as normal looking as possible. I've been busy putting plants back into my landscape the past couple weeks.

I can't afford to buy hundreds of plants every year.

i’d be curious to see 2 pics side by side later from this year or from last year: before at spring planting and best show later(july-august?) of the same plants to see how the bed filled out.

OK, I will do that. My garden is different every year. I put things in different places. Here are a few pics from the past week of water-propagated plants BEING the garden.

Geranium (Pelargonium)

More Geranium, Impatiens. Next to Begonia 'Red Bull' that I have propagated but this pic shows part of the original purchased plant.

Brugmansia (Angel trumpets)

A little bit of everything.

It would be nice to see a picture of the garden bed. you plant very densely and initially it is rather small and scragly. it would be good to see how the plants grow in in a few months

I do have an affinity for small plants. Almost everything in the last pic was added this year, from propagations over winter, except some Tradescantia 'Baby Bunny Bellies' that creeps around that area. And the pink Impatiens and Ajuga, recently purchased. And the snake plants which came from these pots.

Everything in the pics was propagated, mostly by starting in water.

Except the Impatiens, bottom right, and Ajuga, bottom middle. Those are grounded bought rootballs.

Wild Puerto Rican hibiscus cutting surprised me with a bloom!

Here are photos of passiflora edulis and lavandula dentata cuttings that have just started rooting in water - after months.

Clear vs opaque receptacles

(Visibility advantage of clear is a given.) To readers who have observed both, or otherwise know : Do stems tend to root any more reliably or any less reliably in one or the other?

(assume that we keep water adequately clean)

I haven't seen any difference. I use any color of glass or plastic. Is a particular plant giving you a hard time?

I always have used opaque plastic, simply because that is what I always have had at hand. My question arose upon seeing that the jars shown in this thread are clear or otherwise allow much light. Thanks for replying to it, Tiffany.

Particular plant? Well, I have rooted many tropical milkweed Asclepias curassavica, and think that success rate should be higher.

I always have used opaque plastic, simply because that is what I always have had at hand. My question arose upon seeing that the jars shown in this thread are clear or otherwise allow much light. Thanks for replying to it, Tiffany.

Particular plant? Well, I have rooted many tropical milkweed Asclepias curassavica, and think that success rate should be higher.

Looks great!

Great thread! I wish I'd known that you could root a begonia that way - I lost one with sentimental value a few years ago.

There's no way to water root a lily, is there? I have 2 though, maybe I'll try it with one.

This is different in that it is not the crown, rather it is a quite small sucker that I pulled off the side of the growing fruit, then rooted in water.

:)

Senna alata`

Unintended and unexpected. Thin recent growth tip of Senna pendula. I was keeping it as food for captive caterpillars.

I am delighted to discover that it may be possible to propagate this from recent growth. I propagate thick long woody cut stems (in ground), which of course renders source plants unproductive for a long time.

Water roots are no big deal. Not sure why Tiffany expected a argument and shut it down before anyone could reply. I speculate that there had been some resistance from this type of demo in the past. And genuinely showing all the successfully grown water roots on each different plant. Probably to show off her water root cuttings knowledge and prove how super easy and fun it is to start new plants.

Most every house plant I have, and there are over 60 large and small in my home, always did the same when setting cuttings in water to root. Even my 3 year old son can do it.

It is also easy to change water roots to soil roots before tranplanting into a pot by adding one tablespoon of soil every few days until the water container is full of only good loose potting soil. What a huge accomplishment to see so many different plants Tiffany has shown in this demo all the cuttings from a huge plant collection and that all the cuttings can start roots in water. Absolutely Amazing. Thank you for the demo…