#tropical plant propagation

[planthouseandgarden]

Monstera Deliciosa Propagation and Care: A Complete Guide

Monstera Deliciosa, commonly known as the Swiss Cheese Plant, is a tropical houseplant adored for its large, glossy leaves and easy-to-care-for nature. In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps of caring for Monstera Deliciosa and guide you through its propagation, so you can grow new plants and maintain the health of your existing one. For a visual guide to propagation and care, watch the…

[thecryptidwizard]

Wanted to show y'all how some of my plant babies are doing :)

[planty-gal]

🫙🌿 I've potted up the prop jar!

From my tall prop jar I had 3 philodendron silver sword cuttings and 3 philodendron verrucosum cuttings (initially it was one cutting that I further cut up because it had enough nodes - hence why the roots on one are a bit crazy)

I decided to put all 3 cuttings of each type into one pot because who doesn't love a chaotic and bushy philodendron!?

[chrisfoliage]

One of my Philo. Florida Greens fell over tonight after a partial extension😭

Completely lost a new growth leaf that just came in, and half of a slightly older one.

However, this has promted me to chop and extend both of my FGs. I cut the stem on both already and will do the repot and extension tomorrow after work.

[bigbootygarden]

Water roots tetrasperma raphidophora

[typhlonectes]

Tropical Milkweed—a No-Grow

Milkweed is in demand, and that demand has been filled in recent years by tropical milkweed, a non-native species.

But is planting tropical milkweed potentially doing more harm than good?

Tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) is a non-native milkweed that has exploded in popularity in response to the demand for milkweed. It is simple to propagate, allowing growers to rapidly produce the plant for quick sale. The plant is also attractive, both to humans and monarchs, providing flowers and lush green foliage throughout the growing season – and that’s a problem. Tropical milkweed becomes a problem when planted in temperate areas where it does not die back in winter. A protozoan parasite of monarch butterflies, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha or OE for short, can travel with monarchs visiting the plants and become deposited on leaves. When caterpillars hatch and start eating the plant, they ingest the OE. High OE levels in adult monarchs have been linked to lower migration success in the eastern monarch population, as well as reductions in body mass, lifespan, mating success, and flight ability. When native milkweeds die back after blooming, the parasite dies along with them so that each summer’s monarch population feeds on fresh, parasite-free foliage...

Read more:

https://xerces.org/blog/tropical-milkweed-a-no-grow

[heavenly-fag]

24-hour minizine (8 pages) about DIY propagation from leaf and stem cuttings (free to copy and distribute!! pls just take my name out if you change any content)

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pdf download for print and read friendly versions on this ko-fi I just set up! pay what you wish, free to print and distribute

plaintext under the cut:

So You Want to Make Some Plants Into Even More Plants?

A Quick + Dirty Guide to Propagation from An Amateur Who Likes Watching Roots Grow. (by Fran Tirpak)

propagation - n.

"multiplication or increase, as by natural reproduction."

1. Prepare!

Important: Sterilize your shears w/ rubbing alcohol.

Wear gloves -- some plants can irritate your skin when cut.

Gather supplies: shears, gloves, soil medium, pot, glass jar.

Optional: plant food, rooting hormone, cinnamon, tealight.

^ we'll talk about these all more later on.

2. Take your cutting!

Succulents -- just pop off a leaf!

Vining plants (Pothos, Monstera), cut below one of the root nodes.

Woody stems (fiddle leaf, rubber plant) -- cut with 1-3 leaves at the top

3. Root your cutting!

(Optional) Dip the cut end in rooting hormone. For a homemade method, dip in cinnamon, then seal with melted wax from an unscented tea candle.

Place the cutting in a glass of warm water in indirect sunlight.

Succulent owners: simply place your leaves flat on damp potting soil.

4. Plant the cutting

(the scariest part)

Once the cutting has roots (~3-4 weeks later) time to put it in soil.

Depending on your plant, your soil needs will change.

When in doubt: good drainage, airy & loose, added nutrients.

For tropicals: 1/2 peat moss or coco coir, 1/4 perlite or pumice, 15% orchid bark, 10% compost/organics (i.e. worm husks).

(For succulents, just watch 'em sprout!)

* Potting Tips

Experiment with lighting and humidity levels.

Try out LECA or a mix to slowly introduce your plant to solid ground.

LECA: Lightweight Expanded Clay Aggregate. Balls of clay used in hydroponic gardening - popular with Monsteras

Some tropical plants also have no prob being in water full-time!

5. Now you have a friend!

Pro tips: You can take props from anywhere (as long as you're responsible -- and sneaky).

There's no one way to care for a plant. Do your research, go with your gut, & have fun!

[mishhty]

Monstera deliciosa 🪴

Information -

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Alismatales

Family: Araceae

Genus: Monstera

Species: M. deliciosa

Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss cheese plant or split-leaf philodendron is a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south to Panama.It has been introduced to many tropical areas, and has become a mildly invasive species in Hawaii, Seychelles, Ascension Island and the Society Islands. It is very widely grown in temperate zones as a houseplant.

It is called Swiss Cheese Plant due to their natural leaf holes. The Monstera plant's scientific name, Monstera deliciosa, derives from the Latin words "monstrum" meaning "monster" and "deliciosa" meaning "delicious."

Monstera plants are natural detoxifiers. Their broad leaves absorb and strip away indoor air toxins. The ideal temperature it requires is around 70°F. With a little humidity added to that, they get to feel right at home. Monsteras need bright light but do not tolerate direct sunlight. They can survive in low light, but their growth will be inhibited. To grow a striking Monstera plant with the lacy leaves and the coloration you adore, you need to provide it with good light. Monstera prefers bright indirect light. Keep out of direct sunlight for extended periods, as it can burn the leaves.

It is safe to come into skin contact with Monstera soil, foliage, and stems. However, it is not safe to ingest any part of the plant. Monstera is mildly toxic to humans and is toxic to cats and dogs but is not considered lethal. All parts of the plant are harmful to ingest except the fully ripe fruit, which rarely develops on indoor Monstera. The toxicity comes from insoluble oxalate crystals in the juices inside the plant. Indoor Monstera Deliciosa doesn’t yield fruits.

In various cultures, the Monstera has been a beacon of good luck, protection, and prosperity. It also fills spaces with positive energy and attracts good luck, according to Feng Shui.

Tips to grow and maintain Monstera:

Light: The plant thrives in bright and indirect light. It is advisable to keep it on a windowsill that receives good amount of indirect sunlight. Direct sunlight may burn its leaves. Note, if you find the leaves have small or no holes, then it means that the plant is not getting adequate light.

Soil:Use soil that retains moisture. Peat moss, perlite, and compost helps in the plant growth.

Watering: Ensure that Monstera Deliciosa is planted in a pot with good draining facility. The right time to water the plant is when the soil looks dry at the top. Note, overwatering may lead to root rot. During summers, the plant needs water regularly, however decrease the frequency of watering during winters.

Humidity: This plant grows well in humid conditions. You can mist its leaves or place it in a water tray having pebbles to increase the humidity level around it.

Temperature: Monstera Deliciosa grows well between 18°C and 29°C.

Support: As Monstera Deliciosa is an understory plant with aerial roots and large leaves, it needs support to grow.

Pruning: Prune the plant to maintain its shape. Remove yellow or damaged leaves so that the plant grows well.

Propagation: Monstera Deliciosa can be propagated through stem cuttings that can be rooted into water or directly planted into soil. You can also choose the process of air layering that involves creating a root system in a mature stem when it is still attached to the mother plant. Once roots are developed, the stem can be separated.

[dovesnest828]

Pretty Pink Plants

(Disclaimer- I'm not a professional gardener, these are just some plants I thought were pretty and researched slightly. If you're looking into becoming a plant parent then I recommend you research these plants some more.)

Calla Lillies

Calla Lillies can live both indoors and out. For them to prosper inside, they must be potted in moist soil and kept in rooms that range from 60-80 degrees Fahrenheit, along with being exposed to a decent amount of light.

String of Hearts

String of hearts is an easy plant to grow indoors and serves as a cute plant you can hang or place on shelves, and they can also be propagated.

Polka dot Plants

Polka dot Plants thrive both indoors and outdoors, growing best in rich soil and indirect amounts of sunlight. Similarly to the String of Hearts, it too can be propagated.

Pink Lilies

Pink Lilies can survive both inside and out. They prefer humid environments and need to be watered about once a week.

Tulips

With the proper care, tulips can grow indoors, in fact they can be grown in glass vases. The plant most commonly kept outdoors live best in a sunny yet cool room, and if potted should be watered 2 to 3 times a week to keep the soil moist.

Fuchsias

Though Fuchsia’s are mostly outdoor hanging plants, ideal for deck and porches, they can be grown inside with proper moister and indirect sunlight and can serve as a lovely way to liven up a room.

Pink Princess Philodendrons

Pink Princess Philodendrons can be grown indoors and more commonly thrive in humility and indirect light. The plant can easily be propagated.

Calathea White Stars

Calathea White Stars prefer indirect sunlight and can live in tropical environments and indoors. It's somewhat difficult to grow, most commonly requiring a draining soil mix and can propagate as well.

Peonies

Peonies can live indoors, serving as a cute decoration in any room although they require about 5 to 6 hours of sunlight daily, so remember to keep them in a sunny room.

Astilbe

Astilbes can be grown indoors and outdoors, but if you consider growing them indoors, place them in a spot where they can get about 4 to six hours of sunlight daily.

[planthouseandgarden]

How to Care for Philodendron Fuzzy Petiole?

Philodendron Fuzzy Petiole is a captivating, relatively new species in the Philodendron family. This tropical beauty, thought to be a form of Philodendron nangaritense, is known for its lush foliage and unique fuzzy petioles. Native to the Amazon rainforest in countries like Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, it thrives in warm, humid environments, making it ideal for indoor plant lovers who…

[farmobileo3]

This is my home nursery. This is also where I do tree propagation and grow native plants from seed. When the plants are strong and healthy I transport them to the Mojave property.

You are looking at trees, shrubs, herbs, succulents and berries for our restoration project in the Mojave desert.

2 Palo verdes, 5 mesquites, several native Mojave shrubs, 1 oak, 3 desert pines, 1 olive, 4 fig, 1 apple, 1 persimmon, 1 jujube, 1 banana, 1 loquat, 1 mulberry.

The tropical trees will most likely go in a shade house I will be building in the fall.

I’m still saving for more native trees for the next pocket forest in October . If you’d like to be part of the next tree planting or seed ball dispersal contact me.

[planty-gal]

Jar-check Chronicles: A Peek into My Propagation Wonderland 🌱✨

Today, let's take a journey into the world of propagation jars! 🌱✨ Propagation jars are something I recently started experimenting with. For the longest time I have stuck with the tried and true water jar propagations or soil tray method. However, I recently acquired a number of new cuttings that I thought might benefit from a bit of extra humidity.

Now, some people might say to not bother the props and just let them do their thing... but:

I am too curious/have no self control

Like to check up on moisture levels and root health.

So let's take a look at what's in the jars!

🌱Jar 1:

This little jar has become home to my alocasia corms. I have 3 larger corms here from an alocasia poly that I recently repotted into semi-hydro and they have been in here for almost two weeks now. These guys are looking great! I can see some roots coming off of the corms and I will probably give them another couple of weeks before potting them up. There are also a couple of little silver dragon corms in here. They're not super visible in the sphagnum moss and they might be a bit too small to really do anything. But we shall see 🤷‍♀️

🌿Jar 2:

These are some cuttings and wet sticks that I got from some recent swaps! It also just so happened to turn into the philodendron jar (this was not planned... just a happy coincidence).

I have two silver sword cuttings and a wetstick. These guys have been in here for 3 weeks now and I'm starting to see some roots and new growth! They're still pretty small so I imagine they will be in here for at least another month

I also have a melanychrysum cutting that has been in here for two weeks now. I'm not fully confident that this little guy will survive. He was a bit rotty on the ends of the wetstick and his little leaf is struggling. There is a bit of root action but he's still going to live in the jar for the foreseeable future. I'll also keep monitoring his ends for signs of rot. If they continue to go downhill I'll likely treat with a diluted hydrogen peroxide dip.

And, finally, we have a verucosum wetstick. This guy came as part of a larger cutting that has now been split into 3 sections. I don't really know why but his midsection ended up in a starbucks cup with moss and perlite and his top end, which has a leaf, is in a water jar. This end isn't seeing a ton of action but he's only been in the jar for a week, so I wouldn't have expected much. His starbucks cup brother already had some crazy roots and is starting to put out something (I'm not too sure if it's a root or a leaf)

So far this has been such a fun little experiment. If anyone sees this reblog and show me your little prop jar worlds 🌿💚

[tribbetherium]

Sand barrelbuds (Desertubrassica miniflora) are a strange, hardy cabbage descendant found across the drier regions of Gestaltia and Arcuterra, where they grow in savannahs, semi-deserts, arid scrubland and other dry regions with little rainfall where their water-retaining abilities allow them to flourish.

These resilient plants sport short, stocky stems and rings of thick waxy leaves: adaptations that allow it to reduce moisture loss and store as much water in its tissues, stockpiling its reserves during brief and infrequent rains. Its roots, twice as long as its three to four-foot trunk, burrow deep into the soil in search of groundwater seeped into the ground, and, like many desert plants, exploits the window of time when the rains come in order to bloom. Its flowers are clustered and cauliflower-like, producing thousands of seeds per blossoming--which, in the harsh and unpredictable natures of its home range, few of which will survive.

Barrelbuds, at times the only reliable source of nutrition in many of its native regions, are home to various insects that depend on it for food, moisture and shelter from predators and the hot suns, most notably the thorny desert looper (Dimetamorphipapillo heremus), a species of caterpede that, like most of its kin, are neotenic creatures that never pupate and turn into moths: instead maturing into a form that is merely a larger two-inch larva with functional gonads that can mate and lay eggs. Unlike its relatives, however, thorny desert loopers possess thick outer cuticles with defensive spiny hairs, in order to withstand the dessicating conditions of the arid tropical scrublands. They too have another distinction: they give birth to live young, producing batches of up to a dozen tiny first-instar larvae at a time that hatch from eggs inside their bodies, born already thick-skinned and able to resist dehydration upon being born and able to acquire and store moisture right away.

But perhaps the greatest deviation the thorny desert looper has from other caterpedes is that it retains an ability to metamorphose if need be: producing a stunted, short-lived adult moth disperser from latent genes that can activate in an emergency--yet having already lost the genetic mechanisms to produce a proper adult form. This vestigial remnant stage is a poor flyer, and lacks mouthparts that would allow it to feed: yet this is sufficient to fulfill its sole mission as a last-resort propagator. When colonies of thorny desert loopers become too large, the increase of pheromones produced by others signal the threat of overcrowding, and triggers a few larvae at the final pre-adult instar to pupate and emerge as winged dispersers. These merely flutter off to nearby plants, deposit their clutches of only a handful of eggs, and die immediately afterwards, having an imago lifespan of just a day or two: but enough time to seed new colonies onto new territories when their host plant begins to be overwhelmed.

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[katiajewelbox]

Confusingly called "Peruvian black mint" in culinary circles, Huacatay is a species of Andean marigold used in traditional cooking and herbal medicine in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile. The flowers are tiny but the leaves are where the magic happens! The fern-like leaves have large oil glands on the undersides containing an exhilarating flavour akin to mint, cilantro, tropical flowers, and passionfruit swirled together. The fresh or dried leaves are ideal for dishes from Mexican cuisine where one would normally use cilantro. This plant has been used to treat stomach issues, respiratory discomfort from colds, and bacterial infections. Medical research supports Huacatay's use as an anti-inflammatory. Once established in the springtime via heated propagation, Huacatay is low maintenance thrives in the Southern UK outdoors until the November frosts hit, and it will keep growing in an unheated greenhouse through January. Highly recommended!

[ryanscabinlife]

Not too bad for a neglected plant. This Philodendron Majestic (Sodiroi x Verrucosum) needs a moss pole so bad but I’m too lazy to make one and to repot 😬

I imported this from Indonesia way back in August of 2022. The whole order was basically dead so I just chopped the individual nodes and dumped it all in a propagation box with moss as a medium. Between the building the house, moving, seasonal depression, among other things, I neglected the box. I did not check it for over half a year.

April came along and I finally took care of the box and to my surprise, every single type of plant that I originally ordered sprouted. Yay! I repoted them but as the weather got warmer, I focused 100% of my time on my outdoor garden. It seems like these tropical plants loves being neglected. I have the Atlantic coast high humidity to thank.

17-Jul-2023