Pothos actually creates its own rooting hormone that is more effective in water! Sticking pothos into a propagation jar can speed up root growth for all plants in the jar. Rooting hormone is best used in soil, to help adapt the roots to soil.
Could you repeat this experiment using the rooting hormone in soil? If you place the cuttings between two panes of glass with about an inch or so between them you should be able to see the root development.
I follow you for a while now and have to say you're one of the most exciting "plant youtubers" because of things like this. You go out of your way, out of your comfort zone and try and learn new things - not just show us your plant collection the 100th time or give basic care tips! I bought a monstera varigata cutting early this year and it doesn't do anything besides some roots! I tried everything; greenhouse, grow lights, soil, moss, perlite, keiki paste, cut it's leaf (now it's a wet stick), cut its roots - nothing BUT it's still alive and is now generating new roots. I feel a bit like you and hopefully I can share my knowledge sometime in the future as well. Great work!
Honestly bro you know everything I've been watching plant vlogs for years and just found you and your the best by far no messing around straight to the point perfect
Great video. I've played with rooting hormone on viney plants this Winter quite a bit. I would suggest one - changing the water about every three days to get a better result (you can go a week). The other thing is that you don't need that much rooting hormone when submerging in water. A dash of it directly in the water usually produced a better effect than over-saturating them; no need to replace the hormone when you change the water if you just add water. Again, great video.
Awesome video. This is exactly what happens with my cuttings. I use rooting hormone if I want my cuttings to focus on good root development and not new leaves🤗
I had the same film issue when I tried powder rooting hormone in water, although I mixed it into the water instead of keeping it bunched on the plant itself. I would end up running the plant under water to clean it and put it in fresh water after a while since I was worried about the plant dying (which did happen sometimes when I didn't switch the water out). Your experiment was good. I liked the look of the roots that didn't have the hormones based on coloring. The rooting hormone roots were more numerous, but looked more fragile in the end.
@@TechplantChannel clonex gel is what I have. Purple and the adult greens farm I worked at used it to clone the cuttings and worked really well for that plant.
Pothos plants, which is what you are using, already make a root growth hormone on their own. As a matter of fact I use the water from them on other plants successfully 👍
This was such an informative video, thank you. I had one doubt, how often did you change the water in both the methods? If we change the water often do we loose the rooting powder? Sorry if i sound stupid just a newbie.
I have rooting hormone and I've never used it, because on the back it says ''dip it in and put it in soil'' and I never put fresh propagations in soil, but now that I've seen your viedeo I may try it in water. Thank you for your video.
Your experiments are amazing . Thank you! I see how fast pothos takes to root and then I try agloanema and it's taking over 2 months and I only see a tiny root bump . I never thought to try rooting hormone in water propagation. I'm definitely going to try this . Yay! 😀
It was a useful experiment and well conducted 🇬🇧 BUT I have always believed that hormone rooting preparations are for propagation where the cuttings are put into compost or soil not water . That said, it was interesting to see , in this particular plant type, the hormone preparation did have an effect on water propagation .
Hi! Any updates on how the plants are doing in soil? Is there a difference in the quality of plant growth between those rooted in water and those you used rooting hormones on?
I'd like to see this with some woodier and harder to root plants. I wasn't expecting to see so much difference. I've tried rooting hormone on my African Violets and found that the ones with hormone went squishy and rotted where as the ones without did well. I also found that same thing with pothos. I was doing soil rooting rather then water so that might have made a difference.
It would be cool if you did this experiment but one jar with just the same water for the whole duration of the experiment, and one where you change the water out every few days. I always see people saying to change it often, and other ones to just let the water be, so I wanted to see if there is a difference in growth etc :)
Protip: If you use a rooting hormone with a higher active ingredient percentage, you’ll get roots faster. Stronger rooting hormones are normally used for woody cuttings
I love how your videos are straight to the point and packed with relevant information. I don't have a lot of time to spend watching utube, so watching a 6-7 minute video is ideal for me, and with your videos I tend to get all the info I need. Thank you and happy growing! 🙂👍🌱
I'd love to see what happens to these in the future! TY for this video! I've wondered if it made a difference and I'm totally ordering some and using it when I try and prop my more expensive plants.
Do you have any videos on whether or not there’s a good way to allow vines that had cuttings taken from them to grow a new leaf faster? I find the callouses the cuts leave make it difficult for a new vine to pop out, or is there no way around that but to wait? Loving your videos keep it up 👏
Last year rooted some Vietnamese purple stemmed Basil cuttings from the supermarket with root hormone in water, this year I couldn't find the root powder and just used water for the same species cuttings, most have died, these herb cuttings definitely don't want to root without special help!
Never been so early on a video! Thanks for the comparison.. I rarely put rooting hormone because I forget and am lazy, so I'll just stick with straight up water.
Hey! Plant update. I have frustrating news (my stupidity) I bought succulent mix a while ago. I then used it for my pothos propagation because I didn’t remember is was for cacti... I have been stunting my poor pothos’s growth for so long. It could’ve been a long large thriving vine by now but at least it shows that this one’s a hardy plant! (Og cuttings). I found this out by wanting to buy more of that soil but now I know not to make the same mistake again!
Ive done this same experiment, and it was the same result. I swear powdered rooting hormone is designed to fail, my opinion is it does my harm than good. I think that has to do with the fact that it is actually clogging where the roots should appear. Who knows if that's correct scientifically or not but that was just my observation. Im glad I wasn't the only one who didn't have success, Im throwing my powered hormone away! Liquid rooting hormones seem to work better, like KLN. At least that's what I've seen in other youtube videos. THank you for your video! :)
An experiment with water props and air stones would be cool. Maybe a fish tank water one. Maybe a mash up of using a bunch of techniques in one experiment to which combined techniques work best.
Cool video! Thanks. How about an update for the terraplanter alternative video. Any problems you would share and how we can fix them? Or was it a complete success? Would love to see it.
I noticed that you did not change the water. I thought that you were suppose to change the water periodically. Good video. I think I will get me some root hormone.
I’m finding now I prop my plants - I just use plain water and get new leaf growth while still in the jar, I do however want to use root hormone to speed up the process
Thanks a lot for spending so much effort on this video. I wonder if the rooting hormone might works better for plants that take longer to root, like sansevierias?
Thank you! As always very interesting and useful, your videos are my favorite ones out of all the plant youtubers i follow. Simply because I feel like i learn more from your experiments than from someone just telling me what works and what doesnt
Excellent experiment. I was wondering the same thing! Thank you for sharing :) I have a question: I don't plan on potting my pothos. I usually just keep them in water for years. So in that case, do I need that many roots?
@@TechplantChannel As a general rule of thumb, changing the water prevents root rot, and adds new oxygen to the water, as such meaning it dosen't go stale and the roots thrive. Including changng water provides the plant with nutrients from the water, while keeping it in old/stale water means that the waters nutrient worth has already been extracted and then further stunts root growth.
@@TechplantChannel Please see Appolonia's response below. Perhaps the experiment should be repeated with water changes to see if more vine growth occurs. Thanks.
hey I think can explain your results. so rooting hormones are know as abscisic acids ASA these acids influence plant behavior in particular stress response, stoma response, pulvinus abscission and root growth. ASA can act as a limiting factor on the roots if you use too much as it can cause the plant to "stress out" too much. what the ASA does is that it guides meromictic growth and cell elongation based on how the concentration of ASA in the root tissues are distributed. so a lack of ASA will cause the roots to grow longer as the look for fresher water.
@@TechplantChannel one other tip would be, I never leave cuttings just sitting in water I always add an air pump to help add more oxygen all you need is a little baby air stone and aquarium pump. I even have an air stone in the water that i use for my house plant I find anything epithetic really benefits from getting oxygenated water. Another great benefit to putting air in your water is that is you are using tap water overtime the air will help remove the chlorine. Also consider Mycorrhizae this really helps the plants develop a hyphae on the root system which adds a huge amount of root surface area.
Interesting experiment! would you recomend to use the rooting hormoneand place cuttings in water before planting in soil? This is my first time in your channel, tia.
if you have a lot of experience propagating stuff in soil then sure right into the dirt, but the water is a pretty easy way to root plants without worrying about rotting as much
@@TechplantChannel I have roses (shrubs and bush) growing out of a pot. I have a Damask rose cutting being shipped from Italy. And I will be growing roots from water and than potting it in a flower pot. The Damask is used for rose water, perfume, cosmetics, etc. Not sold in the United States and it grows in the desert in Syria. A man has the shrub and will ship me a cutting. Smile.
Well just pruned my 2 yr over grown roses, cut them, stripped of leaves- makes a good medicinal tea, and now put root gr powder and stuck em in the ground. They will get water if they are lucky. So- fingers crossed…
Hello! Just wondering if you can do an experiment on different natural rooting hormones. I see people saying cinnamon, aloe vera, apple cider, and other stuff help promote root growth but I was wondering what are the different effects of each.
Wow I’ve had a pothos root cutting from a friend for about 3 weeks and only has 3 roots on it and there not as long as yours and I noticed that you never changed there water and everything I’ve read says to change it every week but I’m excited to try to use the roofing powder on my water propagations!!!
How to propagate succulents the best? Should I put them in a cup just above water or with the tip of the plant in water or just on top of soil? Seems like a long as heck process. Kinda was hoping to see some growth after 2 weeks
Have you ever experimented with willow water? Been meaning to try it, but I think you need to harvest willow cuttings during the spring/summer growing months.
I recently performed the exact same experiment with African violets, and had virtually identical results. The ones dipped in hormone had a slow start, then quickly overtook the plain water cuttings, but not by much. I did notice when I started that the water didn’t easily penetrate the hormone powder, and wondered if that caused the slight lag. Next time, I would try mixing it into the water instead. Honestly though, I think rooting hormone is more useful on plants that don’t propagate well from cuttings and for situations like air-layering propagation. Plants like Pothos and African violets really don’t need it, or even benefit from it significantly enough to bother.
yeah i want to do some more tests with rooting hormone, this was my first attempt at seeing what kind of differences youd get from it. so i wanna expand on that
@@TechplantChannel I would be interested to see the results of cuttings in manufactured rooting hormone vs cuttings in natural rooting hormones, like willow cuttings in the water. 🤔
I bet itd be similar but I wonder about the same experiment but in a prop box. That way the oxygen issue won’t occur. Curious to see if you’d get better vine growth
@@TechplantChannel thank you! Many of the YT videos don’t have great editing and are testing on veggies. Would be great to test on different types of house plants. I and many houseplant owners use it but I can’t definitively says it does anything 🤔
try same propagation in a solid media, either sterile (moss/perlite) or straight soil, w/ and w/out root hormone...use plastic cups or something to see root growth. i really like to give an intermediate/transition step from water to soil roots.
edit: just watched your water vs soil...and yeah soil isnt a bad method if you keep it moist but not wet, ie keep it in a plastic box to maintain humidity so the leaves dont lose turgidity and die.. repeat that one lol.
I give all my aroids/tropical plants light while propagating its all artificial but its very strong. sun would be good but make sure its not getting hot and drying out fast if that makes sense
Interesting experiment, does it say which hormones are exactly in this mixture? I use for some of my seeds (Byblis e.g.) GA3 for germination which works mostly fine. But this isnt a rooting hormone I guess...
Does anyone know if you can add rooting hormone to cuttings if they’ve already been in water for say...4 weeks? At what point can you no longer add it to the cuttings? I’m not sure if it would burn them at a certain point or something 🤔😓
@@TechplantChannel i forgot to say after the video, I won’t try this but is it a good idea to put 20-20-20 fertilizer in the water of my propagating leaves? (It’s 100% water soluble)
Again thank you for making such an amazing video, to echo another commenter (and my past comments) your videos take so much dedication and its really apparent, thank you! Do you think the effect of the rooting hormone would have a different effect in different substrates like sphagnum moss or leca? I think ill definitely have to try it on leca now that I know its fine to have rooting hormone in the water? (Also did the stickers from you giveaway ever send?)
I use a 3 part addition 1. an anti-infective like cinnamon or honey or ..., 2 a rooting substance rooting powder or aspirin or willow or ... 3. low dose food like fish tank water or chem. fertilizer. or ... So an anti-infective + rooting + food.
I'm going to try this on my Amaryllis bulbs. It's a new thing I learned abt slicing off half of the basal plate to be later rooted in damp sand. Only thing suggested was using B1 liquid to be added to the sand. However, I wonder if I just dusted my bulb base with rooting powder alone, would it give me good roots?
Question please, when the nodes are in water, do you expose the nodes to light or no? My cuttings are in water with indirect light but no roots. Should I cover them in another pot?
all my propagations have been under grow lights, direct sun might increase algae but its not a bad thing unless the algae dies, where it then starts consuming oxygen as the bacteria eat it
Your dedication to the channel is very evident. Your videos take months to make, not just a few hours.
I appreciate that! thats my goal!
Pothos actually creates its own rooting hormone that is more effective in water! Sticking pothos into a propagation jar can speed up root growth for all plants in the jar. Rooting hormone is best used in soil, to help adapt the roots to soil.
ill ahve to try that!
So would it be smart to make a solution with rooting hormone and water, and use that to soak my Sphagnum moss in my propagation container?
@@VinylUnboxings I'd like to know this too. Guess I'll just try it some time.
I would totally love experiments on co-propagating different plants with pothos
Could you repeat this experiment using the rooting hormone in soil? If you place the cuttings between two panes of glass with about an inch or so between them you should be able to see the root development.
sure!
Do you have this video now sir?
@@shielao.1990 wondering if you have the video too :-)
@@TechplantChannel is there a video ?
Great video. And please keep us up-to-date on how they grow in the soil.. you’re videos are awesome keep up the good work👍
Thank you! Will do!
@@TechplantChannel yay!
@@TechplantChanneldid you do a follow up video of the soil??
I follow you for a while now and have to say you're one of the most exciting "plant youtubers" because of things like this. You go out of your way, out of your comfort zone and try and learn new things - not just show us your plant collection the 100th time or give basic care tips!
I bought a monstera varigata cutting early this year and it doesn't do anything besides some roots! I tried everything; greenhouse, grow lights, soil, moss, perlite, keiki paste, cut it's leaf (now it's a wet stick), cut its roots - nothing BUT it's still alive and is now generating new roots. I feel a bit like you and hopefully I can share my knowledge sometime in the future as well. Great work!
Appreciate the kind words! I hope your wet stick puts out some new growth soon! keep us updated!
Honestly bro you know everything I've been watching plant vlogs for years and just found you and your the best by far no messing around straight to the point perfect
Im still learning a lot too, but as i learn new things I usually have a video to show how i figured it out! Thanks for watching!
Whenever I see these pothos videos, it gives me hope that I can help bring the pothos I have had in my life since I can remember back to good health.
Great video! I got distracted by the rooting hormone growth as all I could see at 1:40 was Pikachu! lol
lmaoo
I saw it ! Haha I had to go back and look really hard, but it’s definitely Pikachu 😆
Great video. I've played with rooting hormone on viney plants this Winter quite a bit. I would suggest one - changing the water about every three days to get a better result (you can go a week). The other thing is that you don't need that much rooting hormone when submerging in water. A dash of it directly in the water usually produced a better effect than over-saturating them; no need to replace the hormone when you change the water if you just add water. Again, great video.
Great suggest, bc i had try it before with my Mints (by alot experiments😂😂)
just noticed you almost have 100k subs... im so proud of you
Thank you!! its because of long time viewers like you, thank you so much for all the support!!
Awesome video. This is exactly what happens with my cuttings. I use rooting hormone if I want my cuttings to focus on good root development and not new leaves🤗
yeah i think thats what ill do too
Techplant oh my gosh😱🤩 you saw my comment. Love your vids. I think it’s because I like all of you experiments with finishing results
great video. concise. informative. and no useless filler. i subscribed! looking forward to watching more of your videos!
I used your techniques with Hibiscus cuttings and had 100% success. Thank you.
I’d love to see you try different types of rooting hormone and Keiki paste!
Agreed! Thanks techplant
i think my replies got deleted, i will try
I had the same film issue when I tried powder rooting hormone in water, although I mixed it into the water instead of keeping it bunched on the plant itself. I would end up running the plant under water to clean it and put it in fresh water after a while since I was worried about the plant dying (which did happen sometimes when I didn't switch the water out). Your experiment was good. I liked the look of the roots that didn't have the hormones based on coloring. The rooting hormone roots were more numerous, but looked more fragile in the end.
yeah it does clump up i wonder if there is a gel kind maybe
@@TechplantChannel clonex gel is what I have. Purple and the adult greens farm I worked at used it to clone the cuttings and worked really well for that plant.
Pothos plants, which is what you are using, already make a root growth hormone on their own. As a matter of fact I use the water from them on other plants successfully 👍
This was such an informative video, thank you. I had one doubt, how often did you change the water in both the methods? If we change the water often do we loose the rooting powder? Sorry if i sound stupid just a newbie.
I have rooting hormone and I've never used it, because on the back it says ''dip it in and put it in soil'' and I never put fresh propagations in soil, but now that I've seen your viedeo I may try it in water. Thank you for your video.
nice! good luck!
I absolutely love your videos! They are so insightful and fun to watch! Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!
Your experiments are amazing . Thank you! I see how fast pothos takes to root and then I try agloanema and it's taking over 2 months and I only see a tiny root bump . I never thought to try rooting hormone in water propagation. I'm definitely going to try this . Yay! 😀
Good Luck
It was a useful experiment and well conducted 🇬🇧
BUT I have always believed that hormone rooting preparations are for propagation where the cuttings are put into compost or soil not water . That said, it was interesting to see , in this particular plant type, the hormone preparation did have an effect on water propagation .
yeah i was surprised to see how the auxiliary roots took off, some cuttings had like 6 roots!
Thank you. I wondered if I could use rooting hormone in water. I just assumed it would wash it off.
yeah i was surprised too
Hi! Any updates on how the plants are doing in soil? Is there a difference in the quality of plant growth between those rooted in water and those you used rooting hormones on?
lol, I'm literally editing that update right now, It will release tomorrow morning!
I'd like to see this with some woodier and harder to root plants. I wasn't expecting to see so much difference. I've tried rooting hormone on my African Violets and found that the ones with hormone went squishy and rotted where as the ones without did well. I also found that same thing with pothos. I was doing soil rooting rather then water so that might have made a difference.
i can try and get some more woody plants
It would be cool if you did this experiment but one jar with just the same water for the whole duration of the experiment, and one where you change the water out every few days. I always see people saying to change it often, and other ones to just let the water be, so I wanted to see if there is a difference in growth etc :)
wow, you are the first to mention this! great idea!
Well done. I commend you on your approach, and your frequent updates. Time lapse approach is outstanding. Thank you.
Protip: If you use a rooting hormone with a higher active ingredient percentage, you’ll get roots faster. Stronger rooting hormones are normally used for woody cuttings
interesting, thanks for the tip
Thank you so much for taking the time to go through these experiences that take weeks! Super informative! :D
thanks for taking the time to watch it!
I love how your videos are straight to the point and packed with relevant information. I don't have a lot of time to spend watching utube, so watching a 6-7 minute video is ideal for me, and with your videos I tend to get all the info I need. Thank you and happy growing! 🙂👍🌱
Thank you! Happy growing to you as well!
Love these types of videos. Passive hydro vs water might be interesting for comparison. I know some prefer to use passive hydro as a rooting method
Great suggestion!
I'd love to see what happens to these in the future! TY for this video! I've wondered if it made a difference and I'm totally ordering some and using it when I try and prop my more expensive plants.
yeah I think the biggest plus is you get like 5 or 6 roots instead of one single fragile one!
Do you have any videos on whether or not there’s a good way to allow vines that had cuttings taken from them to grow a new leaf faster? I find the callouses the cuts leave make it difficult for a new vine to pop out, or is there no way around that but to wait? Loving your videos keep it up 👏
Last year rooted some Vietnamese purple stemmed Basil cuttings from the supermarket with root hormone in water, this year I couldn't find the root powder and just used water for the same species cuttings, most have died, these herb cuttings definitely don't want to root without special help!
Interesting!
Never been so early on a video! Thanks for the comparison.. I rarely put rooting hormone because I forget and am lazy, so I'll just stick with straight up water.
Thanks for watching, yeah its a personal preference
Guess the next step would be water, rooting powder & fertiliser. Maybe vs fishtank & whatever your preferred method is?
Great suggestion!
Hey! Plant update. I have frustrating news (my stupidity) I bought succulent mix a while ago. I then used it for my pothos propagation because I didn’t remember is was for cacti... I have been stunting my poor pothos’s growth for so long. It could’ve been a long large thriving vine by now but at least it shows that this one’s a hardy plant! (Og cuttings). I found this out by wanting to buy more of that soil but now I know not to make the same mistake again!
dang! Im glad you figured it out before it died tho! yeah they are pretty sturdy
New sub here! It takes dedication to make videos of plants and I have nothing but respect for that as a fellow green thumb! 👌🏻
Thanks!
Dope experiment. Will definitely dust my cuttings before putting them in water. Thank you for your time!
Ive done this same experiment, and it was the same result. I swear powdered rooting hormone is designed to fail, my opinion is it does my harm than good. I think that has to do with the fact that it is actually clogging where the roots should appear. Who knows if that's correct scientifically or not but that was just my observation. Im glad I wasn't the only one who didn't have success, Im throwing my powered hormone away! Liquid rooting hormones seem to work better, like KLN. At least that's what I've seen in other youtube videos. THank you for your video! :)
I'll have to try some liquid hormone
An experiment with water props and air stones would be cool. Maybe a fish tank water one. Maybe a mash up of using a bunch of techniques in one experiment to which combined techniques work best.
I have one with an air stone that i did!
Please show how you shoot your videos. White background and bright lighting makes insane effect!
I will try and make a video about my setup!
Cool video! Thanks. How about an update for the terraplanter alternative video. Any problems you would share and how we can fix them? Or was it a complete success? Would love to see it.
yeah there are lots of problems! i will make one soon!
I’m curious now how the potted plants compared. I haven’t read through the comments yet so I apologize if this was already covered somewhere…
nope that will be a future vid, so far they are very similar
I noticed that you did not change the water. I thought that you were suppose to change the water periodically. Good video. I think I will get me some root hormone.
Great video! Very interesting. I'd love to see more of this done with different plants maybe?
Will do!
I’m finding now I prop my plants - I just use plain water and get new leaf growth while still in the jar, I do however want to use root hormone to speed up the process
give it a shot!
Nice experiment.
I messed up and just added a teaspoon of rooting hormone to the water. Ill see what happpens either way
Thanks a lot for spending so much effort on this video. I wonder if the rooting hormone might works better for plants that take longer to root, like sansevierias?
I would think so, but i have not tried. I will try those next
Nice to meet another plant lover. Thanks for sharing.🌲🎄
Thanks for visiting and watching!
Use rooting hormone on cuttings that normally DO NOT SPROUT ROOTS, and ROOTS will appear! You can reproduce plants before seeding.
Like mango cuttings ?
Thank you! As always very interesting and useful, your videos are my favorite ones out of all the plant youtubers i follow. Simply because I feel like i learn more from your experiments than from someone just telling me what works and what doesnt
yeah thats why im doing most of these experiments. I hear tons of advice but never know what actually works!
Excellent experiment. I was wondering the same thing! Thank you for sharing :) I have a question: I don't plan on potting my pothos. I usually just keep them in water for years. So in that case, do I need that many roots?
wow! I didn't know you could use this with cuttings placed in water! thx!
It does get a little funky but it seems to work
We need to check growth speed if we use MPK vs Vermicompst vs Compsot vs natural fertilizer
I wanna try that
Love your videos ! I have heard that Pothos cuttings promote growth in other plantswhen put together in water to root. Could you experiment on that ?
Your dedication shines totally outstanding
thanks!
How often did you change the water? I feel like that would have had an impact as well
I only added new water, never dumped it out
@@TechplantChannel As a general rule of thumb, changing the water prevents root rot, and adds new oxygen to the water, as such meaning it dosen't go stale and the roots thrive. Including changng water provides the plant with nutrients from the water, while keeping it in old/stale water means that the waters nutrient worth has already been extracted and then further stunts root growth.
@@TechplantChannel Please see Appolonia's response below. Perhaps the experiment should be repeated with water changes to see if more vine growth occurs. Thanks.
@@appolonia2132 Good point; experiment should be repeated and compared to original.
hey I think can explain your results. so rooting hormones are know as abscisic acids ASA these acids influence plant behavior in particular stress response, stoma response, pulvinus abscission and root growth. ASA can act as a limiting factor on the roots if you use too much as it can cause the plant to "stress out" too much. what the ASA does is that it guides meromictic growth and cell elongation based on how the concentration of ASA in the root tissues are distributed. so a lack of ASA will cause the roots to grow longer as the look for fresher water.
ahhh very interesting, thanks for the scientific explanation
@@TechplantChannel one other tip would be, I never leave cuttings just sitting in water I always add an air pump to help add more oxygen all you need is a little baby air stone and aquarium pump. I even have an air stone in the water that i use for my house plant I find anything epithetic really benefits from getting oxygenated water. Another great benefit to putting air in your water is that is you are using tap water overtime the air will help remove the chlorine. Also consider Mycorrhizae this really helps the plants develop a hyphae on the root system which adds a huge amount of root surface area.
Have you done a video showing the results of rooting powder and fertilizer for water propagation? might solve the slow growth.
I should try that one as well!
Interesting experiment! would you recomend to use the rooting hormoneand place cuttings in water before planting in soil? This is my first time in your channel, tia.
if you have a lot of experience propagating stuff in soil then sure right into the dirt, but the water is a pretty easy way to root plants without worrying about rotting as much
Thanks and I won't waste my money buying rooting hormone. Smile.
I think its really only useful for woody plants like roses and bushes
@@TechplantChannel I have roses (shrubs and bush) growing out of a pot. I have a Damask rose cutting being shipped from Italy. And I will be growing roots from water and than potting it in a flower pot. The Damask is used for rose water, perfume, cosmetics, etc. Not sold in the United States and it grows in the desert in Syria. A man has the shrub and will ship me a cutting. Smile.
So what's best, especially with roses & currants?
wow I would love to see the outcome after you potted them
is there an experiment or update with them after they been in soil?
I like your video and your great attention to details. But using chemicals is not a great idea. I would recommend Natural Organic roots
Yeah I prefer the natural way too
Well just pruned my 2 yr over grown roses, cut them, stripped of leaves- makes a good medicinal tea, and now put root gr powder and stuck em in the ground. They will get water if they are lucky. So- fingers crossed…
Hello! Just wondering if you can do an experiment on different natural rooting hormones. I see people saying cinnamon, aloe vera, apple cider, and other stuff help promote root growth but I was wondering what are the different effects of each.
I will try!
Beer!
Unless you put fertilizer in the water, I'm surprised there was much vine growth at all .
Wow I’ve had a pothos root cutting from a friend for about 3 weeks and only has 3 roots on it and there not as long as yours and I noticed that you never changed there water and everything I’ve read says to change it every week but I’m excited to try to use the roofing powder on my water propagations!!!
I always wondered if rooting hormones were worth it. Thx
me too!
Well I think there's a problem here considering it's powder-based. The gel based would be better if I recall..
ill give it a shot!
How to propagate succulents the best? Should I put them in a cup just above water or with the tip of the plant in water or just on top of soil? Seems like a long as heck process. Kinda was hoping to see some growth after 2 weeks
I just chuck them in the pot with the plant and water the plant as I usually do and the leaves that fell seem to propgate
Have you ever experimented with willow water? Been meaning to try it, but I think you need to harvest willow cuttings during the spring/summer growing months.
never, but now i want to!
I recently performed the exact same experiment with African violets, and had virtually identical results.
The ones dipped in hormone had a slow start, then quickly overtook the plain water cuttings, but not by much.
I did notice when I started that the water didn’t easily penetrate the hormone powder, and wondered if that caused the slight lag.
Next time, I would try mixing it into the water instead.
Honestly though, I think rooting hormone is more useful on plants that don’t propagate well from cuttings and for situations like air-layering propagation.
Plants like Pothos and African violets really don’t need it, or even benefit from it significantly enough to bother.
yeah i want to do some more tests with rooting hormone, this was my first attempt at seeing what kind of differences youd get from it. so i wanna expand on that
@@TechplantChannel I would be interested to see the results of cuttings in manufactured rooting hormone vs cuttings in natural rooting hormones, like willow cuttings in the water. 🤔
Would be nice to have the update link somewhere on the soil part of the experiment!
This is great! Did you refresh the water at all?
I only topped off
I bet itd be similar but I wonder about the same experiment but in a prop box. That way the oxygen issue won’t occur. Curious to see if you’d get better vine growth
interesting, i wonder if i could premix it with sphagnum and stuff!
wondering if conifers react to RH the same way. juniper and black pine for bonsai . maple and azalea for flowering bonsai
Pothos are easy to grow roots. Try it on a species that are difficult
will do!
@@TechplantChannel thanks! Video format is great btw
Thanks, you've shown the process which saving me doing it. ❤
Nice One 🖖🏽
Would love you to do an experiment with superthrive. To demystify if it actually makes a difference!
Ill have to buy some!
@@TechplantChannel thank you! Many of the YT videos don’t have great editing and are testing on veggies. Would be great to test on different types of house plants. I and many houseplant owners use it but I can’t definitively says it does anything 🤔
try same propagation in a solid media, either sterile (moss/perlite) or straight soil, w/ and w/out root hormone...use plastic cups or something to see root growth. i really like to give an intermediate/transition step from water to soil roots.
edit: just watched your water vs soil...and yeah soil isnt a bad method if you keep it moist but not wet, ie keep it in a plastic box to maintain humidity so the leaves dont lose turgidity and die.. repeat that one lol.
these are good suggestions! I will re do that one!
Do you keep the plants in sunlight when trying to root a cutting? Or in a darker area. Thanks ☘️☘️
I give all my aroids/tropical plants light while propagating its all artificial but its very strong. sun would be good but make sure its not getting hot and drying out fast if that makes sense
Can you try aloe Vera please?
Love your dedication, man
thank you so much!
Interesting experiment, does it say which hormones are exactly in this mixture? I use for some of my seeds (Byblis e.g.) GA3 for germination which works mostly fine. But this isnt a rooting hormone I guess...
Indole-3-butyric acid, interesting, i havent looked into this deeply yet, so thanks for the info
Does anyone know if you can add rooting hormone to cuttings if they’ve already been in water for say...4 weeks? At what point can you no longer add it to the cuttings? I’m not sure if it would burn them at a certain point or something 🤔😓
Well…. How have they done? Is there an update video?
I ask this question on the light testing video and now I remember I watched this one already so yes that easy available hormone did work
The major ingredient of rooting hormone is disinfectant . I figure that the secret ingredient.
I was going to try this- I just took cuttings a few days ago!
Good luck!
@@TechplantChannel i forgot to say after the video, I won’t try this but is it a good idea to put 20-20-20 fertilizer in the water of my propagating leaves? (It’s 100% water soluble)
Again thank you for making such an amazing video, to echo another commenter (and my past comments) your videos take so much dedication and its really apparent, thank you! Do you think the effect of the rooting hormone would have a different effect in different substrates like sphagnum moss or leca? I think ill definitely have to try it on leca now that I know its fine to have rooting hormone in the water?
(Also did the stickers from you giveaway ever send?)
yes, if you didnt get one ill send it again!
@@TechplantChannel Thanks!!!
I use a 3 part addition 1. an anti-infective like cinnamon or honey or ..., 2 a rooting substance rooting powder or aspirin or willow or ... 3. low dose food like fish tank water or chem. fertilizer. or ... So an anti-infective + rooting + food.
Nice! Thanks for sharing ill have to try it!
I never use rooting hormone for water propagation. Only for soil.
nice!
Use liquid rooting hormone not powdered rooting hormone is great for cuttings in the soil while the liquid is great for both water or dirt propagation
Could you do something about rooting hormone v fertilizer? I always put just a little bit of liquid fertilizer in the water when I take a cutting
Great suggestion!
Thank you for making these videos, they're really informative
Thanks for watching!
Hi,can you update how is this plant doing now please?
there is an update on my channel
I'm going to try this on my Amaryllis bulbs. It's a new thing I learned abt slicing off half of the basal plate to be later rooted in damp sand. Only thing suggested was using B1 liquid to be added to the sand. However, I wonder if I just dusted my bulb base with rooting powder alone, would it give me good roots?
I wanna try B1 as well!
@@TechplantChannel I'll look forward to this new venture then :)
Thanks for the video. Very interesting to see the comparison.
Thanks for watching!
Question please, when the nodes are in water, do you expose the nodes to light or no? My cuttings are in water with indirect light but no roots. Should I cover them in another pot?
all my propagations have been under grow lights, direct sun might increase algae but its not a bad thing unless the algae dies, where it then starts consuming oxygen as the bacteria eat it