The Results Are In! 🌱 Propagation Experiment 3-Month Update
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
01:06 Prop Box Wetstick Results
11:01 Prop Cup Leafed Cutting Results
19:53 Final Thoughts
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Fluval has fertiliser, would burn the wet sticks in closed environment but gave a boost on the ones with leaves as the fertiliser is utilised
That makes sense with my wet sticks experiment too
Cool experiment, I would've liked to see coco chunks and soil and water in the competition if you do a round 2.
Just a side note to what you did. I rooted scindapsus exotica cuttings in perlite (in cups) inside my prop box. The only difference - I placed my prop box on a heat mat. I had very nice roots in 2 weeks! I was able to pot up all the cuttings in one month with a 100% success rate. I think the heat mat made all the difference!
I have not been impressed with fluval stratum. I think it stays too moist for a prop box. But people rave about it so I must have been doing something wrong. I tried to root hoya cuttings in it but none of them survived.
I defo think a heat mat would help with propagation, I'm just too lazy to figure out how to use them properly 😅 I've got 2 just sitting doing nothing!
And I agree, I'm still not sold on the whole fluval craze!
The perlite and moss combo looks the best I might try that.
Nice experiment! With trying these things you learn so much! I've got a almost 100% succes with growing Alocasia from corms by placing them on a layer of pon en covering them up with moss. Then cover the cup with some clingfilm or place them in a propbox an off they go. Great advantage is that the roots already go towards the pon, so placing them later in semi-hydro is a piece of cake! Love your creativity!
You can use cinnamon on the ends after you cut off the dead bits to help seal them and allow them to callous quicker.
This was a really great video! 👏🏾 thank you for trying this so that we don’t have to lol
I propagate in cups with only Fluval and the speed of root growth is incredible and I’m trying Tree fern fibre mix for my anthuriums and Hoya’s and they seem to love that 😊
For the last yr, I’ve had the best results with fluval props; fluval dries out quicker though. You just have to do what works for you. Thanks for sharing Emma!
I used only Perlite to grow some veggies from seed and in worked amazing ^^ had them in a reservoir like any semi Hydro plant and they grew like weeds. Started in ~February and now I'm seeing tiny pickles and tomatoes growing. So I can definitely say that Perlite works great with seeds!
And I can't recommend growing strawberries from seed, takes ages. Just buy a cheap tray from a grocery store (if they have a special offer) or a nursery etc.
Salad is very easy but needs space if you are fancy you can diy a grow tower, thats my goal next year!
Great video! When I propagated some Peperomia leaves recently I used just perlite and the roots were small but plentiful. I then moved them onto a chunky soil mix and they've thrived. I did use some spaghnum moss & perlite mix for a jewel orchid and that worked well too.
Great experiment!!Substrate with anything that decomposes, will create methane and cause toxic rot. However pete moss is eons old and already degraded so holds up fairly well as a substrate.
We have started using the hydroponic cloning boxes. Fast growth and 95%success rate. An added benefit is not having to remove or damage the moss from the roots. Also a substantial saving$$$
oooh super interesting! maybe that's why the fluval one did so badly!
I use stratum and perlite together and have found it needs to be kept continously wet or roots dry out really quickly. It might be the wet stick cup was just to dry for the stratum to work effectively. I also love sphagnum mixed with perlite over just sphagnum. Great experiment!
hmmm maybe! will have to try again with more of a watchful eye!
Really interesting experiment! I've never really gone intro propagation and yet found this really fascinating! Definitely will come back to this at some point :)
I believe it’s also the type of plant you chose to use for the experiment, for example my alocasia would have thrived in that fluval combo 😊❤
maybeee! I'm tempted to do another
@@GoodGrowing please do! Maybe do a few different types of plant cuttings in each substrate to see what works best? As much as I hate sphagnum moss it does work better from what I’ve seen on them scindapsus wet sticks but yet leca and fluval work well for the rest of my monstera and alocasia🤔
Ok, an experiment. Thanks to Rachel, Team Fluval. 😊 Trying to save monkey tail. Nothing to lose. Tots dried up. We’ll see
Great experiment !
Give the cuttings a fungicide bath. Pour some sterilized water into a taller plastic container. Wash the cuttings in sterile water and put them in a hydroponics basket. Suspend the basket over the plastic container with water. Ideally the lids would be of the same size so they can sit on top of each other. Mist the cuttings with a weak solution of rooting hormones. Cover it with a lid or a plastic bag secured a rubber band. Keep it on a heating pad.
Thank you for doing the work for us! Love the experiment, will try adding perlite to my sphagnum.
I am VERY surprised at the results! I never have tried fluval in a prob box situation, just in open vases (with the exception of corms, I have those in a glass lidded vessel with 100% fluval and they are THRIVING).
I actually appreciate that you took a plant that is not the easiest/fastest to propagate.
Goldenpothos would be faster, but it´s so easy and fast that it´s probably successful in all media.
Also I have a big propbox with scindapsus cuttings in vermiculite (that´s what I had at hand at that time) sooooo, let´s see if I feel I should change something.
I´m only 5 minutes in, so curious to see the outcome here :D
Ok watched the whole video, was good as always :D
I think I gonna check my cuttings soon, and if they are not doing anything I might divide them into different cups and do my own experiment :D
they are about 2 month in and have not molded, so it´s not a fail, but not sure if they have any roots jet
I want to plant into semihydro afterwards, so I´m not gonna swap to moss and perlite, but I keep it in mind for any propagation that go into soil afterwards and I wonder if it would be good in a mosspole.
interesting that the fluval box rotted so much, I had some corms go bad on me, can´t quite remember if they where in a closed box, but will pay attention to that in the future. Maybe this medium just needs to be in a open cup.
THANKS a lot for this experiment.
okay interesting!
From my experiance with stratum for propagating alocasia corms, air flow is really important otherwise it tends to mold so i think thats why the container method with perlite and stratum failed. Its just a hypothesis tho.. i really enjoyed this video, its nice to see the results next to one another
I keep aquariums and one of the reasons I never use Fluval Stratum is because it has a very low ph, which is not good in all cases with terrestrial plants. Even in aquariums, when used as a substrate, you must do frequent water changes to keep the ph from going too low (like in the 5 range) I could see may be adding some to a potting mix for plants that thrive in lower ph. Plus it turns into muck after a while,
Ah very interesting! thanks for sharing
Oh! That's good to know cause I experience a lot of problems with my droids and high pH. Maybe mixing some leftover into the soil could help!
Fluval is not set and forget it, and I’ve had the *best* results getting Scindapsus Jade satin to pop fast roots in fluval and perlite over leca in a vessel that I can water in a prop house on a heat mat. But yes, you have to keep a water reservoir like passive hydro methods
yeahh maybe that was part of my issue! but I figured since it would stay hydrated in a sealed box it would make it okay?
@@GoodGrowing the fluval uses water and pulls from the plant if allowed to dry out unfortunately.
Consider that one cutting being weak and dying off can spread rot to all the others. This could explain discrepancies. (Like the perlite in the second round) i would expect the perlite to do well in all as its basically sterile .
true true... but in the sphag + perlite cup, only one rotted and the rest did amazingly!
@@GoodGrowing thats what made me wonder if one cutting just went bad in the second perlite test, its a weird one, lol. I use perlite and find it to be awesome, I use it for my corms too. Just got 3 variegated frydek corms going in it and just put them in pon recently (I never thought i would take to pon at all but I am finding its given my alocasias, my schismatoglottis and some of my calatheas a new lease of life lol
I have come across anyone propagating in the combo of moss and perlite before. That’s very interesting 🧐 The fluval in 🇨🇦 is black and I found it difficult to tell if it needed watering when I used it 🤦♀️🇨🇦
I think that might be where some of my issue lies as well! it's just so difficult to tell if it's hydrated!
Loved the experiment but I would like to see just the stratum only, no mixture.
It would be nice to do with soil experiment
I’m totally always blowing up the comments- sorry, but like a conversation to me 🤦♀️😂
If ex hasn’t tossed my prop boxes like my roller derby bag…grrrr
I will show soon. I’ve always thought my perlite boxes did better, but just thought perhaps because I could see roots better. I’ll share soon. Btw Thanks to you for all you do!!!
never worry! and yeah I do really like the root visibility in perlite boxes!
I may swap my sphagnum moss for perlite I think lol
Tree fern substrate would have been good to try. I think that one would have done very well if you added it to the experiment. Have you tried it before in propagating?
ooh yeah! maybe I'll do another with tree fern included!
@@GoodGrowing That would be great! 🌿💙
Btw I’m my prop box, I found orange mushrooms
Just removed them. Starts great. Have you had that?
I think that's a sign of a healthy prop box!
Fluval is better to use on its own not mixed with another substrate :)
Why no straight Stratum for comparison?
I only hade 4 pots 😅
Also, my sphag in the box looks more tan. That ok?
so the sphag I use is fresh, living sphagnum so it will grow in green and sometimes be a pinker colour. most dried sphagnum is more of a tan, totally normal!
Fluval rots everything I put in it. 😭
same honesly! I feel like I'm doing something wrong because everyone else raves about it!