How to Propagate Your Plant

Here’s what you’ll need to get started:

• One mature, healthy plant- sansevierias and pothos are both great choices
• Sharp, clean scissors or plant shears
• Clean, well-draining medium, like perlite
• Small jars, glasses, or other containers to hold water or medium

With your supplies ready, grab the plant you want to propagate from

Take a good look at your plant and find a few vines or stems you could clip off. Ideally, your cutting should be between four and six inches long. You’ll want to snip the cutting off below a node, which is where a leaf attaches to the stem — this is where new roots will grow from most easily. Remove most of the lower leaves, keeping just a few on top.

Got your cuttings? Now, let’s get them started.

Some plants can grow new roots by simply popping a cutting into a jar of water and waiting. Others do best when propagated in well-draining soil. For those plants, rooting hormone can be helpful. Simply dip the end of the cutting into the rooting hormone and place them into a container filled with perlite or a similar medium. Pat down the dirt around your cutting, water lightly, and wait. Some plants will have roots after only two weeks, and others will take a month or longer. But whenever it has a solid root system to speak of, you can place it in a new pot with your favorite potting soil.