Should You Change Your Water When Propagating Houseplants?
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- čas přidán 12. 07. 2024
- Should you change the water when propagating, In this video I will propagate monstera adansonii and test changing the water or leave the water when propagating the plants.
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Oh yeah... I totally knew this... That's why I haven't changed my water in a year. Not laziness at all
laziness is how i discover half of the things that work well for me lol
I like to call it patience lol
I call mine laziness, XD
You just instinctively knew. Give yourself credit haha
That’s why the fish in my fish tank are growing roots!
I believe it has to do with a growing hornome being produced by the cuttings that pushes root growth. After producing enough and the concentration has reached a certain level in the water, small roots will start to form. I'm guessing that by changing the water on a daily basis pretty much brings that concentration back to zero and the plants need to produce it again. After they have stayed in the same water though for some days and the root production kicks in, it's okay to change the water more frequently since the roots will keep growing once they emerge. Very interesting experiment!
Edit: A couple more experiments like this and people will be mad about the monstera Adansonii too smh 😂😂
lol ill have to get a few more plants in rotation
@@TechplantChannel If you ask me, I'm fine with plain Pothos 🤷🏻♂
@@TechplantChannelLove this experiment. I am fine with any plant which grows fast.
@@ThePlantasticNerd you really deserve your name I know plants but I can't retain so much info on one process
@@ThePlantasticNerd I would kill to be called a plant nerd
I love to watch these small (or longer) tests on your channel. Pls never stop the plant abuse
Won't stop, can't stop!
All plants that can reproduce from cuttings release rooting hormone in order to survive and regrow. Combine multiple cuttings in the same container and use just enough water to cover the nodes where you want roots so you don't dilute the rooting hormones. Top up the water if there is too much evaporation. I have been getting much faster results from all of my water propagations of aroids. I successfully rooted bougainvillea cuttings this way as well and will continue my experiments. Thanks for all of your great videos.
Yeah I think you are spot on
Sorry how did you root bougainvillea? I would love to try
I watched several videos on yt that said remove all the leaves from the cuttings and plant in soil. That did not work for me so I just put my green bougainvillea cuttings in water. I stripped the leaves from half of the cuttings and left a few leaves on the others. I left half of each stem in water. I had roots develop on all cuttings but the ones with a few leaves had more. Be patient though and let some secondary roots develop before you plant the cuttings in soil. I was too eager and lost most of my cuttings when I potted them too soon. I prefer water propagation for most plants now.
@@doc29 This is fantastic!!!
Thanks you, this is very helpful!
This is so interesting to me because I always read how it’s important to change the water out frequently as it provided fresh oxygen to the plants. I change my water out every 3-5 days and see very slow root growth. Guess I’ll stop changing the water out from now on.
I wonder if changing the water once a week instead of daily vs never changing would yield different results? Then it wouldn't be a daily disturbance but you would still be changing it. This was a great and informative video!
I can try that next!
Was thinking the same. It's what I do and it works for me.
yeah! like having them all set up together, one never changed, one changed daily, one changed weekly, and another biweekly
I use rooting hormone, and change the water once weekly. I usually leave the bottom 1/8 of the existing water and dilute it with fresh tap. I feel like this helps produce fat roots for the first few weeks. Then the less hormone it receives it focuses on meristematic growth.
@@TechplantChannel I’d totally be looking forward to that if you do end up doing it.
An interesting future video: props of cuttings with a comparison of: (1) rooting hormone, (2) no rooting hormone, (3) cinnamon powder, (4) cut ends dipped in honey. Thanks again!
Great suggestion! i did a rooting hormone one but never a honey one i will try it
@@TechplantChannel Thank you! Supposedly, cinnamon powder may work as a rooting agent. I know it can be used as an anti -fungal agent, but I suspect the rooting may not be true.
Yeah, I’ve had great luck with honey and cinnamon with rooting rosemary in potting mix!
Onlyplants on youtube did this as well. Check him out.
I actually take plants that have roots starting and add new cuttings to the old water to get cuttings to start even faster. I only gently rinse the roots off if they accumulate what I call gunk, lol. It's the broken down brown plant material basically. So I change my water out about every 3 months or so but not a 100% change. Do maybe a 75% change in the 3 month mark. I add cuttings to old water a well. It's the hormone that the plants release when they are in growth mode that triggers growth on new areas or cuttings that have nothing yet. Pothos cuttings with roots make fantastic helpers to start other types of plants. I highly recommend them.😊
You've brought the joy of propagation back to the old broad. I stopped doing it years ago, unless someone specifically requests something. Now, I'm back to doing it for science. Great stuff here.
I think it’s down, at least partially, to the hormones in the water. The cuttings build it up in the water over time and encourage it to root. Changing it slows the buildup of growth hormones in the water. My two cents.
thats been my thoughts as well
I've been experimenting with different colored jars for water propagating. So far orange and pink give me the best results, green and blue are the worst. I have an adansonii in an orange jar, no water changes, just topping it off when it gets low. It's gotten huge!
have you tested the orange/pink vs. clear? i usually propagate in clear jars.. seems to work well, but i like your findings! super cool. much love.
The plant produces enzymes or hormones to grow roots. If you chance the water, you loose it all. (I actually use root hormones at an additive to kick start the whole procedure on big plant cuttings.)
i changed my jade pothos cutting's water every week and every time i would change it, the white roots that grew turned darker again.. until i stopped changing it overrall and they started growing faster than ever!
When I'm trying to root cuttings I use tap water and I never change the water, I do top the water level off every now and then and I have absolutely no problems when it comes to root growth!
Great video my friend 💚🌱
I do water propagation too. All my plants are growing new roots. I try to change water more often but I am too lazy. Turns out it is not a bad thing.
Right lol! Thats how I discovered this originally
my monstera cutting only started to kick off it's growth when I stoped changing the water, one month in and her roots are growing nicely
yeah i think it allows the rooting hormones to build up in the water to help trigger the event? im not sure yet
I’ve heard that roots like to grow towards darkness, and so water propagating is better in dark containers. Can you test that next time too?
I saw he did this, wonder if this is what you mention? czcams.com/video/e5NNJs4FCTw/video.html
I'm new at this and was excited to find I could grow new plants when i trimmed my philodendron. TWO. MONTHS. LATER... I realized yesterday when the water was so dirty, that I hadn't read ahead and was supposed to be changing the water! There are lots of long roots but I had no idea if they looked right or not. So happy I found your video or I might have thrown them out thinking I did it "wrong". I gasped when you showed the dramatic difference the first time you checked them.
Glad this video helped! Good luck on your propagation!
Really appreciate your time and effort. I usually change water frequently for my plant propagation. Now, I will definitely stop. Thank you.
Love your experiments. It’s how we learn to be great parents to our plants. Just rescued a little plant from a shop that hasn’t watered it felt so sorry for its miserable life so I brought it home repotted it and gave a good watering so hopefully that will survive. It’s called black velvet but just looks like a little stump of nothing. I wish I could save them all lol. Great video too 👍🏻🪴🌱
This is the most relevant channel I've found on CZcams, keep it up! 👍🏻
Yes I figured out this but I just love how you show it
The video I was waiting for!! Stunned by the results
same, but remember if this isnt working for you always try something else because everyone has unique water and environment that can play roles.
Would be curious to see what would happen if you poured out the old water and poured it back in each day to control for the disturbance created by pouring new water in.
ahh very interesting, I should do this experiment more robustly and try taht
Great idea
@@TechplantChannel Maybe switch them between two containers daily and chill them down in the fridge in between because you mentioned the disturbance by chilly water?
This is very validating especially when you have memory issues!!
Yup its how I found out they root so well when you just leave em be lol
I’m so grateful for your dedication to experimenting with plants! It’s so helpful! Thank you!!
Wow. Good to know. Thanks for the experiment!
Bro... I love you. ❤️ you are legit my inspiration. I like the way you explain things and I just love how you are lighting the path that I want to take and although the destination may not be the same. I just want to say I love you for the spark you have given me.
How interesting! I did not see that coming. Well, that saves a lot of work!
I know, right?
That's perfect! I'm so inconsistent with propagation-care that I'm relieved to see that my just-topping-off-with-fresh-water-when-needed probably isn't hurting my props 😊
yup, im always aloof so its good for me cuz i forget stuff so easily
I bet this is why monstera albo takes SOO long to root, because people say to change the water weekly, and the albo probably doesnt produce as much hormones.
I need to get some albos so i can do some tests with them too, they are just so expensive right now..
@@TechplantChannel Totally agree with you!
So lovely to see your videos without an ad in the middle! Thank you for that 🙌🍀
Its usuallycuz my videos are too short so youtube can't lol, thanks for watching!
love seeing a new video from you! this one was super interesting too! I hardly change the water in mine, i just top off. and I thought I should be changing out. Now i see i can leave it be so long as im getting the results i want xD
Exactly! Always find out what works best in your setup! Cuz many people advice can be affected by their own unique setuo
Ohhhhhh I love this one!!!! And that comparison was insane!!!
I heard you say that you want to do more tests.... I was thinking maybe if you filled a jug and left it out so it would be room temp before changing the water. But I am willing to bet that you already thought of this. 🤗 Thank you for another awesome video. XOXO
thank you. This was realllllly helpful
Wow I wouldn’t have expected the difference to be that stark
yeah i was surprised too!
I love your videos and your experiments! Thank you so much!
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for your hard work. God bless America!!!
Another banger! So totally a thing. I can’t get enough of these vids.
I’d blame it on chlorine if it wasn’t well water. It’d be interesting to do the same with room temperature store-bought water from a jug.
ill give it a shot
This is fabulous thank you for this!
I needed this video, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing. Thank you for trying this experiment and sharing.
I’ve been having the browning issue with my roots and changing the water every 2-3 days. I’m definitely going to give this a try and see what happens!
usually i don't change water, just keep with top up and never noticed any problems :)
same
It's very interesting but it's a bit contradictory to another video of you showing that rooting'pothos'hormones don't help plants to root (sorry for my english I'm French) New experiments to do 😉 I love your channel 👍
I think they have a short life, but im not really sure! so ill have to keep doing more and more experiments to narrow things down
@@TechplantChannel I'll follow your experiments, I'm interested 😉
You could try propagating mint plants it grows pretty quickly. I took cuttings and put them in a jar and I could see roots growing by the next day. it's been 3 to 4 days now and the toots have grown a lot and there's new growths coming up as well
nice ill see if i can get ahold of some
So helpful! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Your experiments are great.
Thank you!
Good video. Well done, and thank you.
Thanks for watching!
I hope you see this comment even though the video is 2 years old.. I've heard that using an opaque container to water prop will help significantly because it mimics the dark environment roots activate under. I've tried it and it seemingly works for me... I've also noticed that when clear containers get an algae coating, that's when the roots start to explode on cuttings... so I believe it to be true. Not sure if you've had that experiment yet; I'll check; but it's a thought I wanted to put out there anyway.
ive tried by using foil to cover one and saw good growth from not covered but a lot of my experiments could benefit from multiple runs and methods so ill come back and try again! thanks for sharing!
Oh my goodness thank you for this video. The dozen sources which said to change water frequently, ideally every day, led me to change every 2-3 days and my pothos cuttings were rooting SO SLOWLY! I cannot believe how astray they led me.
thanks this is really interesting to me
Great experiment and video
This surprised me. I cant wait to see upcoming experiments. :)
same! its fun seeing the results
Wow such a clear difference in this case! I do change the water every 7-10 days, but only to prevent mosquito larvae - unfortunately that's a necessity.
Yeah if you live anywhere near the equator thats pretty much necessary. Luckily I live far north and we have winter so mosquitos are not bad. I think 7-10 days wont harm the propagation so im sure its fine
@@TechplantChannel You'll be surprised to find out where the problem of mosquitoes is worse
Great video. I’ve noticed this too! Leaving it for at least two weeks seems to work for me. Maybe it’s the bacteria breaking down the decay so new roots can come theough
As always really great experiment!! Good to know!!
Thanks for watching!
Wow. Good to know. I just crammed a bunch of long (rootless) Pothos cuttings in a jar of water, and plan to keep them in it.
Great experiment. Thank you 🌱
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this🙏
Thanks again for your help
Thanks for watching
Thanks for sharing ❤️
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I haven't changed my African violets water out of pure laziness, and I noticed it's growing much faster now ;) and I always add Pothos to my cutting jars too when I have them.
I barely change my water with propagation. It messes with the rooting hormone that the plant makes itself. Unless it’s clearly nasty looking water I don’t change and even at that point I’ll drain some out and add fresh.
There’s definitely something going on at a molecular level with the rooting system and not changing the water 💪🏾💪🏾 #teamletitbe
What great experiments
There is also an inverse correlation between new root development and the volume of water. Root development correlation with water changes and with water volume has to do with hormone concentration being diluted by the water volume. Changing the water has the effect of increasing the volume the hormones are diluted by.
Yeah thats what I notice. I use small containers a lot for space and I can see that affect
@@TechplantChannel Ultimately, I find it best to skip the water entirely. I start most cuttings in a sealed ziplock bag with a little damp sphagnum moss at the bottom.
I stopped changing the water in my propagations a few months ago when I learned this and I can tell a HUGE difference. The roots have just exploded! I just too off the water every 2-3 days and I use the spray nozzle on my kitchen sink to fill the water to get a bunch of air bubbles in the water as well lol.
This is awesome! There're videos that say change watee and others that say don't. You actually presented proof! Thanks for that. It made sense to me that the growth hormone released by the nodes help with root growth, but also that oxygen levels in the water need replenishment so I was conflicted. I think daily or frequent water changes work best for seed germination. I could be wrong, haven't done an experiment
Great topic
thanks!
I loved this!!!
Thanks!
Interesting experiment.
Thanks for watching!
Great video!!! Thx :-)
Thankyou soo much for the video sir.. it shows more dedication in your work.... But the video helped me alot
Thanks for the kind comment, I hope you get good results with this info!
Your videos are always outstanding 👏🏽👍🏾🤓🤯😎🥰
Appreciate the shirt and video as always
Wow this made it so obvious that I shouldn't change water for propagation, and I saw a lot of people recommending to do that
Some people have bad watet or other issues so it may work for them? But for me I have good results just leaving it.
I think that the plant juice gives the water more nutrients. You could test whether it is fertility or horomones by changing the water every day and adding either rooting hormone or fertilizer, depending on which one you are testing for.
yup im trying to get a lot of experiments going so this will be added
I put my cuttings in my aquarium and cuz I change the water on that once a week and it always has alot of air in the water my plants roots grow faster than the ones on my window getting direct light
aquariums do a really good job
you are the best 💚
Thanks and thanks for watching!
Great video
I also think it depends on the plant. Plants in the onion family don't seem to like staying in the same water for too long.
I really think it's the condition for each person's water maybe different. Yet if the person is compelled to change the water they can do so. What was in the vessel or glass can also affect the experiment; a clean vessel vs a previously used container with debris/whatever.
yup, water quality and make up matters, i have some water tests coming up too
I saw on the Planterina channel that Amanda puts pothos cuttings alongside cuttings of other plants and that makes them root faster. My assumption is that the rooting hormones leach into the water, so it is better to keep the water and not change it too often. Possibly you will get slower rooting if you dipped them in larger water tanks.
Gardening in canada made a video on science of rooting hormone and why pothos in water speeds up other cuttings on developing roots.
A fascinating prospective descriptive crossover trial! The root hormone must be being washed away by the fresh water.
It would be so satisfyingly to see a speed up videos when filming the roots grow in the water
In conclusion: not changing the water is better for cuttings. Thanks for dedicating your time to do this
For sure I hope it works well for you
my wild guess is this has something to do with like chlorine lvl in water (or something chemical from tap water) and it like neutralises after some time.
(( only guess probably not true i know close to nothing bout plant and chemistry and i just like watching it :v))
chlorine in tap water can have an effect, this was well water tho straight from the ground. its very very hard water so maybe that has something to do with it too
I add water if it evaporates. I'm glad I didn't change it a whole lot for the pathos but I did for this really viney zig zaggy purple plant with purple leaves. I've finally got a little root growing but I won't do it again now that you did this experiment.
yeah as long as the water isnt getting really gross i just leave it. also, if a "film" forms on the top it will prevent oxygen from dissolving back into the water and eventually the roots will choke so as long as thats not happening just leave it or top it off!
@@TechplantChannel 👍ok.
I think @thePlasticNerd is correct ! I never change water and after I put the cuttings in soil I use the water the cuttings were in to water the soil . Never fails.
I never CHANGE my water. I just top it off when it needs it. I also do it in a way that it's oxygenating the water.
Nice!
Great video. Next you should water with activated charcoal & water vs water propagation.
Great suggestion!
That's awesome! I think the reason why the do better in unchanged water, is they enjoy stinky things like poop, fishy water... Etc 🤔
The traditional concern here, (I had been lead to believe) is that constantly changing the water would wash away endogenous rooting hormone and/or micronutrients from the new root tips.
Constantly exposing the root tips to high-purity water might also be inducing some kind of osmotic shock.
I don’t change the water very often on my water props, just top the water off every week or so. I think it depends on someone’s climate and how much the water is evaporating 🤔 I will change the water and clean out the vessel when the water gets mucous-like. Have you done a video on well water and/or hard water affecting plants? Curious on what kind of experiment you would come up with. We moved into a house with a well/hard water 1.5 years ago and I would assume my houseplants would be pouting by now if they didn’t like the water.
Whoa, this explains why mine where doing really good until I switched them to a giant vase, now they’re browning
Maybe chlorine? It evaporates after some time. Maybe now make an experiment with changing daily boiled water vs bottoled vs not boiled :D
Chlorine will do this but I was using well water which is not treated in any way, however its very hard water
This is super interesting! You said you’re on well water? Does that mean no chlorine/chloramines? Also you mentioned temp… how cold is your tap water?