Have you ever picked out the most adorable little plant for your home with visions of nurturing it to become big, full, and beautiful like the pricier options at the greenhouse but you can’t seem to get it to look like that no matter how much tlc you give it?
There’s a trick to it – and when I eventually figured this out, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t noticed it before.
Often, those lusciously full pots aren’t one plant at all. There’s typically several individual plants in one pot to make it look very full. So, how do you achieve the same effect without shelling out the cash? If you’ve got time to spend on it, you can achieve the same effect easily at home!
Every few weeks, I’ll take cuttings from several of my houseplants. I don’t have anything too fancy – several Pothos, an Oak Ivy, and a Swiss Cheese Plant are my usual go-to plants for cuttings.
I cut about an inch below a node on the vine then put the cutting in a small vase or cup with water. The bottom half inch or so of the plant needs to be submerged in the water to encourage root growth. It’ll take a couple of weeks to develop mature roots. In the meantime, I get to enjoy the adorable cuttings in my little bud vase!
Lately I’ve just been adding the rooted cuttings back to the pots with the parent plants to help fill out the pot, like I’ve just done with the rooted Oak Ivy & Swiss Cheese Plants today.
But I had a cute pink and gold pot sitting around that I’ve been wanting to use so I put a couple of rooted pothos cuttings in it. It’s not too impressive looking yet, but I’ll keep adding rooted cuttings to it until it’s full and thriving.
After getting my rooted cuttings settled, I snipped a fresh cutting from the Oak Ivy and a long one from my variegated Pothos that I was able to cut into two separate starts.
Here are my new cuttings that will be my new little plant babies in a couple of weeks!
