April 12, 2025 • 20 mins
Author of, The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation: Step-by-Step Techniques for Making More Houseplants
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. And
are you a plant parent? You know where you got
all those houseplants? I mean, think about it. You know,
today the houseplants are just I don't know, they're a
hot I mean, it's crazy. Everybody's got houseplants. So you're
a houseplant parent. Well, you know, if you've got all
these houseplants out there and you're houseplant parent, have you
thought about possibly being a houseplant grandparent? I guess you
(00:25):
would call it that when you start propagating your own
houseplants from the houseplants that you already have. Well, I'll
tell you what if you're not sure how to do it,
I have in my hand the ultimate guide. It's called
The Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation by Lindsey Sisty. And
guess what Lindsay is with us this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good morning, Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I am great? Thanks for getting up so early and
talking with us this morning. Have you had your coffee already?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Tea? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Tea? Is it green? Tea?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Earl Gray Gray got it?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All right, we had it. We are having a discussion
about teas earlier. All right, talking about house plant propagation,
and of course houseplants Lindsey are as you well know,
a hot, hot, hot right now. I mean back in
my college days in the seventies, they were hot and
they kind of disappeared. And today, wow, crazy stuff. You've
taken it to the next step and you are now
(01:21):
showing folks how to propagate those houseplants. Tell me a
little bit about why you got into propagation of houseplants.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yes, well, I am sort of the offspring of two
people who were into the seventies houseplant craze in their
college years. And so my parents both had all the
spider plants and the rubber trees from when they were
in college, and they were you know, just so or
(01:53):
after college maybe, and they were just so into plants.
And I always wanted to have a huge collection like
them growing up. And I just simply could not pack
it like they could. I did not have that natural
green thumb when I was younger like them, and so
I had to study and read books and I bought
(02:15):
every houseplant book that I could as a kid. I
was just so determined to have this big jungle like
environment that my father created for us as kids, and
I eventually had enough knowledge that it surpassed my parents,
and I guess you could say it kind of became
like a super hobby for me. And here I am
(02:36):
now writing a book about or I wrote a book
about how to create more of them, because I eventually
ended up with so many plants that I could keep
alive that when you have so many plants to keep
alive you run out of space. Do you have to
take cuttings of them to keep them of a reasonable size?
(02:56):
And then you have to do something with all of
these cuttings and just throw them away. These are beautiful plants,
and well, if you want to give them to people,
they'll say, well, how do I root them? And you know,
it's much easier to give people a rooted plant or
help people root them. And so I found myself constantly explaining, well,
this is what you do, this is what you do,
and so I would write it down for people. And
(03:18):
so it's just much more natural to then start writing
a book about this. And I started writing a blog
about it, and eventually I got a book opportunity on
how to do it. It just came naturally as a
result of building a jungle to create a how to
guide on how to create babies manage a jungle.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I thought you were going to say when I hand
out Now, when I hand out cuttings to somebody, I
hadn't buy my book.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I actually do, but I totally because I don't want
to say, you know, I'm not trying to do that.
You know, I'm not trying to you know, sell my
book each time. But I do say, you know, well,
if you do need more information, because now it is conveniently.
You know, people when they buy things from me, they're
always asking, well, oh, how do I root this? And
(04:07):
how do I know root the monstero? Or how do
I make babies out of my allocacia? And it is
all there in my book now and it really helps
me out because I don't have to answer every single
question with pictures. And so I said, well, it's on
page twenty and it's on page thirty, and I'm not
meaning to sell my book. It's just much more convenient.
(04:30):
And you know, as as I mentioned last time when
we spoke, I'm bad at self promotion. So I don't
say buy my book, but I'm like, well, if you
would like, I do have a.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Book, yeah, and I'll sign it for you too, right,
right talking with Lindsay Sisty, And the name of the
book is called The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. As
a matter of fact, All theplant Babies dot Com is
your website. Be sure and check it out. And you
actually sell the a lot of the plants that you
propagate through that as well. And just so folks know
(05:04):
you actually have developed some of your own plants that
you do you have actually have a patent on the plants.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, yes, I have one patent on a new species
of Alocasia called Alocasia green unicorn. It's a combination of
Alokeisha as lanii as a mother plant with Alokesia beginda
dragon scale. So some people listening might be familiar with
the dragon scale and as lani I. I thread them
(05:34):
together to make this beautiful little baby, and I patented
it and now it can It's being mass produced by
tissue culture companies and can be found in plant stores
all around the world. So that was a really interesting
endeavor and cool endeavor for me because typically I will
propagate plants and just sell them in my shop. But
(05:56):
by patenting it this plant, I was able to and
get it mass produced and now you can find it
in places like home depot or plant shops in Netherlands.
So that was kind of a cool way to take
one of my creations internationally. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Absolutely, we're talking with Lindsay Sisty. The name of her book,
of course, is the Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. Her
website all Theplant Babies dot com. You know what, I
guess the bottom line here is and I love it.
By the way, the in loving memory of all the
houseplants I unintentionally killed when first starting out, I hope
this book about creating more plants makes up for it.
I love the sheets of humor throughout the entire book.
(06:35):
But as folks you know, we're looking at this, you know,
it is a risky thing to take cuttings and try
to get them to root in and continue on. I
mean that's it's a bit of a risk there, and
it's kind of scary sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, definitely. You know, every time I go to take
a cutting, especially of a plant that I love, or
at least when I first started off, I you know,
it would hold my breath and you know, I'm not
a very religious person, but I'd say little prayer that
I hope that the plant makes it, but there are
(07:10):
methods that kind of reduce that risk. There's a there's
a method that I described in the book called air
layering that works really well for some of your house plants,
especially something like a big monsterra de laiciosa, which a
lot of people have, the Swiss cheese plant, or a
(07:32):
big trailing philodendron, anything that has a long winding branch
stem with big nodes. You can take say a little
baggy or saran wrap and fill it with damp sphagnum
moss and put it over. And people who have outside
(07:52):
gardeners who have maybe listening, have done this before and
air layering, and you simply put the aagna moss or
a wet substrate on top of the node with s
saran wrap. You wrap it air tight and you leave
it there for a few weeks to a month or
two and allow the roots to grow before you take
(08:14):
the cutting. And this way there's really there's no harm
to the plant. It's not going to rop the pant,
and if it roots, then great, then you take the cutting.
If it doesn't, then maybe that node is just you know,
not going to take and you can just remove the
baggie in the substrate and there you go. So it's
kind of like a try it before you buy it technique.
(08:34):
And I describe this with pictures and detail in my book,
so as you would say, so buy my book and
I'll sign it. I'm getting better at there you go.
But yes, air layering is an excellent try it before
you buy it is what I like to say, technique
of propagation, because you're not taking that cutting first.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, And I think the thing about that, you know,
I always get the calls about I got to this
rubber tree that's way overgrown or whatever, and you know
what do I do? And the thing it is if
they get that thing to root, and most of the
time it will when you cut that off a lot
of times, that's a nice way to prone it. Next thing,
you know, you've got lower branches coming out, and you
know you just started it all over again, so you
rejuvenated it and got a new planet at the same time.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yes, Yes, that's the best part that sometimes you'll get
multiple branches yeah, on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah. So absolutely. Name of the book is called The
Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation, And I tell you what,
it's absolutely the pictures just alone. I mean walk you
through the entire process, but the way you've written it,
you make it very You feel comfortable by the time
you finished reading this book about giving this a shot,
(09:45):
even though it's a bit of a risk, but you
feel very comfortable. You did a very, very nice job,
I have to say for this one. I've recommended that
several people so far, and they have They have bought
it and loved it, and I highly recommend to our
listeners as well. It's take a quick break because I've
got a lot more questions for Lindsay are again. Her
website is allthplant Babies dot com. The name of the book,
(10:05):
The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. Lindsay systy with us
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to have fun with your houseplants, this is the book
that you need. Is called The Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation.
It's written by Lindsay Cisti. Her website is allthplant babies
dot com. It's a fun read, great illustrations, lots of
humor throughout this entire thing. As a matter of fact,
if you don't know your nodes, you'll know your nodes
(11:59):
after you read this book. And why it's important to
know your nodes.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Uh, you know what, There's one thing I did learn
on that page when I was reading the book the
first time was and I wasn't aware of this about
the blind cutting. I didn't know that. That's that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, if you take a cutting of certain plants leaves
and are the petiole, which is that little piece of
stem that's attached to the leaf, you can root it,
but it will be just completely useless. So if you
take a cutting of a rubber tree leaf with a
(12:44):
little pettiole attached, it will root and look beautiful and
have tons of you know, roots attached to it, and
it will never grow into anything.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So is that all it does?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, that's all it does. It just looks like a
leaf with a little bit of stem and a lot
of roots and never turns into plant because it has
no stem tissue attached.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So I so that's why I need to know my
nodes so I know when I'm doing is propagating. So
when I see that, I think it's a succulent that
looks like a heart. Yeah, is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's so that's interesting because and that's
why it's okay, so this is confusing. That's a very
good question that you bring up. So succulents are a
bit different because succulents do root from the leaves they
have to without getting too scientific on the air, but
(13:43):
tissue that is totipotent, which means this, well here I
go getting too scientific. But it has cell it has
cells on the leaf itself that are able to turn
into leaves and stems and all that stuff into a
whole plant. So succulent do have those special stems on
(14:05):
their individual leaves that will turn into a plant. However,
tropical plants, most of them do not have that ability
to just turn into a whole tropical plant from the
base of their leaves. If you cut the leaf off
(14:26):
and just try to root it from that leaf. And
so that heart that you're speaking of, that you see,
the Valentine's Day heart that you'll see, you know, sold
on February fourteenth. That chunky little heart is a hooya,
which is not It's a succulent. Yeah, it's a succulent
like tropical plant. And what people or nursery scrupulous nursery
(14:51):
men and women do is that they will cut the
base of a hooya leaf off and just stick it
in soil, sell that leap. Now, if it was a
true succulent, it would have a better chance of turning
into a whole plant. But since it's a succulent like tropical,
(15:14):
that is usually something that will just rot and die, sadly,
breaking many people's hearts on Valentine's Day. How However, that
being said, I did get one of those that did
turn into a full plant. And that is because it's
(15:36):
because it's me, because it's magic. No, no, no, I do not,
Like I said, I do not have a green thumb.
I just work extra extra hard and never give up.
I really do not. I happened to receive one that
had a little bit of stem tissue, like the base
of the stem was still attached to the cutting. So
(15:59):
it's the person cut that petiole, which is the piece
of little stem attached to the leaf really low down
and it had a lot of stem tissue attached, then
it has the chance of growing into a full hoya heart.
It's called hoya Carrie I plant. So you can get
(16:20):
lucky with those hearts. They're not all a sham.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There you go. And then yet see, we wouldn't have
known that, have we not had Lindsay Ciste on with
us this morning. And again the name of the book,
The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation And if you want
to learn more about it, and I'm telling you this
is a great read, great illustrations, and you're gonna have
a lot of fun. And if she does walk you
through it and makes it really simple for you. As
far as being a plant propagator, do you agree with
(16:46):
me if I'm a plant houseplant parent, if I started
doing that would be a houseplant grandkids, yes, because those
are my kids, so that would be the grandkids in yes.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And great grandkids. That keeps going. It's great and that's
a great way.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know, you got the get you were gifted the
houseplant from grandma or great grandma or the Christmas cactus. Well,
you know a great way to take care of that
is to set propagated. And of course if you're afraid
to do that because it was grandma's. This book will
walk you through that, and you can hand that out
and then all the members of your family has a
piece of Grandma's Christmas caacters or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It may be exactly. And it's actually a better way
of keeping that, you know, special plant, because you know,
God forbid Grandma's plants starts going downhill. I can't tell
you how many messages. That's actually the main way, the
main reason why people reach out to me is because
they inherited their grandparents special plant. I get message all
(17:42):
the time and they are afraid that they're going to
kill it. And one of the best ways to ensure
that you don't kill a plant is to make a
backup copy of it. So you take a cutting, and
then now you have two plants, and so if one
does go downhill, you have an extra copy. And I
(18:05):
always tell people about take a cutting, root the cutting,
have two of Grandma's plants, and then you have reassurance.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And see she said, I get these emails because you
can actually get in touch with her and she'll help
you out as well. Of course, the book's going to
walk you through it as well. But she is also
available and again in her website is All Theplant Babies
dot com. The book is called the Ultimate Guide to
Houseplant Propagation. You know, I got about two minutes to
go here. One of the questions that always comes up
when folks are successful, like pothos they put in some
(18:34):
water or spider plant their roots like crazy, when do
I know the transition from the water to the soil.
When's the best time to do that? And why can't
I just keep it in the water.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Okay, well that's a great question. Well to adjust the
second part of that question first, is you technically can
keep it in the water. I mean, there are some
people and it's kind of been a big trend lately
as more and more people got into houseplants and started
challenging the notion of like, well, why can I keep
it in soil? And so there's been a lot of
(19:08):
people on Instagram and YouTube and TikTok kind of showing
off their plants that like, hey, I've had this in
water for two years now and it's doing great, and
of course the water is not murky and algae and
doesn't look like a sea monster's growing in there. Because
these people are changing the water frequently and keeping it
(19:30):
fresh and looking clean. And so if you do want
to keep if you do want to keep a plant
in water, just change the water out frequently so that
it does look fresh. But when you are taking cuttings
and putting it in water, just wait until the roots
are one and a half to two inches long and
then transfer it to water. You should be just fine,
(19:53):
especially on a poth.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Of There you go. That's the word from Lindsay Saystem
in the name of her book, The Ultimate Guide to
Houseplant Propagation. Have fun with your house plants and propagate.
And I think there's a follow up coming to this
on the proper wine music to play in the background
and the whole nine yards while you're propagating your plants.
That could be part two. Lindsay System, always a pleasure.
Good to having you on, great book. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
All right you all right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
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Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. And
are you a plant parent? You know where you got
all those houseplants? I mean, think about it. You know,
today the houseplants are just I don't know, they're a
hot I mean, it's crazy. Everybody's got houseplants. So you're
a houseplant parent. Well, you know, if you've got all
these houseplants out there and you're houseplant parent, have you
thought about possibly being a houseplant grandparent? I guess you
(00:25):
would call it that when you start propagating your own
houseplants from the houseplants that you already have. Well, I'll
tell you what if you're not sure how to do it,
I have in my hand the ultimate guide. It's called
The Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation by Lindsey Sisty. And
guess what Lindsay is with us this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good morning, Good morning? How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I am great? Thanks for getting up so early and
talking with us this morning. Have you had your coffee already?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Tea? Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Tea? Is it green? Tea?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Earl Gray Gray got it?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
All right, we had it. We are having a discussion
about teas earlier. All right, talking about house plant propagation,
and of course houseplants Lindsey are as you well know,
a hot, hot, hot right now. I mean back in
my college days in the seventies, they were hot and
they kind of disappeared. And today, wow, crazy stuff. You've
taken it to the next step and you are now
(01:21):
showing folks how to propagate those houseplants. Tell me a
little bit about why you got into propagation of houseplants.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yes, well, I am sort of the offspring of two
people who were into the seventies houseplant craze in their
college years. And so my parents both had all the
spider plants and the rubber trees from when they were
in college, and they were you know, just so or
(01:53):
after college maybe, and they were just so into plants.
And I always wanted to have a huge collection like
them growing up. And I just simply could not pack
it like they could. I did not have that natural
green thumb when I was younger like them, and so
I had to study and read books and I bought
(02:15):
every houseplant book that I could as a kid. I
was just so determined to have this big jungle like
environment that my father created for us as kids, and
I eventually had enough knowledge that it surpassed my parents,
and I guess you could say it kind of became
like a super hobby for me. And here I am
(02:36):
now writing a book about or I wrote a book
about how to create more of them, because I eventually
ended up with so many plants that I could keep
alive that when you have so many plants to keep
alive you run out of space. Do you have to
take cuttings of them to keep them of a reasonable size?
(02:56):
And then you have to do something with all of
these cuttings and just throw them away. These are beautiful plants,
and well, if you want to give them to people,
they'll say, well, how do I root them? And you know,
it's much easier to give people a rooted plant or
help people root them. And so I found myself constantly explaining, well,
this is what you do, this is what you do,
and so I would write it down for people. And
(03:18):
so it's just much more natural to then start writing
a book about this. And I started writing a blog
about it, and eventually I got a book opportunity on
how to do it. It just came naturally as a
result of building a jungle to create a how to
guide on how to create babies manage a jungle.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I thought you were going to say when I hand
out Now, when I hand out cuttings to somebody, I
hadn't buy my book.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I actually do, but I totally because I don't want
to say, you know, I'm not trying to do that.
You know, I'm not trying to you know, sell my
book each time. But I do say, you know, well,
if you do need more information, because now it is conveniently.
You know, people when they buy things from me, they're
always asking, well, oh, how do I root this? And
(04:07):
how do I know root the monstero? Or how do
I make babies out of my allocacia? And it is
all there in my book now and it really helps
me out because I don't have to answer every single
question with pictures. And so I said, well, it's on
page twenty and it's on page thirty, and I'm not
meaning to sell my book. It's just much more convenient.
(04:30):
And you know, as as I mentioned last time when
we spoke, I'm bad at self promotion. So I don't
say buy my book, but I'm like, well, if you
would like, I do have a.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Book, yeah, and I'll sign it for you too, right,
right talking with Lindsay Sisty, And the name of the
book is called The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. As
a matter of fact, All theplant Babies dot Com is
your website. Be sure and check it out. And you
actually sell the a lot of the plants that you
propagate through that as well. And just so folks know
(05:04):
you actually have developed some of your own plants that
you do you have actually have a patent on the plants.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, yes, I have one patent on a new species
of Alocasia called Alocasia green unicorn. It's a combination of
Alokeisha as lanii as a mother plant with Alokesia beginda
dragon scale. So some people listening might be familiar with
the dragon scale and as lani I. I thread them
(05:34):
together to make this beautiful little baby, and I patented
it and now it can It's being mass produced by
tissue culture companies and can be found in plant stores
all around the world. So that was a really interesting
endeavor and cool endeavor for me because typically I will
propagate plants and just sell them in my shop. But
(05:56):
by patenting it this plant, I was able to and
get it mass produced and now you can find it
in places like home depot or plant shops in Netherlands.
So that was kind of a cool way to take
one of my creations internationally. Well.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Absolutely, we're talking with Lindsay Sisty. The name of her book,
of course, is the Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. Her
website all Theplant Babies dot com. You know what, I
guess the bottom line here is and I love it.
By the way, the in loving memory of all the
houseplants I unintentionally killed when first starting out, I hope
this book about creating more plants makes up for it.
I love the sheets of humor throughout the entire book.
(06:35):
But as folks you know, we're looking at this, you know,
it is a risky thing to take cuttings and try
to get them to root in and continue on. I
mean that's it's a bit of a risk there, and
it's kind of scary sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, definitely. You know, every time I go to take
a cutting, especially of a plant that I love, or
at least when I first started off, I you know,
it would hold my breath and you know, I'm not
a very religious person, but I'd say little prayer that
I hope that the plant makes it, but there are
(07:10):
methods that kind of reduce that risk. There's a there's
a method that I described in the book called air
layering that works really well for some of your house plants,
especially something like a big monsterra de laiciosa, which a
lot of people have, the Swiss cheese plant, or a
(07:32):
big trailing philodendron, anything that has a long winding branch
stem with big nodes. You can take say a little
baggy or saran wrap and fill it with damp sphagnum
moss and put it over. And people who have outside
(07:52):
gardeners who have maybe listening, have done this before and
air layering, and you simply put the aagna moss or
a wet substrate on top of the node with s
saran wrap. You wrap it air tight and you leave
it there for a few weeks to a month or
two and allow the roots to grow before you take
(08:14):
the cutting. And this way there's really there's no harm
to the plant. It's not going to rop the pant,
and if it roots, then great, then you take the cutting.
If it doesn't, then maybe that node is just you know,
not going to take and you can just remove the
baggie in the substrate and there you go. So it's
kind of like a try it before you buy it technique.
(08:34):
And I describe this with pictures and detail in my book,
so as you would say, so buy my book and
I'll sign it. I'm getting better at there you go.
But yes, air layering is an excellent try it before
you buy it is what I like to say, technique
of propagation, because you're not taking that cutting first.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, And I think the thing about that, you know,
I always get the calls about I got to this
rubber tree that's way overgrown or whatever, and you know
what do I do? And the thing it is if
they get that thing to root, and most of the
time it will when you cut that off a lot
of times, that's a nice way to prone it. Next thing,
you know, you've got lower branches coming out, and you
know you just started it all over again, so you
rejuvenated it and got a new planet at the same time.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yes, Yes, that's the best part that sometimes you'll get
multiple branches yeah, on the bottom.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah. So absolutely. Name of the book is called The
Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation, And I tell you what,
it's absolutely the pictures just alone. I mean walk you
through the entire process, but the way you've written it,
you make it very You feel comfortable by the time
you finished reading this book about giving this a shot,
(09:45):
even though it's a bit of a risk, but you
feel very comfortable. You did a very, very nice job,
I have to say for this one. I've recommended that
several people so far, and they have They have bought
it and loved it, and I highly recommend to our
listeners as well. It's take a quick break because I've
got a lot more questions for Lindsay are again. Her
website is allthplant Babies dot com. The name of the book,
(10:05):
The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation. Lindsay systy with us
this morning here in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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with Ron Wilson our book today. And if you want
to have fun with your houseplants, this is the book
that you need. Is called The Ultimate Guide the Houseplant Propagation.
It's written by Lindsay Cisti. Her website is allthplant babies
dot com. It's a fun read, great illustrations, lots of
humor throughout this entire thing. As a matter of fact,
if you don't know your nodes, you'll know your nodes
(11:59):
after you read this book. And why it's important to
know your nodes.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That is true.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Uh, you know what, There's one thing I did learn
on that page when I was reading the book the
first time was and I wasn't aware of this about
the blind cutting. I didn't know that. That's that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, if you take a cutting of certain plants leaves
and are the petiole, which is that little piece of
stem that's attached to the leaf, you can root it,
but it will be just completely useless. So if you
take a cutting of a rubber tree leaf with a
(12:44):
little pettiole attached, it will root and look beautiful and
have tons of you know, roots attached to it, and
it will never grow into anything.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So is that all it does?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, that's all it does. It just looks like a
leaf with a little bit of stem and a lot
of roots and never turns into plant because it has
no stem tissue attached.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
So I so that's why I need to know my
nodes so I know when I'm doing is propagating. So
when I see that, I think it's a succulent that
looks like a heart. Yeah, is that what that is?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's so that's interesting because and that's
why it's okay, so this is confusing. That's a very
good question that you bring up. So succulents are a
bit different because succulents do root from the leaves they
have to without getting too scientific on the air, but
(13:43):
tissue that is totipotent, which means this, well here I
go getting too scientific. But it has cell it has
cells on the leaf itself that are able to turn
into leaves and stems and all that stuff into a
whole plant. So succulent do have those special stems on
(14:05):
their individual leaves that will turn into a plant. However,
tropical plants, most of them do not have that ability
to just turn into a whole tropical plant from the
base of their leaves. If you cut the leaf off
(14:26):
and just try to root it from that leaf. And
so that heart that you're speaking of, that you see,
the Valentine's Day heart that you'll see, you know, sold
on February fourteenth. That chunky little heart is a hooya,
which is not It's a succulent. Yeah, it's a succulent
like tropical plant. And what people or nursery scrupulous nursery
(14:51):
men and women do is that they will cut the
base of a hooya leaf off and just stick it
in soil, sell that leap. Now, if it was a
true succulent, it would have a better chance of turning
into a whole plant. But since it's a succulent like tropical,
(15:14):
that is usually something that will just rot and die, sadly,
breaking many people's hearts on Valentine's Day. How However, that
being said, I did get one of those that did
turn into a full plant. And that is because it's
(15:36):
because it's me, because it's magic. No, no, no, I do not,
Like I said, I do not have a green thumb.
I just work extra extra hard and never give up.
I really do not. I happened to receive one that
had a little bit of stem tissue, like the base
of the stem was still attached to the cutting. So
(15:59):
it's the person cut that petiole, which is the piece
of little stem attached to the leaf really low down
and it had a lot of stem tissue attached, then
it has the chance of growing into a full hoya heart.
It's called hoya Carrie I plant. So you can get
(16:20):
lucky with those hearts. They're not all a sham.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There you go. And then yet see, we wouldn't have
known that, have we not had Lindsay Ciste on with
us this morning. And again the name of the book,
The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation And if you want
to learn more about it, and I'm telling you this
is a great read, great illustrations, and you're gonna have
a lot of fun. And if she does walk you
through it and makes it really simple for you. As
far as being a plant propagator, do you agree with
(16:46):
me if I'm a plant houseplant parent, if I started
doing that would be a houseplant grandkids, yes, because those
are my kids, so that would be the grandkids in yes.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And great grandkids. That keeps going. It's great and that's
a great way.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know, you got the get you were gifted the
houseplant from grandma or great grandma or the Christmas cactus. Well,
you know a great way to take care of that
is to set propagated. And of course if you're afraid
to do that because it was grandma's. This book will
walk you through that, and you can hand that out
and then all the members of your family has a
piece of Grandma's Christmas caacters or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
It may be exactly. And it's actually a better way
of keeping that, you know, special plant, because you know,
God forbid Grandma's plants starts going downhill. I can't tell
you how many messages. That's actually the main way, the
main reason why people reach out to me is because
they inherited their grandparents special plant. I get message all
(17:42):
the time and they are afraid that they're going to
kill it. And one of the best ways to ensure
that you don't kill a plant is to make a
backup copy of it. So you take a cutting, and
then now you have two plants, and so if one
does go downhill, you have an extra copy. And I
(18:05):
always tell people about take a cutting, root the cutting,
have two of Grandma's plants, and then you have reassurance.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And see she said, I get these emails because you
can actually get in touch with her and she'll help
you out as well. Of course, the book's going to
walk you through it as well. But she is also
available and again in her website is All Theplant Babies
dot com. The book is called the Ultimate Guide to
Houseplant Propagation. You know, I got about two minutes to
go here. One of the questions that always comes up
when folks are successful, like pothos they put in some
(18:34):
water or spider plant their roots like crazy, when do
I know the transition from the water to the soil.
When's the best time to do that? And why can't
I just keep it in the water.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Okay, well that's a great question. Well to adjust the
second part of that question first, is you technically can
keep it in the water. I mean, there are some
people and it's kind of been a big trend lately
as more and more people got into houseplants and started
challenging the notion of like, well, why can I keep
it in soil? And so there's been a lot of
(19:08):
people on Instagram and YouTube and TikTok kind of showing
off their plants that like, hey, I've had this in
water for two years now and it's doing great, and
of course the water is not murky and algae and
doesn't look like a sea monster's growing in there. Because
these people are changing the water frequently and keeping it
(19:30):
fresh and looking clean. And so if you do want
to keep if you do want to keep a plant
in water, just change the water out frequently so that
it does look fresh. But when you are taking cuttings
and putting it in water, just wait until the roots
are one and a half to two inches long and
then transfer it to water. You should be just fine,
(19:53):
especially on a poth.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Of There you go. That's the word from Lindsay Saystem
in the name of her book, The Ultimate Guide to
Houseplant Propagation. Have fun with your house plants and propagate.
And I think there's a follow up coming to this
on the proper wine music to play in the background
and the whole nine yards while you're propagating your plants.
That could be part two. Lindsay System, always a pleasure.
Good to having you on, great book. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
All right you all right?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
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