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Posted by kilowatts PA (My Page) on Sun, Jan 22, 12 at 14:42
| Hello,
I took a couple cuttings from a healthy pothos ivy 3 weeks ago, and they still have not rooted. I used rooting formula in the water, but they still look like this. I made a slit under the node as well. Is it supposed to take this long? Am I doing something wrong?
Here are some pics: http://imgur.com/a/mDg2o
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Here is a link that might be useful: Pics of my pothos nodes
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RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| You aren't doing anything wrong - those are roots I see in the glass, PLUS - a new root forming on the one stem. Just be patient and let it do it's thing. The cuttings look healthy and good to me. |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| Hmm, strange. The big brown roots were there before, and exist on all my pothos. But the thin ones might be new. I thought roots were supposed to come out from the bottom of the cutting, but I guess they actually come out above it. |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| if it were me.. i would experiment .. since you have a few ... wet some potting media... take one out of water... insert in the wet media ... and stick in a small pot and put it all into a one gal baggie ... my theory.. you took air roots.. and stuck them in water.. and shocked those roots.. so it is trying to change those roots ... or grow new water roots... if you had put the air roots into damp but drained soil.. they may have taken off faster ... when i think of vining tropicals [and i am using the term loosely] ... they hang in the air.. sucking ambient humidity ... they are not aquatics ... so following its native logic... i would try something other than water.. and its not that water wont work .. its just that some other way may work faster .. good luck ken |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| Thanks, that's a good point. Usually I've just used soil for clippings, so this is the first time I've tried to grow roots in water before putting them in soil. Just giving my new rooting formula a whirl. ;) |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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- Posted by jolj 7b/8a-S.C.USA (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 19, 12 at 23:04
kay is right just wait.
That is the hard part of propagation, after doing everything right you have to wait. |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| The big brown roots were there before, and exist on all my pothos. ==>> so you took an advantageous 'air' root ... and submerged it in water .... do you see the missing logic ??? roots need air.. as much as they need water .... its a very fine balance ... did you consider the alternative to a glass of water.. that i wrote above??? i think of these plants as tarzan vines in the tropical humidity infested rain forest [not by definition] ... they are not water plants... they thrive on humidity ... which leads me to rooting in humid/damp media in a high humidity environment [tented] .... you will succeed with the water.. but it might all happen faster if you went with the plants native inclinations .... and why i suggested experimenting make any sense??? ken ps: you wouldnt try to root a cactus in a glass of water, would you???? just as an extreme example .... |
RE: Pothos ivy not rooting (pics inside)
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| I would get them into some soil. I have had pothos in aquariums that grow great bundles of roots but when taken out an planted in soil almost all those roots die and the plant starts over again slowly. |
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