#rooting plants

Recycling Plastic Cups 

A wonderful way to recycle plastic cups is to grow plants in them.They are the perfect size for sowing seeds and growing cuttings for. Just make sure to pierce a couple of holes on the bottom of the cup for water drainage.

I usually take cuttings in late summer or early spring.I fill the cups with loose soil (either compost or torf) ,place my cuttings in it and cover the lid. The hole in the lid allows for air to come in as well as creating humidity around the plant to encourage root growing.

In the photos you can see sage,lavender and rosemary cuttings I took in late August.Now that is almost end of November, they’re all rooted healthy growing plants.

The best thing about these cups is that you can use them again and again.

Plastik Bardakları Geri Dönüştürmek

Plastik bardakları geri dönüştürmenin en iyi yollarından biri de içlerinde bitki yetiştirmek! Derinlikleri hem tohumdan fide yetiştirmeye, hem de bitki köklendirmeye çok uygun. Altına su drenajı için birkaç delik açtınız mı hazırsınız demektir!

Köklendirme için bitkilerden çelikleri yaz sonu veya ilkbahar başında alıyorum. Bardakları geçirgen bir toprakla (kompost,torf veya çam toprağı) dolduruyorum,çelikleri en az bir göz toprağa girecek şekilde toprağa yerleştiriyorum ve kapağı kapatıyorum. Kapaktaki delik hem içeri havanın girmesini sağlıyor hem de köklenme için gerekli olan nemin oluşmasını sağlıyor.

Fotoğraflarda Ağustos sonunda aldığım adaçayı,lavanta ve biberiye çeliklerini görebilirsiniz. Şimdi, Kasım sonuna geldik, hepsi güzelce köklendiler ve sağlıkla büyüyorlar.

A guide on water therapy/propagation! : 

I received a few questions about this topic so i decided to make a post about how i do it. I wouldn’t use this method every time you propagate your succulent, but only as a way to get your stubborn cuttings or your leaf propagations to root. I have had the most remarkable roots with Aloe, Haworthia and Gasteria. I’ve also tried this with Pachyphytum, crassula and Echeveria. (The big roots in the picture are from my Aloe and Haworthia limifolia, the thinner roots are from my Echeveria apus and Echeveria runyonii)

things you’ll need: 

plastic wrap 

a pot/jar/glass (preferably see through as this is easy to check up on the developing roots)

 toothpick/ pencil/ something you can poke holes with 

water (i use tap water because it’s the easiest) 

(a rubber band if you want your plastic wrap to be really tight and not sag after a while) 

 Getting started: 

make sure your cuttings/leaf propagations have calloused over 

fill your pot with water but leave some space at the top, idk like a centimeter. Only your plant’s stem should touch the water, but even if your plant is hovering above the water it will be stimulated to grow roots and so it won’t take much time before the roots are so long they touch the water.

put the plastic wrap over your pot and make sure it’s tight (this makes it easier to poke holes in); if you want, put a rubber band around the plastic wrap.

get your tootpick and poke some holes! make sure the holes aren’t too big so your plant won’t fall into the water. 

that’s it! it’s really easy and a great way to stimulate your plant to grow roots. Because of the plastic wrap the water doesn’t evaporate that much. If you don’t want to use plastic wrap you can simply put your plant between rubber bands or if your plant is already really big, just let your plants’ leaves support the plant on top of a glass of water! you’ll have to check your glass regularly and add some more water if necessary. Last but not least, be careful when taking your plants out of the water and potting it in soil!

if you want more information you can find some videos on Youtube on how other people do this and maybe check out my water therapy tag for more pictures. You can send me a message as well. 

Re-potted my lavender so that I could take it indoors for the winter. The stalks of my basil plant were getting twiggy so I cut off the topmost pieces so that I can root them in water and then re-plant indoors. I'm proud of myself because I grew these plants from seed this year and they did not die

One of my goals for next year is to have a garden of plants and herbs that I can use for smoke cleansing and rituals.