i thought it was just staying alive but it shot out a teeny tiny rooooot 🥳 now to wait until it forms a rhizome 🤧
by jezebelllllll
i thought it was just staying alive but it shot out a teeny tiny rooooot 🥳 now to wait until it forms a rhizome 🤧
by jezebelllllll
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Youd technically be better off rooting this in soil than water propping. ZZ are desert 🏜 plants, and much like cacti they fair better in dryness.
Cut the bottle in half
Put soil in the bottom
Water it 2-3 times a week very lightly
It will grow a rizome and roots much faster than water propping.
*Boink*
I did the same for months and nothing happened. As soon as I used soil, the roots started coming asap. I recomed you to use soil!
It takes a long time to form rhizomes in water. I have 4 propagations going currently that are still a few months away from being planted in soil even with tiny rhizomes.
Took forever for my raven ZZ cutting to root in water but patience and it will! Then it took a while to form a rhizome and finally bust out new shoots. A year after new growth, the original stalk has finally wrinkled and died…it was a work horse and did well!
I’m a skeptic of ZZ propagation. I’ve done it successfully but there’s literally no scientific way. It roots if that specific plant has the WILL to live, it doesn’t really matter if you do things right or wrong. Put it water? It might root, might not. Put it in soil? It might root, might not. Leave it to be? Might root, might not. In any case, chances are it probably won’t. Those damn suicidal plants don’t value the love and care I give them, take it all for granted like some spoiled child
Remove the leaves except like 2-4. It’ll grow faster. You can stick the leaves directly into soil too and it will root
I could recommend to do it in soil. The main reason is because having such a big opening in water could cause rot if you don’t change the water often. Zz plants are plants that can go long time with out water so soil is better
It takes ages but it’s possible. I had a stem propping in water, and when it was almost ready to pot the leaves began to die. I planted it and chopped the stem down to a nub and waited literal YEARS but it was my little project. Finally got a wee baby set of leaves!
On the other hand, my mother plant had grown a big new juicy stem and my beast of a dog snapped it off. I was soooo sad it was still bright green and I stuck that motherfcker back in the soil of the mother plant and watered it as I would usually, keeping a close eye on the puckering of the stem, and it healed. Praise Jesus it was a miracle
So ya def do soil as other poster suggested
Use rooting power and put it in soil
I’ve propagated a dozen zz! I’m still learning but root stim helps or cinnamon if you dont have it. Also I cut the stems at an angle though I don’t know how much that helps. But by far the best two things you can do are keep the water fresh and put them under a heated mat. That will have you growing sprouts in a matter of weeks, give it a try!
I grew a few baby plants from single leaves (or more like the leaf-looking parts of the leaf (?)) and it took foreeeever for them to grow a rhizome. I put them in perlite, watered when it seemed to dry and I think it took half a year until I felt the rhizome and roots were developed enough to put them into a soil mix and after that it took a few more months until they put out new leaves
i left some zz cuttings in a bottle with water as decor for a few months, before i went to check them and they all had roots! they even made new corms (?) or rhizomes. eventually i replanted in soil. never thought i could accidentally propagate a zz!
Very slow growers…get some rooting hormone
Mine took literally a year in water to grow a rhizome. Just be patient. Or use dirt.
Don’t worry, it will grow, just put in soil..