How to Propagate: Tradescantia

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Sam. And today I'm gonna be showing you how to propagate tradescantia. And within the next two lessons, I'm going to be covering your class project and the materials that you'll be needing in order to propagate your tradescantia. After that, I'll be giving a demonstration where I'll go over where to make a proper cut. How to make a proper cut. How do you prevent rot with your cutting and a few other tips along the way. So once we have this all potted up and ready to go, we'll do a quick review and then you can get started on propagating. You tried us can't dia. 2. Class Project: For your class project, you will be sharing three pictures. The first one will show where you've major cuts. The second one will show the cuttings you have collected and the third one will show all of your cuttings, pot it up. With the first picture you're going to be taking showing where you're making your cuts. There's two main things that I will be looking for. And that's if you're cutting below the node and if the blade is a right-side up, both of which I'll explain more during the demonstration. With the second picture you'll be taking, showing the cuttings you collected. The main thing I'm looking for is any leaves on the lower stems have been removed. The final picture in your class project will be showing off all of your plants, pod it up. You can choose to submit the pictures for your Project one at a time. Or you can wait till you have everything done and submitted all at once. If you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask and I look forward to seeing your projects. 3. Materials Required: In order to propagate your trellis Kantian, you will need a few things. The first one, being an established plant, you can take cuttings from. Second, you will need a pot. Third, so soil and forest elan need printers are seculars and order to make your cuts. If you'd like. You can also use some rooting hormone to help speed up the process. When choosing a pot, it's best to go with one that has drainage holes. And if you use about a four-inch pot, you'll be able to place multiple cuttings within one pot. As for soil, all you will need is just regular potting mix. A few things to keep in mind for your Bruner's executors or knife that you're using to propagate or that you want them to be well sharpened and sanitized. So you're not going to be contaminating any of your new cuttings. Plot that you have all your materials together, we can start propagating. 4. Propagation Demonstration: So the first thing you want to do is fill your pot with soil. You want to fill it just to this little edge here. This way, when you water it, you can fill your pot with this much water. And your plants will be watered evenly every time. If you're going to be adding rooting hormone to your cuttings, Dan, you wanna go ahead and cream voicing your soil. Because if you were to dip your cuttings into rooting hormone, place them into the soil and then water it. You'll end up washing away all of your rooting hormone. And you don't want that. So if you're going to use rooting hormone, Go ahead and pre moisten your soil. Now. You want to take cuttings just below the node. So this right here is a node. And this is a node. If you run your fingers along the stems, you'll feel a slight bump. You'll also find nodes located at the base of the leaf where it meets the stem. On my secular here you will see that this side is the blade and this side is the envelope. So when I'm making my cuts, I need to keep in mind that the blade side should always be closest to the node. So if I were to cut here, I want the blade to be as close to my note as possible. So ever will do it this way and not this way. Because if I hold it this way, then lay in Bill, because pervert here is the closest to the node. Another thing to keep in mind when making your cuts is that the tip of the blade usually isn't as sharp as the back of the blade. So try to make your cuts closer to the back of the blade. Like this. Also keeping the blade side up. And there we go. There's our first cutting. And now all I'm gonna do here is take off this bottom leaf so I can plant the cutting deeper into the soil. And also we don't want this leaf get planted and then end up rotting. So I'm just going to carefully remove this bottom leaf. And I'm going to take this extra little bit that's still attached. And then it's going to be all ready to be planted. Along this stem. There's a few places I could make my cut. There's one node here, there's one over here, and a third one here. I'm going to take a bigger cutting this time, so I won't need to remove any leaves and I can start off with a larger plant. So again, I'm going to take my seculars and make sure that the blade side is closest to the node. And then I'll take them and move the stem to the back of the blade and make my cut. And then there's our second cutting and it's all ready to just be potted up. Here are all the cuttings are taken. I have 1234, five-year. I'm going to take three of these cuttings and place them in one pot. To do that, I'm going to make three holes spaced out about an inch apart. And then take your cuttings and place them in the holes. And then gently press down the soil around the cuttings so it's firmly in place. And then just repeat that process for your other two cuttings. And here they are all polynomial and ready for some water. So I'm going to fill up that gas that are left in the beginning for water. And then I'll just let the water slowly drains through the soil. Just to give you a bit of an idea on how fast you can expect to see growth. These are three cuttings that I took about three weeks to a month ago. These two pots right here are made up of the cuttings that I just took off at one plant. So now that we have are try to scanty cuttings, all pot it up and watered. We just want to make sure we keep them in a space that has indirect sunlight. And we want to give them some time to dry out in-between wanderings. 5. Review : To recap a few key things you want to keep in mind before you take your cuttings are to leave a gap around the rim of the pot for watering and also pre moist in your soil if you're going to be using rooting hormone. Some key things to remember one, propagating our one, take cuttings below the node to position your blade besides the node. And three, remove any leaves that are low on a stems. Once you have your cuttings ready to be potted up. And keep in mind that if you're using a four-inch pot, you can place three cuttings within that one pot to you want to give it a good watering. Three, you want to keep it in indirect light. And for, you want to let the soil dries out between anymore watering. Keep these tips in mind as you're propagating and just see your cuttings growing in no time. Thank you for watching this class. I hope you found it helpful and I look forward to seeing your class projects.