Fascinating! I was expecting the moss to do better. I'm interested in a follow-up on all of these once they're moved to their permanent substrate. I wonder if the moss props might catch up with the water props once the water props are in soil and need to build more complex root systems.
Great video! I’d also like to see how the react when potting in substrate. Do you water propagated plants have a pause in growth as the switch to taking in moisture. Different way?
Hi there! I've been doing water propagating for fifty+ years. My personal favorite. Although, I've used perlite and sphagnum moss also. Definitely depends on the plant and root system. Interesting video, to see the results together. Loved it!
Awesome to see this experiment! I prefer water only propagation, it's given me a 99% success rate, plus I love that using pothos helps stimulate other plant cuttings to root as well. I throw a lot of different types of plant cuttings in large mason jars together. When I tried soil propagating pothos before, I had a 50% success rate, won't do that again haha!
I've Been Propping Multiple Ways Too...By Soil...Perlite...Water And Sphagnum. TODAY, I Am Celebrating The Successful Prop To Pots Of My 2 Painted Lady Cuttings I Got Back In November. I Rooted Them In Water Until February Because Their Leaves Were Quite Large And I Was Afraid I Would Lose Them Using Anything Else. BOTH Are Producing New Leaves!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Very well done experiment! I am a retired science teacher so I really appreciated how you controlled the variables so you, and us, could evaluate the results. I was not surprised by the results either. I would be interested in which permanent substrate would be best from here. Super fun video, Harli! I appreciate your time and effort.
I usually exclusively use water. I’ve tried sphagnum, but I think I tend to keep mine too wet. I do use soil for a few things, but water wins for me most times 💚
Really interesting experiment, thank you! I actually learned the moss prop box technique from one of your older videos and that was a 100% game changer for me! I've never had much luck with water, and way too many failures with soil to persist with that, so the moss prop boxes have changed my world lol, with outdoor hardwood cuttings as well as indoor plants! I do think it needs the enclosed box humidity though. I also think a massive downside with water prop (apart from it not working very well for me!) is that you then just get water roots, which then have to adapt to soil / substrate and the transplant shock of that can set them right back. Super interesting video though thanks for taking the time to do that!
Nothing I love more than a good time-lapse video where I don't have to wait to see the results! Also really loved your side by side, mulit-view comparisons. Next prop video suggestion - air layering 😁
Before I watch it, I’m going to say it depends on the plant. I find my pothos do much better in water propagation. I found my Hoya to do better in sphagnum moss. Great experiment to try! Can’t wait to see the results.
What a great video! I love that you took cuttings from different plants. I've seen these types of videos, but they nearly always took just pothos for the experiment. Thank you for taking the time! 💜
Very interesting experiment, thanks a lot! I think the only difficulty with water propagation is planting into substrate eventually, that sometimes causes roots to rot.
This is such a great video! I would love to see more experiments like this. Also feeling very validated as someone who swears by water prop hahaha! I only use sphagnum for wet sticks, peperomia leaf cuttings, etc (aka things that have a hard time standing up in water). Another perk of water prop for me is that you can often catch issues early and remedy them. I've had cuttings start to rot in water, but mostly been able to save them by trimming the rot, rinsing the cutting, letting it dry and popping it back into clean water. I've also never had an issue acclimating the water props to soil once the roots are well-established, sometimes they slow down for a bit, but they always bounce back!
For context i live in northern england, but everything i put in water rots, and moss works for me everything has roots started within a week/ 10 days so crazy to see the difference! I would say the biggest difference between what you’ve done and my method is that i use tiny plastic shot glasses rather than cups, and i pack moss in there and keep in a big prop box, this works really well for me rather than bigger cups! ☺️
I liked this!! I’d love to see an experiment where you look at water props vs. water props with nutrients/liquidirt or superthrive or something like that. Just to see the real difference it makes.
Been binge watching YOUR videos on propagations and what nots and GIRL THESE HAVE BEEN SO HELPFUL! I used to be terrified to chop my plants up but YOU have encouraged me to JUST DO IT!!! And guess what?? New growths are incredible! GOTTA RISK IT FOR THE BISCUIT!
Enjoyed searching your experiment Harli! Thanks for all the effort! I really don't like spagnum moss because I really hate picking it off afterwards. I tend to do water, perlite, or leca propagation depending on the type of plant. 🌱
I always propagate with water and perlite. In the beginning I just used water and that was great, but I had even better results when I started adding perlite. Definitely recommend!
This was fascinating seeing side by side. I do a lot of my propagations in water but I do have a bunch of alocasia corms at the moment rooting in perlite which is also showing a lot of success and last week I did my own little experiment with peperomia, perlite, soil and water so we'll see. Thanks for putting in the work for this! Your propagations always fascinate me.
I love experiments like this. We all want our plants to grow as best as they can, and there's a lot of misinformation out there. Thank you for the accurate information!
This is so interesting, thanks for doing this! I've been wanting to chop up my peperomia entirely to propagate for a fuller plant, but I was nervous since I haven't propagated peps before. This helped me decide to do it in moss!
Harli, I know how much time and effort you put into this one. Thank you for it!!! My favorite propagation method bounces back and forth between perlite and water.. depending on the plant. The only reason it’s not sphagnum is because I don’t like the feeling of touching it 🤣
Yes I love this type of video! I get disappointed when I watch a propagation video that only shows you how to set it up and then never shows the "after" footage, so I totally appreciate the time you put into this, thank you!
I have heard from several people having issues propagating that specific type of syngonium (forgot the name). Would be fun to see how they are doing transiting to soil now, especially the water compared to Moss because that's also a difficult step. Thanks for the video 🙏☺️
Came to say this also. I've read that syngonium erythrophyllum has many inactive nodes (similar to what I've heard w other finicky propagators like p. brandtianum) which makes them hard to prop esp. from a single node. Most recommend taking multi-node cuttings to help increase success rate. I found this out the hard way when I landed upon a llano cutting myself. Six months of no progress, I finally gave up 😩
I appreciate all the time & effort you put into this Harli, I love your RU-vid channel, one of my favorites. I thought this experiment was very insightful, water propagation is my favorite. Thankyou for all your hard work for the plant community, very much appreciated. Charlene, New York
Defo enjoyed this! I'm always unsure which medium to use and I guess water is still the best 😊 I'd love to see how other plants fare out in this competition!
I absolutely love videos like this - I appreciate them extra cause I can only imagine how difficult it is to keep track of the videos and which order and … all the things. Thanks Harli ♥️♥️
I've been waiting for this video since you mentioned it a while ago! I was not let down. I would love to see this type of content again, especially if you do it with hoyas!
Is be been trying water props again, never had much luck besides rot In the past but I realized I wasn’t giving them nearly enough light. I’m having success including with my maranta which I had never propped before learning from Harli on another video where the proper place to cut the stem on prayer plants is. 🌱
I've always water propagated until this winter when I tried perlite propagating boxes. In perlite, I'm usually able to pot up in 3 weeks and they have a higher success than water propagation when moving to soil. I haven't tried moss, so I'd be curious to see a side by side comparison between moss & perlite prop boxes. Great video.
Thank you for this video Harli, the timing is perfect! I have a couple of erythrophyllum that I want to propagate but I’ve heard numerous times that it is difficult to do. I do wonder how they’d do with perlite now. I might have to give it a try.
My whole life I’ve seen my mom just plunk any clipping/cutting she would find or get into a glass of water. EVERY PLANT EVER. It’s just been over the last 15 years when I became a plant mom that I learned different plants need different things to grow. I’ve tried to tell her. Lol- she said “leave me alone- it works” lol!!
Loved this comparison and the effort!! 💪Would definitely be interested to see different plants in the same methods OR the same plants in other prop methods like perlite, vermiculite or pumice/leca maybe! I’ve been experimenting with perlite and vermiculite together and is been going surprisingly well!
I LOVE this! I can tell you put a lot of work into this video and it was extremely helpful. I'm very interested in learning more about propagating And what kind of plants work best to propagate with. So thank you, I really enjoyed this video...and your great personality😊
I am just now getting back into plants. I have always rooted in water but seeing so many videos of different ways to root plants I have been trying different ways. Very helpful video.
Good job on comparison update. I myself like seeing these types of videos because I'm always looking for the best n fastest way to propagate my plants. Yeah, patience is not my strongest attribute. Thanks for the time you put into doing this. It's much appreciated, chick.😇🙏🌿
Thank you for doing this! I have learned a lot and have been searching for new mediums to propagate in. I honestly have not failed yet with water props but I was hoping for sphagnum moss to be the best
Thank you for working so hard on this video and for so long! Was really expecting the moss to pull way ahead into the lead so this was a very interesting watch x
I loved this. I am in the desert. I’m finding spag moss propagations work best for me with water being a very close second. This was fun to watch! Thank you for taking the time to do this. 😀
