25 Best Plants and Herbs To Grow From Cuttings

#11 Aluminum Plant

You will need tip cuttings with 3-4 nodes. Separate the lowest pair of leaves and trim the stem at that node. Insert into moist rooting medium and keep in a warm place. Keep the medium moist at all times until new growth appears.

#12 Coleus

Before cutting off growing tips with 2-4 nodes, you should water the plants well as new plants grow from the axils of leaves. Remove the lower leaves and stick into some moist rooting medium.

#13 Geranium

Take 6-8 inches long cuttings for rooting. To best help, you should let the parent plant wilt slightly prior to cutting.  Withdraw water for a week and then take the cuttings 12 hours after watering the plant. The rehydrated stems take root more easily.

#14 Philodendrons

There are varieties of philodendrons and most of them offer attractive leaf patterns and colors. They’re all easy to grow from cuttings. Tip cuttings with 2-3 nodes are the easiest to root because they start growing from the tip as soon as the roots form, sometimes even earlier.

#15 Jade Plant

These fleshy-leaved plants are a beloved gift for friends. Take 3-4 inch long cuttings with a sharp blade and keep them aside for a week. Insert them in a well-draining potting mixture used for succulents. Water occasionally, allowing the potting mix to become nearly dry in between.

#16 Chinese Evergreen

Take tip cuttings the parent plants become leggy, and pot them up in moist compost and sand potting mix. Keep the soil evenly moist, not wet. Mist the leaves to keep them hydrated until new roots can supply water.

Divide the remaining stem into 3-inch long sections and lay them horizontally into a tray of moist peat-sand mix. Partially cover the sections with sand and enclose the tray in clear plastic until new shoots start to push through the plastic.

#17 Dumb Cane Plant

Pick the leafy heads and set them aside for a day or two to form a callus. Pot them up in individual containers and keep in a warm place that gets good light. Cut off the remaining bare canes 2 inches above the soil line.

Make 3-inch sections with these canes and place in rooting trays containing peat and compost. Keep covered until shoots come up. Keep the original plant in a warm, well-lit area; it will put up new growth in no time

#18 Ti Plant

You can make new plants with the cut branches. Take 1 to 1 ½ ft long growing tips from the parent plant and trim off the lower leaves. Pot them up into individual pots and keep them in a warm place near a bright window.

Divide the remaining cane into sections 8-10 inches long. Mark the bottom end of each section by giving it a slanted cut. Insert into a bed of moist soil in the garden.

#19 Fragrant Corn Plant (Dracaena Fragrans)

A friend of Ti plant. Its propagation method is then similar. Tip cuttings and mid-section cuttings can be grown into new plants.

#20 Snake Plants

All you need to prepare is 2-3 inch sections of a healthy leaf. They will be become a large number of new plants. The point here is new plants will not carry the original variegation, so you should grow sections of rhizomes to retain it.

#21 Hydrangea

Take 4-inch long tip cuttings carrying 3-4 pairs of leaves. Cut off the lowest pair and trim the stem closer to the node. Insert into moist rooting medium and cover with plastic sheet. You can trim the larger leaves by 3/4th to reduce water loss through evaporation.

#22 Holly

Take 10-12 inch cuttings from a female (one that has borne berries before) bush and wound the bottom one inch in fall. Insert in rooting hormone powder and pot up in some moist rooting medium. Cover with plastic sheeting and keep indoors.

#23 Californian Tree Poppy

Dig up some roots in winter (December) and cut them into 3-inch sections. Lay them horizontally on a tray of moist sand-compost mix. Cover with a glass until shoots appear. Replant in garden bed in summer.

#24 Comfrey

Dig up a plant and take root cuttings in either spring or fall. Plant them directly in a deeply worked bed and cover with mulch. Their roots grow deep into the soil and bring up the nutrients.

#25 Weigela

Take 5-inch long softwood/semi-ripe cuttings in late spring or early summer and pot up, keeping under a plastic cover. Wait until early fall to plant them out.

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