An Update On My Perlite Propagation Boxes (wet stick central!)
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Also, idk if you do this or not, but I swish my wet sticks in a mild dishwater solution before popping them in a perlite box. Since doing so, none have rotted on me.
Hahah I love it!! And interesting, thanks for sharing that tip :)
This is interesting! I may try this! I've considered doing a similar treatment only with a hydrogen peroxide and water mix
Interesting, I don’t have much luck with wet sticks😢
Pot that philodendron in all perlite! I did it with my dragon scale and it exploded with growth. I use that miracle grow liquid 1-1-1 and it's been doing great!
I really like rooting in perlite.. I may try planting something in it… it just tends to get really green here…
Random mystery prop fix I just started: I started placing them in groups the best I can then putting little washi tape labels on the lid. Doesn’t block too much light and easy to remove/move when I need to!
I recently added an aquarium bubbler to my water props with GREAT success. I had a rhapsodora tetrasperma cutting for MONTHS that kept rotting & it finally has long roots!!
I need more info on this, please:)
So glad I decided to try a perlite prop box, it has literally been foolproof! Such a great prop method. I find that it prepares plants very well to transition to leca!
Yes it’s just fantastic 😃
I made my first perlite propagation box a couple weeks ago. I just checked on it today and the cuttings are finally growing roots! So exciting!! Also your spider web nails are so adorable 🥰
Ahh so cute!! It’s so exciting checking in on them. And thank you so much ☺️🕸
who needs a box of chocolates when you have a box of wet sticks?
Exactlyyyy 💅
So cool to see your wets sticks growing. You have really inspired me to try them and not give up on a plant. Thank you!
Fern! Back with the goods as always 🥰 you inspired me to start my own channel way back in February and it’s made me so happy so thank you for doing you and being yourself ❤️
new subscriber, love your content!! it’s you and Hailey who motivated me to get my first ever prop box 🥰 cannot be happier with this method. the happiest plant in my propbox are chain of hearts 💕
I love prop boxes with perlite!!! So, easy to propagate!!! Thank you for sharing!!! Love seeing your plant growth
I love perlite propping I swear by it, I’ve never had a fail!
Yup!! Things I waited MONTHS to root in water.. rooted within a week or two in perlite!!
I love the mystery sticks in the prob box so much! It’s the thrill of getting a “new plant” every time. 💚
I don't know why I haven't tried propagating in perlite. It looks fun. I've done some prop boxes and have had better success with water propagating mostly. It's nice to mix things up.
As always, love your videos. When I'm not doing planty stuff I also draw while watching your videos and I find them soothing :) thank you for all you do!
I'm slowly ditching moss and have started to root in perlite and everything has done so good!
Yay! I love perlite so much I've saved/rooted so many plants with it
It's so amazing! Same!
Great video, love to see what you prorogate and the updates. Perlite is definitely the ticket for success I think.
Yay! Oh I'm so happy the Luis Bois worked out for you and it's now a plant. So cute! 👁️🌱💚
Oh wow! I love your hair, make up, cool nails!!! the plants are so cool…
Your are HAPPY now!!! It’s all over you!! Yayyyy
Tell me why I freaked out when I heard your oven go off!!! I'm like what the heck is beeping I just got home 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would love to start a lil prop box! I only have a couple of plants but I would love to have fuller pots of my two pothos. ❤️❤️❤️
Crazy progress! Love it 💕
The hair? The nails? An absolute vibe.
Also, don't mind me liking and commenting on all of your videos from this point forward. I'm binging to catch up on you and your plants. 😂🥰
Good morning Fern! Just the video I needed today 🥰
Hope you enjoyed it! 💚💚
I'm with you gurl! Love my Prop box; toss stuff in, forget, and its like Christmas not knowing what ill get...lol stay well. Glad you seem so settled and happy.
Yes - so easy and fun to check on every few weeks to see what surprises await you lol.
So cool that you showed me how to do a wet stick propagation 🌿 thank you 💚
I love your propagation videos! I'm currently propagating some wet sticks from my moms ivy vine, and with zero effort they all rooted and pushed out leaves for me! I'd never done it before, and never would have unless I saw your videos, so thanks! (someone stop me from taking a pair of scissors to Walmart with me next time I go 😆 totally kidding of course ...)
should add, they're all in perlite!
Ah your boxes are so lush!! I’m still trying to find success with perlite… so far not the best for me, but this makes me want to keep trying! Thanks for sharing Fern!
Thanks for watching + good luck!! 💚
I got boxes from dollar tree and just get the perlite wet, drain the water n bury the nodes. I was surprised that they got roots. I also mix moss with perlite and that works 2
Your potted plants are so adorable! Hoya bella is definitely on my wish list. Your nails are 🔥💀❤️🔥
I'm really enjoying watching the new home coming together ❤
Awe thanks me too!!
I'm also getting ready to move soon and selling plants like crazy! My perlite prob box is so similar to yours! Lots of mystery wet sticks but it's so exciting when you finally learn what the wetstick is! hahaha
Good luck with your move!!!
What do you use in your boxes? Just perlite? do you add some water?
@@marymiller5824 I use maybe like an inch to an inch and a half layer of perlite in the box and then add a little water so the perlite can wick up the water to the cuttings
That phodrenion tortum 🥰🥰🥰
Number one wish list plant! 🪴
Waiting for prices to come down. She is so cute!
Loved the prop box tour! I need to get myself one so I can start propagating my hoyas to make fuller pots 🙂🪴💚
Yesss you do!!
The prop boxes look so fun like surprises
I love wetsticks 🤣 so glad your move went well btw!
I'm telling ya, this perlite method is making more plants than I can keep up with 🤣. I always wanted my house to be a jungle and well it's happening now! Need a long term plan for my ELEVEN monstera deliciosas lol.
HAHA omg yep that’s the thing 😆 once I take them out of the box I’m like crap ok I need to find you a home
I know what you had! Haha I just watched some of your older videos and taking cuttings for those boxes was one of them 😁
recently found your videos and have been binge watching for days lol
You are beautiful 😍😍 Your hair is sooo cool!
Thanks for the updates! Thinkin to start a perlite box soon too, I need to chop up my scindapsus and my tetrasperma soon - the latter of which is actually air layered and doing nicely so far, so I’m not even sure if it’ll need to go in a box 🤔
Can’t wait to see a potting video for you’re propagation box😻
Have really good results with perlite too! At the moment my perlite grow box is full of alocasia Amazonica pubs. 18 in total all rooted and 70% with a first leaf. Really exited to get a second grow box. Btw your nails are awesome 😍
So cool!!! What a great success. & thank you!
love you fern!!
❤️❤️❤️
Currently started a moss prop box inspired by you and I’m so impatient I want to open it and take a look already 🤣
I just popped open a box and found a delightful surprise! I’ve been trying to root a albo cutting since winter and it’s finally taking off! Lol Whew!
I used to only prop in water but you got me using perlite now. It works so well! Btw my Melanochrysum is in my Prop box too. She's being bad!
It's amazing!! And lol is she!
Love these videos 🤗💚
Love your cool Halloween nails!🎃🕸🕷
Love seeing you so bubbly! Still looking for some propagation success…
Great vid 👍 I was thinking maybe u could do a care vid on philodendron verrucosum?
Omg the baby Bella, adorable ❤🌱🤗
Love and really enjoy your video 💗
Thank you for sharing I learned a lot from you I really like your videos
Thanks for the video! I'm wondering how you avoid the perlite to turn green on the top?
Omg that’s so awesome I’m going to try to propagate in perlite to see if it works with me by the way I love love love your nails all this time watching the video I try to focus on your nails 💅
That philo tortum is just so cool 😍
All of your propagations are doing great! Love them all 🌿🌿🌿. Do you ever propagate a leaf only? I have some Hoya’s propagating and they do have roots....but didn’t know if the will produce more leaves 😢. My prop boxes are full of just about everything 😊
How exciting! If you've ever seen those single leaf Hoya kerii 'hearts', those are rooted leaves. Hoya leaves do root and will continue to live but without a node it's very unlikely it will push new growth ☹️ It can happen if there are enough cells from the node left in the cutting but for the most part, they're just sold as decor and aren't meant to.
So, it's not to say it never will but it's improbable. 😕
I was praying so hard for you!!!! during your break up/ looking for a new place video.
Thank you!!! 🥺
Hey Fern Happy Wednesday :)
Love the "spooky season" nails!!🖤🕸🕷
Thank you!!! 🕸
Omg Fern your nails 😍😍😍
Right?! 😍😍
Pure light 🥰
Wow I just refreshed my feed and this popped up
Perfectttt 🥰
Your intro gives me serotonin 😂
I just recently got a new phone and this is the reason I want a torturm philodendron. I love your so much and I don't know why!
I love using my fishtank to prop pretty much anything! Sphagnum and perlite boxes are the runner ups tho 🪴🦐🐠
What medium do you use in your fishtanks?
@@jessicabyrd8916 I had just sand at first that was enriched for plants but added fluval plant and shrimp substrate (kinda looks like tiny leca) on top and mixed it a bit. I just didn’t like the look of sand on its own and wanted the aquatic plants to be able to grow in easier
Hair done, nails done, lashes done- brows fleeky ✅
I'm constantly looking at my props so I'll never have a day where I'm not sure about what's growing 😂
ooo, do things root faster in perlite for you? I have a bin full of exotica in sphag and they're taking their sweet time. I'm also guessing the the perlite is easier to remove than moss.
Yes faster in my experience :)
Saw your message, just thought I'd let you know this video showed up on my RUclips home page ☺️🌿
I'm terrible with perlite propagations and rotting. I usually just use spaghnum moss in a starbucks cup and have much better luck. I don't know if I keep the box too moist or the leaves touch too much, but, I guess it's just not my medium. Lovely video though! Hope you're settling in well to your new home! xxx
Perlite propping is always the best
Hello from New Brunswick :) Hope you are having a good day
Thank you!!! 💕
Hey, not sure if you already have a video on how to chop up different plants for wet stick propagation, but if you don’t can you please make one? 😊
Alright Fern, I would like to know you favorite method with node propagation. I have some tae coming and I really want them to turn out good. I have seen submerging the entire node in water and then perlite.
Thanks for the videoo ❤️
My propagations keep rotting when transferring them in soil 😭 don’t know what to doo
Perfect timing for me. Daring myself to chop and wet stick some of my plant babies. Im scared
I always find that in early fall after summer growth I do the most propagating! I’m currently propagating Hoya; Callistophylla, Sarawak, and Bella Albo Marg., Philodendron; White Princess and Silver Sword, and some Cebu blue! 🪴
I watched your perlite video way back when you were using jars and have loved perlite ever since! It’s amazing! I pretty much only propagate now with my perlite prop boxes 🙌🏼12/10
I think you could be right, with the wet stick being a verrucosum, because of the redish roots 🥰
Love the nails!!!! Is this done at nail salon or can I buy them somewhere??
I had them done by someone!
Fern you should do a video of all the plants you said goodbye to! I would be interested to know :)
She did, go back and you'll see it....🌱🌱🌱🤗
@@cindyvan635 I can see the video on why but not one on which plants. :)
Looking like Ferni Lauper and I’m down 🌿
i saw lot of YT having some issue uploading thumbnail today. soooo inspiring watching ur perlite prop tho :)
Yeah what the heck is going on lol 😩
@@wildfern its trending in twitter now, it seems YT having some issue with it since 9pm our local time. hopefully will back to normal in short time.
To make them propagate faster and less risk of rot is good to open box once a week to give them oxygen
Love the baby tortum. Would love to habe a smal one too.
Hey🌱! I've been growing some verrucosum from wetstick and they look EXACTLY like that "maybe a verru" plant! so thats my bet😄🌱
Amazing!!!
Great video! So fun to propagate. I'm propagating a bunch of cuttings in soil and perlite since my plants are getting too big. Not sure what to do once they are rooted though. I'm trying to convince my husband to help me sell them. 😅
Do you have any planty friends? The holidays are coming, maybe you could gift them in pots you chose/decorate/customize for them? You could make cute little care cards to go with?
Or pot them back in with the mother plant to create a filler pot?
@@hollypuckett3931 I don't have friends who are really into plants...mostly they just kill them. One of my friends tried to unload a gifted money tree from another friend on me. I'm curious about trade/buy/sell groups but not sure which to join. My husband just wants to use eBay, but I'm also trying to purge some large plants. 🤷♀️ I don't think my pilea pepermioides would survive shipping. I'm wondering about using Facebook Marketplace or some Facebook group.
@@janice4512 BST groups on Facebook are an excellent resource! Marketplace is also good 🙂👌 My town doesn't have much in the way of planty people but the ones I have found, I found through these channels! If you don't find one for your area, start one! Another way could be to make a general posting on your areas Community pages (my town has groups for community news and events, etc so something like this) just sorta introducing yourself and explaining that you've got some houseplants and ask for some suggestions where to post them, you may not even get to the BST page before you have people asking for them 😆👌
I hope you can find a way that works for you!
@@hollypuckett3931 Thanks for all the advice! Much appreciated! ☺️
@@janice4512 No problem at all 🙂❤️
Fern, how do you keep your perlite boxes from algae growth? Mine just grows algae like nobody’s business!!
Since you asked for idea, I like to a time lapse of the wet stick - something all wrapped into one video where you sort of give monthly updates from initial cut ending when you pot up the new plant. How long it takes for various plants. Something to give those of us who have not done wet stick propagations what to expect so we don't get too impatient.
Awesome thanks for the idea! I am def going to make a video like this :)
Can you put a fittonia cutting in this perlite box. My plant is dying. Mealy bug infestation and I’m trying to save a piece of it.
Beautiful tortum!
Thank you!!!
Hope you're doing well ❤️
Will give perlite a try. I’m guessing I should keep it moist.
Yes a few inches of perlite with a quarter to half inch of water at the bottom!
how often do you rewet the perlite? After 2 weeks, mine was pretty dry to the touch. (I had soaked and drained it when I first put it in) Do you spray it wet or pour it in??
I usually pour water in every few months :)
Thumbnail showed up for me!
I watched this as I was checking my prop box with my 7-year old and was also saying "omg what are you!?" to a stick that now has a baby leaf but I have no clue what it is!
Fern I have a question about props in boxes (I was showing the 7-year old the roots and explaining how I wasn't sure what to do her response was "super fern to the rescue, mama"!). I'm fairly new to using a prop box and I am finding (mainly with my hoyas really but also hederaceum) that in the boxes they start to root at every node. So I have a V hoya bella that's about the size of your reverse one, and it's literally rooting at every leaf join and I have no clue what to do with it or how to pot it. I use moss on my prop boxes and I'm wondering if it's a moss thing or if you have any advice?
I've been trying to use prop boxes but they always get moldy. I don't know what to do)):
May be a bit too wet inside 🙂 Adding a ventilation hole or two (not too many, you want to maintain that high humidity!) Or leave the lid off for a few hours to help it dry out a bit 👌
I personally have found the best success by not allowing any water to puddle in the bottom. I rinse the perlite and then once it's not dripping anymore I put it in 👌
My box gets too humid?? I opened it once every 24ish hours and after a few days only everything was mush :(
What am I doing wrong?
I really wish I could figure out the whole propagating in perlite thing 😅 everything I've tried so far has rotted. Your box looks awesome !
It may be too wet inside? You don't want any water in the box, just moist perlite. In my experience, I rinse it in a strainer and once it's no longer dripping, I put it in the box. I've had mine at least half a year and have never added water. Adding a ventilation hole or two (not too many because you WANT that high humidity) may help? Some people just remove the lid for a bit but I am too forgetful for that 🤣🤣
You could also try using perlite in a vessel with water, like water propping but with perlite. This method has been extremely useful for me with plants prone to rot! I just keep a small amount of water in the bottom, maybe enough to fill the bottom 1/3 of the perlite? I've saved a few rotting plants this way.
Hope it helps ❤️
@@hollypuckett3931 that helps a ton! I'll give that a try! Thank you 🥰
@@meraki4324 I'm always excited to share my experience in perlite propping because it's been such a game changer for me! There are still a few things I prefer in moss or water but anything difficult or easy-to-rot goes straight to perlite 😃 Happy growing! ❤️
@@hollypuckett3931 that's great info. Thanks 😊
@@elizabethjrich4415 you're welcome! ❤️
As usual, LOVE this. My go to prop method is water. I do sphag from time to time and I tried perlite. Water is my preferred!