Saturday, September 11, 2010

How I propagate peperomias

I bought three peperomia plants of different leave colors. When I was at the nursery, I saw the owners propagate their plants by placing the leaves on the ground with their stems cut short and burried. I copied their method and it works!
I placed several leaves of my plants in a pot, sharing with a succulent already in there. I don't remember exactly how long but it wasn't long; it was probably 6 weeks at most.


When I was here end of August, I tried to pull gently at the leaves and felt that they stuck. Yesterday, I found small "suckers" forming at the base of those leaves.






I feel happy not so much that I can have more plants for free but more about knowing another propagation method.

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Hey that's so cool! Thanks for showing the way. My Peperomia obtusifolia variegata was propagated this way also. Also require the same amount of time ;-)

Hà Xuân said...

Wow, that's great, Steph. I didn't know we could do that until I saw the nursery people did. Amazing, isn't it?