This is a philodendron Micans I have and I want to take a cutting to give to someone, but the topmost node has a bunch of aerial roots. Can I still water prop it or will that rot those aerial roots and kill it?
It looks to me like you have this in a very high humidity environment. The roots look like they have that fuzz around them that arial roots don’t really have, but roots meant for moisture absorption do.
I don’t know for certain if you can water prop it directly, but I strongly suspect that you can.
If you’re worried though, you could always just pot it up in some perlite, some moss, some coco husk, coco coir and perlite, pumice, Lechuza Pon, chunky houseplant soil, tree fern fiber (🙏) or any mix of the above. As long as you don’t have a substrate that will really cling to and suffocate the roots, it’s hard to go wrong when you have a high humidity cabinet. Just take the cutting, pot it up how you want (I recommend perlite, sphagnum moss, pumice, or coco and perlite as options I have success with), and place it in the cabinet. Outside of the occasional moistening of the substrate (more frequent for inorganic mixes), you really should just need to wait
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It looks to me like you have this in a very high humidity environment. The roots look like they have that fuzz around them that arial roots don’t really have, but roots meant for moisture absorption do.
I don’t know for certain if you can water prop it directly, but I strongly suspect that you can.
If you’re worried though, you could always just pot it up in some perlite, some moss, some coco husk, coco coir and perlite, pumice, Lechuza Pon, chunky houseplant soil, tree fern fiber (🙏) or any mix of the above. As long as you don’t have a substrate that will really cling to and suffocate the roots, it’s hard to go wrong when you have a high humidity cabinet. Just take the cutting, pot it up how you want (I recommend perlite, sphagnum moss, pumice, or coco and perlite as options I have success with), and place it in the cabinet. Outside of the occasional moistening of the substrate (more frequent for inorganic mixes), you really should just need to wait