I have yet to successfully propagate anything, really. I chopped my maranta up into wet sticks, set them on top of perlite, added a little water (not enough to touch the stems) covered for humidity and put in a south window. All 3 wet sticks rotted. The only thing I didn’t do was let them callous, but I’ve seen mixed answers on whether that’s necessary or not.
I took 3 rooted marble queen pothos babies out of their soil and placed directly in water until I could give them to my friend a few days later. I didn’t have a pot small enough for their root systems or I would have just done that instead. All 3 rotted and died. They’d originally been propped from wet sticks before I bought it. What am I doing wrong? 😩
by No_Difference9404
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The pothos, it was a rooted plant that was put into water, with its soil-roots? If they were tiny babies, they may have been too small to recover that shock. Soil roots are not designed for water, and will quickly rot in many cases. I’d generally recommend water only for new cuttings or fresh roots.
The maranta, I’d guess they were too wet. It looks like the water is filled to the top of the perlite, so it’s kind of like soup. You want the perlite to soak up water and be hydrated, but not really be submerged in water.