How to Propagate: Climbing Plants & Vining Method

Propagation is a wonderful technique, reducing the necessity to buy new plants by giving you the power to create new ones, at home.

Just like humans, not all plants are the same and so you can imagine there are quite a few different methods to achieve the same outcome including stem cuttings, division, bulbil, seed, air layering and cloning vining plants.

This guide will focus on the practice of reproducing cuttings from vining plants like Philodendrons, Monstera and Devils Ivy (Epipremnum). 

When it comes to making your hanging vines bushier and thick, you can stick propagated stems into these pots and add to the vines trailing out of the pot. Handy!

Steps of this tutorial

1

Cutting Selection

2

Clean Cut

3

Rooting Hormone

4

Water or Soil

5

Roots

Step by step tutorial

1. Cutting Selection

Locate the growing tip of your hanging vine, we’ve got a Devil’s Ivy (Epipremnum aureum) here to demonstrate.

2. Clean Cut

Using clean scissors or secateurs you’ll cut the tip back to retrieve roughly four to six nodes.

3. Rooting Hormone

Once you have separated the cutting from your plant cover the cut end and a few lower nodes with rooting hormone.

4. Water or Soil

From this point you can either leave the cutting to sit halfway submerged in a vessel of water, or bury two or three nodes under moist growing medium. Most importantly make sure the cutting receives lots of bright indirect sunlight and stays in a warm spot. Be sure to moisten the growing medium every 3 – 4 days or as soon as the medium starts to dry out.

5. Roots

You'll notice roots starting to form in water after a few weeks and as soon as you have fresh roots roughly 2 – 3 inches long you can replant the cutting into soil. If you’ve already planted the cutting in a soil medium then you’ll know it’s successfully propagated once it starts to grow again from the apex.

Conclusions

Vining Plants may be some of the easiest to propagate, they can quickly root in most mediums and using a jar of water to place cuttings into creates a quick decorative aspect for your bedside table, kitchen top or windowsill. Whilst also generating a new plant for your home!

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