It's Time to Plant my Rooted Maranta Cuttings! | Plant Care & Propagation

Welcome back. I hope you're fantastic. I hope you're excited about today's video, which is actually a very simple video. The video is about when do you transplant rooted cuttings into soil? And that's a question I get asked a lot, so I figured I'd cover it in a very simple video. FYI, who says that? You can find many, many of these plants on plantarina.com and better yet, if you sign up for our email list, you will get discounts codes sent to you. So that's the good news about that. Just wanted to let you know. These are lemon lime Maranta with a straggler Syngonium that I had put in this vintage toolbox in, and then I put some are vintage, some are not, vases. And the interesting thing about this is that this sits in the kitchen and you think, yeah, I will remember to change the water. I'll remember to even look at them, but I don't change the water. And I haven't in a few months, and I'm pretty embarrassed about that. But the thing, the interesting thing is that they're all alive. They all have pretty decent foliage. And although some of them are not even touching the water, these roots are not touching the water, but somehow the roots are getting the moisture probably through evaporation. Anyway, I figured it was triage time. It was time to jump in, get them in some soil because I'm going to keep forgetting. I think I consider this like a decoration of foliage that happens to stay alive. So lucky for me, they stayed alive long enough for me to put them in soil. So I'm just going to get right to it. Fairly, fairly simple, really easy. When do you actually put the cuttings that have rooted into soil? My rule, generally when I play by the rules is when the roots are about one to two inches long. So this one is pretty perfect to get into soil because this is about an inch and this is about two inches. So now that we know that and the foliage looks pretty good, it's time for this to go into the soil. I didn't know that my cute, is my cute little watering can leaking? I think it is. I think this is this cute little watering can is leaking. That's a shame because it's cute. So now that I know that the roots are between one and two inches long on this lemon lime maranta, I'm just going to take it out of the water. It's so happy because this water is stagnant and devoid of anything, any nutrition. And to me, this is a miracle plant. I can't believe this plant was alive. So the other thing I'm going to do is literally just since I've filled this pot with fresh soil, that's loose and airy and it has compost in it and everything good potting soil needs, I'm going to take my little scissors here and make a hole just like that. And I'm going to stick it in and I'm going to push down gently with my fingers, push down and just let it, let it be. Now we have the first one and let's check the other ones out and see what we've got going on. So this one literally doesn't have any roots. I don't know why. I don't understand why it just doesn't and it's still alive and I don't get it. I don't get it. So I'm just going to take a chance and I'm going to put it in the soil. Most likely it's not going to make it. I'm just going to cut this section off. Maybe that was what was keeping it alive. I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to put it in the back just because I know it's probably not going to live and put it. Did I tell you how easy this is? It's really easy. The hard part is waiting for the roots to develop. Same with this. This one doesn't have any, any roots. I don't even need to dig a hole. I'll just stick it in the soil like that. And what about this? Come on, please have some roots. Am I the worst propagator on the planet? There's some beautiful white hairy roots. I assume this is going to live and this one has the most. This one has some crud, has some crud on it, but it's got some beautiful hairy roots like that that are moist and they have a network, a network of feeder roots. And this is going in the front. Make sure you get a good deep hole for this one. I don't want to damage the roots. This looks like a really pretty plant, doesn't it? Like just with four cuttings. That's impressive. So now I'm going to put this spink, this pink splash syngonium that I accidentally broke off one of my plants and it rooted. I'm going to put it right in the middle because I'm going to have a mixture of a syngonium Miranta pot with one extra, one extra cutting that I don't know, I forgot about. And it survived. So it's, since it's a survivor, it's going to go in the planter. Pink splash right in the center. And then look at this. This is the Sansveria cylindrica. Just one, just one single. Oh, did I just break the root off? I did. So you have to be gentle with your plants. It has a tiny little root. It's just, it's going in. It's going in my crazy mix planter, which I wasn't planning on doing. And now the important information here, where did that root go by the way? Is it like on me? Oh, here it is. I guess it wasn't me alive. This is important. You need to keep the soil moist for at least two weeks until these roots understand where they are now. They said, you made us suffer in water for too long. And now that we got used to being in that water, you took us out and you put us in some soil. These roots have never seen soil before. They don't know what it is because they were just cuttings that were trying to survive, to survive any way they knew how, which was by putting out new roots. So keep the soil moist for two weeks and cut back on the watering. Once you feel like it's established, you can tug on the cuttings a little bit. And if they don't come out, you know, the roots are starting to get in there. This time of year in the winter, it might take them a little bit longer to establish themselves. So I would suggest keeping the temperature warm around them, keeping them in bright, indirect light and water them. And when I said to water, a lot, let the water drain properly, but keep it moist, keep it moist. That was it. It was a really simple planting of rooted and some unrooted cuttings. And we'll see what happens with those unrooted cuttings. Hopefully they take, I doubt it, but I hope you got to have hope. Without hope, you don't have all this beauty around you. Anyway, see you guys. I'll see you soon. Thank you. Thanks for watching these videos. And I'm very grateful, extremely grateful. Thank you.