Most indoor and garden plants can be propagated using cuttings. But with this method, sometimes bad luck arises: the lower parts or already formed young roots begin to rot. You have to cut off the rotten fragments and try to grow the roots again. But this takes from several days to a week and a half and even more. But there is a method for the implementation of which you do not need to be a born plant grower or have “green hands,” as the Germans say.
Will need
And the costs are, in general, pretty cheap. To implement the miracle method, you will need the following ingredients and equipment:
- several prepared plant cuttings;
- activated carbon (available in tablets);
- packaging of succinic acid;
- scissors and a piece of thick cardboard;
- mortar and pestle;
- some bottled (disinfected) water;
- small glass jar.
Everything else (and the most difficult and important) will be done for us by Mother Nature and time (by the way, not much).
Rooting process
Even a schoolchild can cope with the proposed method of rooting plants.Fill a clean glass container with a level of water commensurate with the length of the cutting. Using scissors, cut out a circle from thick cardboard that would fit on the top of the glass jar with a slight overlap.
We make a hole in the center of the circle that would tightly clasp the handle. To facilitate the process of connecting them, we make a cut from the periphery of the circle in the radial direction using scissors to the central hole.
We insert the cutting into the place intended for it and put it aside for now.
In a mortar (in the form of a suitable glass or ceramic dish) using a pestle (this can be the back of the handle of a kitchen knife), crush 1/4 of a tablet of succinic acid and activated carbon, pour the resulting mixture into a glass container with water and mix thoroughly. Succinic acid will serve as food for the cuttings, and charcoal will serve as a means for disinfecting the enriched aquatic environment.
All that remains is to place the cutting with a cardboard circle in a jar of water and the ingredients dissolved in it.
The circle fixes the cutting in the container and reduces the intensity of water evaporation, and also does not prevent the liquid from being saturated with oxygen from the air.
The time period during which roots appear using this method is approximately two times shorter than when they are grown in plain water.
