Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Hope you're doing awesome. We have

Lisa Steinkov, the house plant guru. She is a blogger freelance writer, house plant

enthusiast. I would say I would actually put you

with a houseplant something higher than enthusiasts because you have hundreds of

plants.

Yeah, houseplant hoarder, there you go, there you go. I like that. And her book, the House Plant Party,

excuse me, House Plant Party, fun projects and growing tips for epic indoor plants is her most recent. So check that out.

It's going to be in the podcast

description today and I know yesterday we talked about propagation just a

little bit Lisa I know that you have hundreds literally so maybe this isn't

something that you're actively doing right now.

We've had Leslie Halleck on the podcast before talking about propagation and I'm curious, you know,

what are your favorite methods?

What are the ones that you have experimented with in the past?

You know, a lot of times because I even watched my grandma did it with her African

violet leaves. I start mine in soil, my leaves for African violet, but she used to just put them in water and a lot of times I'll start my plants in water and they do fine. I have plants that have been growing in water, including San Severias, for many, many years.

So if a plant, a plant, even a succulent can grow hydroponically, okay, that's another whole talk, but I usually start with water, but if I want them to go into

soil, then I don't let those roots get very long because they're different roots than

soil roots or potting medium roots.

So you don't want them to get it too crazy before you put them into soil if that's what you're going to do with them.

Yeah, that was a really common, I guess, misunderstanding or question for people is, okay, well, if I'm going to water route, let's say, apothos, do I pot it up the instant I start to see new roots form? I wait until two to three inches do I can I let it go crazy and then just pot it up whenever and I was wondering if you had an opinion on that you know I've done it all so you know I waited for it to get really long roots and they seem to do okay

but I just think that they would probably do better if you didn't let them you know you let them get out maybe an inch or so and then plan them into soil if that's your plan.

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