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RE: Indoor plant propagation update

in HiveGarden16 hours ago

Wow you have been adventurous and lucky with propagation. The only houseplant I have tried it with are cactuses. For the garden I have fine done so successfully with thyme, basil and rosemary plants. Basil is used and does not thrive very well. However, thyme and rosemary plants are not robust and healthy plants. They do well hibernating outside during winter and come back to life during spring.

I am very proud that I propagated these plants and that they are still around 2-3 years later. Therefore, I can imagine that you feel the same about your houseplants.

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 13 hours ago  

Many thanks @topcomment and @roadstories

The only houseplant I have tried it with are cactuses.

I wonder how you propagate those 😀
How nice that these herbs survive the winters. I keep most of the herbs in pots, but they often don't survive the summer nor the winter.
I did plant a couple of different mint plants last year. A regular mint from the supermarket, a Maroccan mint I received from my sister and a Chocolate mint from the garden center where I also bought a lemon balm.
The mint plants are quite tough and rampant plants, so I think they will thrive again soon. I have my doubts about the lemon balm, but we'll see that in a few weeks.

 13 hours ago  

Aww I hope your lemon balm survives. You just reminded me - my mint plant springs back as well. Also the bay leaf plant survives the winter too.
I also started with a plant from the supermarket. The mint is in a grow bag and the only thing I did was remove the dead sprigs and gave it water.
As I started composting 3 years ago and now have that wonderful dark liquid from the compost - I will add it to the thyme, rosemary, mint and bay leaf plants. I will investigate the use of this compost liquid as I have no idea about proportions. I hope to blog about this soon.

Regarding the cactus - when I see a baby plant shooting up - I remove it and re- pot it - nothing more.

Oh, that's easy!
I don't have a lot of cactussen.