If you want to propagate your string of hearts using the water method, all you need is a little vase, clean scissors and some water. Simply snip off the vine pieces you want to root and place them in the vase.
How do you grow a string of hearts from cuttings?
Step by Step Instructions
Step 1: Place trimmings in water. Ideally during the growing season, cut a few (or many) vines and stick them in some water. Step 2: Prepare rooted cuttings. Rootlets! Step 3: Plant cuttings. Fill an indoor pot with damp, regular potting soil and place the cuttings. Step 4: Let them grow!
How long does it take for String of Hearts to root?
String of heart plants are generally propagated by stem cuttings rather than through seed germination. Sourcing seeds is difficult. Using the stem cutting method is easy and generally sees good success. Cuttings with at least two internodes on them usually take root in anywhere from a fortnight to two months.
How do you make a string of hearts bushier?
As an added benefit, cutting the chain will encourage bushier growth, as the chopped chain will send new growth out on the nodes further up. Another trick to encourage new vines is to take a vine & loop it around on the top of the pot, ensuring the nodes have contact with soil.
What are the balls on my string of hearts?
These structures are aerial tubers, also called bulbils, starting out as a white patch at leaf nodes and then swelling to form white balls. They can then be laid back on the dirt in the pot, or laid on the dirt in a pot to the side of the plant, adding a little sand under the tuber to help prevent rot.
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