Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Luck with rooting hoya, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
I just wanted to let you guys know that I have roots! I started with cuttings, put them in the Ziplock bags, did the blow 'em up each day thing and after three weeks, they looked the same. Not being a very patient person, I decided to stick them into my tray of begonia and misc. cuttings. The tray is 100% perlite on a heated propagation mat.

After 4 days, a very woody h. polystachys had roots. h. australis has roots, and so do several others. I was so excited to see roots after only 4 days that I put h. 'Ruthie' on Monday this week. guess what? By thursday, she had roots. I'm not kidding. It is the magic tray.
Here's some photos I took this morning.
I'm just so happy to find a method that works so well for me. I was getting discouraged with the ziplock method.

Here's h. austalis after about one week