Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A very successful rooting method..., 1 by AlohaHoya

AlohaHoya wrote:
Having heard a lot about this, I tried it...and it may become my 'new and improved method for difficult starters:

I bought some plastic trays that go UNDER the big plastic terracotta planters...drilled holes in the bottom for drainage and am using them to start difficult cuttings....including long vines/stems with no leaves. Before I took the other cuttings out of this pot...there were 6 other cuttings rooting in here...all slipped into the medium at a SLANT (not UP and DOWN). Their root systems were eNORmous...and they were very healthy!!! The long bald vine you see in the saucer is a hybrid Ted Green gave me of (I think) Macgillivrayi X Archboldiana... I lay the bald vine down ON the medium, and covered the vine where there were no nodes. NOW, I see new green growth coming from the nodes. With fingers still crossed...I think we have 'lift off'.