I had to take a few leaves off of a couple of some hoya cuttings I am rooting (the roots started right below the them) Would they take root?
leaves
Leaves often root, but I have never had one grow into a plant...although the rooted leaf grew roots for 3 years! Some have had success...but I think one needs to cut off the growing point of the stem with the leaf for it to work....
Dawn, I've done that myself. It's one of those ways we can experiment with our plants but not have to worry about doing permanent damage.
Ann
My carnosa was originally from a leaf off the mother plant. I potted 4 cuttings and left them in my mother's greenhouse for several months (heaven only knows what kind of attention they got in there!). One of them grew into the beautiful and huge plant that flowered for me the first time this year! However, I tried this out on a pinched compacta leaf, it grew roots but then it went yellow and died. So it didn't work (or crime doesn't pay after all!).
Well, I guess it's like Ann said "it's one of those ways we can experiement with our plants and not have to worry" Gonna try it and see
Thanks all
Dawn
Pdoyle here is a link to a post I wrote awhile back about rooting hoya leaves. The leaves rooted and grew into a nice healthy plant.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/513190/
Blessings,
Awanda
Thanks Awanda. I will try it! Would it be better to put them in leaves or keep in water?
I don't know. I am going to try it anyway. They've been in water for 3 days now and show now sign of dieing. So we'll see.
Hoya leaves will root but won't produce new growth without a little of the stem. Now, you could get a little piece of stem without even knowing it (I think it's just a matter of it having a bit of the right genetic material...) I always throw healthy leaves into the pot to root figuring if it DOESN'T have any stem in with it, the rooted leaf will at least provide some "ground cover" over the soil, and if I luck out and there's a bit of the stem there, I might actually get some new growth off of it. No harm done in trying, I always say!
Denise in Omaha