Anyone have experience up-potting after water rooting?

Ikibahd

Ikibahd

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I've had a lot of success with starting my cuttings in water - good lenticel growth, leaf growth, and eventually root initials / full roots.

What I don't have a lot of success with is care after potting up to dirt.

I am able to get these cuttings settled into a moist (not wet) media; I have also gone the route of perfectly dry (and very lightweight) media that I then wet significantly to settle the roots in.

Regardless, my cuttings drop all of their new leaves and slowly shrivel up, doing the same rotting from the bottom-up that I have been trying to avoid by water rooting.

For those of you that have experience and success with this method, what do you do for success? I am really hoping to save many of my new varieties this year, but if I go on like I have been, I'll just slowly lose them all it seems like.

Appreciate your insights!!
 
I don’t remember the exact details on how i got the 2 I’d up potted earlier this year to survive but I basically used the same soil mix that was used for propagating other cuttings. Making the soil mix very aerative (water gushes out of the pot immediately) has been the key for me.
I’ll be up potting a UNK tomorrow to see if my statement holds true.
 
For success in my case, I never wait for the roots in water. When I see plenty of those white bumps I transition them to soil (and usually cut any leaves off)
 
JC Figgy said:
At the point of up pot are you doing this inside or outside ?
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Inside thus far - though part of me is tempted to go put some of them outside under some mulch after all this rain we’ve had and see if they like a more natural environment better…
 
figsnova said:
For success in my case, I never wait for the roots in water. When I see plenty of those white bumps I transition them to soil (and usually cut any leaves off)
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Maybe I need to remove leaves to help with the transpiration water loss once they’re no longer soaking water up from swimming in it…
 
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