Lindsay Sisti

The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation (eBook, ePUB)

Step-by-Step Techniques for Making More Houseplants . . . for Free!

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Make more houseplants (for free!) with this comprehensive bible of propagation techniques, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions covering over a dozen methods for over 80 different houseplants. Accompanied by full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations,The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation offers all the the horticultural know-how you need to make new plants from existing plants. Learn how to successfully take stem, leaf, and petiole cuttings of your favorite houseplants, plus get plenty of insight into air and soil layering, division of offsets, water propagation, and even houseplant seed germination. Whether you are a beginner or advanced houseplant enthusiast, the easy-to-follow format allows you to start propagating right away. This is also the first book to take a deep dive into the pollination and breeding of Anthuriums to create your own unique hybrids, at home! Author Lindsay Sisti of @alltheplantbabies also introduces the best tools for different propagation techniques and shares the lowdown on various growing mediums to use with each propagation method. With help from The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation you'll be able to:

• Take leaf cuttings of your favorite succulent
• Divide the corms of your Alocasia plant
• Separate aerial and underground tubers from a String of Hearts plant
• Make more Anthuriums through leaf cuttings, divisions, and seed propagation
• Root Hoyas and Snake Plants by taking stem cuttings
• Air layer your Philodendron or Monstera
• Propagate your ZZ Plant by dividing the rhizome or rooting leaf cuttings
• Take petiole cuttings of Pileas, Peperomias, Begonias, and many others

Whether your houseplant collection is focused on tropicals or succulents (or is a combination of both!), level-up your houseplant game by diving into DIY plant propagation. It's fun and easy-but only with the right guide at your side. This is the comprehensive propagation handbook you have been waiting for.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cool Springs Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780760390412
• Artikelnr.: 70271615

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Sisti is founder of the brand All the Plant Babies, including a successful Etsy shop where she sells unusual and tough-to-propagate houseplants. She has developed eight unique Anthurium hybrids and holds the patent on a hybrid species of Alocasia named 'Green Unicorn'. Lindsay cultivates rare Aroids and Hoyas from around the world, along with thousands of other plants. She specializes in propagation and hybridization (making all the plant babies!). On her social platforms, @alltheplantbabies, she emphasizes both science and humor, and makes complex information accessible to everyone.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Anatomy for the Houseplant Propagator  CHAPTER TWO THE BIRDS AND THE BEES OF HOUSEPLANT REPRODUCTION  CHAPTER THREE TOOLS
MATERIALS
AND ENVIRONMENT  CHAPTER FOUR PROPAGATION METHODS  Tropicals Intro
Stem
Petiole
Leaf (Vein)
Division
Offset/Pup
Aroid Air Layering
Simple Layering
Sexual Propagation and Pollination
Tissue Culture Succulents Intro
Leaf
Stem
Leaf (Blade)
Offset
Cactus Pad
Grafting Trending Techniques Intro
String of Hearts Butterfly Method
ZZ Plant Leaflet
Alocasia Corm  CHAPTER FIVE PROPAGATION AS REHABILITATION  FURTHER READING RESOURCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX