Propagating Jade Plant Leaf Cuttings

Over the past month or so, I have read on various websites, forums and blogs how easy it is (though a little slow) to propagate Jade Plant cuttings. So, since my parents have a few Jade Plants over at their place, I have decided to try propagating a few leaf cuttings myself!

After taking several leaf cuttings fallen from my parents' plants, I let them sit inside a plastic cup without any water or soil for around a week, before I did anything with them. It was mainly due to my laziness, which turned out to be a good thing! As many had said that the cuttings should be left out of direct sunlight, without much watering, to let the cut ends dry out for around a week to seal the cut and prevent it from rotting. I later let them sit on the surface of some damp soil and left them there without any further watering!

Started with around 13 Jade Plant leaf cuttings

I checked the leaf cuttings every week or so to see if roots have developed. And today, after around one month since I left them on the soil, 7 out of the 13 or so leaf cuttings have developed roots! Yeah! :D I would have to plant them into some cacti & succulent potting mix very soon!

After around one month, 7 leaf cuttings developed roots!

Over the past month or so, I had to throw away a few leaf cuttings that rotted or was showing signs of rot. I now have only 3 leaf cuttings that haven't shown signs of anything yet. Hopefully, they will develop roots soon too!

My half dead Anthurium plants

Since my last update on my Anthurium plants, they haven't really recovered from the Thrips attack. :(

Out of the three plants I have, the biggest one still have adult thrips on its leaves, even though we are now approaching mid-winter!

Hoping this largest one can survive through winter! :(

The good news is that, surprisingly, the other 2 smaller plants are bringing out new leaf shoots...... but in winter?!

This one brought out new shoots before but the thrips got to them before they uncurl!
Hoping this time it would be healthier.

 

This smallest one has a new leaf uncurling as well as another leaf shoot next to it!

Last winter, my Anthuriums were sleeping in the newly bought mini greenhouse, but this winter, the mini greenhouse has been taken over by my new veggie patch. May be it's time for me to get another mini greenhouse, and this time a 3 tier one instead!

My balcony veggie patch!

It's been more than 3 weeks since I bought the Rockets & Brussels Sprouts seedlings, and all these time they were living in their original tiny containers as I haven't got around to get them their own self-watering planter box!
 

 
After 3 weeks in their small containers, their leaves have started to turn yellow and are starting to fall. So, I couldn't delay their transplantation any longer and have to get moving even when it was approaching mid-winter with the weather getting cold, windy and wet! I planned to pick the Rockets leaves quite frequently, so have decided to plant all the Rockets seedlings into the one planter box, and the Brussels Sprouts will be in another. They are now living inside my mini greenhouse together with my Baby Carrots and Spring Onions.

While I was getting extra potting mix for these seedlings, I decided to get another 2 kinds of salad leaves to join my balcony: Mizuna & Baby Spinach! I also planned to pick their leaves for salad regularly, so have planted both Mizuna and the Baby Spinach into one planter box!

I read on wiki that Mizuna is "highly resistant to cold and grown extensively during winter months in Japan." I thought to myself, "perfect timing to plant them then and I won't have to worry about leaving them unprotected on my cold & windy balcony!" But then I also read that their growth is "vigorous"... Oh dear! the mizuna might suffocate the baby spinach that are in the same container! LOL. I guess I will wait and see if I need to relocate the baby spinach elsewhere later.