Snip a cutting, wrap it in paper, and roots will sprout in 7 days - even a 3-year-old can get it to root
When it comes to the most common thing in our daily lives, it has to be tissue paper. Whether it's wet wipes or dry tissues, Huahua basically never leaves the house without a pack. Besides everyday use, tissue paper actually plays a huge role in growing plants too! What, you don't believe it? Then hurry up and follow along with Huahua to take a look!
Wrap a piece of toilet paper around a stem, and big white roots sprout right away!
When it comes to taking cuttings, many flower growers complain that their cuttings won't root, or root too slowly. So today Huahua is going to teach everyone how to use toilet paper for cuttings - the rooting rate is outstanding!
How to do it?
1. Huahua will use bougainvillea as an example. Choose a healthy bougainvillea stem, cut the bottom end at a 45° angle, then soak it in rooting water for about 20 minutes and set it aside.
2. Prepare a few clean tissues, spray them wet with the rooting water the stem was soaked in, then wrap the bougainvillea stem with the wet tissues. When wrapping with the tissues, remember to leave the leaves exposed, otherwise they will easily rot.
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3. Find a fresh-keeping box or storage box, place the tissue-wrapped bougainvillea stem in the box, then put the lid on and seal it. The weather is quite hot now, so you can take advantage of the midday warmth to open the lid and let it breathe.
4. Whenever you feel the tissue is about to dry out, spray it with water once in time, and when you notice the tissue turning yellow, replace it with a new one. It takes only about 20-30 days for the bougainvillea stem wrapped in wet tissues to sprout small white roots.
5. After it roots, repot the bougainvillea stem. Prepare loose, breathable nutrient soil and pot up the rooted bougainvillea. When potting, there's no need to remove the tissue - just bury it directly in the soil. The tissue wrapping the roots can also prevent the soil from directly touching the roots, thereby reducing damage to the roots, and the survival rate increases greatly!
Wrap a piece of toilet paper around a stem, and the survival rate is 100%!
Many flower growers feel they have a black thumb - no matter how they take cuttings, they just won't survive! What to do? Why not try air layering with tissue paper? For growers who have never succeeded with cuttings, this method is guaranteed to give a 100% survival rate!
How to do it?
1. Girdle the stem you want to air layer at home, exposing a ring-shaped cut of about 1-2cm.
2. Find a cotton swab, dip it in a little rooting water, and apply it to the cut. If you want faster rooting, apply a bit more.
3. Find a clean tissue, fold it a few times, wrap it around the cut on the layer, then spray the tissue wet with rooting water. To prevent the tissue from evaporating too quickly, you can wrap a layer of plastic wrap around the outside of the tissue, and finally secure it with string. Remember not to tie the bottom too tightly, otherwise the roots won't easily emerge.
4. To make the layer root faster, you can create a dark environment for it. Wrap a few layers of newspaper around the plastic wrap, or find a black plastic bag to wrap it in. It takes only about 1 month to root!
5. Transplant the rooted layer directly into a flower pot to continue growing, and it becomes a new plant!
Toss seeds into a tissue, and small white sprouts appear in 3 days!
Autumn has arrived, and it's sowing season again. If you want to improve the seed survival rate, why not try germinating seeds with tissue paper!
How to do it?
1. Prepare a tissue, spray some water on it to make it moist.
2. Place the seeds you want to germinate in the tissue, then fold the tissue up and put it in a plastic bag or fresh-keeping bag. If you want to speed up seed sprouting, you can place the fresh-keeping bag on a router.
3. It takes only about 3-5 days for the seeds to sprout. After that, transfer them to loose, breathable nutrient soil to continue growing, and they'll quickly grow into a full pot!
Line the bottom of the pot with non-woven fabric, and the pot will never leak soil again!
Every time you repot a plant, the drainage hole always leaks soil. What to do? Why not try lining the bottom of the pot with non-woven fabric! Place the non-woven fabric over the drainage hole of the flower pot, and when you repot, it won't leak soil anymore!
Besides these few methods Huahua introduced,
what other ways do you know to use tissue paper for growing plants?
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