Wrap it in 1 paper towel for cuttings, and in 7 days little white roots will appear; bury it in soil and it will live.

Paper towels have many uses and can be said to be the most common item in our daily lives, but have you ever heard of using paper towels to grow flowers? Although it sounds a bit odd, paper towels really are a great tool to help us with cutting propagation. Even gardening beginners can handle it easily, and it works for many foliage plants and flowering plants. There are many ways to propagate cuttings, but generally speaking, rooting during cutting is relatively slow, so at this point we can use the "paper towel cutting method."

Use paper towels for cutting propagation, taking bougainvillea as an example. During normal cutting, we all cut a healthy, strong bougainvillea branch, and for better rooting, soak it in rooting water for about 20 minutes.

At this point, you can use the paper towel cutting method for the next cutting step. First, prepare a few clean paper towels, preferably ones with strong water absorption. Then use the rooting water that just soaked the branch to wet the paper towel, and wrap the branch with the paper towel. Note that the leaves do not need to be wrapped inside, otherwise it will make the plant rot, and the loss will outweigh the gain.

After that, we need to put the wrapped branch into a sealable storage box. If the temperature is relatively high, you can open the box at noon to let it air out.

During this period, you need to regularly observe the condition of the paper towel. If you find that the paper towel is about to dry out, then spray water to keep the paper towel moist. If you find that the paper towel has turned yellow, then you need to replace the paper towel. After about one month of this, the little white roots of the bougainvillea will already have grown out.

After rooting, the bougainvillea can be moved into a pot. Note that even when repotting, the paper towel wrapped around the roots does not need to be removed; it can be buried directly into the soil along with the roots. This can protect the roots and thereby increase the plant's survival rate, which is another clever aspect of using paper towels for cuttings.

There is another method of paper towel cutting. If gardening friends feel the previous method is hard to master, then this method requires no skill at all, and after cutting, you can be sure there is no chance of failure.

First, peel off the outer bark of the branch to be treated, so that it has a 1-2 cm ring-shaped cut.

Dip the cut area thoroughly with rooting water. The purpose of this step is to make it root as early as possible.

At this point we can use the paper towel. Fold the paper towel and wrap it around the cut area dipped in rooting water, and spray some rooting water on the paper towel. If you are afraid the paper towel will evaporate water too quickly, you can wrap a layer of plastic wrap around the paper towel. Note that the string fixing the paper towel should not be tied too tightly, otherwise it will damage the branch.

During this process, the plant needs to be kept in a relatively dark environment. You can use black plastic wrap to wrap the paper towel, or wrap a few more layers of thicker newspaper around the paper towel. This period can last about one month, after which the plant will be able to root.

After rooting, the layered branch can be directly transplanted into a flowerpot for care, and a new potted plant is thus born.

Paper towels not only help with rooting, but are also a great helper for seed germination.

Similarly, you need to prepare a relatively moist paper towel.

Put the seeds that need to be germinated on the paper towel, then fold the paper towel and put it into a ziplock bag.

In just 3-5 days you can witness the seeds germinating. At this point, put the germinated seeds into suitable potting soil to plant, and the plants will grow very quickly. If there are children at home, why not let them try it themselves? It will not only satisfy the child's curiosity, but through hands-on practice it can also help children get closer to nature. Such a simple method of cultivating seeds can also give little ones a great sense of accomplishment.

Next, here is a small potted plant tip for everyone. What is used is no longer ordinary paper towels, but a kind of non-woven fabric. When we repot or water flowers and potted plants, we always find soil leaking from the bottom of the pot. At this point, you can place a piece of non-woven fabric over the drainage hole of the green plant's flowerpot, which will reduce soil leakage from the flowerpot.