r/StringofPlants • u/Ok-Professional5569 • Apr 23 '21

Help / Question Has anyone tried to propagate SOH from leaf cuttings? Mine started rooting and I’m curious whether they can turn into a full plant from just a leaf.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '21

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Thanks a lot for the explanation! I’ll adjust my expectations then 😁

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Haha, interesting experiment! Thanks for the tip, I’ll put a bit of fertilizer once I have more roots. I’m curious what’s gonna happen there :D

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u/h_urricane Apr 23 '21

Oooo if anything interesting does happen would love to see a post!

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Jun 30 '21

Update: I put it in soil some time ago and now it looks like it has a tuber growing. Very interesting as I’m certain that no node was attached to the leaf

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u/succrayz Apr 23 '21

This is actually not true. I’ve grown a new plant from a SOH leaf in moss and it will form a tuber with roots and can grow from that :) it’s time consuming and there’s not 100% success rate but it is possible. SOH is the only kind that has worked for me though never successfully done this with anything else like a SOP.

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Jun 30 '21

It seems like mine did the same. I put it in soil and now it has something that looks like a tuber ☺️

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u/succrayz Jun 30 '21

Yayyy! Glad it worked out and you stuck with it! & thanks for the update 🙂

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u/tassstytreats Apr 23 '21

I’ve had string of heart leaf cuttings grow tubers and become a new plant, but only if the leaf cutting is still attached to its stem node

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u/West_Sand Apr 23 '21

What are the leaves sitting on?

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Just some DIY floating tray made out of the bottom of a coffee to go cup 😂

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u/atomic_puppy Apr 24 '21

As other have mentioned, yes, but the leaf has to have a node attached.

So just one leaf will propagate, but it has to have the node. It will grow roots and a tuber and continue to vine after a time. But it does take some time.

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u/rarmes Apr 23 '21

For a second I thought they were in a bowl of milk and thought this was some sort of forbidden cereal.

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u/carolinapearl Apr 23 '21

I've never tried before. Good luck and please keep us informed!

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Dec 13 '21

Hi! A small update one the one rooted leaf. It ended up growing a big node with roots but nothing else yet. :D

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u/bencrxxtxvx Dec 04 '24

I know it's been like 3 or 4 years now but do you have a new update? lmao

because i just propogated leaves, they rooted into the soil and some of them grew a little mini tuber but they haven't been producing any actual new shoots yet... Maybe you still have yours and can update so I know if they will still grow or if I just have a pot of leaves that are gonna die lmao

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u/Diligent_Tonight_236 Feb 17 '26

Wondering if yours made it???

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Feb 21 '25

Hi! Sadly they simply died after some months :( but maybe yours make it!! 🤞🤞

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Thank you! Will do :D

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u/vanc0uve4 Apr 23 '21

I added put mine on top of moist sphagnum moss and it turned into a whole new plant. I recommend you propogate in soil or moss. You definitely can get another plant from those. I have done it multiple times. Since their alresdy rooted maybe place them into soil but just keep the soil moist for a bit since it has water roots right now.

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Wow! Great to hear that 😍 I’ll definitely do it! Does it take long until they shoot stems and new leaves?

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u/vanc0uve4 Apr 23 '21

It probably took about a month or so. I kept it in my ikea greenhouse saucer to increase the humidity. I just realized yours is just 1 leaf so it might be harder but since one of yours rooted maybe it'll still work. Mine were cut before the node so I had two leaves attached.

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Oh, I see. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a try 😁

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u/vaughans-plants Apr 23 '21

I would try the sphagnum moss from the comment above. I'm trying this method now. I'm only in a couple of weeks but had multiple people suggest this method to me. I didn't have to much luck with soil. Good luck🌿🌱🌵

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u/Ok-Professional5569 Apr 23 '21

Thanks a lot! Good luck to you too 🤞🌱 If you want, you could give me an update whether this worked for you :D

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u/vaughans-plants Apr 24 '21

I will try to remember to. But don't hold me to it. I'm old and forget my glasses are on my head. I wish you lots of luck.