The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation Step-by-Step Techniques for Making More Houseplants . . . for Free!

by Sisti, Lindsay

• ISBN13: 9780760390405
• ISBN10: 0760390401
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780760390412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-12-31
• Publisher: Cool Springs Press
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Summary

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.

*2025 American Horticultural Society Book Award Winner*

Accompanied by full-color photographs and beautiful illustrations,The Ultimate Guide to Houseplant Propagation offers all 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 stem cuttings, divisions, and seed propagation
• Root Hoyas and Snake Plants by taking stem cuttings
• Air layer your Philodendron or Monstera 
• Propagate your ZZ Plant or Snake Plants 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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