Bring a Plant Cutting Indoors

If you love an outdoor plant but it is too big to bring indoors you have the option of 

taking a cutting from that plant.  Once you have taken a cutting, you can start a new plant 

that is smaller and more appropriate for an indoor garden.  Depending on the type of 

plant you are taking a cutting from there is a few methods you might want to try.

Taking a cutting from a plant is also known as propagation.   If you have a hardwood 

plant that you want to propagate the process is slow but easy to do as the cuttings are 

quite hardy.  Take the cutting (about 5 inches worth) when the tree is dormant (in the 

middle of winter) and place the cutting cut-side up in a pail of sand.  Fill the pail with 

water and wait until spring.  Then submersed side will have little nodules that will turn 

into roots once planted.

When you are taking a cutting from a soft-wood plant, it will require more care and 

attention.  Taking cuttings from soft-wood yields quicker results and you do the actually 

cutting when the plant is in the active growing phase.  You are cutting off the new growth 

back to a nodal (from the point it stopped growing the year previous).  This method 

benefits from the use of a root producing medium found at nursery stores.  It is important 

to place the cutting (cut-side down) into the root medium immediately.  If the cutting 

dries out it will lessen the changes of a successful cutting.

Next, pick a pot or container suitable to the type of plant you are growing and plant it 

once the roots have developed.  At this point, you can follow the regular care instructions 

for the type of plant you have just propagated.

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