Plants You Can Start with One Cutting and a Glass of Water

If you are looking for easier ways to maintain houseplants, then these Plants You Can Start with One Cutting and a Glass of Water could be perfect for you.

1. Croton

You can take a 3-6 inches long croton or botanically known as codiaeum variegatum and cut a few leaves. After cutting them you have to put those leaves in a glass of water, and make sure that the water is changed every 2-3 days. After 4-6 weeks you will see a new root forming from the cut. You can also use a petiole to grow a single croton leaf or stem attached to it.

2. Pothos

Pothos or botanically known as epipremnum aureum is one of the easiest plants to grow in the water. All you need is a warm area and indirect light.

3. Inch Plant

Inch plant’s botanical name is tradescantia zebrina but is also known as wandering jew. All you need is to have a 5-6 inches long cutting to 3-5 leaves and all put in a glass of water. Make sure that the glass is placed in bright indirect sunlight and soon you will have new plants.

4. African Violet

All you need for the African violet ,botanically known as saintpaulia, is to put the leaves in a small glass and after 3-4 weeks the roots will be growing and after 6-8 weeks you will see leaves.

5. English Ivy

A good looking house plant English ivy , or hedera helix, is easy to grow with healthy cutting and a glass of water.

6. Spider Plant

Grow spider plants, or chlorophytum comosum, by cutting ‘babies’ from the mother plant and putting them in water.

7. Arrowhead Vine

Make stem cutting with a few leaves and put them in a non- chlorinated water.

8. Dracaena Marginata

Cut two or three nods and put them in water. After a few weeks the roots will start growing and the plant will be ready to be transplanted into a pot.

9. Basil

Basil, or ocimum basilicum, is a plant that you can have all year round. Only put the cuttings in a glass of water.