I too do this. Currently I have no kitchen table because of so many plants living on it! Usually once or twice a summer I put a table on my front lawn with a "free house plant" sign. Otherwise I would be overrun.

Glad to know that I'm not the only one. thanks for sharing your experiences. Love the pics purple. True that I haven't yet started to pot houseplants together. i think it won't be long until I do get to that point. I used to lose plants pretty regularly when I grew them all in soil since they all had different watering preferences and sometimes I dropped the ball on watering. Since I switched to hydroculture the mortality rate has drastically dropped and now overcrowding is more of an issue than ever.

I don't propagate that often, as I don't like major change on my plants (I know it's dumb) but when I do I keep everything. Every cutting. Every spider plant Baby. Everything.

So now I have Spider's in basically all the pots that can take them and Same goes for wandering Jew.. In fact the wandering Jew started as a 5 inch cutting that I found on the floor after stepping on it at home depot. I had no place for it but I took it home and rooted it and now it's a huge full blown plant that I cut back every so often but I never through away the stems. The whole plant has no place in my house and it's pot is some plastic container that I found....

I also like to propagate my Sempervivum's that are outside and bring all the babies inside.. And there's no place for them either....

I just don't like throwing away something that is alive or has the potential to grow into a nice houseplant.... I think I'm turning into a plant hoarder.......

All my houseplants are made of silk. Hard to propagate, BUT, I propagate our vineyard often and our Fig orchard, all by cuttings. I love to propagate. I also like when things seed themselves. We see the babies coming up outside and we move them to a better spot. I love to see the roots of the fig cuttings. Oh my!

I can't help but propagate all the babies my spider plant (airplane plant, chlorophytum comosum) produces. It's actually a clone of my mother's plant. I keep making clones of theclone. Marvellous how plants can do that so successfully. I keep foisting them upon my friends.

Succulent leaves removed from mama plants about 2 months ago, then potted (set on surface) about a month ago. The 2 bigger plants in the bottom pot are a lot older. The naked space was bugging me. The mama leaves will shrivel as they give their oomph to the new baby plants, as seen in the pot to the right on top.

Hung this old grill to be a "planter." It has cuttings from a LOT of diff plants that don't look like much yet, but should be great soon if they can get going. Had to put the rocks in there after squirrels ripped everything up twice. Hope the steel wire is up to the task...

Going to make some baby Sansevierias (snake plant.) I let these dry overnight, then stuck in the ground. Will dig them up when frost threatens & pot up to come inside for winter.

You have a lot of nice succulents. Have you been able to get any of those varieties of Sansevieria to come true from leaf cuttings?

TY. This is my first time trying those kinds. I was curious what would happen too!

Your idea of putting Sans outdoors has inspired me to experiment with the idea myself.

A piece of my Sans masoniana fell out of its pot a few days ago. I snapped off a piece that had a very unattractive broken leaf and decided to put it outside for the season to see if it can put out some nicer looking growth over the warm season. :)

There is something enjoyable about seeing a plant grow like gangbusters. I hope that Sans masoniana takes over the spot I put it in and puts out some big and beautiful leaves!

I can stop really I can stop! LOL

Hey Sans is that a pineapple in there?

yes, I just got some tiny roots on it so I potted it up! (rooted it in water), by the way the fruit was wonderful, LOL!

I too have been tempted to root pineapple tops so I understand Sans. :) I think the only reason I haven't done it is just because I don't have room in the sunny windows.

I'm in the process of rooting one now!

It's been in water for about a week... Hopefully it doesn't rot on me!

I have another pineapple plant that I got recently but 1 is never enough

Good luck with yours! Hopefully it will get some fruit on it in the next 2 years

if you are interested: there is a video (several actually) on Youtube about rooting
Pineapple. I followed the advise about twisting the top off and pealing off the bottom rows of leaves. It worked nicely.

I guess it's pineapple season! We ate one over the weekend and I put the top in the ground yesterday to hope it will take root. Good luck, everyone!

New Kalanchoe cuttings PIG to take root:

That's the method I did too.

Did yours turn brown at the base when in the water? Mine turned brown but it's not mushy and roots are coming through (well at least I hope)

Good luck with yours purp!

mine turned a slight tanish color, it put out roots in about 2 weeks. I should have
left it in the water longer but didn't. I potted it when the roots were 1/4 inch or so. The plant is doing OK, I just wish the weather would warm up again which is not helping matters as it is cool and dark all this week!

Darn. I think mine must be rotting then... But I won't give up yet!

Good luck with yours!

is it still in water? is it firm?

It is still in the water as the roots aren't long enough yet. It still is firm but looks completly brown.

does the water get scummy quickly? have you taken a close look at the cut end?
how much root do you have? I put mine in soil too soon, as I was impatient.

I don't even know if these roots were there before or are growing. RhThe water doesn't turn scummy and the cut end is sorta soft. Kinda bristley

But the stem itself is firm.

Here's what it looks like

It may yet reward you with a nice plant, keep it in clean water for now till
the roots grow past the stem anyway. Try to keep it 70 degrees or higher if you
can. Keep checking it. The leaves at their base look healthy.
Fred

when Rooted the tops in Florida (so long ago now), I cut the top row of fruit off

and plunked it down in the water. The fruit always rotted away, you had to change the putrid water every day, which usually was so bad it would start to foam slightly. That is the way you did it back then, of course it was always 80 degrees or higher with 80% humidity. But it worked! The only trouble I ever had was with the dratted squirrels eating chunks out of the ripening fruit! 3 years of waiting and then some scurvy grey squirrel eats the very first spot to ripen and the whole fruit then rots!

Yeah I'll keep it in the water. I'm not giving up yet! Thanks for the help

That's funny the squirrels! That woukd be so annoying though.

I made this bed of Commelinaceae family members (Tradescantias, Callisias) this summer, all from cuttings.

Planted pineapple top has grown a bunch of new leaves. It will have to come inside soon.

Propagation - reflexive. Nuff said, though SS's word 'compulsive' certainly fits me to a T.

Al

Coleus cuttings being saved inside for winter.

More on the windowsill.

I used to do that all of the time. I worked at a nursery several years ago and my boss saved every cutting and rooted it. He used to have a landscaper bring him the tops of plants he have trimmed off of his customer's plants and we would make cuttings off of them.

Guilty. I used to take my daughter when she was little to HD and we'd find every succulent leaf and stem that had broken off and bring them home. (she'd ask the clerk first) One time the clerk took her around the garden shop and we took cuttings of all the plants my daughter took an interest in. I've also been known to snip off cuttings off of the landscaping in parking lots. I haven't done it recently because I am not set up with propagation mats or hydroponics and such since I've moved but maybe when we get into a bigger place or when my daughter moves out this year I can use her room as a plant room.