The picture below shows a Panachee cutting.  the roots have popped out of the Root Riot; unfortunately, there appears to be no trace of top growth.  This was the 'left over' cutting from chopping up my other branches - it has nodes, but they aren't doing anything.

Should I put it in a gallon pot with a plastic cup over it?  Leave it in the Root Riot/humidity dome?

Help?

Andrew

pot it up, it's alive.


luke

Put it in a 1 gallon and give it a tiny bit of breakfast.

Dude! You have roots! Pot that sucker up! You've accomplished the goal......to get a cutting to root.

Good job!

yupe. pot it up and monitor for progress. chance are good it will put out leaves and so on later. might take some time.. my Socorro Black took 4 months before putting out a leaf. but it took a split of second for one of my puppy to pull the whole cutting out of the container. 

Andrew, I know how it is using the Root Riot cubes. It seems like 95% of the time I get as much top growth as roots. I have had a few where there
was no top growth so I just pot it up and eventually it gets leaves.

I am in heaven when they root without getting leaves. You can put them in the sun and let the leaves come out there, half the battle, over!

OK, a gallon pot it is.  Should I forget about using a clear cup as a humidity dome?

Andrew

I haven't used humidity domes on any of mine that didn't have leaves.

Dont need a dome if you put all but the top node in the pot.  In my area it gets pretty warm on the porch so I do put a dome on just to keep it from drying out for a few days.  I put a couple of holes in the top (1/4" inch) and then stick the cup in the soil to act like a green house.  After a week, I usually take the dome off as I will have leaves.  You want the soil barely damp but you don't want the exposed cutting to dry out...delicate balance.

the leaves will adapt to whatever conditions they bud out into.  You're handicapping them if you use a humidity dome.  I bury the cutting about halfway for stability's sake.