How to Propagate Plants Using an Indoor Garden

Whether its just a few plants near your window sill or a house full of plants and vines growing everywhere, there are many advantages to starting your own indoor garden. Indoor gardens can help increase air quality and oxygen levels in a house or room. They can provide herbs and spices for cooking and always add a wonderful look to whatever room they are in.

Free Plants for your Indoor Garden

Free plants are everywhere, indoor flower gardens cost little to nothing to start growing, it can be as simple as finding a good flower pot or container to grow your plant in and drying out a seed from a lemon apple or orange, toss in some moist soil, set it in a window sill and you will have a free plant in a couple of weeks (of course these would have to be moved out side after a few years).

Growing a Garden

One really good plant to start with for growing a garden indoors, is called 'Devils ivy'. Devils Ivy is a fast growing vine that displays large tropical spade shaped green leaves this plant can take allot of neglect and still survive. Devils Ivy grows vigorously so you can clone the tips of this plant to produce multiple plants almost weekly. A Fuschia plant can also make a nice addition to any beginner garden, with nice purple and fuschia colour blossoms these flowers look nice and are easy to clone into several plants.

Lighting

You may need to add additional florescent lighting if you find that you don't have a good south facing window to use for your garden. Florescence fixtures come in many shapes and sizes to suit any lighting needs just take a trip to your local hardware store.

Cloning Plants

Once your garden gets going and your plants start reaching a good size you can start cloning plants. To clone a plant take clippings from a healthy branch and place them in water to encourage rooting. Once roots are visible re-plant into a starting soil. This is pretty much the simplest way to clone a plant.

Growing Seeds into Plants

For a lot of indoor flower varieties, seeds can be difficult when trying to propagate plants an indoor planter garden can become a very difficult when trying to get the moisture level right to start finicky small cacti and delicate flowers. If you can check your starter garden on a regular basis than you may have a good chance of success.

Re-potting Plants

One of the more common mistakes people make with growing plants in pots is remembering to re-pot your plant every season or so. If there is no room for the roots to grow it will stunt the growth of the plant and possibly kill the plant. And if you plant it in something too large than the soil moisture levels will become difficult to control and the plant will either get swamped or succumb to drought. A good rule is to re-pot a plant every season using a new pot that has a diameter of 1” larger.

Experiment

Don't be afraid to experiment with cloning plants or propagating your own free house plants. Share plants with your neighbors and friends and you will soon have a very diverse indoor flower garden with a variety of plant species. Plan your garden to suit different flowering times so that you can have a variety of blooming plants all year round, showcased with stunning indoor garden planters.

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