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PSA: Two 5 gallon buckets and a cheap PVС pipe let me propagate a dozen cuttings without buying a $60 propagation station
I stopped trying to prop cuttings in water glasses after losing one to mold every week, so I drilled holes in a bucket lid, slid in PVС pipe elbows as holders for the jars, and now the whole setup catches runoff from my rain barrel - has anyone else rigged up a hack like this for soil-less cuttings?
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phoenix_lewis1mo ago
Three summers ago I had a batch of coleus cuttings in mason jars on my kitchen counter and my cat knocked the whole thing over while I was at work. Came home to water everywhere and stems scattered across the floor. After that I switched to using an old plastic shoe organizer hung on the wall with the jars tucked into the pockets. It looked ridiculous but it kept them upright and got them out of reach of the cat. Your rain barrel runoff idea makes me want to try something similar on my back porch where I have a downspout that just dumps onto the concrete anyway.
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susan_adams1mo ago
Used to roll my eyes at bucket propagation setups, figured it was just extra work for no reason. But this actually makes sense - catching the runoff from a rain barrel is smart, I never thought about gravity feeding like that. Might have to try the PVC elbow trick, my last attempt with just a bucket lid kept falling through whenever I moved it.
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jamie_webb671mo ago
Kinda had the same reaction at first... thought bucket setups were just overcomplicating things. But seeing @susan_adams mention gravity feeding really clicked for me, never thought about letting the water do the work like that. Those PVC elbows seem like the missing piece I needed too, my old bucket lid setup always got knocked loose and dumped water everywhere when I bumped it.
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Did you glue those PVC elbows or just press fit them for easy cleaning?
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