When to cut your pilea and what technique to adopt?
First, to optimize your chances of success, identify the right time to make your cutting. Cuttings take best and fastest in spring and summer. Indeed, they are, at this time, in full period of growth. This way, you put all the chances on your side!
Then, we advise you to unpot your pilea to recover the multitude of suckers that will have grown at its base! Gently scrape the soil to dig them up, keeping as many roots as possible. This branch must be composed of a stem with a few roots as fine as they are and with at least three leaves. It is essential that your samples are both healthy and mature, do not take too young shoots!
Put your pilea cutting in water
Then, put your cutting in water at room temperature in a container adapted to the size of your cutting. Then place it in a room heated to 18°C – 22°C, away from direct sunlight and drafts and… wait.
In a few weeks, the first roots appear. The cutting is thus ready to be replanted as soon as ten roots reach approximately 5 to 10 cm each. Use a light, well-drained potting soil suitable for Pilea.
