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Tried rooting pothos cuttings in tap water vs rain water and the gap was honestly wild
So I've been propagating pothos cuttings on my kitchen windowsill in Austin for about 4 years now and I always just used tap water straight from the faucet. Never thought twice about it. Then back in March I ran out of clean jars and grabbed a mason jar of rainwater I'd saved for my calatheas, threw 3 cuttings in it, and forgot about them for 18 days. When I finally checked, those rain water cuttings had roots almost 2 inches long with little fuzzy side roots everywhere, while my tap water ones sitting right next to them were barely nubs at half an inch. I did it again on purpose with 5 cuttings each in June and same thing happened. I think my city water is just hard enough that it slows things down, maybe the chlorine or the minerals. Now I keep a bucket under my downspout just for props. Anyone else messed around with this, or am I just making stuff up in my head?
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daniel10518d ago
Sort of, but with lucky bamboo instead of pothos. My grandma gave me a few stalks years back and I always stuck them in filtered water cause our tap tastes like a pool, and they did fine. Then one summer the filter broke and I said whatever and used straight tap, and those stalks just sat there going yellow while the ones I'd moved to a glass of leftover aquarium water from my buddy's tank went nuts with roots. Same thing you're seeing I bet, the chlorine and whatever else is in city water stalls them out and the clean stuff lets them do their thing. Now I'm the weird guy saving rain and fish water in old milk jugs under the sink. My girlfriend thinks I've lost it but the plants don't lie.
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