Plant cuttings what do i do? HELP!!!

[purpleturtle89]

at the moment i just playing with the plants, i have set up a viv and planting stuff seeing what lives and what dies :/ best way for me to learn i think

[BonnieLorraine]

That bottom plant isn't a Marcgrevia species like the bag says, it's really a Rhaphidophora, my guess would be hayii (a shingle plant). That I would divide into two cuttings, and tack one half onto the top of the soil, with the other half kind of resting up a background or piece of wood so it has something to climb. The best way for tacking plants to the soil is to get the green plastic coated wire, usually found in the gardening section of a hardware store, cut off a 2-3" piece, and bend it in half like a large staple or bobby pin, and use that to pin the cutting down, you want to make sure the leaf nodes have contact with your substrate. For your first plant, the bromeliad, you'll want to mount it, either drill a hole in a piece of wood or cork slightly larger than the stolon (stem), and at the same angle the stolon is pointing so that when you stick it in the hole your brom is pointing upright. The second plant, just make a small hole in your substrate and plunk it in, I wouldn't use rooting hormone in a tank, they can be dangerous (the one we use at the school can cause infertility in humans, who knows what it would do to frogs). The third guy can be pinned down as well, or remove the lower few leaves and place the stem in a hole. Let me know if you have any other questions, I spend hours at shows explaining to people how to root things and used to be in charge of greenhouse propagation for the horticulture department at my school