Ha! I think I beat you to it this time 😉 After almost 6months of waiting for my zz stem to root, last week, I decided to toss it out, only to find it had grown a massive rhizome and two shoots. Caring for plants is taking a lesson in patience, and this one really tested me!

Excellent video! Not only very well done and informative, but also fun as you are showing that you are learning as well. "Abort" haha! Love it!

Interesting. I have ZZs but didn’t know a rhizomatic plant would prop from stem cuttings. You learn something new everyday. 😊 Thanks Jeff.

This is, by far, the best video on ZZ propagation that I've seen, and I watched quite a few. I'd be surprised if anyone has any questions....don't think you missed anything 😊. I propagated leaves from a stem that broke off (hence the search last year on what to do with it). I had about a dozen leaves, plopped them in water and five survived. But I didn't know I could have left them in after they rotted and the rhizome still may have formed. I did throw those out. I wish I had kept a time frame but I have nice green shoots growing now from those I planted. It took four or five months after planting but then all of a sudden they just took off. The original leaves are still there and still nice and green. Don't know what function they are serving but they haven't died off yet. And you are right about the odd/no growth pattern.....I have several pots of ZZs and they are all sprouting new shoots in January and February here in freezing Chicago. To make a long story even longer, after watching your video, I'm inspired to chop a stem or two. This is such a long process but so satisfying to succeed!

I had a rescue plant from my building and I found one of these rhizomes in the soil of a different kind of plant. I had no idea what it was, so I planted it in a small Tera cotta pot and months later it finally started to grow, it took a while and I only recently figured out it was one of these zz plants. So glad I took my time With the little random potato I found in that plant. Too little to propagate but nice to know I can. Thanks for the demo

So glad I found this video! Earlier in the day I found out about 3 of my Raven ZZs Rhizomes were complete mush and so I repotted in new soil... BUT I almost threw away a bunch of plant that I'm now going to try and propagate. Excited to see what'll happen. Thanks! 🎉 Cheers from 🇨🇦

My ZZ was in a 4in pot & the rhizomes ( which I wasn't familiar with the name until now lol) was showing thru so I repotted it a month ago. Interesting to hear ur ZZ growing now because my sanseviiera seem to grow only when cooler weather is upon us. Its amazing how much growth in just wks. I only been into plants for 2 yrs now & ur channel helps my learning of these remarkable, amazing beauties. Nature is really amazing to me. Thank U

I LOVE THIS VIDEO! A couple of months ago a stem came out of the soil. I just put it into water not knowing anything. Roots grew and I replaced it. All is well 😍. I have 5 new stems coming as well. It did nothing over the Summer and now a huge growth spurt.🤩😍. Thank you again 💞

Wow. This was really interesting! Those leaf cuttings were amazing! Not what I expected! I love your videos. I learn so much💚🪴

I am such a sucker for propagation videos! Thanks for the vid, so interesting!

This is so interesting. Always wanted to know how proprigate the ZZ plants. Love your videos

Very interesting video. I didn’t realize my plant was not getting enough light. It is quite leggy. Great information Jeff.

Another awesome informative video!! Thanks for sharing Jeff.

Just came across this. My ZZ plants have much thicker stems. They are quite large. I always get my new growth in the winter. I have propagated stem cuttings in water. Usually takes about 2-3 months. I’ve never tried leaf cuttings though. I’m anxious to give that a try.

I already have a green ZZ plant and a black raven I just purchased a 2 leaf cutting of a variegated ZZ plant and I'm glad that I stumbled on this video very detailed lots of information because I didn't know what to expect When I put The leaf cutting in water Thank you For uploading this video😁💗

Thank you so much for the shout out!❤🌿Your ZZ plants are adorable! Great video as always!🌱🌱🌱

My favorite! My large green ZZ I’ve had for a few years will need repotting in the spring. It was a nice medium size when I bought it and seemed easy and happy however I had a lot of dark sort of purplish spotting on the large stems, possibly from too much light??? I moved it from NE to NW corner window and then I noticed a couple smaller branches turned yellow. I only water about once a month so IDK…I left it alone and now I see 2 new baby shoots coming 💚 Oops make that 3 👍I water once a month on the first so it’s almost time 🤞MY Raven I purchased on 2/15/20 at HDepot a Costa farm plant planted in what looked like pure peat moss. I resisted the urge to repot until late this past summer and gave it some new soil and a terracotta pot. So far nothing is happening except for a tiny stem broke off that I put in water. I think the growth habit is slow just like the propagation. Funny thing is somehow I ended up with a tiny bulb and I wasn’t even sure what it was but I put it in a 2” pot and I think it’s a tiny green zz. I loved this video I’ll watch it again.

Thank you so much for this video, and I really appreciate the comments, too. I have been wanting a Raven ZZ for a long time, but could not justify the price. I received a 2 leaf cutting when I purchased another plant and put it in water. It rooted in 2 months, and I potted it up in a mix of 1/2 potting soil and 1/2 Jack's Gritty Mix in a 2" terra cotta pot. Then........nothing. The 2 leaves have shriveled, but they are still there. I was about to chuck it. Thanks to this video and all of the comments, I will be patient and see what happens. Thank you!

Really detailed and informative. Great video! Thanks! 👍👍

Brilliant thoughtful instruction. Am about to propagate my raven I bought a few months and was looking for someone who the hadperfect amount of experience and know how to help me do it. Thanks so much.

I propagate my Raven and regular zz this summer using both methods you use they are doing good.Happy growing and stay safe.

Great info. Now I know what to do with my cutting’s. Thank you dear!

Just a picky bit of terminology here--there are no stems on a ZZ Plant (other than underground rhizomes). The first cutting you show in the video is actually a leaf. The others you call "single leaves" are leaflets--think of a compound leaf, like on an ash tree. OK, the pedant will shut up now. ;)

This is the best video I've seen to date on ZZ plant propagation. Thank you! You have a new subscriber. ☺️

Thank you for the information, I was just about to give up on my ZZ leaves I am propagating! Then when I watched this I realized how long it takes and decided not to quit, and just the other day i noticed some tiny rhizomes!! So thank you!!

This is EXACTLY the video I needed! Thank you so much! I have had a ZZ failing all summer, I had repotted it in June, but I believe now, after watching your tutorial that I planted the rhizomes too deeply into the pot. I will try again with succulent soil and way more patience. Also, could you possibly comment on how much light you provide during propagation? Thanks again 🙏🏼😎

Super helpful! Thank you for sharing!

This looks so beautiful!

I’m really excited to see how this turns out!

Thanks for the video! I did propagate my ZZ using the leaves in water. Fingers crossed. This was the propagation that I added the pothos start to, to help the growth!

Such an awesome vid, I got my raven zz about 1.5 years ago, and I think it's time I propagate it for more plants. Great explanations that I needed as a novice to gardening and the like. Appreciate it much!! Very informative!! I may try both ways :) Thank you!!!

Perfect timing, as a friend is giving me a ZZ cutting this week. She will be trimming her overgrown plant and planned to throw the branch away! Noooo! I will rescue it and experiment with the cuttings.

I had a raven single stem and rooted it for n water at least a three years ago. Just realised today it has grown a big potato sized rhizome filling the pot and six little shoots under the surface 😮 Patience really has finally paid off.

This was awesome and super helpful

My raven ZZ has been 1 stem for years lol. Praying she takes off this summer 😩They are such gorgeous plants!

Lol 😂 😊✏️. You rock and so do your plants. Take care.

Great video, thanks for all your information. You've got a subscriber 😊

Great video I'm going to go snip mine now.

Fascinating!

I love your videos, so cute! love love love

This was so helpful!!! My ZZ is dying for an unknown reason and I hope to propagate the pets that are still healthy. Great video!

I look forward to seeing this new pot in a few months.

انا من السعوديه شكرا لك عجبتني تقطيع الساق بالورقه zz مثل نبات البوتس ان شاء الله ساقوم بهذه الطريقه بالمستقبل

Thanks for this tutorial

I have five variegated ZZ cuttings and man, the process is killing me. I was very ambitious. They're about a year old now and at this point I very much feel like spending a few hundred on a full plant would have been more fulfilling 🤣 I've actually considered selling them since they're fully rooted. I love Ravens and luckily they're dirt cheap now, I just picked up another one for my office.

Last year about this time I purchased a leaflet cutting of a variegated ZZ. It had a rhizome and a small number of roots--in short very much like those in your video here. Just this week, I see it's finally putting up a new leaf. I'm both overjoyed to get growth and relieved I haven't killed it. A year seems like a long time for a cutting already rooted when I got it and I just wondered what your experience is with respect to timing. (When I bought it, the seller gave me a four-leaflet Raven ZZ leaf cutting as a nice little premium and while it looks fine, it has yet to actually do anything, at least above ground.)

Very interesting that the leaf cuttings rooted so much more than the stem cuttings.

lol I just read a subreddit where it said "propagation of ZZ raven is prohibited" pffft....plants grow freely in nature. I dont care if people think they created new types of plants etc...Nobody owns nature! Great video as always. ZZ is on my wishlist. Its not a hard plant to find, Im just on a "no buy" right now. :)

Thank you 👍🏻

Love the zz plant

WOW... I DIDN"T Know ZZs Could Be Propagated Like That... Gotta Try THIS With My ZZ OG!!!

Thanks for your video! Just wondering if the roots and rhizomes developed quicker propagating from the leaf vs the stem? In your opinion was one method better than the other?

I wanna do this right now !

Watching this because some stem cuttings I started in soil started to rot. I'm going to cut them up and put them in water I think. I have two other surviving stem cuttings and this is what I've noticed: The one I put in water right away has the longest roots/the most roots. The one (surviving) stem in soil has veeeery short roots BUT already has a rhizome forming! And you are right about these being slow! It's been two months and I've only started to see this growth now. Can't wait to see what happens to them in a few more months :)

Thanks for the video. I had a ZZ plant on my porch during the summer that was knocked over during a storm. I repotted it in a pons mixture and it’s doing well. But I notice you mentioned the rhizome should be just under medium. But I know I put the plant in about the half point of the pot. Does it matter? Also I put in water some of the stems that didn’t survive the fall. And like you said it took forever for the roots to grow. Wish I could add a pic but I’m not that savvy with You tube. Thanks again

Interesting. I didn’t know anything about the ZZ plant.

Hello, Your videos are always so informative. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Thank you lets see

Ok Jeff indulge us for the holidays! Santa hats on the puppers

I have an old Zz plant with most leaves fallen off, only 3 stems are left with a big ball clump at the base. I will make cutting of the 3 long stems and see how it grows. Can I replant the big rhizome ball ? Will it revive as well?

Do you prefer soil leaf propagation vs water leaf propagation?

Hi! Thank you for this video, very educational! Have you tried adding fertilizer into the water while growing the stem? Or would that be bad

Wow! So nice , how many month you put in water to have potato your zz?

I have a long stemmed cutting in water that is ready to transplant. Should I cut it down before I plant it? I"m worried it won't root into the soil and topple over.

it probably took over a year for my stem cuttings to do anything after I potted them up in soil. hope it's faster for you!

What happened with the single rhizome that was planted? The one where the leaf died and only the rhizome was planted? Did it send out a shoot? I have a ZZ that got root rot so I took the viable stems and propagated them in water but now I realized that's it's super leggy due to not enough sunlight and wish I would've cut them down further but it's already rooted so I was thinking of just planting the rhizome of one where the leaves on the cutting are starting to turn yellow. My concern is that it will succumb to root rot again and then I will loose the whole cutting.

Hi I bought a zz plant a like 6 weeks ago O just now got around to reporting it, The risomes where rotted the plant was pot bound, it was wet when I got it it dried out really quick, I do not know if It ws rotted when I got it. My question can you cut off the rotten risome and just plant it or can you just cut off part of the mushy part and keep the healthy part of the risome and plant it?

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Can u put the newly rooted into the same mother pot?

I've wanted a zz plant for a long time and finally got one with a jade plant . the zz plant looks awesome even has some new growth poking through but the jade is dropping leaves left and right! I've been binging your videos to learn how to care for them. One question, I read zz plants are poisonous to touch so I have it high up away from my kids and dog and only wear gloves to touch it. but I see you can touch your just fine? Does it not make you itchy or give you a rash? Still keeping away from kids but I don't want to grab some gloves every time I need to touch my new Lil zz!

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What type of bulbs are you using inside those 2 black 'hood' lamps? && What wattage do you prefer when using them for grow lights?

How did they end up growing? From stem or the rizum? I know I butchered that, I'm new at propergation.

Everytime I try and propagate the stem goes black. Is my tap water to harsh?

The leaves on my ZZ are shinny and green, but at their base where they meet the stem there is a hard brown crust. Is this and infestation or disease? How should I treat it? Thank you.

So do you leave them to callous for a day or stick directly in water? I think you said the stalk went directly in, but the leaves were left to callous? Just making sure...ty!

Can you cut the leaf horizontal on the zzplant when

I have got rhizomes from my leaf cuttings but the leaves seem to be dying back. Will new growth eventually come?

How long did it take before the rhizomes started to show?

Now that you mostly propagate in perlite have you tried some zz plants? I propagated a zz in water and unfortunately it turned yellow and looked dead before any substantial root growth. And that was after several months in water. I might have needed to give them brighter light. But anyways. Wondering if your love of perlite propagation has translated to zz’s since this video though. Just got a raven cutting and want to do it right.

When to change the water.. whenever i kept leaves into water they are getting rot in couple of week. Please tell me what’s going wrong. And also i tried keeping stem into water down i can see they are also getting rot. I used filtered water changing every 3 4 days also not sure what’s going wrong. Pls help

Hello - thanks so much for the VERY informative video - quick question, after you take the cuttings and put them in water, what type of light did you keep them in, and is there any type of light you should avoid, e.g. full sun, etc.

I started with a dozen leaves. One of them did exceptionally well and now that leaf seems part of the new plant with multiple new growth. Several other leaves had rhizomes but then died. My question is -- if I plant the rhizomes without the leaf, do they still have a chance? Thank you.

Were the single leaf and little stem/leaf cuttings all started at the same time? If so, I find it interesting that the single leaves did more rooting vs the leaf/stem cuttings that made the rhizomes! How long did it take for the leaves to get that amount of roots?

When I’m taking them out of the water and putting them in dirt, can I use the rooting powder to help them along and where do I put them after they’re in the dirt sunny location, shade?

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my ZZ stem in water for 3 months now and nothing, I start to lose patience lol. I went to Lowe's CanadaOntario, and to my surprise there is baltic blue potho in stock already, but I did not get it 😊(not blue enough to my liking and it looks a lot bigger plant than Cebu blue it will be too).

Have you done the leaf method with hoyas? Do they ever grow into a plant? Just asking.

What happened to the rhizome without leaves?

How long before you plant them in soil?

Can a mulberry leaf be rooted and grow a tree?

Starting from leaves takes forever, stem cuttings produce growth so much faster.

So I know this is an older video but I should have watched this before propagating my ZZ plant as I did not allow the leaf cuttings to callus over night. I just put some in water and others in soil. I’m guessing nothing will happen now??😩

Did the propagations ever put out new shoots?

Did you do an update on this? My ZZ is meh... its 3 rhizomes with 3 or 4 stocks... I keep thinking of buying more ZZ's and just growing it that way :D HAHAHAH

Hi , do you know where i can buy seeds ? Looking for the black raven zz seeds? Or chameleon seeds? Lmk thx

Can you use a rooting hormone on the ZZ?

Can I cut off the bed of the root rot and directly transplant to succulent soil?

When doing leaf cuttings, if you want/need a portion of the stem, why not just cut each with a small chunk of stem, similar to pothos or philodendron?

I have had a cutting in a pot for at least a year now and it has roots but no new growth yet.