Propagating Dumb Cane (Dieffenbachia): Air Layering Best, DIY Rooting Hormone Options

Your tall, thin-stemmed Dieffenbachia can be air layered (best) or cut. Rooting hormone improves success 200%.

If No Hormone Available

Make your own from willow (grows near water in Egypt):

Aggie Horticulture guide—cut bark, hormone, moss, plastic. Roots form on stem, then cut and pot.

Water roots are succulent and often die when moved to soil. Air layering or hormone + soil is far better.

Try willow hormone if commercial unavailable. Air layer for highest success.

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