Stress Growth | Plant propagation method

What is "Stress Growth"?

"Stress Growth" is a term i came up with myself, but it is a method to get your plants to rapidly grow for propagation. 

For example, i won't repot my Chlorophytum (Spider plant) for a year or 2 so it will get stressed due to it being too root bound. The plant's alarm system starts sounding and it rapidly starts producing flower stalks which will grow pups. 

Some plants stop growing entirely when too root bound, but others try to survive by rapidly growing, reaching towards the light or start blooming like crazy for reproduction.

3 Ways to stress propagate plants:

1. 🌱Let it get extremely root bound by not repotting it and occasionally leave some water in the cover pot so roots grow down for a bigger and faster growing root system
2. 🌸For flowers (this works especially well with Phalaenopsis Orchids for me), make sure the temperature in your plant room is unstable. What worked for me is letting temperatures drop by 30% at night and then turning the heater on in the morning for an hour. That temperature stress can actually encourage blooming! That is how my Orchid flowered twice in the past half year.
3. ✂️Cut off the top of your plant. This will send your plant into emergency mode and it will start shooting out new branches for you to pluck off and propagate