Gardening

to planting, so "many many months" would be my best guess.

The cuttings won't grow big leaves like they do in soil and the roots can get kind of dark (the sunshine hitting the water causes a green fungus to grow on the roots and in the jar). I rarely "change" the water and just top it off as needed. When the jars get really green'ish I'll wipe them out (a paper towel and a chopstick works great for this) and put in all fresh water, but it's more an aesthetic thing than a biological need.

My mother commented "I would have given up on this sad thing" when I gave her one of my rootings earlier this year, but it is a thriving bushy resident of her doorstep planter now.

Once re-planted, it can take two weeks or so to really get going again, but every rooting I've done this with eventually grows big and healthy.

I'm recharging my camera battery now, but will try and post some pics of my current rootings later.