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Propagating is cool as fuck.
Why is propagating so cool?
Look around you.
All of this basically is from propagation.
It's going to increase your bounty of all the plants
that you have, and the fact that you can take a branch,
and put it in the ground, and you can have a fruit tree.
That's how this garden came to be.
It's from a lot of propagation, and I'm
about to show you guys how to do it.
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So say you were kind of envious of your friend's citrus tree,
and you always wanted one.
So what you can do, you can go in the middle of the night,
and you can take a branch or two off of their tree.
I'm going to show you how to propagate that branch so you
can have your own citrus tree.
You go and you clip it, and you take it home.
What you want to do, you don't want to do a straight cut.
You want to cut it diagonally, because it
exposes more of the branch to where
we're about to put this into.
What you want to do, too, you want
to remove the leaves, because actually, where you remove,
these are roots for all intents and purposes.
So all of these nodes where these are coming from,
these will become roots.
All right, take this off, too.
I would remove the leaves and fruit.
The way that you can get leaves off fast
is just to go down like this.
You can just go the opposite direction down the stem
remove the leaves.
What you want to do, I would give
multiples, multiple branches.
So you have this branch, and you can get a rooting compound
or sometimes, even potatoes work.
You stick the branch in a potato, and they work.
So you have this.
You have your rooting compound on this.
Sometimes, I've had fruit trees grow without any root compound,
but if you have it, try it.
It's a good thing.
Nice healthy organic soil, lots of compost,
and that's what you do.
Pretty soon, what you'll see, you'll
see the leaves and flowers coming where all of these nodes
are.
So you stick it in the soil, give it plenty of water.
Sometimes too, you can give it a whole 'nother environment where
you can cover it with--
if you got a big enough glass container, because it'll
get the humidity in there, or you
can cover it with a plastic bag to create its own atmosphere.
Believe me, I know it sounds crazy,
but you have to trust me.
This is going to work.
And If you have multiple branches, some of them
we're not going to take, but if you have multiple branches when
you do this, you're going to have a citrus tree,
and you're going to have a mulberry tree,
and you're going to have a plum tree,
and you're going to have a pomegranate tree.
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One of the things that I want to show you guys how to propagate
is probably one of the healthiest things
in your garden, which you wouldn't think of,
and it's sugar cane.
Sugar cane has zinc, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.
And guess what?
This actually helps your teeth instead of rotting it.
So what happened was, they took sugar cane,
and they flipped it and made it one
of the worst things, one of the most addicting things
that's on this planet.
But I'm going to show you how to grow it
so you can get the health benefits out of sugar cane.
You can actually buy sugar cane online,
and you can find it at some nurseries,
and they come in like, 18 inch, 12-inch pieces like this.
This is a long piece, though.
Let's start here.
These nodes, this is where another cane comes from.
So you want to get a piece that's maybe, say, this big.
So we have a couple of good notes on top,
and then we have some on the bottom.
These are facing up.
They're going to become cane, another cane,
and these are probably going to become roots.
To propagate, there's a couple of different ways.
This is a node where it's rooting,
because I set it in water.
So from there, let's go back.
See this node?
And if you see these little bumps,
that's where the roots come from.
So you can take this from someone.
If you see someone, you can ask them for a piece of cane
so you can propagate it.
So what happens is, it turns into this.
You see all of these roots?
But you can see how healthy all of these roots are,
and you can put this in the ground just like this,
and this will grow up.
Here, you have a piece that's just a sliver, so it's not
the whole cane, but you can see that it
has two nodes that are growing.
So this shows you that plants want to grow.
They want to live, they want to thrive,
and we can help them do that.
Now, see eye healthy and long these roots are?
So actually now what I would do with this,
now that I have at this point, I would cut this like that.
So now, I will have two healthy pieces of cane
from one sugar cane.
These are kind of indestructible.
If you get them some nice soil, you just
put them in the ground, you're going to have cane for days.
You want to kind of get them in the ground
because what happens is, they dry out in the back,
and they will continue to dry.
If you let these sit for a while, see the difference?
This is how a lot of people eat it, like this.
You take the outside off.
It's just like bamboo, and you see it?
You can see the juice in it.
You see the sugar cane juice.
It's one of the ultimate green juices.
I feel like I could cry here.
All you city folks that never had any sugar cane,
this right here, and you just mash the juice out of it.
It's not sweet like the sugar that we buy in the store.
That's been refined.
All the nutrients have been taken out of it.
Literally, the sugar that they give us
is stripped of all the nutrients.
This has all of them in there.
So sugar cane, you can you can bury
a whole piece with the nodes up, or you can
cut a piece right at the nodes.
And you can bury this.
As long as you have the piece where the roots are showing,
it's probably going to grow.
That's some good cane.
So put this in the water.
You set this piece, just set it in water
where it's touching the roots.
Wait till it gets to this point.
Stick it in the ground, and you're
going to be able to see the roots.
It's that simple.
Trust me, guys.
You want to do this, because this here right here,
this is awesome, and it's healthy as hell.
It's one of the healthiest things
you can put in your garden.
And plus, if you have--
you can grow this in boxes, even.
And if you have a terrace, you can use this,
because it gets like, up to 12 feet, 13 feet.
You can use this as a fence or a shade structure
for your terrace garden on your balcony.
Sugarcane.
You shouldn't live without it.
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OK, sugarcane.
That was cutting.
You got that?
I want to see some photos.
I want you guys to send me some pictures of that.
I want to see your sugarcane.
Share it with me, your sugar cane, not the damn picture.
So now, we're going to do division on this aloe, OK?
So if you look close, you will see
that there's a bunch of plants in here,
and they want to get out.
So a lot of times with this, they're so tight in here
that you might need to cut the can that they're in.
But I'm going to see if we can pull these out first.
So a lot of times, you want to loosen up the roots.
And if this is on the ground, you can stomp on it.
So oh yeah, we got this.
Come on, baby.
As you can see, this is root bound,
bad, and it's even got an ant's nest in it.
So what I would do here, I would do this.
But what these plants--
OK.
So you can see how many plants are here
that you didn't notice before.
Watch.
Watch when we start separating them.
One.
These are pups, and they will get very big if you put them
in the right pot.
Some aloe doesn't get like this, but these are the giant aloes.
You should have aloe in your garden,
because you can make soap.
It's an astringent.
If you get wounds, this is the first thing
that you should put on it.
See how pretty my skin is?
It's because of the aloe.
So no, definitely, you should have this in your arsenal,
and you can drink it.
It's very healthy for you.
You can make the juice out of it.
We'll break a piece, and you can see.
It's bitter, but you can put some sugar cane juice in it
and make it editable.
Let's see how many.
I got one, two.
That.
See this root?
That's a whole 'nother plant.
And see, once you start pulling them apart,
you can see how easy it is to get them.
And now, you see why-- how I have this
is because of things like this.
Just one plant gave me all of these pups.
So you don't have to spend all your money at the nursery.
You see aloe in somebody's yard, and you ask them that,
could you have a piece?
Take it, because one of these will give you this.
And what you're seeing now is how crowded
this is has made this plant.
So this is aloe, but you can do this
on any plant like cacti and succulents.
These are perennials that live a long time
and can get crowded as they grow.
So not only does propagating them
like this give you new plants, but it also
helps keep the existing ones healthy by giving it
room to grow.
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You hear that?
You don't just want to rip it, but you
want to feel that you're not breaking nothing.
But I'm going to show you guys how easy it is just
to replant these pups.
And so you can see--
a lot of people don't know how.
Let's open one of these, and you can see
this, the the juice in there.
So what I would do, get a knife and just clean it up.
Open up the roots, and these are going
to take off, because they have such healthy roots on them
already.
So I have a pot under here.
Get some more soil.
So if you want, what you could do
is, you can put several plants in here,
or you can just put one.
And it's real simple.
These are simple.
I would probably have a little more sand in my soil.
I would mix some sand in here just for the drainage.
And a lot of times what I do when I'm planting something
in a pot, I'll take compost that's not all the way broken
down, or I'll take dry leaves that I've cut,
and I'll put them in the bottom of the pot
that high, because what that does,
I found it helps hold the moisture.
All the water just doesn't run to the bottom.
Those leaves suck it up and hold it, so that's a good way,
too, when you're pruning and dead heading,
is to save that, those cuttings.
And use it, and put it back into the process.
So just like this.
You want to put a plant like this in the center of the pot.
Why?
Because you want the roots to have equal access to space.
Now, if I was to put this right here, the roots on this side
are going, and the roots of this side of it
are going to be crushed against the wall.
So for you, for this plant to take more nutrients up,
you want to give all of the roots an equal opportunity.
Equal opportunity, America.
Does that-- you know, do you know anything about that?
So you want to give the plant--
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You want to give the plants a chance to thrive and survive,
and you want to push.
You want to do it firm.
And so what I would do, I would probably get some rocks.
If this is in your house, get some pretty rocks, you know,
and some colorful things, and there you have it.
You have a nice healthy plant.
And if you want, just think about-- you
can give these as gifts, or you can
put a box outside your house and say free agave,
or you can sell them.
So there is no end to the bounty of mother nature.
There's enough for everybody, and that's the one thing
that you will learn from gardening.
There is no shortage of food, there is no shortage of air.
There is no shortages of none of the resources
that mother nature gives us, and this shows you that.
You know, but the one thing that we need to exceed
is man's need for greed and change
that to man's need for seed.
That's what this is about.
Go plant some shit.