Grow your own indoor plants with aerial layering

A relatively easy propagation technique.

Aerial layering of Ficus decora. Image — Wikimedia Commons.

Indoor plants can be propagated using aerial layering while they are still decorating your living room or office.

In the first photograph showing the popular Ficus decora, the stem has been cut part way to encourage root growth, wrapped in moist sphagnum moss, covered with plastic, tied…