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title: "Re-potting her and saw these and there were large chunks of styrofoam…"
description: "Re-potting her and saw these and there were large chunks of styrofoam in the soil too."
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/GpJkJG2qS7KZ7LpSwQwhSg/rkvVboHEoRZjuB0DR6790W"
community: "Propagating & Sowing"
author: "Tippy"
published: "2026-08-28T18:21:58.450127Z"
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# Re-potting her and saw these and there were large chunks of styrofoam…

_Posted by Tippy on 2026-08-28_

Re-potting her and saw these and there were large chunks of styrofoam in the soil too.

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## 4 comments

### Mr Variegated commented on 2026-08-28

I could be wrong, but if the plants are coming from these stem like things, they were started from cuttings. The styrofoam is odd unless they started the cuttings in them.

### Nikiller commented on 2026-08-29

The styrofoam cores like those are used to water propagate a metric butt ton of cuttings in a large tank of water without securing them to something, then once the roots form around it the growers plant it up and usually don’t care enough to try and remove every piece from every plants roots. It’s like planting a ton of cuttings in only leca, except the leca is cuttings of foam.

#### Tippy replied on 2026-08-29

Ohhhhhhh ok ok. Thank you. I was like YIKES

#### tallgirlzoe replied on 2026-09-02

Yes I've seen this prop method as well! Keeping cuttings from touching the bottom of their water container encourages rooting so much faster

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