Probably the easiest one would be Park-Starts, they are a "a sponge-like medium of pasteurized, disease-free peat moss held together with a flexible binder that holds several times its weight in water" per the website. The plugs have a small hole drilled in them, just dip the leaf in your favorite voodoo rooting hormone and insert the leaf until it is either touching the bottom or the side of the plug. Just so long as the bottom of the leaf will always have access to moisture. The styrofoam raft floats so you just need to keep water in the tray, the raft floating and you don't need to worry about over watering. When/If the leaf takes you just pop the entire plug out from the bottom, wrap the plug part in some moist LFS and maybe a zip lock bag. No messing with roots or pots anything, replacement plugs are sold seperately. The person receiving the plug can simply just plant the entire plug along with whatever medium they generally use! Removing the roots from the plug is violent distructive work and best not done, however with patience it can be. Just last week I repotted a Ceph that had one of the "Jumbo" size plugs in it that had not been repotted in over 15 years. The rest of the pot was full of normal peat/sand/whatever mix. The photo below was from a larger raft I cut down with a chop saw to fit my needs, it was larger. As you can see the big issue is with labeling, unless you want 6-12 of the same Ceph these may not be for you. Pings hate them btw, they will not root into the plugs they root over the side and straight into the water!
Czech Giant Just starting to strike
Plug removed, can not really put them back in since they expand once you add water.
These are all old photos, I planted a new raft today I'll try and get another one done tomorrow and update this thread with photos of them to track. I'll try and add a few other methods I've done over the years as my mind is not what it used to be and so much knowledge has been lost over the last 15-20 years.
Czech Giant Just starting to strike
Plug removed, can not really put them back in since they expand once you add water.
These are all old photos, I planted a new raft today I'll try and get another one done tomorrow and update this thread with photos of them to track. I'll try and add a few other methods I've done over the years as my mind is not what it used to be and so much knowledge has been lost over the last 15-20 years.