Although I keep telling myself not to buy anymore houseplants, I fell in love with a fittonia and brought it home. That plant has been doing well and growing, but it became very leggy so I stuck a few cuttings in water. They died almost immediately.
Then I took a few more cuttings and planted them in potting soil, being sure to keep it moist. They are dead, too.
I did a net search and it said you can propagate fittonia by placing cuttings in water, or by putting cuttings in soil that is kept moist. Since I had no success with either method, does anyone else have any other ideas?
The "mother plant" is very healthy but it has long, leggy stems hanging down the sides of the pot with beautiful bursts of foliage at the ends. Or maybe I should say HAD because, not knowing I'd kill the cuttings, I cut the plant so that there are only two long leggy parts left.
I'm wondering what I can do to eliminate the legginess since my propagation methods, which work well for everything else, didn't work with fittonia.
Now I'm wondering if I should try just putting a single leaf in the soil like you do to propagate African violets. The websites I've checked out about fittonia didn't mention this method, but the methods that they said WOULD work, didn't, sooo...I just don't know.
Suggestions?
Suggestions needed for propagating fittonia 
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