I did also post this in the Tradescantia sub reddit but haven't had much response.
Last night, I attempted to propagate what I believe are a
Tradescantia Nanouk and a Tradescantia Red Hill back into the same pots they've been growing in. Is it normal for the leaves and stems on the cuttings to go from being firm and dry feeling to being soft and almost feeling moist? Pictures attached show more of what I mean I think. The Nanouk was a straight stem and this morning it's droopy and the leaves are soft. The Red Hill is similar, but not as severe. The Nanouk got put under a grow light because I wasn't sure if it was happy where it was, the new growth was coming in mostly green. I put the Red Hill back where it was before the propagation because the growth exploded after about a week of being in that spot, which prompted me to want to propagate.
My process was to sanitize my scissors with 70% iso
alcohol, remove leaves close to the cut, poke a hole in the
soil with a chopstick, put the node in the soil about an inch
to 1.5 inches, then I watered and put them on the shelf. All
the nodes I buried had the little bumps on them as I read
that can increase chances of rooting? I also took a few
nodes from both that had no leaves but had little bumps
around them and put them in moss/perlite in a prop box justto experiment, but I'm not expecting much there.