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Keyring wrote:
Some gessies can't be propagated from leaves, but they can be propped from small cuttings consisting of one or two leaves, the petiole (the "stem" attaching the leaf to the stem) and a bit of stem (it must have some real stem, not just the petiole). I had only a little of this Aeschynanthus to work with, so I took a cutting with 4 pairs of leaves. I cut the bottom two pairs off and put down each pair. With the remaining section, I cut off the lower leaves and put down the tip cutting, burying the one node.