Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Hoya Subcalva...., 0 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
First of all, my streps never ever go outside. They enjoy the air conditioning but my episicas enjoyed being outside on the porch in the shade (but we have real high humidity in south Texas)

There are several ways to propagate the leaves of streps. If you use the petiole and about 3" of leaf you only get one great strong strep from the one growing point on the leaf (the petiole).

However, if you take slices of the leaf in wedges about 2" long you will get the growing point of the stem plus each vein on either side of the petiole; thus you will probably get 3 good new streps.

For safety and sure growing I use 1/2 perlite and 1/2 vermiculite to grow them in under a dome of some kind. Some people use their regular av mix with perlite and vermiculite but they rot easily this way.

Here I just got one big strep from each leaf.........they are actually blooming in 21/2" pots right now.

For all the streps you could want, you can take the leaf and turn it over on the kitchen sink...........take a razor blade and cut the mid vein out of the leaf giving you two pieces to plant in the perlite and vermiculite.

Let me give you a few pictures of comparison........may tell you more than i can in words.......