Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Leaf rooting experiment, 0 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Tru, post the link to the RHS illustration. I've seen it with leaves like streptocarpus but not begonias where you remove the major vein then place both halves vertically in potting mix and get oodles of babies along each minor vein.

I took the trimmed outer edge of the leaves from Art Hodes as an experiment which did produce some babies along the veins but the babies were very small in comparison to the major portion of the leaf and all babies did not make it either. Anyway this is the same same thing as cutting across the vein.

Here is a picture of that experiment - the outer edges just placed atop perlite. (nov 18, 2008)