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African Violets and Gesneriads: time for a poll, 1 by Keyring

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Keyring wrote:
Here's a photo at 23 days. Most of the leaves have sprouted. I think that this particular plant must be a fast sprouter....

I really don't want to experiment with other leaves (can you imagine how many plants I'll end up with from this tray?) so I hope someone else will try this and report back.

Again, this is what I did:

- cut the tip off the leaf
- cut the stem under water - keep it short
- potting mix is only 1" deep or less (1:1:1 perlite, peat, vermiculite), moist not wet
- lid on the deli container with a few tiny holes for ventilation
- 70-75F
- first week, almost no light
- day 8 onwards: low indirect light (about 12 inches from 2 tubes of fluorescents)