Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: What is your Oldest Houseplant?, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
I have had an Angel Wing begonia longer than I can remember. Maybe 25 years or more...The same one--just endlessly propagated from cuttings.

Here's what i do--pretty much each year.

I have a 10" pot that has the "mama" in it. I have to bring it indoors for the winter, where it pretty much loses all but the top bunches of leaves. I forget to water it sometimes. It spends the winter months in pretty much semi-dormant state. Not to worry! I just want the ends to live!

In early Summer I take it outside, cut off all the ends (about 10"-12"), remove some of the lower leaves, cut "Mama" WAY down to the nubs and discard the in-between stalks. I root the cut off ends and repot them in a smaller pot. So, I usually have 2 pots of this going.....About every 3-4 years, I take the WHOLE root-ball of the Mama apart, discard all the old, fibrous, dead roots and re-pot the better ones in fresh soil.

Did that this Spring. here she is all re-grown in all her glory...