African Violets and Gesneriads: Learning thread...successes and failures, 1 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
Here is my biggest failure to date. I got all these wonderful strep leaves and remember how i told you I hydrated them in sugar water? Well, just because it works on other leaves doesn't mean it works on strep leaves!

AND..once again, I don't know why I used a soil-less mix instead of 1/2 perlite an 1/2 vermiculite. It always works that way. This was a full tray and most have completely rotted. i also cut a petiole but i don't think that has anything to do with the failure. I believe it was a failure for two reasons. First, i should not have soaked them overnight in sugar water and secondly, I should have used my standard 1/2 perlite and 1/2 vermiculite.

Fortunately I did put the King of Kings in the sugar water for only 20 minutes and all her cuttings are going to make it.