African Violets and Gesneriads: First sanningia; question on crown division..., 1 by msdoolittle

msdoolittle wrote:
Ok, I picked up a 1/2 price sanningia (florist's gloxinia) @ Wal-mart the other day, as I have grown AVs successfully and I want to give this a try.

I have not removed the plant from the soil yet, but assuming there is only one tuber (?) there is also at least 5 crowns to this plant. So...do you propagate these crowns as you do with AVs? Basically lop them off and stick them in a growing media? I can do that, lol. Well, if that's how you're supposed to do it...or should I also take a bit of the tuber w/ it? I haven't dealt w/ tubers much.

Also, from the other posts I assume that you cut back watering in fall, allow the leaves to die back, and then begin watering again in the spring. Is this correct?

Any and all help is appreciated!

Just for the sheer heck of it, I'm attaching a pic of my mystery AV...I got it's parents for 25 cents at a Lowe's, propagated it by sucker cutting. As you can see, it turned out well. I could never really establish if it was a trailer or not, but oh well, I just let it grow!