Tropicals & Tender Perennials: No luck propagating, 1 by bigred

bigred wrote:
I'd really like to propagate from this plant but my attempts have failed w/leaves(cutting nicks in veins and weighing down on top of potting mix). I've seen webpages where they cut up leaves and put them in baggies of damp vermucilite but I haven't tried that yet. There's a pretty dood size side plant that has sprouted but I don't want to remove it because I want the pot to be full and lush.

I've had little plants sprout on their own on top of a mother leaf still attacked to plant but they never survive the removal and potting up.

This is classified as a rhizomatous begonia but it has never made the long rhizomes like my Beefsteak and Tiger Kitten which I have great success propagating from rhizome cuttings. Maybe I'm not holding my tongue just right*S*

Peggy