Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Begonias Anonymous - Attention Addicts and Enablers, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Sometimes--one of these coiled stems just gives up the ghost somewhere along it's length and then I have to detach it at that point.
I have found that rooting these large sections are quite successful and they become, almost, instant plants.

Here are two that I took from a smaller pot of this Begonia--as it had started growing in, distinctly, two different directions.
Cut, cut---chop, chop----and I have 2 new plants under way. Both are rooted and growing by now.

Here is the spot my BIG Beafsteak spends the Winter--by a fairly bright window in my bedroom.
Some of the larger leaves you see here are already gone. Had to, again, remove one of the sections as the stem just withered.....Old age? That is a 16" ceramic pot it lives in.
Maybe I should re-pot it--but they are shallow-rooted and I am afraid they would not do too well being disturbed.....

Gita