Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Leaf rooting experiment, 1 by Hillbilly_Gran

Hillbilly_Gran wrote:
Yesterday's nasty weather here in Arkansas kept me from meeting Rosalie (truongr) at College of the Ozarks in MO. I had gathered a bunch of leaves to take. Rather than throw them out (what I normally would have done) when I had to turn around and come back home because of icy roads, I thought I'd try something different--for me. I have had no luck outside of the paper towel method rooting leaf wedges, or rooting leaves in general. I have been sucessful rooting Streptocarpus leaves in straight perlite, so I thought I would try it with the begonia leaves. So here goes-- leaves are stuck petiole first into moistened perlite. I have covered them with a dome and put them on my light stand. Wish me luck--and if they root I can take plants next time
Tommie