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

hcmcdole wrote:
Tru, that is correct you can remove the major vein on some leaves such as streptocarpus and get many babies along each minor vein. Begonias have some of that ability on larger leaves where you can lay the entire leaf down, cut slits across the major veins and get babies there. It worked well for me on Bashful Bandit, Art Hodes, Big Mac, and Challenger for example. I really haven't tried the smaller leaves so I would imagine it should work for them as well.

One thing I noticed is the extra large leaves seem to rot fast if you try to prop from the petiole junction (Lotusland for example). I finally got a couple of Lotusland wedges to root by using smaller wedge cuttings.

Here is C. King with many pups from slits across major veins.