LOl well Critter..sounds like you have had more luck with Winnie then I have :)
Good to hear also since I have not had much luck with it!
Basement babies have moved uptown!
I 'd love a Winnie the Pooh please :))
That was odd... I couldn't post for a while earlier in the day.
Allison, I've got 'Winnie the Pooh' on your wish list already, no worries! I haven't been propagating this one from a leaf, but rather the pot that I got from the Violet Gallery had a zillion little plantlets or suckers all growing tightly together. I've separated them a couple of times, and I'm still getting multi-crowned plantlets. I did put down a few leaves when I was playing around, but none of them took.
Similarly, I have a number of little sucker-plantlets of 'Midget Gumdrop', but haven't had any luck yet propagating that one from a leaf.
Oh little suckers are just a wonderful way to get new plants ! My Guelph's Christmas (9120) 04/20/2002 (J. Brownlie/Guelph University) Semidouble-double fuchsia large frilled star/thin white-green edge. Medium green, quilted, glossy, wavy, serrated/red back. Large
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For example gave me ten suckers that rooted fast and growing I have been sending them to people. I love mine ! Got it back Oct or so from Violet Galery too. I got my plants after you got yours I lose track of time/days.
I got like 12-14 plants from them all nice size . They were all plenty big to share many leaves, put leaves down, suckers, more plant in one pot always blooming :)) Just wonderful plants !
I can't wait till Spring :))
Can you place your pots in a bin full of water (like an inch deep) and just leave them sitting in the water or will they get too wet? I am doing the wick thing but finding it is not working well for some of my leaves and plants. For some of them it works well but for others it does not. I do not know why since they are all in identical plastic pots. Will they get too soggy if I leave them just sitting in a bin filled with an inch or so of water? They have wicks in them but I do not think that I did it right so it is not working for some of them. And suggestions are appreciated.
JesseK
I have my leaves in seed trays and they are in about an inch of water at all times. This seems to work well for me...Once the plantlets start to sprout up..I transplant them into little pots. I keep them all together until they have gotten larger before seperating them from each other and the mother leaf.
So far this has worked pretty well for me ;)
I bottom water once a week, sometimes a little sooner for the tiny pots, but I don't let them sit in water... a tiny bit of extra water in the bottom is OK, but more than 1/8 inch (for the 2 inch pots) and it has to be poured out. In part this is because I like to keep newly potted suckers & unrooted leaves under a vented cover, and sitting in water would definitely keep them too wet.
I don't bother to wick the pots that are in my flats & bins, as they seem to soak up water from the bottom quite well without a wick, and since they aren't sitting over a water reservoir the way my wicked pots are. I may try putting some plastic grid into my flats with capillary matting on top -- the ends of the mat would dangle into water in the bottom of the flat, but the grid would keep the pots out of the water, and the pots could wick up water from the moist mat -- at least that's the theory.
Oh man those are gorgeous critter!
When you make your wick, how much wick do you leave in the bottom of each pot? Or do you run it all the way up to the top of the plant? I'm sorry to keep asking so many questions but I really do want to learn.
JesseK
Jesse
Everyone does it different. I like to make a good length wick. I bring it up the bottom of the pots and roll it all around the bottom of the pot a few time then I bring the wick up to the top of the pot with a where you can see the wick . Then I hold it and put soil in keeping peice on top. he water flows up to the roots better if the wick goes to the top . I learned .
I don't wick my leaves anymore they were getting too wet they may have looked dry but wet in the middle. So they get tiny bits of water on top. They don't really need much. Just little moist but not wet and not good to let dry out which I have done too many times.
I would never let your plants sit in water. I know here even when it's hot outside water sitting gets cold fast,
and your plants will get too wet and Av's don't let wet cold feet.
I have large plants on saucers, or containers some get watered when wicks dry or pot light enough for them to drink half hour most any other water dumped. Some have containers where little water can stay, but I still not one to keep it there as it gets cold, I like fresh each watering, and have plants that looked dry very wet in the middle when left with wicked on containers of water.
I do have many trays with wicked plants. I keep like sizes together, like 2 inch minis, and semi's, large so they drink around the same amount and food water is poured into trays they drink it up and the rest is dumped. I also like to top water some for many reasons, Flush salts and old fertilizers out. Also if you top water just enough for no more than a drop to come out bottom helps plant get fertilizer without nurtients being washed away. If I'm using something like say Neem Oil , or something like it I like to top water.
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But is is never good to let you plants sit in water.
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I did read one time a lady kept her leaf cups sitting in an inch of water worked well for her dry air gave humidity and they did not dry out. But once you have roots they won't like this.