I can't brin myself to throw away leaves so I end up sticking them in dirt.LOL.
This is E.Unpreditable Valley snowrose sent me a few monthes ago.
Don't throw away those leaves! Make new plants.
Heres one leaf I stuck in.
Taa Daa new plant!
Way to go Jan! I am loving the Episcia's! They seem so easy for me ... not like Strep's which really don't do well at all in my house!
Great growing! When that one gets big maybe we can make a trade! I would love a cutting of that one!
Now, I had no idea you could just root a leaf of an Episcia!! I thought it had to be the stolon/stem part?! Oh Wow .... here I go a cutting Episcia leaves to stick! LOL.
One more growing from the back of the leaf.This ones really a pinky.I'm going to have a full bowl soon.
I know Lin..I had no idea either!! Running with scissors in hand too..lol
Great Growing Jan : )
Run,Run and cut those leave.Hee,hee.
I just looked at the d-mail when I got this plant in was aug.9th,so it doesn't take too long to make baby plants.
Wow - I didn't know you could do that and I have one that could sure use some more fullness.
Ok now I know I'm bad.LOL.
I stuck in some Kohleria leaves awhile ago and I got real curious just now and pulled one up.Look what I found,it's growing a rhizone.
another kohleria leaf I stuck in.Can you see the babies plant coming up?
From what I've learned most gessies can be grow by a leaf.Next I'm trying a sinningia leaf.
ok.....what's the secret mix? Every time I try an Episcias leaf, it rots...stolons and cuttings, no problem...leaves? ick....
Wow, now I'm gonna wanna start trading for Leaves!
No secret here threegardeners,just plain AV soil.Are you bagging them when you root them? And not to much water.
LOL Lin,you can trade leaves.I've read in the gessie books if its a rare plant people do trade leaves.
If I planted every leaf I pruned off I would have 1000's!!!!
jannich, you are one lady who can grow! You have so much patience in growing leaves from episcias. This is a good thread with winter coming on and none of us know what to do with our episicas over the cold period....Now we do know what to do.
Great pics
gail
Thank you Gail!
In the spring these babies will have a new home,One will go to you Lin:) I was amazed the kohleria has a rhizone already.
Good morning, jannich
Don't ya' just love those rhizomes? Remember the rhizomes I found in the soil of 'Laura', the small Kohleria that Snow sent me? We all ooohed and aahed over how quickly she was coming up. Well, the short of it is only one Kohleria is actually growing.....the rest were weeds!
lol gail! I thought I was the only one that grew weeds even after I sterlized the soil.
I don't sterilize my soil, so I grow weeds and sometimes little mushrooms too! LOL.