I started propagting a few leaves:
Look what you all started!, lol...
now almost all my windowsills are full of babies!, lol
most are in this stage...do I cut the main leaf off, now, or wait until they get bigger?
Of course I have extras, so if anyone wants to swap, I'd probably be game :0)
This is the mother plant of the last leaf I just showed:
it even has pink under the leaves
I also have some Harmony's pinkstone
and some that came to me as silverglade oysters
seedpkr, what is that very pretty blue piece you are using for leaves? Is it just for tht purpose? I love blue. Cheryl
Cheryl-
It used to be a hummingbird feeder, with pretty glass tube flowers that fit into it, but the crazy squirrels kept stealing the glass flowers, lol...
I made lemons out of lemonade, and used it as a rooter, instead, lol...it actually didn't work very well as a hummingbird feeder, because it always had to be completely full to work, so it wasted a lot of water.
I actually prefer it as a rooter, lol...also it lets the leaves rest in their normal position, which seems like it helps
Great idea, silly squirrels! Love all of the plants, what is the pink one, first one?
I have a Silverglade Laces, is it related to "Silverglade Oysters"?
Sally-
wish I knew, but there aren't too many like that. I'm hoping that I can positively identify it once it blooms.
mortswife-I'm sure that it is. I've looked at the silverglade website, and there are quite a few silverglades.
Leave in the dirt I have mine and when its start to dye I pull it out I may be wrong It doesn't hurt so it no big deal.
Someone will tell you better than me
Kim
I'm guessing that I should leave it, because a mature leaf has a lot more surface area to process chlorophyll, and its helping to feed the smaller leaves...I think they'd be a lot slower to grow without the help of the big leaf...
I think when the smaller clump is big enough to take care of itself, I'll cut the large leaf off...
You may even be able to start a new brunch with the old leaves I am not to sure on that
It would be worth a try! :0)
It is good to let the baby leaves get bigger. I have heard the size of a dime.
If the leaf is healthy after you take the babies off-- you can re-plant it and sometimes get more babies.
thank you :0)
I never remove the mother leaf until I am ready to seperate all of the babies into individual plants,but that's just my way of doing it.As Gran said the mother leaf will keep making more babies as long as it's in good shape.
Lynn
Wow, you really kept the stems on your rooting leaves long. I usually only leave maybe an inch or so. Last weekend I bought leaves for the first time and some of them had only a half inch stem.
I think maybe the reason I have had limited sucess with growing AV's from leaves is that I have cut off the mama leaf and transplanted the baby too soon.
jmp24-
well, I never thought about that before, but long leaves do make it hard to stick them in those permanest containers :0)
Are you supposed to trim them shorter?
oh please, I have no idea! Not correcting or criticizing, because I am no expert! I just did it with them shorter. It seems though, with the leaves for sale, if I remember when looking thru all of them at the show last week, had stems of all different lengths - so I guess it depends on the grower, different things work for different people. And since you have all those violet babies, whatever you do works for you!
the baby violet in your fourth post, with the pink leaves, is so beautiful - what one is that? I need to add it to my constantly growing list!
From what I have read in the books . . . it is suggested that you trim the leaf stem to 1", and stick it that far into the mix. I've done it longer, shorter, etc.
Syrumani-
good to know the "official suggestion", even if I don't follow it, lol...
-T
Lynn, I ditto what you said. I put the 1" stem in and don't remove the mother until it is time to separate the babies. The time to separate is when the baby leaves are at least the size of a dime and some people say a nickle size before you separate........plus you may have 5 or 6 babies and you don't want to grow them together, I don't think??????
jmp24-
sorry I didn't answer you before about the pink one, but unfortunately I don't know the name. I bought it at an floral shop and it wasn't tagged, and the owner said she did not know the name if it was not tagged(and it wasn't)
I hated buying it with no name, but just couldn't pass it up, and glad I didn't, because I just love it. It is just getting pinker and pinker!
Here is a picture of it I just took :
I have now gone from those few in the windowsill to an entire tray in the windowsill!! I got that set-up at harbor freight yesterday for ~$10
There are some little babies of that pink one in there(the ones with the really long stems, lol)
I just love that blue glass "rooter". All the leaves I pull out of there already have babies on them, after only a few weeks. Something about it makes them root and set babies so much faster than the soil and cups system
This is one of the pink ones, that was just potted last night. That is after only two weeks in that blue glass container.
I have these as spares, so if you want to trade leaves, let me know.
Those in the window are just some of the ones I now have...
Here are the others. It started with just the teacups that matched this set, then I had to add teacups from another set, because I had too many more violets, than cups!!, lol...
-T
They have green trays at Harbor Freight? Are they fairly sturdy like the perma nest ones, or are they plastic, like the black trays?
Syrumani-
The bottom is fairly sturdy, but the top is kinda flimsy, like the typical burbee seedstarter lids. But, I would not call them as permanent as the permanest.
They had this large size and a skinnier one that would actually fit a windowsill. It was two cells deep,and then spanned the same length as the one I bought.
They have little removeable "pots" that remind me of those hydroponic pots, or the pots you use in a pond for pond plants.
But these are not permanest knock-offs. I'd say they are about equal to the burbee ones, in terms of plastic thickness and quality.
Great pictures, Seedpicker. LOVE that no name pink plant!
Hmm . . . maybe I'll have to go take a look there this weekend. I bought a great magnifying lamp there last year for $20 . . . Michaels was selling something similar for over $50. Thanks for the info, seedpicker_tx!
Thanks, Sally.
It hasn't bloomed for me, yet, but anxious to see what they are going to look like...I keep dreaming they'll be something really cool, like a double blue or something, lol...but probably plain old single pink, or something, but who knows? ;0)
time will tell
WHO CARES with those leaves!!! hehe
Syrumani-
LOL!! I bought that same lamp, lol...LOVE it! It is so useful. I find I use it way more than I thought I would.
It is especially useful for seeing and getting tiny thorns out, lol...
Sally-
I know! I walked away from it thinking "I am NOT going to get one more noid", and then as my hand was about to touch the door to leave, I stopped, had a change of heart... and went straight for it, and for the sales counter, lol...
Well, as you can see I have about 6 leaves with babies on the ends, so if you would like one, they are up for trade, either now, or when they get bigger :0)
-T
OK, thanks. :)
seedpicker,
Very beautiful NOID!! The leaves remind me of one of the Apaches or Mas.I have rooted leaves of all lengths,but I prefer a stem 1-1 1/2 inches long,with about 1/2 inch above the soil line.I do like to let them get a little bigger before separating them,so I am able to see where each crown is.In your picture,it appears you may have more than one baby in the pot.
Part of the fun is we all do our own thing.^_^.
Lynn