Streptocarpus cuttings

[caroline7758]

Any tips, please? I potted up sections of leaf and put them in a mini propagator on the windowsill (south-east facing) about 3 weeks ago but they have all gone brown.

[caroline7758]

[Jayb]

Shame they are such lovely plants, one of my favourites  I've only grown them from leaf cuttings twice. The first time was because I knocked a young leaf off, I just popped the stalk end into a pot of multipurpose and it seemed to root well enough and make little bits of plants ok, I didn't pot them up individually just left it grow into a big plant. The second time I cut sections of leaves and inserted them into compost, sorry I can't remember if I covered them, I guess I did to conserve moisture. I put the pots on a north facing windowsill, they did seem to take forever before they started producing little baby plants.

[pumkinlover]

Maybe a bit more shade?

[Tee Gee]

I am having a go with leaf cuttings set them up on the 28th June, lost about 20% of them but the remainder seem to have taken although there are no signs of plantlets yet.

I found these links useful

http://www.avavs.com/GrowingStreptocarpus.pdf

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[laurieuk]

I have a full set of slides showing doing step leaf cuttings but I will try and briefly give details of my . Choose a medium size leaf from a plant watered the day  before. I cut down the centre so as to have two half, I then cut in approx. 1in lengths these are put on edge, slightly buried in a mixture of perlite and peat based compost 50 % of each. Water well with a rose and just wait . I do not give them extra heat or polythene bags but plenty on sunlight. There form many new plants on each piece and it is worth separating them to get better plants. I am retiring from giving talks and have many slides done for giving talks if any one is interested.

[caroline7758]

Thanks, Laurie. I'll have another go!