Re: the roots growing out through the net pots - it doesn't always work that way :-) Many annual and perennial starts are propagated this way beginning as plugs and I can't count how many that have failed and when dug up or unplanted from a larger container, all the roots are still contained in that tight little net casing. No lateral movement or penetration "through the net pot" at all. Not removing it just saves time for the wholesale grower (and time is money). Leaving it in place is of no benefit to the plant and often a handicap.

Thanks for all those great pictures, Petrushka. My brother lives in Homestead, has an acre of the coral rock ground you talk about. I always marvel when he says he has a friend with a humongous drill on the back of a tractor come and drill holes so he can plant trees or shrubs, etc. I don't know if I'll ever get back down to that area, but if I do I'd definitely visit this Pinecrest Gardens. Regarding your photos, the pink petioled one is Pink Goddess, the one I mentioned that was hybridized by Nat DeLeon possibly in the 60s. The next pic, the ag with white petioles, is Brilliant. Not sure, this could be one of Dr. Brown's hybrids. And yes, next is Peacock, a beauty. It has a cool little spotted ag as a parent, which gives Peacock it's unusual pattern. Dr. Brown told me he called that ag 'Frog', but I got my example from Glasshouse Works a lifetime ago as Echo. I believe it might be a type of picta, perhaps bicolor. The last pic with the silver ag, this is alumina v. armandii. There are very subtle areas of green mottlings that are overlaid by the silver-gray color, you have to be up close to see the beauty of the mottling. Dr. Brown named this silver ag for his Filipino guide Armando Cruz. I believe this is one of the hundreds of silver ags that were found in the jungles of Luzon Philippines about 1980 by 2 local picnickers with family, who happened to be nurserymen and realized the importance of the discovery. This huge group of ags was called a "hybrid swarm", wherein many ag species naturally hybridized and cross-hybridized over an unknown number of decades, never disturbed being hidden in the jungles. Brown traveled there in 1980, collected and brought back hundreds of specimens to his then home in Indialantic Florida. Later he bought acreage in Valkaria Fla and set up a hybridizing program using those ags he collected, plus others he found in travels to Indonesia, Thailand and return trips to the Philippines. His program kicked off a huge commercial interest in ags and the result is all the fine and beautiful hybrids available today. Regarding those berries that almost all the ags have, as you probably know, the little berries are very common on ags but they just turn yellow and fall off. These are about 1/8 inch across. The berries with seeds are large, at least 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch across. Of the ags you've mentioned, the only one I've seen seeds on is Pink Goddess. In that stand of Pink Goddess in your pic, it's likely that there are a number of russet-petioled forms mixed with it. Pink Goddess offsets the russet form fairly regularly for me. The russet color is formed simply by green tissue overlaying the pink. This russet form seems to grow larger than Pink Goddess, leaves are bigger and wider, and don't have the yellow midrib accent that adorns Goddess. Apparently Nat didn't name this russet variety, probably thinking it wasn't commercially viable. But I think it definitely deserves a name as it is beautiful in it's own right. Perhaps Russet King as it seems a masculine ag to me, darker, bigger and more robust than Goddess. The leaf blade on the russet looks very much like pics I've seen of Manila, Nat used Manila and Tricolor to produce Pink Goddess. Maybe too much info here for most readers, but I find this stuff fascinating.

is the soil damper lower.. otherwise... it looks bone dry ... and why a couple feet away from a window that does not provide good light because it faces north??... can it be set any closer??? its not uncommon to shed a few of the lower older leaves come winter ... but i cant tell from these pix.. the overall health of the plant.. could we see the whole plant ken

if you intended to post a pic ... i didnt show up ... cant help without such.. plz try again ... here is what healthy ones ought to look like: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Aglaonema+Firecracker&iax=images&ia=images ken