Episcias from Leaves Experiment
Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
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Comments (7)I ordered the Black Velvet seeds from Park Seed a few years ago. They grew very well, but as long as they were in the house they had green leaves. I even called Parks because I thought I had the wrong ones. The flowers looked just like the picture. I finally transplanted them outside and the leaves did darken out there in the full sun. They were great garden plants that got to be very full and bushy and they bloomed very well. The foliage was never as dark as the photo showed but they were nice plants....See MoreHAVE: rooted African violet leaves & unrooted episcia stolons fo
Comments (2)GW, I have Rebutias, Sulcorebutias and a variety of other succulents (Lithops, Gasteria). Would like to trade for rooted AVs. Joe...See MoreProblems with Episcias!!!
Comments (1)Hi Wilson, I saw your posts on gesneriphiles this morning but it was early and I wasn't awake then. I really am not sure what your problems are so I may only add to the confusion, but here goes: The worms don't sound good. This may be a larvae, such as fungus gnat larvae or sciarid fly larvae. It may be causing problems such as you have noticed. It can be treated with non-toxic insecticides that contain the product Gnatrol. This is a bacteria (bacillis thuringensis Serotype H-14) that infects the worms and kills them. I have a product called Knock-Out Gnats with this as the active ingredient. It is sold by Gardens Alive, a mail order company, located in Lawrenceberg Indiana. Perhaps you can find their website or another product containing Gnatrol from a web search. It is sprayed on the foliage and works pretty fast. A different version of the bacillis is used in products to control cabbage worms, catapillers, and other larvae. The general term for such products is a Biological Larvacide. The second problem sounds familiar but I am not sure what it could be. Possiblities are mites, fungal or bacterial infection. Being in Singapore, I imagine that your plants never experience temperatures below 60 degrees F. I have had problems like this in the past, but usually with cool indoor conditions as a suspected culprit. I would suggest restarting the plants under high humidity, such as an enclosure and under lights. The bright even lighting and humidity will provide optimum conditions for the plant to grow. Then, when it is very healthy, you can remove it from the enclosure. Are you growing under lights? I find that here, episcias do best under lights--even better than on windowsills. The third problem also sounds like either coolness, too much light or some other cultural problem. I find episcias really respond to frequent repotting, taking of cuttings of crowns or stolons, and general reestablishment of plants. Lastly, I don't know how winter in your version of the tropics affects episcias. Our climates are so different it seems that you really need help from someone like Leong Tuck Lock who lives in Malaysia and grows many gesneriads including episcias. The "Malay" series of hybrids are his. Jon, in sunny cool N. California (San Francisco Bay Area)...See MoreEpiscias
Comments (10)I've done very little in the way of growing episcias from leaves; but I have done it. It really doesn't make sense unless you are propagating from a plant so small that it doesn't have anything else to take cuttings from, or if you get them like you did from someone else. In any case, there is no need to toss the unproductive leaves as long as they are healthy. It can take episcias a long time to send up a new shoot from a rooted leaf. One way to get them going is to give the leaves a light feeding. The one time I sucessfully rooted a leaf was in a terrarium. The leaf was put in there to catch a larva that was eating holes in the plants. I removed the other plants, left the leaf, and then caught the miscreant, left the leaf and forgot about the little container on my light stand. I forgot about it because I put other pots on top of it. Then, one day I looked under the other pots and saw that the leaf was still going after many months. I fed it and not long afterwards a new shoot came up. When you see a tiny version of the plant coming up, it rarely looks like the parent. That is because it is tiny and episcias are chameleons. Watch your little plant grow up and you will see it turn into the parent variety. Each new set of 2 leaves will be different from the previous ones. This is especially frustrating when hybridizing and growing up seedlings. You never really know what you have until you grow on your mature plants for a while. When you plant a packet of episcia seeds, all the germinating seedlings will be plain green. They only start to slowly show color and pattern as the new leaves start to grow out. Jon...See Moreirina_co
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