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Petrocosmeas

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Paddy Tobin:
Wonderful plants, Rudi.

Paddy

johanneshoeller:
Hello Rudi,

I grow some Petrocosmeas and Chiritas, too. They stand by a window frost-free. I have seen that they do not like too low temperatures (0°C-10°C), then the leaves look poor and become yellow.
When and under which temperatures do you propagate them with leaves (temperature)?

Wonderful pics Rudi!

Tony Willis:
Hello Rudi

I grow rosettifolia, grandiflora, sericia which I bought from a nursery(Keith Lever in N Wales)  and minor I imported from China. I also grow a number of other Chinese gesneriads,chiritas lysionotus,paraboae etc, and a couple of chiritas I have exchanged with Herbert in Linz. I have no idea if any of the names are correct and many plants from different sources look the same. In fact P. minor was exhibited at several shows under a variety of names.

I grow mine in clay pots in a sand plunge with a heating cable underneath set to 5c and they are covered over in frosty weather.

Propagation is very simple in a smalll heated propagator. Just pull leaves of and peg the stalks in a free draining peaty compost. After a ew weeks plantlets appear and can them be potted up and grown on. This sems to be able to be done at ant time of year but late spring seems best to me.

SueG:
I grow several too and have noticed that on ebay you can buy leaves of particular ones, I guess to root.
I've got a chirita leaf in a glass of water on the kitchen window sill with an embarassing amount of root on it - I think it was one I broke off a plant (by accident) and just stuffed into the glass, it began to root then the water in the glass dried out and I didn't notice, so I chopped a bit more off the bottom of the leaf, gave it more water and it grew again! I don't know if this would work with the species - this is a cultivar from Dobies.
Sue

Maggi Young:
Most Gesneriads seem very obliging about their ease of putting roots on a cut leaf......... :)

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