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RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 15-03-2025
Hope it survived the journey!
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 15-03-2025
[attachment=8114]Signs of life from the leaf that was rooted in water.
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - MartinH - 17-03-2025
(15-03-2025, 04:07 PM)Veggie Wrote: Hope it survived the journey!
It was a bit limp but otherwise intact. We'll see how he gets on.
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 17-03-2025
They like a lot of water and go limp quite quickly. I'm always forgetting to water mine!
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 24-03-2025
[attachment=8135]
Getting bigger.
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Small chilli - 24-03-2025
How big before we split them. Or are all the babies just part of one plant?
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 24-03-2025
I won't be splitting these as they're all growing off the same old stem. Big Momma snail has several clusters of leaves in a clump. In theory, I could split the clumps and replant them - a bit like splitting a perennial plant - or rhubarb.
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - JJB - 10-04-2025
Mummy leaf in water has roots and the leaf pinned on top of compost in a sandwich box looks like it's rooting at the join between leaf and now nonexistent stem. So, Houston, we have propagation!
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - JJB - 06-05-2025
I planted my rooted in water leaf and the leaf has wilted and shrivelled, is this right? Luckily I have babies growing from a leaf in a sandwich box.
RE: Begonia Rex "Escargot" - Veggie - 06-05-2025
When did you plant it? It may be taking its time to recover from the shock of moving from water to soil.