Starting new plants from leaf cuttings is fun and is certainly an economical way of increasing your inventory. This method works quite well for me and I'm sure it will work well for you too!
What do you need to start?
1. 3" pots (just a preference, other sizes can be used)
2. 22" x 12" Perma-nest tray
3. Hard plastic vented humidity dome
The 22" x 12" Perma-nest trays can accommodate eighteen 3" pots comfortably. I can normally start six (6) semiminiature leaves in a 3" pot (pictured) and a few more than that if starting smaller miniature leaves. As an average, I put eighteen 3" pots into a tray, with 6 leaves per 3" pot. Each leaf will produce about 3.1 plantlets for me so I will normally yield about 330 plantlets from one tray. Yes, that's a lot of plantlets!
Where can you buy the supplies?
I've been buying my supplies from the Cooks at Cape Cod Violetry (violets@cape.com) for a number of years. They are friendly, fair and affordable. You can send them a catalog request via email (violets@cape.com) and they will send you their catalog in PDF format for FREE!
Click here to visit my eBay store to see what violets are available this week!
Click here to visit my eBay store to see what violets are available this week!
Hi, I like the way you've organized so many leaves in a pot. But can you take a close-up? I don't know whether the leaf part should be touching the vermiculite or not.
ReplyDeleteJJ - thanks for your comment. If you click on the image it will enlarge. The leaf blades are touching the starter mix...but just barely!
ReplyDelete