Help!! Begonia with one leaf left
Sue S
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Just one 'real leaf' left
Comments (5)If you have a leaf, and want the viens embedded...you need to make leaf out of something. You mentioned POP. If you took silicone and put it on your leaf, the mold would have the veins of the leaf embedded, and when you made your cement leaf from your mold, the veins would now stick up. It would look like the backside of your leaf. to make your pop mold. Start small....maple leaf possibly...Make a small amt as it hardens quickly.....make a soupyier mix. Take a small artists paint brush and hold the leaf in your hand, Spray it lightly with PAM ---and brush POP mixture to the edges and lay the leaf down keeping the POP off the underside or front of the leaf and finish brushing the whole leaf with POP.. Without picking up the leaf as it may crack the first layer of POP.. now Brush on several more layers of a not so soupy POP mixture until it's about 3/8" - 1/2" thick. (you want your mold about as thick as you want your final cement leaf to be.) Not too thin, not too thick... Let it cure over night to make sure it is hardened very well. Turn it over and carefully remove your leaf and all the veins that are stuck.. Thus a POP leaf. Take a knife and clean up any edges etc....fill in tiny air holes....etc. Now spray it with oil and make your silicon mold. The silicon mold can be washed up with warm water to remove all bits of POP. When you 'pour' your cement mold, be sure to lightly spray it first, and you can place something under it, to change the shape if your want. (Like lay it in a bowl for a bowl type shape or lay a pencil under it to lift the edge... If your leaf is small, you don't need cheese cloth! Hope this helped! Marcia...See MoreBegonia problem: brown spots from leaf center, please help!
Comments (9)Hi Krolik, How's your plant doing? Here are a couple of thoughts. 1, Travel can be stressful for plants, they can pick up exposure to who knows what. 2, Bathroom humidity, It may not dry out enough, in there, to kill unwanted organisms, or let the plant cells move water. Consider moving the plant out of there for a few days, or a couple of weeks. Just give it a light morning spritz in it's new home. A flor. plant light -10$ and timer -8$ if the light needs adjusting+ a little, somewhere else. 3, Light anti-fungals/microbials, Neem oil from Logee's, that stuff is good! Meanwhile, have you tried watering with a little green tea, or black tea or coffee that's been thinned, or a spray of water and white vinegar, say from 1/10th to 1/3rd vinegar? And there's lysol spray, or other similar cheap substitute [saw that in gardenweb, just don't remember if it was on begonias]. My begonias perk up with the vinegar spray. One liked half cup of old coffee in its quart+ watering pot too. 4, Soil changes/repot.I had an ailing Sophie Cecile, one I had growing on from cuttings. I took a chance with it, because I didn't want to throw it out. I repotted it, down a little, because of fewer roots, with a little good soil from the yard. The soil had a little clay, a tiny bit of wood ash, some peaty compost, and maybe a little dog residue. They are supposed to like a little clay, and potash is good for fighting ills, and the texture was open from the plant material. It turns out that there's something in dung preferably cow, that helps fight off some virus or fungus or other. It was happy at the end of the summer,when it came out from under a shrub. I'm hoping that you can hold out till spring when you can set it in a protected spot....See MoreLeaf Cutting from a Beefsteak Begonia
Comments (4)Begonias are probably best propagated via leaf cuttings and there are several ways to do it. Just remember that the genetic information required to create new roots and shoots occurs in those veins. Secure your leaf against the damp (already prepared) medium so that there is full leaf to medium contact. THEN make your slices. The surface of the medium needs to be firm (but not tamped down) and smooth. You can also cut your leaf into several sections and simply lay those down against your prepared medium or insert them into the medium. My favorite (just because it was so amazing) experience occurred when I was working my way through Va. Tech; one of my part time jobs was in a commercial greenhouse, transplanting jillions of bedding plant seedlings and doing other propagation chores. One morning I walked in and saw a tall stack of gorgeous begonia leaves and several prepared flats of soil-less medium. OH, and a paper punch. I forget, now, how many little discs I was able to punch from each leaf but it was a bunch! By the time my work for the season was finished, he had many hundreds of pretty little begonia plants, potted up in crisp white pots. I'm not so sure that this is the best time of years for a rapid response from your efforts, though. Spring is ideal. You are correct about your conclusion that your begonia can't make new plants from a petiole cutting. New roots will form, but that's it. Petioles are often used as the anchor to hold a leaf in place against the propagating medium....See MoreSudden leaf drop on Begonia Maculata
Comments (14)Thanks FrozeBudd. It is a big job moving everything outside for summer and back indoors for winter. My basement runneth over as I try to organize them into their cubby holes just to keep them alive. I still have about 20 extra large pots to move indoors before Monday (our first freeze). The plants get bigger, new plants come in faster than old ones check out, propagation makes things worse as space is limited, and I am another year older. UGH! This is from last December Confetti on left, Hugh McLaughlin on right. Not sure what is in the back. Amelia blooming, Cowardly Lion (striped rhizo), and it looks like Big Mac (glossy green) Helen Teupel (purple with silver edges) and some unknown silver curl. Flirty Girl (a seedling from Ozzie Johnson who is a member of our begonia club) Jack Black with a cluster of blooms My Special Angel (polka dot cane), Taconite (large dark green leaves), and U450 or U540 (seems like the tag was mislabeled) is the silver leaf with dark veins. rexes from Walmart or Lowe's (Exotic Angel nursery) Proud Mary various begonias I propagated for fun....See MoreSue S
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