Got 2 young plants (4 months, from cuttings). They rooted well and immediately started sprouting extremely cute and adorably funny flowers. We call them “Bells on springs”.
I give them 20 minute soak once a week, they seem happy with this regimen.

I they grew rapidly and I reported them today in larger pots, because last few days they seemed to get a bit sad.

But I’m a bit worried, I potted them in self-watering pots (with strings at the pots’ bottoms) and I’m afraid that they might not like this.
Also, I’m a bit concerned that they keep flowering so diligently although it’s winter, I worry that that will exhaust themselves.

What is your advice? Do you think self-watering pots are a bad idea?
Thank you in advance for all advice you care to share.

Best regards, Mak

Neither will mine bloom. It was blooming when I bought it, but not now. I love violets of any kind.

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I’ve rooted this plant in both a tiny cup of water, and in a ziplock bag with moist soil and a bit of rooting hormone. Both worked pretty well. Sometimes some of cuttings will rot, since the plant has pretty meaty stems. It’s an awesome plant to have! I’m so excited for you!

I use regular LED shop lights (4ft, 5000Lumen, 5000K – daylight). They are not marketed as grow lights, but 5000K spectrum works great for all of my plants. I’ve been growing gesneriads, carnivorous plants, and even fruiting trees under them for couple of years now. Also you can get them from anywhere and they are around 20$ each. I have two and I can fit all of my kohlerias and some carnivorous plants. You can go for the red and blue grow LED, for maximum efficiency, but since almost all the light gets absorbed by the plants, you don’t get to enjoy the greenery and flowers as much. The white light LED might not be the most efficient, but the plants look great and you get to enjoy them the most. One of those 4ft lights can have a lot of plants under it, and energy-wise it’s like one regular light bulb. I’ve been meaning to write more about light and grow lights forever.

Could be lack of light, nutrients or too low humidity. I’ve had barely rooted cutting get covered in flower, but once I took them out of the warm and moist propagation ziplock bag, they just refused to flower for a long time.

To write this you may have worked for research.

King regards,
Lunding Zacho