I used to not get as much spam, but now I get 100s of posts a week, and I hate it! Takes forever to sort through messages. I’ve not done anything about it yet, since I haven’t had much time and I’ve neglected this site for so long now. If I find anything that works I’ll let you know!

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

After years of growing african violets I now have one small false african
or streptocarpella, a cutting given by a special lady from Saxmundham UK.
She owned a caring agency, I was a carer. The cutting in 2012 then small in
size, flowered in 2013. Then I kept cutting it back making 3 to 4 new plants.
The cuttings did well sitting in a mini plastic container in rain water.

Soil was a problem, & not easy to grow from a cutting.
Last late summer autumn I trimmed it back, minimal watering, in semi
light window behind net curtains, no growth until summer 2020.
I have streptocarpella food tablets, ( one monthly ).

Now doing very well tho not flowered since 2013. I vow not to trim back
let it grow in hope it flowers. Trim will disrupt flowering as above replies say.

The sun shines most winter at front kitchen window most of day perfect for the strepto here in Suffolk.