My Restrepia "slip" Is Growing!

[Azure]

I had been hearing about how restrepia could be propagated by taking a leaf off at the base and sticking it in some sphag until it sprouted. Of course, at some point, one of the leaves fell off my plant while I was tugging off old flower stems. It was an older one which from my reading was out of the ideal time range to sprout, but I decided to do so anyway. Here's the results about two months later. There's a leaf bud thingie in there somewhere!

(I know I was a bad, bad girl and took it out and chanced damaging it, but I haaaaaad to see! )

[mehitabel]

I agree! That is really wonderful! Just too, too fabulous.

[lmartiny]

That is neat. If I had one, I'd try it. I'm always messing around with plant cuttings.

[Azure]

It really is very cool! It's also one of the reasons I chose this plant, other than I just love the bug-iness of the flowers. I would really suggest them to anyone- they bloom on, and on. Also, I managed to rot off the beginning of a new leaf, and it's making a new one no problem.

[trinigirl]

That's great, those roots sure are nice looking. It's nice that there is an orchid that can be easily propagated by leaves. I hope it gets nice and big.

[LouisW]

Only with my recent opertunities to see wild pleurothallids have I learned how crazy they are about keiking from the base of their leaves. Wild plants are covered with keikis and roots are everywhere.

[Rivka]

i have a Restrepia guttulata that got a small keiki at a flower point (same as your root spot at the base of the leaf and i finnaly took it off hte main plant and potted it up right next to it, it is growing well and has finally started its second leaf.

it seems to me that most of hte leaves want to start growing rots or keikis or soemthing, and i can see slowly getting more growth points by acatioanlly takingthem of the main plant and incuraging them. hopefull someday i will have a reall full little chid, right now i'm just happy that it looks like it is fianlly going to bloom for me, first time since i brought it home in Feb.
My Restrepia Sanguinea blooms freely and has every since early spring, but only one beautiful short lived flower at a time, wonder if i can get a few more growths at a time on that one maybe in the end i can get a few more flower??? mmmmmm

they really are such great little treats!