Resnova megaphylla

[Rdevries]

Resnova megaphylla is beginning to emerge

[Rdevries]

Resnova pilosa

[MarcR]

Very Nice!

[Rdevries]

Resnova from leaf cuttings. Clay pot of 2018 cuttings (4years) a d plastic pot of 2019 cuttings of a dark leafed form (3 years)

[Diane Whitehead]

How do you make the leaf cuttings?  Will any piece of leaf work?

[David Pilling]

There is a PBS wiki page featuring Rimmer's leaf cuttings here:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/LeafCuttings

I belive he did a post about them in May '21:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2021-May/dt7l0g3j3dup0g63hqr0997716.html

[Diane Whitehead]

I don't grow Resnova, but there are a number of other genera in the same family that I do grow, so I will have fun experimenting with them.

I wonder if other families can also be propagated this way. Shall I chop some tulip or narcissus leaves? Nerine? Clivia?

[David Pilling]

Diane see the leaf cutting page for more gennera. I was going to do some experiments but did not get around to it - seemingly things like snowdrops and narcissus can be propagated this way.

[Diane Whitehead]

Snowdrops!  Now if I had one of those thousand dollar ones, I could impress everyone with a million dollar clump.

[David Pilling]

Pulling a leaf off your $1000 snowdrop would be less emotional labor than cutting it into quarters.

[Rdevries]

Diane, 
You probably need to find leaves early in their season, so too late for tulips. I suspect tulips could make bulblets on a damaged flower scape early in season when the bud is emerging. 
Lilies yes, if you chop off the top of the plant before the flower bud form to make bulbils on the wound.

I damaged a scape on the thog from Ceres before the second (flowering) one emerged and the 99% severed stem made bulblets in lieu of the flower.  Which is cool because i never get seed or offsets on this plant. 

In Last years discussion someone stated that leaf cutting do not work on Ledebouria. You should test this! 
Now is the time to take resnova leaf cuttings. 

[David Pilling]

Lilies - sort of chimes with what I heard in the distant past. Many lilies form bulbils on their stems, but many do not. I wonder if all are open to leaf cuttings.

There is a post on the PBS list about Clivia leaves growing bulblets.

[Steve Marak]

In Last years discussion someone stated that leaf cutting do not work on Ledebouria. You should test this!
Now is the time to take resnova leaf cuttings. 

Interesting. I was one of those last year asking about propagating Ledebouria from leaf cuttings. I have several L. zebrina I'd like to propagate, and none has ever made an offset. I tried several cuttings from each of them last year, taken after flowering but well before any signs of leaf senescence. Total failure. But I'll try again this year, with younger leaves.

Rimmer, in general your Resnova seem to have better leaf markings that mine - you can see a good one and a not-so-good one in the attached image. I've managed to set seed on the Resnova again this year,  but I'll try a few leaf cuttings of those too.

Steve

[Martin Bohnet]

Sorry Steve, I guess that wet wrong: you've attached two identical images - including the filename.

Besides, I'm thinking about splitting this topic - but let's see where it moves. Personally, I've only done the classic leaf cuttings: Eucomis, Saintpaulina , Streptocarpus....

[Steve Marak]

Martin, yes, I find the picture attachment process here strangely counterintuitive; I thought I'd deleted the duplicate and replaced it with the correct one. But during the battle I had to kill that browser tab, so something may have been left in process. We'll see if I've learned anything soon.

Back on topic, I've taken a couple of Ledebouria leaf cuttings, much earlier than last year, to see if that improves my success rate. It wouldn't take much since it was zero last year.

Steve