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[Frog Pajamas]

Got shoots now on the 2, 3, 6, and 7! It's happening!!  <3

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[BubbleCat]

Good news here too !

After the suprisingly early shoots on the leaf in perlite (4 shoots) Ive got shoots on all three leaves in a perlite vermiculite mix, and shoots on a heavily trimmed back leaf in potting mix

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[BubbleCat]

This was naaaaaaat exactly my intensions, well as far as I can tell the Psychotria appears fine but theres a mushroom, should I reduce moisture or can the P simply coexist with my shroom, can I find out what kind of mushroom it is with considerable effort ? Maybe someone on here knows to ID shrooms ?

[TBM]

Hmmm.... not sure what species, looks like the sprouts are doing alright, does it smell bad?

[BubbleCat]

Nah, and in fact the soil was pretty dry i have just watered it. So theres no obstacles to their coexistence ? maybe its even beneficial ?

[Toxicodendron]

Having just received a cache of leaf cuttings, I have a chance to show a pic or two of how I root Psychotria usually.

Nothing new here, other than to add that the mix is ProMix with live mycorrhizae. I mist with very light H2O2 solution to keep mold spores at bay. Two levels down on a chrome kitchen shelf from a 4 bulb T-5 fixture.

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[Greench]

Is propagation of P. Alba identical to P. Viridis?
What would you do with that? Nothing, cover with a bit of soil or transplant/bury entirely?

Cheers!

[TBM]

The techniques posted here for P. viridis should work for P. alba, looks like it's already rooting!

[BubbleCat]

I decided to vent my PV, since they almost always sit fully sealed with their 100% humidity. I used the opportunity to take a picture. It really amazes me nothing is moldy.

As far as I can tell by now:

The leaves can survive extremely long as long they dont dry out. Choping up a leaf would result in several plants. Roots and shoots do nearly only appear underground. Also roots and shoots are most likely to appear where the leaf was damaged, either by cutting, sunburn and other spots, or snapping. So yeah they really like a rough handling before planting and even tho they arrive in poor condition they'll still pick up.

The mushroom PV did peacefully coexist with its companion.

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[Greench]

looks like it's already rooting!

Yup, that's the only leaf that is sprouting aerial roots like that (on both sides of the leaf!), along the main vein.
I'm just not sure if I should cover them, or transplant and risk damage, or do nothing and wait.

Also, when roots have appeared, do you still keep the cuttings at 100% RH until shoots appear?

Regarding my very limited experience in rooting these :
- snapping the main vein doesn't seem to work for me. The roots always appear at the end of the petiole.
- I did get roots from small bits of leaves (smaller than a square inch), but no shoots yet.
- a very simple method that seems to work well is to put the leaf in a closed jar with an inch of water at the bottom. Once in a while, I open the jar to renew air and change the water.

[Frog Pajamas]

It should be totally fine if you leave the aerial roots alone. The little plantlet will grow happily right there, and the high humidity will protect the roots.

You probably want to keep the humidity at 100% as long as they're attached to the mother leaf. It acts like a solar panel feeding the babies, and it will hold up a long time in humidity and not otherwise.

A lot of people cut a majority of the leaf off and replant it for separate new plants once sprouts come up, and that works well. I prefer to leave the leaf with the first sprouts attached until the leaf is totally shot.

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[Chicsa]

Nexus Hybrid and #3
Photoed is Nexus Hybrid which I assume was first.

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[Bach]

This is your goal. 

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[Bach]

The first pic is one of my propagation benches. There are relatively new specimens from Selby Gardens, the Kampong, and a Shipibo strain, as well as the Nexus hybrid and several other non-Pv oddities and rarities that shall go unnamed...

The second pic is a batch of babies that germinated in the pot of one of the mother plants. I'm gonna have more than I know what to do with. (And that's not a bad thing!)

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[sporehead]

How much light can this plant take? I have baby carthagenesis that have been around for a month or more. Th3y are in indirect light leaning to more light. The yage group is in full sun here.