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Hello everyone,

I was looking over my plants this morning (as I do every morning) and had a look at a leaf that fell off one of my Pinguicula when I repotted it a while ago. I placed the leaf on the surface of the soil not expecting anything but it has struck and two new planetlets are growing from it!

In the past I've had incidents where while repotting, leaves have fallen off my Mexican Pinguicula (especially winter buds, they can be very fragile), I have then taken these leaves and stuck them on the surface of the soil just to have them burst into life a couple of months later. They don't seem to need any special care whatsoever and are happy just to be left somewhere warm and damp.

I have at least seven new plantlets because of accidental leaf pullings and I wanted to share this information for those who may find leaves seperate from the adult plant during repotting - especially non-carnivorous winter ones.

Hooray!

hey congrats! what speices was it?

Thank you. The leaf that I recently noticed sprouting is a Pinguicula Cyclosecta.

well done hope they do well
and remember dont cook them!

Awesome, congratulations Grey!

Nice Good luck with the "pullings!"

Thank you very much! I was suprised when I realized; it just goes to show how hardy these plants are.

I'm sure it's Glenn who has had them sprouting in some gravel on the floor before (Correct me if i'm wrong Glenn)

Anyway, good luck with em', i hope the casualties can grow they're bodies back