GLOXINIA. Can anyone offer any advice on propogating and growing gloxinias

Can anyone offer any advice on propogating and growing gloxinias

grow them from seed. They like to be kept on the dry side and have good filtered light - similar requirements to African violets. I grew them as my crop at Massey when studying horticulture. One young plant had 36 flowers on it at once!

By Gloxinia, do you mean Sinningia speciosa hybrids or Gloxinia perennis!

If you mean G. perennis then it's a largish growing plant which likes it warm, bright and moist while it is growing and a bit dryer while it is dormant in winter. It can be propagated by divisions of the rhizomes and i have falied to get seed on any of mine so think it's self fertile.
There were a bunch of other things which are passed around as Gloxinia species which are in fact now Seemannia species and some hybrids. These do very well outside in Auckland.

If you mean the peloric Sinningia speciosa hybrids which are often sold as Gloxinias then these are a tuberous plant which likes it moist but not wet. I moved two from the glasshouse for mum to put inside her house yesterday. Sadly these seem really susceptible to getting a brown rot in the center and this can cause all the buds to drop off. They need to be dried out a bit when they finished flowering to encourage the plant to die back to the tuber otherwise the stems will keep going and the plant will look tatty. Otherwise they like a fair amount of water, but if inside i would suggest drying them out between waterings so they don't get too wet and rot. They can be propagated from leaf cuttings, stem cuttings and seed which is sometimes hard to obtain. Leaf cuttings have a tendency to produce blind tubers which never sprout but i've never had this problem. I'll sometimes cut and replant the stem when it's finished flowering. This causes the remaining tuber to either go dormant or grow new stems and the spent stem will grow a new tuber.

Please don't mention african violets. I am about to chuck mine on the compost heap. Fickle things will not flower for me, but yet a certain friend has hers blooming practically year round. Blardy things.

African violets are a bit more finicky for me too. They can go for ages flowering and then ages without. As long as they look healthy they are usually ok though. Pretty hard to find decent ones these days too.

Gloxinia are very easy to grow from seed Gand you can get the seed from Egmont online.
Just be aware that they take 7 months from germination to flowering and are best watered from the base like violets to prevent rotting.
They are also easily propagated from leaf cuttings but still take several months to flower.
As soon as I can find out how to upload photos to my ipad ill post what grew and still have. Growing from last year.
The range of colours both single and double is quite impressive.

Sorry found my photos but how do i upload

At the top of this page, go to My Trade me, then view my trade me.down the bottom click on my pictures then upload your pic.View the picture then highlight and copy the link in the address bar (the www one) and paste it into a post back here.I hope that makes sense.It took me ages to work it out as I struggled to understand everyones instructions.I hope mine make it easier for you.

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Thanks gardie. Think I've got it now

well done, what a beautiful collection

Thank you for that - if you are challenged by them maybe I'll let them off death row, seeing I take that as meaning I shouldn't be insulted by their wickedness, lol.

As for that glorious photo - AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!