sedumzz said:The Primulina patina leaf baby #2 has some interesting leaf shapes.
Yes. One would wonder if it is really he same cultivar, but it is! (I only have 3 cultivars of variegated primulinas, each is very different and I can't mix them up.) I believe it has gotten a bigger dose of fertilizer. Don't pay much attention to the shades/hues of color between the 3 shots. They all had the exact same background and you can see they
look different. The middle one shows the most accurate leaf colors. When I took all these pics, I had to use different camera settngs: white balance for all that blue in the Kohleria shot, some are focus stacked (and different lenses to accomodate), and all in low artificial light. Sometimes I don't get to return all the camera settings back to "normal".
Also, I had gotten of bunch of those cement pots that leaf baby #2 is in. I like them so much because they add a lot of weight to what would otherwise be light and easy to tip over. (Gesneriads all seem to like little "undersized" pots.) Although the cement pots have a not very uniform coating (acrylic or something) brushed in the inside surface, I wonder if some lime is leaching into the soil mix. Mel Grice, one of the gesneriad gurus, mentioned in a video about putting limestone in the mix. And I water with rain water, not high pH tap water. And to add even more vexing thoughts... I had first soaked in a vinegar solution a couple pf these pots that I've already planted in, hoping to remove some of the lime, but now I don't remember which is which!
