lorba

The elliptica flowered a few days ago. The plant doesnt seems to do well with melting leaves, but still it flowered.

Ghazanfar Ghori

Reddish colored flower? Nice varient!

Khamul1of9

Very cool looking. I like it!

AaronT

Nice flower Roland. I had this one flowering constantly for 3-4 weeks, but it seems to have stopped finally. I'm hoping it will put some energy into runners for a change.

Kai Witte

Congrats, Roland, and great pics again, Alan!

Aaron, no runners with elliptica - you need to work on the leaves for propagation. If you carefully tuck away one of the old leaves, chances are that there's already a plantlet developing. Roland's plant has already some growing at the base of his mother plant.

AaronT

I actually did this a few weeks ago and I had about 5-6 leaves sprouting new plants and then for no reason they all melted. I'll be sure to try again when I get enough leaves on the mother plant.

Kai Witte

I'd suggest to remove one or only a few leaves at a time. I prefer older leaves but too old leaves may not persist long enough for giving the plantlets a good head-start.

How did your nursery set-up looked like, Aaron? Any pics?

AaronT

Here's a picture of my elliptica that I just took this afternoon. It appears that one of the new sprouts is still going strong.

Kai Witte

Hello Aaron,

That looks pretty good to me. I guess you still can remove one more leaf...

I'd suggest to lower the water level for sprouting plantlets: They tend to grow faster when the developing small leaves reach above the surface (while the old leaves stay fully submersed or at least on very soggy substrate).