Jean, IKR! So many of them with purplish foliage.
TY for the work you did on that post, Tarev! IME with Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi leaf-edge babies, they lose the variegation. Stem cuttings seem to be the way to go to preserve that. I ended up with a small forest of those this year, send excess to about 10 people. Just took pics of some of the plants that are still here.
These plants have been in their places since March (but not the K. delagoensis babies also in the pic.) The ones started as leaf-edge babies last summer and over winter have never developed any variegation, and are as big as mama plants by now.
The one here is hard to capture in pics, it's about 18" & leaning sideways on its' companions ever since a strong wind about 6 weeks ago, K. blossfeldiana & x houghtonii. It's about 2 yrs old.
This is my fav specimen. All of my plants of this species came various propagations of a little single-stem clearance plant bought a few yrs ago.
Here are babies from removing leaves of both variegated & non. The non-variegated ones have resulted in a whole new crop of non-variegated babies, as expected. (They look a lot like K. marnieriana until they start to get some age.) The variegated leaves make albino pups that never make roots, at least on the ground at my house & inside over winter. Just like what's said about 'Pink Butterflies.'
These were still in place around the shriveled variegated mama leaf (unrecognizably brown, crispy) until a few mins ago. I turned them all upside-down, no roots.
I "almost" had K. marmorata. I was sent a few leaves in June but they didn't make babies, they just shriveled. I was so bummed! One was about as big around as a softball, with beautiful markings. On my list to try again next year, assuming I can arrange a trade or for-postage.
...what babies start out purple, just like their mama?
