With all the excess plants I made a couple cheap pseudobonsai...

The plants I have that grow fast enough to share often are...
Tradescantia zebrina (wandering Jew,)
Callisia fragrans,
heart-leaf Philo,
Strobilanthes dyerianus (Persian shield,)
one particular cane Begonia I think is called 'Castaway,' Dracaena marginata,
Sansevieria trifasciata,
plain green spider plant.
And the star of the whole show - Coleus!!

jades
mini jades
echeveria
aeonium
several ficus species
maples
schefflera
serissa
santolina
eugenia
luma
are a few of the plants I most often propagate, along with a long list of temperate deciduous trees and evergreens.
I propagate a LOT of material expressly to give away, especially to bonsai pals - most of it is either woody or a succulent. I don't have a lot of interest in herbaceous houseplants, but I do buy & grow some of the ones that often give people the most problems, just so I'm familiar with their growth habits and so I know I can get them to perform well for me. I like a challenge.

Al

My most common propagations are Jades, with Portulacaria being a close second.
After that, the classic Wandering Jew, and then Hoya and Trident Maple.

Josh

I attempted growing Ledebourias in teeny containers, but new bulbs continued growing. How can bulb growth be prevented? Or is it impossible? My intentions were to grow as a fat plant. One solo plant.

If family/friends enjoy plants, Ledebourias in a shell are great gift plants..Good idea. Toni

summersunshine,
Do you have a different Ledebouria than mine? cause socialis has a few varying types and other species are so cool! I am pretty hooked on them right now and would love some other kinds!

hopefulauthor,
Thanks! and I haven't quite gotten the watering down, and with winter I'll need to change the frequency again, so... But right now several days after it dries completely, maybe once a week. I have no idea how to slow it down, they do get a little wider at the base though, the mother plant is just under an inch in diameter.

I havent had much luck propagating, just the basics like spider babies, pothos, and purple velvet plant...but everyone seems to have those plants already or are really easy to find and cheap to buy , so they're no fun...I really want to propagate the fun plants, plants that are more harder to find....like I have a ton of pregnant onion babies, but none of them will root...they just sit their...

I have a small round terrarium type thing (it's actually a fruit keeper, it's see-through and has holes on the bottom) and I keep small cuttings of just about everything in it...right now I have one adult red earth star and 4 babies (hoping to root the babies), some Thankgiving cuttings, peperomia prostrata and dischidia ruscifolia and Pilea 'aquamarine' cuttings, african violet leaves, and watermelon peperomia leaves to hopefully root and grow new plantlets...all these are meant for sharing if they would root.....well actually most have rooted but they just sit there doing nothing...collecting dust...

-FPT

My oldest Led flowers in winter, so they don't go completely dormant, 'like many other bulbs.'

Ledebouria leaves don't die back.. It's evergreen.

One Ebay seller has cute, little plants in shells..I don't know how, but she drills holes on either side of shells, then inserts wire through the holes so plant can hang. The top of wire is bent, similar to clothing hanger.

hopefulauthor,
I just try to make sure there isn't any water at the bottom, and it's just that I heard that they slowdown in the winter and don't need as much water. Hanging shells sound more functional than round soil filled ones on a flat surface! lol, I'll probably spill one of them before next week!

I ordered it at Aridlands nursery, I was gonna get Ledebouria socialis, but they only had 3inch pots of them and I wanted a bigger, more established plant, and these two look so much alike, so I decided to get the 6inch pot of these (I would of ordered both but I didnt have enough on my card at that moment lol)-

Here is one of them that was seperated-

A woman/seller on Ebay places small plants in shells. The shell has a metal wire hanger. A few years ago, I bought a variegated Dischidia/Ant Plant in the hanging shell. Her prices are very reasonable.

Anyway, The shell was on the front door 'glass'..used a suction cup hook.
One day dh left the house, slammed the door..there went the shell and plant..lol. The shell cracked in several pieces. If the floor had carpet, it might not have cracked, but the floor is ceramic tiles.

FPT..please keep us posted whether or not your Ledebouria will grow as a single plant without side bulbs. Also, how large the bulb gets.
Wonder if mom would die if side bulbs were constantly removed.

Good luck. Toni

Toni - the tendency for this plant to form offset bulbs is obligate, which means it's programmed into its genetic make-up, so it's always going to express that behavior as it reaches sexual maturity. I've never tried repeatedly removing the offsets and seeing how large the bulb will get, but if you have something like a plant with a large caudex in the back of your mind, I think the result of that would be pretty disappointing, but I am not positive about that - just a guess. It might be kind of like trying to grow tulip bulbs or daffodils extra large by removing their offsets. Probably the most significant difference between those plants in that regard is the L socialis tends to want to grow at the surface, where it's easy for us to see what's going on.

Al