Marys -

they root really easily. If a stolon is still attached to the mother plant - you can pin it to the soil, it will root, and you can separate and pot it up. If you have it cut off - you can pot it in a light soil or sphagnum moss, cover the pot or put it in a ziplock baggie to increase humidity - and it will root too. Episcia can grow roots from any place on its stems, not only from the leaf nodes, so when you cut a stolon off, leave a stem and cover it with a soil too.

Good Luck

irina

Thanks for your help! I'm wondering if you can root them in water. I put some that were given to me in a small jar of water until I could take care of them and they seem to be very happy and content in the jar. Have you ever tried this?

Marys -

something is always sitting in a water waiting to be potted at my house - but usually I can do it for only so long before the cuttings rot. AVs grow roots, but the rest of them gessies - do not (for me at least). And looks like the roots they can grow are "water" roots, so it is better to have them grow permanent roots - in a soil or sphagnum moss
or perlite or vermiculite etc.

Cheers

Irina

Actually, I have a bunch of them rooted in water, hanging over my kitchen sink. That's how I start them, usually. The roots do tend to start at the leaf axils, so I trim the cutting so its bottom is just below one and trim off those leaves. Ready to pot up in a couple weeks from pruning. These will be about right for holiday gifts.

perL