Congrats! I see another propagation addict in making ;-))!

Just continue what you are doing. I think you can start fertilizing a bit - very weak solution. The mama leaf is looking pretty ratty, soon you can cut it off. Better to have 4 leaves on a young one before you can repot it. I see that you rooted it in sphagnum moss - it is a good prevention for any kind of rot - but not a good media for further growing - because it is too acid. But right now I would just let it grow a bit more before repotting into the soil in a smal pot - solo cup, keurig coffee container.. etc.

i.

Thanks iria_co. I think I might become a propagation addict!!! I get so excited seeing something I planted grow. :) The type of soil I used was AV specific soil, not sphagnum moss. It looks like moss in the picture but it's not.. unless it's in the soil. Thanks for the advice to just leave it for now and start to fertilize it a bit. I have fertilizer so I'll use a tiny bit. I can't wait to see more growth and then put it into a new pot. So should it be repotted into something smaller than what it's in now? It's in the bottom half of a small plastic water bottle like Nestle Pure Life water bottle about 3 inches high and about 2-3 inches wide. Is that too big?

I think it will eventually grow into it. I personally prefer solo cups - they are 3oz volume I think. People who grow miniatures acquire 1 oz plastic cups to start with - like the ones they use in the hospitals to dispense pills. And move them into 2 inch wide pots later.

Since I prefer standard size AVs - my first pot is a Solo cup - or about. The purpose of starting small - you can slip pot them into larger pots when they get bigger without disturbing the root bal - and they love fresh soil.

I.

Hi Barbara, additional suggestion: break the leaf "leg" shorter - leave about 1" long, break a tip of the leaf, so the leaf itself will not be growing, and stick it to the soil up to the leaf (that's what I do). You'll get babies sooner.

Are you saying to break off part of the main leaf with some stem and plant that part in the soil too? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

I think that she's saying ... about planting a leaf to propagate ...

Cut the stem at about an inch long. This is something I had to learn as earlier I would leave the stem longer. Cutting the stem shorter means that the developing plantlets won't have as far to grow to break through the soil to the light.

And as for cutting off a portion of the leaf itself ... supposedly that signals the leaf to put all of its energy into growing plantlets, rather than growing the leaf itself. This is not something I have personally tried, but some swear by it.

You're beyond that point now. I agree with Irina ... cut the mother leaf off (and discard) soon. It has done its job already for you.

Thanks for explaining that aegis1000. I cut off the mother leaf and now there's a third leaf popping up through the soil. It's sooo exciting. I can't wait to pull it out and start it in a new pot. I hope that there aren't any other little leaves trying to pop up through the soil and can't make it. So once I see a fourth leaf coming up, I can take off the mother stem and repot it?

It looks like your mother leaf is done.

No need to repot it.

Wait until your plantlets have dime sized leaves before you attempt to move them.

Ok.. I'll do that. Thanks.