The propagation post I made a little over a month ago featured one leaf that I had plucked form one of my butterwort plants, aka piguicula plants. I had stood the leaf up in some peat moss and waited. Little plants came to sprout from the edges of that leaf.

Then, I made an update showing the four little plants ready for separation from the parent leaf (bottom photo). Since then, I have separated them all but I left that same father-leaf standing in peat moss to see if anything would happen. It has happened. Two more little plants are spouting from that same old tired leaf.

Here is a picture of all of them together, which is six weeks of plant propagation.

The parent leaf acts as a root system for the tiny plants. They grow and draw their energy from the single leaf from which they sprout. Whey I am sure they have sprouted real roots, I lift them up and separate them from the parent leaf, done two weeks ago. Now you see four plants next to the parent leaf. When two plants grow together (lower right) they need to be mature before separating them. I will wait a few more weeks.

Then you have the two minuscule babies being born, which really surprises me. I have done many, many propagation attempts and there are times that I don't get little plants. Many times, the parent leaves just whither.

You can easily tell that this is the same leaf I had featured in this photo from three weeks ago. You can also see the how much the little pinguiculas have grown in that short time.

They seem to have a certain lust for life.

Any time you see a black spot on these leaves, you can be sure it was lunch from days before. Anything small that lands on them gets stuck, obligated to stay for dinner. If the catch is big enough, it can cause "leaf burn", seen on the largest plant in the middle picture.

These plants are supposed to go into a dormant phase when winter comes. Winter is here now. So why are the pinguiculas reproducing? I also have a Drosera Capensis starting to flower. It is as if they know they are living with someone from the norther hemisphere or something.