r/begonias

I'm into begonias right now. But there's more on the way! My husband might divorce me!😂

She done took over the whole tank 😂😍

It looks like it has a lot of height just wondering if that’s normal? ❤️🤞🏻

I've had this guy for a couple of years now. It's growing slowly, more out to the sides and the leaves are still rather small. Is this normal, I've seen others that grow more upright with larger leaves. I have it under a grow light, maybe it's too much light? The variegation is lovely though.

There are just 2 kinds and I keep propagating them and making babies, they grow so fast! But I'm not sure how I should be watering them. I water about once a week, when the leaves start to feel thin. When should I repot them? How can I encourage flowering?

Long story short, I accidentally got this cane begonia called a “snow capped” when an order from a nursery got mixed up and was mailed the wrong order, but I digress. It sat in a package that was shipped across the country to get to me and she looks SO sad. While I told myself I’d never own another (because I’ve killed literally every one I’ve ever gotten) I feel like the plant gods want me to try again. So here I am trying to ask for help on what to do to try and save this sad girl.

She is now living in my greenhouse cabinet that is weatherstripped and has a humidifier + grow lights. What can I do to get her to stand up and not droop over? Right now I have her with a pole to help her stand up but it doesn’t seem to be doing a whole lot. And no, I do not have a taller one 😭 Do I need to chop + prop or just give her time to acclimate?

My sister gifted me my little begonia friend on the left when my partner and I first officially moved into a rented apartment together as a housewarming present. Here it is two years later!
Ignore the skirting boards it’s a rented apartment and it came like that.

Can someone help me figure out why every leaf burns? I treat my tap water but this is still continuing to happen. Not really sure what else to try. I brought them inside to try to control things a little more they barely had if any direct sunlight outside.

EDIT: adding this information to curve the humidity comments. Ive got 20 or so begonia and all my rex are in a pretty airy mix that gets dry every 3-5 days and I top water once the top inch or so gets dry. We've had a heatwave recently where Im at and id say upper 90s if not 100 plus some days but extremely high humidity. Even indoors where I keep any of them its 60% humidity. I use tap water treatment to dechlorinate my tap water. This one in particular along with 10 or so other are on a west NW facing balcony that get some direct sunlight though tree branches for an hour or so through the afternoon but are mostly in shade.

Beautiful leaves of silver, green, purple, and red. Tiny white/pink flowers. Obviously a rex begonia, but what kind? Google says Fireworks but I'm not buying it, closest I can find is a Jurassic Jr. Fire Spike but it's just not quite looking the same to me. Any clue who she is? This is probably my favorite of all my plants. 🥰

Do I have too many begonia?

(No it's the shelf space that is wrong)

This is the shelf I keep my rexes/other rhizomatous begonia. The canes are mostly elsewhere.

hello, picked up these babies last week.

i googled them all and i know how to care for them, i am just curious what real people think each variety is.

can anyone help me id most of these? i think a couple are the same.

one more i forgot in the comments.

thanks!

I think she looks soo special 🥹

It’s a Begonia solimutata, I love the colors and the texture

She was so damn thirsty but what a deal!

I just bought this cane Begonia today from a local nursery. Can anyone help identifying what type of Begonia this is? The label says it’s a Maculata but from my experience the Maculatas leaves are much bigger and droop down. Can anyone help me confirm?