u/Lambchop1975

Image 1 — A reddit user explained that blister variegation isn't white pigment. It is tiny bubbles reflecting just under the surface.
Image 2 — A reddit user explained that blister variegation isn't white pigment. It is tiny bubbles reflecting just under the surface.
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A reddit user explained that blister variegation isn't white pigment. It is tiny bubbles reflecting just under the surface.

Here is a microscopic image of the blister variegation, and the plant the leaf sample came from. Thank you u/feedme_cyanide, for your explanation and the rabbit hole of discovery.

u/Lambchop1975 — 22 hours ago

From seedling to this, never been cut. I have been waiting for it to show signs of distress from weight.

I put the hitchhiker into a b. Medora, that was as a clone that was to replace a mother. I thought it was a begonia sprout, but it turned into this crazy trailing beauty. I just want to see how far it will go.

u/Lambchop1975 — 5 days ago

I only add cal-mag once a month to my plants, but, I notice when my anthurium make leaves a couple weeks after the cal mag, they have this speckled look, and when I give them cal mag the leaves aren't like that. I am worried that too much cal mag will be detrimental though and want to be careful.

Do those if you who are successful use cal mag all the time? Could this be from too high of humidity? My daytime humidity is 70+ and nighttime is 98-99.

I would love to not have speckled leaves, any advice would be awesome.

For now I am also doing them in hydroponics, and am going to switch a couple over to a light airoid mix. And see if that has a difference.

u/Lambchop1975 — 11 days ago