Interesting project and nice pictures, Komi. Hope you keep posting. I find streps very hard to grow down here, especially with the price of air-conditioning, but I still love 'em and love to see pictures. Maybe if I can figure out the various processes, I'll post some pictures of my hardy gessies as they come back up. Something is showing today--silly little thing doesn't know we could actually get some cold-for-here weather still. I'm really excited about growing more hardy ones. Think I lost at least one, Sinningia piresiana.