What size pot should I grow my Episcia in? Can I grow more than one plant in a pot?
Episcias, like African violets and most gesneriads, are relatively shallow-rooted plants that don’t need a very deep pot. As your plant grows, you can repot it into a larger diameter, but not much deeper, pot. This means that “azalea” or “pan” pots are better than standard pots, since they are more wide than deep. Somethimes this means you need to be creative, since large but shallow pots can be difficult to find. We’ve used deeper pots that we’ve cut-down to make shallow, and have some of our larger plants in saucers that we’ve drilled holes into for drainage. None of these pots are more than a few inches deep, even for the largest of plants. In many ways, episcia and other stolon-producing or spreading gesneriads can be treated much like trailing African violets. All grow very well in shallow pots. Our older, larger, trailing violets are grown in the same saucers. We grow both as “ground covers”, in the sense that we like to cover a large area of soil with dense growth, rather than a
