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I didn't mean to! I knocked it off when it was at it's fattest this spring and it sat in the orchid's pot all summer. I have hurt my foot and can't get around that much to water, so DH had been doing it....maybe every week or 2 for the whole summer. There isn't any direct sun into the window in the summertime; just brightness. I don't know how/why it decided to put that tiny, little root down. We've lost the high humidity of the monsoon season and the leaf was getting wilted, so I picked it up to throw it away and saw the root... I put a plastic bag over it to help with the humidity. If it grows, I will probably just put it in with the "mother".
Ah, It's just the luck of the ignorant! The leaf was so fat and healthy looking that I never "saw" it as being out of place the few times that I checked on the plants this summer. The hoya and the orchid sit side-by-side and both were doing so well that all of my attention was on the violets, instead