During the greenhouse cultivation of S. cardinalis evaluated in this experiment and other cultivars such as S. cardinalis ‘Innocent’and Gesneria macrantha Walp ‘Compacta’, seedlings flowered in less than year from the date of sowing seeds and grown in 10 cm pots.However, there was no previously published information found on the requirements for temperature and irradiance to produce S. cardinalis and other Gesneriaceae as potted plants on a short stem with many flowers in one year.