You say the leaves are looking terrible. How are they looking terrible? Do they have white specks on them. Are they just droopy. White specks are a sign of spider mite. The bane of impatients. Insecticidal soap helps but you have to spray it often, and get the undersides of the leaves, because they hatch out every 3 to 5 days. Wilting leaves could be a sign of too much water or over fertilizing or maybe the soil it was planted in or even too cool temperatures. It's hard to say without actually seeing the plant. How often do you water. In a planter the size in cooler weather you probably only need to water once a week or even longer. Impatients are very prone to root rot if they are watered too often. As for taking cuttings for any impatients including the new guinea ones, I've done it for years. Cut about a 4 inch piece from the growing tip of a branch. In a pail or container mix a good well draining soil like pro-mix with water so it is moist throughout but not sopping. fill your pots. Dip the cut end of your slip in rooting hormone--I use stim-root NO. 1. With your finger or stick dibble a hole in the soil and drop in your cutting and cover it in. You will know it's rooted when it shows new growth. This usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. Keep the soil moist but not overly wet and don't fertilize for a couple of months until the plant has lots of roots

Wow! Nice to see so many fans of the grill I just purchased! I had Tuesday off (June 18) and was getting ready for a party that night. So I went to my local San Leandro Costco to get chips etc. Well, there on the floor were four Virco grills, one out of the box. I took one look, and wished I had brought my truck. I was back later that day with the truck and brought one home. IMHO a full size pickup truck is needed to carry this thing. I also had some ignitor problems but after adjustment of the gaps they all seem to work ok. I also fiddled with the connectors underneath the control panel and that seemed to help. I also found some fraying of the glass fabric cover on the ignitor wiring to the rear rotisserie burner, where it exits the back of the cabinet. I moved the whole cable up a bit to expose an unfrayed portion to the metal edge. I'm planning on wrapping the cable with some heat resistant tubing where it goes through that area, to prevent more fraying. I had a similar problem with a table-top patio heater I got at Costco a while ago. The ignitor cable frayed and shorted out on some metal. Easy enough to fix once I discovered the cause. I cooked a rib steak on it last night and it came out great. It was kind of hard to see some of that beautiful stainless get carbonized, but what the heck, it's a BBQ grille. The right door on mine has a very minor crease in it,which it took me a couple of days to notice. I'm not about to return this behemoth because of that! The burners all seem to function perfectly, with nice blue flames. Oh, I don't think the handle and the shelf are interchangeable. The spacing on the bolt holes are wider for the shelf than for the handle. Still have to hook up the rotisserie motor. I'll probably do a chicken tomorrow. All in all this is a beautiful, extremely well made grill. I've been using charcoal for years... I have a Kingsford egg shaped grille that I use to roast chicken and turkey. It comes out great, but I'm tired of all the smoke inhalation I inevitably get doing this. I also have a New Braunfels horizontal smoker with separate fire box. I have been consistently disappointed with the dried out results I get with this one. It's also very labor intensive, adding just the right amount of wood/charcoal and trying to keep the temperature even. I'm keeping both, because sometimes you just want that real smoke, but the Virco Classic will be my main grill. Faster and cleaner! Oh, and thanks to those who posted the info on the natural gas conversion. I'm going to order one of those kits right away. I'll have to run the gas line a considerable distance to the patio, but it will be worth it in the long run. One minor complaint: the wheel locks are very hard to get at... but they do work. Just for grins, I took a magnet to the whole unit. It's nearly all 304 non-magnetic. The only magnetic parts I found was the surround for the ceramic rear burner, and some nuts holding the chassis bolts under the cooking unit. As for the stainless burner tubes not holding up to heat, I hope they do ok. After all, they use stainless steel for automotive exhaust systems... which contain a lot more corrosive gases than propane.

We are looking for gas grill that will get lots of use year round. Will have NG hookup. Looking for something in the $1,000-$1,500 range. Would like a grill with lots of flexibility: rotiserrie, smoker etc. Anyone have a favorite?

At one time Virco was telling people that you needed a regulator with the NG conversion kit. That is un-true and you can hook your gas line directly into the unit. After I did the conversion I needed to adjust the burners to get a higher blue flame.