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You just have to love when the African Violets explode in to bloom with new growth and vigor.



You just have to love when the African Violets explode in to bloom with new growth and vigor.




I purchased these over a year ago, but they did not bloom last summer but this year looks real good, they probably just needed a rest.





There will be a plethora of growth in the near future.

Beautiful! I've never been able to keep AVs for more than a month when I buy them

those are beautiful!

Those look GREAT! I can't keep them blooming for very long either, Kenny.
I have a couple of plants hanging in there, but no flowers for a very long time.

I do all my watering based on the weight of the plant in the pot instead of sticking my finger in to the pot. These are all in 4" plastic pots and always watered from below with as much as the soil can suck up and the left over discarded that hour. I let them become very light or quite dry between watering.

This far north, there is not a lot of sun in a day. I use Schultz plant food every second watering and at the end of January I gave then all a good watering with a 15-30-15 to promote the flowers or so I have learned from the net and practice. I made a 4 section high corner shelf with fancy cinder blocks and fir plywood with a fancy molding on the edge with walnut stain. Then moulted florescent grow lights for each section and on a timer. This shelf was only for African violets and only ones I started my self from clippings. I used the hydro-culture for all the plants and they grew for many years till I moved and had crap light.

I want to get a collection of Gloxinas this summer I think they are a most impressive plant.

I am itching to get my garden tilled and this morning I looked out at 5 inches of fresh snow...

I just realized, you're another northerner! I water based on weight as well, I think I'm learning my 'green touch' lol You're got me now, I'm going to see if I can get an AV soon

Those are very pretty.
I have my first Mini-AFV blooming now.



Have 2 more putting on buds.



These are of 10 cuttings I was sent in January. They are very delicate blooms are real small love them. Also I have them on Light carts I use just for them and my Nepenthes cuttings of which I potted up 5 plants this morning I took cutting of in December and 1 Nepenthes Gentile a friend I work with gave me a cutting of last fall.

H love your African Violets.

I hade a white one once, that was tinged with purple. I started it from a cutting.---eventually I had 2 plants. One died, so I gave the other to my MIL, as she does wonders with them---

hummmmmmm-=-I guess i will see if she has it yet & get another cutting & try again. :wink:

I have all of your information copied, Joclyn & Cliver. it gives me hope. thanks.

Jimmy, I have not ever seen a minature AF before, very interesting.

Wow, I love that blue one!

I have about 10 AV's, and all of them are in bloom right now except for a few small ones.....I just love them, nothing like having some blooms inside to cheer you up thru the gloom of winter and early spring.

I've had my A.V. for about 4 years now. What a challenging plant to grow! in early winter I evidentally watered mine with water that was too cold. at least from the reading I did that is what it seemed like happened to mine. I have not had a bloom since. before that though mine would bloom several times a year. I lost so many leaves it seems the plant is now in a too big of a pot. should I bump it down to a smaller one, or just hold out for it to improve?

I am growing AV's for the first time. I started last summer. I bought one, my neighbor gave me one and a friend gave me some babies so there are 2 of two different kinds. I'll divide them when I get to the new house. I'm intending them to go in a room that gets north east sun. It's the dinningroom. I'm planning on the jasmine being in there also. It's going to be so exciting having plants here and there throughout the house. That's one nice thing about going from 525 feet to 1344 feet I have lots of room for more plants lol.

I have one of the white ones with a purple tip, a dark purple one and then one that is more burgandy, 2 that there the pink and the other one is still a baby and hasn't bloomed yet.

I got some small windowboxes at the Dollar Tree yesterday and I figured I'd crowd some AV's in them.......I have so many, I thought I had 10 but it's more like 15.

I'd just leave your AV in the pot it's already in. You don't want to take a chance adding more stress to it. Just wait and see, hopefully it will come back soon.

Thanks! I'll leave her be.
I rvcd my first AV from a co-worker. About a week after she gave it to me she took it upon herself to add some fertilizer sticks to it. In about another week it was burning up. I tried to dig them out, but they had disolved. When she saw it burning she felt just terrible. I was nursing it back to health and was very proud of myself for doing so with a plant I'd never grown before and with one that I'd heard to be so difficult. All of a sudden I came in one monday morning and she had replaced my AV with a new one she bought! I was a bit hot. ha ha she said she wanted 'my first experience with an AV to be a positive one'. ha ha. I was thinking...I think you ruined that one for me by swiping her up, after I fixed her up, after you burnt her up. ha ha (just had to share that with you all)

i'm sure she had the very best of intentions when she did that. I had a very black thumb for a very long time and being an impatient person I can understand how she could have authored that series of disasters.

Of course I could not stay irritated with her. It was one of those situtions where as soon as it's over its rather funny!

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