Sorrry so late in responding to your post - just back from trip. I could trade AV plantlets and leaves for Streps if you are still interested. Kindly advise if interested and I will generate an availability list for you to look over. irisman646

Take a leaf - which is not ruffled - off the plant. and put it for propagation. Check with Rachel's Reflections site for instructions. Your violet is changing - and if you want to preserve the original - you can start new babies. Even if your violet will not change dramatically - and return back to its old ways - you will have several extras to share. What Wish was describing - definitely a sporting or reversing to single color. I had this with Rhapsodie Cora - a beautiful bi-color purple white. Steve Reed has a wonderful gallery - hope he will not be angry with me for a link : http://www.steverd.com/violets/rhapsodie-cora.jpg In any case - - they can change into pure purple and pure white. So - when mine started going off - I put several leaves - and out of the bunch of babies got a couple of true blooming. Congrats - you are 8 months old as a violetoholic. Cheers Irina PS Violets are very changeable - they sport easily - that's why we have such an abundance of them. Stress increases the chance of mutation - but how do we know if some of them just like doing it on every fifth Friday of the month?

one of my best largest healthiest variegated blooming violets collapsed with crown rot when i was away. it was on wick in original soil (not enough perlite). i uppotted it into a pot with a perlite all around to keep it drier back in summer. and it survived like that in 75F for 2 weeks. so i did not think to worry about it.. but now the temps are cooler and it rotted :(. i cut off 6 still healthy leaves and put them in water with some peroxide to disinfect. but after 2 days i see browning of the stem at the tip...i cut off 1/2 inch more and now have only 1/2" stubs left. i finally put them in perlite and dipped in rooting hormone to hopefully stop the rot. i actually never put the leaves in water like that before. so my question is : does the stem naturally brown at the tip when put in water?

Hello.. Just ran across this old post. Was wondering if by chance you might have a few a v leaves that you would part with? I am very new at this so if I am doing this wrong please forgive me. Thanks and God bless