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If you have seeds of this or other micro-minis, please let me know. Thanks! --Rick

I am looking for the following varieties of Saintpaula and Sinningia. Preferably leaf cuttings or crowns but I am always adventurous and willing to give seed a try! Micro-Mini African Violet Micro-Mini Sinningia - Snowflake s/o, Hircon, Poupee Trailing African Violet - AMADIE TRAIL, JERSEY GIRL TRAIL, LITTLE CHIPPERY TRAIL Saintpaula Species - S VELUTINA, S ORBICULARIS, S MAGUNGENSIS

About the smell--that is a good question. I have always heard about the horrible smell. But, the only soil I have ever sterilized is my soiless mix of peat, perlite and vermiculte. That doesn't make a bad smell at all. It just smells like nice warm cozy potting soil. The peat, of course, is Canadian sphagnum peat moss. I would never use the black stuff that they used to sell for gardeners. I haven't seen that stuff in many years but I don't know what they sell in other regions. I use my cooked soil mix mainly for starting seed. Before I did this, the same mix would usually cause problems if the seeds didn't germinate quickly and grow quickly. The mosses, liverworts, and fungi would grow and overwhelm things. Oh, and that awful slimy green algae--ugh. At first I would cook my mix for an hour, but I still got mosses, so I cooked for longer and now, when I start seeds the pots stay clean for months--and note: these pots are enclosed in ziplock bags so stay very moist. Sometimes, I, as is my unfortunate custom, leave seedlings untouched for months. The little gesneriads in that sterile mix will turn totally white, looking like little grains of perlite. Then I finally notice them and give them a weak feeding and they green up and start growing. It is so weird to see those tiny white leaves. But, if my mix weren't sterilized the seedlings would have been killed by whatever else was growing in the mix. Jon