Searching for these old African Violet pots
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A few questions about African Violets (potting and propagation)..
Comments (19)Update! Four of the babies have been removed from the momma leaf*, who is back in her materinity ward to see if she wants to give up any more. (because I totally need more unidentified plant babies) Three had good roots, one was like a little sucker on another. I don't hold out a whole lot of hope for it but it's in a wee cup, under a dome to see if it will grow roots. Sadly because it's soooooo tiny and rootless, I fully expect it to die. Anyway, I'll try to get pictures later on. ~ I have to (shamefully) admit that two of the babies were removed about a week ago and were probably a little bit too small but I was so impatient with my first attempt! So far they don't appear to be doing much except not dying, and not dying is a good thing....See MoreOld African Violet plant
Comments (9)Yes, violets need repotted more often than "years". And if it is that old, it should have some length of "stem" between the soil level and the last row of leaves...thats what we call the neck area. If it has been doing well until now, you should repot it back into that pot. If it has a neck, remove the older leaves that don't look so good and scrape off the outer layer of the stem (it will have scale like places where old leaves have died and been removed & scraping this off gives a fresh place for new roots to grow out) Now you need to cut off some of the bottom roots and you need to take enough off so that the scraped neck area (if you have that) can be covered in soil. Add some new soil to the bottom of the pot, put the plant back into the pot, and add more new soil to the top of the pot to cover that neck (if you have one). It should be fine, if it's a little wilted afterward, place it in some humidity, plastic bag tent for a few days. If your plant is indeed rotting, you can cut off the good crown like Fred did and follow those directions. Scraping the neck is important. Before I joined a violet club my old violets were dying, I cut off the crown and tried to root them with no luck...well I didn't scrape, so new roots couldn't grow out to support the plant. Good luck with your plant. tish...See MoreAnnouncing the "germination" of my "Miniature African Violet Tree
Comments (14)That is a great idea! Except it may survive pets and kids better than my husband! That man can't come around a corner without tripping on invisible lint! I have a long thin table that my plants are set on. He can't walk past the length of it without dragging something off of it! And NO their leaves don't hang over any part of the table. It is just him! I laugh every time it happens. (Then I cry as I pick up my plant) Last night he walked into the living room (the entrance is 4 ft. wide!) and cut the corner so close he almost took out my pothos growing in a 16in pot up against the wall way out of his way! Gotta love him!--Rosie...See MoreAfrican violet pots
Comments (7)I don't use those pots. Oh, I've looked at them, they are cute, but I am too cheap ;-p couldn't buy one for each and every of my way too many plants.... The 'problem' is likely not your pot, but the potting medium you are using. If you search this forum, or google, for 'wick watering', you will probably find a lot of different soil recipes. When I wick water, I use about 2/3 perlite to 1/3 commercial African violet (or seedling) mix. "Nice and fluffy" is the motto here. Coarse perlite is worth getting. I just discovered the promix perlite and it's a better grade than fafard or miracle gro, which I used before. Other recipes include 1/2 perlite, 1/4 vermiculite, 1/4 peat (which I usually use av mix for), plus some "interesting" additives such as lime, molasses, egg shells, worm castings, bat guano etc. - read up in what they do, decide for yourself. I've started using a bit of lime, especially with plants I don't repot as often as I should. The other stuff, well, I am sure the people who use them believe in it.... For a self watering pot, you want to be careful to find perlite and soil that don't have fertilizers added. The constant moisture plays havoc with time release capsules, so quite often it all gets released at once and builds up as a crust on top of the soil. Or even kills the plant. For more general advice on growing African violets, read through this forum, look up "Rachel's reflections" and also check out the "all about African violets" podcasts. The latter actually includes a project where she starts a grocery store African violet in one of those self watering pots, and observes how it does... Good luck! Karin...See Moreirina_co
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