Growing african violets outdoors in Florida?
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Comments (0)The Central Florida African Violet Society meets the third Saturday of each month. Next meeting April 20, 10 a.m. to noon. How-to workshop on growing African Violets. We also meet on the third Wednesday of each month, but are adding Saturday also to reach African Violet lovers who can't make our Wednesday meetings. Please let us know if you are thinking of dropping by. We want to make sure we have enough plants for new members. New members receive a free African Violet. Each year we put on a judged show and sale at the Beardall Center. We have field trips and speakers. We are a fun and friendly group:) Drop by on Saturday April 20 and check us out! If you are looking to grow your collection our members bring in extras all the time and if join us you will soon have many, many plants, but don't blame us:) We grow other gesneriads too! We are a not-for-profit society. Meeting at the Beardall Senior Center, 800 Delaney Avenue, Orlando, Fl 32801, 407@353@7231 RSVP....See MoreWill African Violets grow survive in my Canadian garden?
Comments (2)African violets (Saintpaulia) will definitely NOT survive outdoors! They need warmth year round and can't grow outside anywhere in Canada or the US, except for possibly Hawaii. You can grow many kinds of traditional violets (Viola) which would be hardy. Note that even some of these may not be reliably hardy in your area, but many are....See MoreGrowing African Violets Outdoors.
Comments (23)â¢Posted by froeschli Meh, at risk for theft is anything that strikes someone's fancy, be it sparkly, colorful or valuable... I'd have to agree. In large part, know your neighborhood. If theft is not an uncommon thing, then why risk it? If it is rare to unheard of, that is another story. â¢Posted by froeschli yes, an african violet will grow outdoors, more likely in your climate than mine, but it will not "live up to its full potential"... I have to disagree with Karin, here. While that might be the case, with most plants it is just the opposite -- assuming your outdoor environmental conditions are conducive to their growth. The pink coloration you witnessed was due to the increased light levels in all likelihood. Temperature may have also been a factor. In any event, it posed no danger to the health of your AV. Having said that, I believe I would still recommend growing this one indoors for the nonce. As Karin noted, doing so would enable you to maintain greater control over environmental factors ... most notably pests. (While is just a "hunch", I suspect that the large black slugs -- Veronicella leydigi -- would wipe your plant out in no time should they find it.) Should the plant sucker at some point or should you propagate it via leaf cutting, then I most certainly would try the new plant(s) thus obtained outside once they had become established. (A friend of mine in Florida kept one I sent her out on her lanai and it did wonderfully.) At that point, I would still not recommend planting said extras in the ground unless you had lots of them. Having them in pots off the ground should make them less accessible to the local slug population. Btw, out of curiosity, which island are you on? I used to live on Oahu when I was in high school....See MoreAfrican violet growing flowers but not leaves
Comments (5)That is rather hot for AV's but they can take it. Watch closely for mites however as that is an ideal range for them to proliferate while the plant stresses in the heat. If you can keep your temps below 80, your AV's will be happier for it. On the other hand, with temps over 85 degrees and up, if you can keep the plant alive, it does raise the odds that it may sport on you. Possibly to become a chimera, but it's also riskier that it could take root or crown rot and collapse suddenly. So putting down backup leaves to start new babies would be a good idea. Sounds good otherwise. You certainly do not have to pinch the flowers. If the plant is otherwise happy and healthy, you may continue to enjoy them until it exhausts itself but be warned that the crown may die if there is no active growth. To me that's not a big deal because I restart my plants from time to time by leaves or suckers, anyway. If you do not want that to happen, then yes I would suggest removing the flowers and all buds until you have good strong growth with new leaves. A plant /can/ exhaust itself by blooming to death, though that is more common with Streptocarpus than African violets in my personal experience. So you have options! ;)...See Morealaizabelle
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