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I believe you are writing about "suckers" not sports..

Is it another small clump of leaves, what looks like a little plant growing from the stem or from the junction of the leaf and stem? That is a "sucker."

If any bloom, either from the main plant or a sucker, is radically different from the normal bloom on that plant, it is a "sport." Leafs can also "sport" with variegation or shape. It is a radical variation on a plant or from a leaf set of a plant. Sports are rare.

Some plants, particularly the bi-colors, will bloom solid white in cool weather. Variegated leafs will be greener or even solid green in warm weather. Those are not Sports. That is variable color caused by cultural or environmental conditions. Sports are stable.

If you have suckers, you can remove them at any time, either by flicking them off with a tool such as a pencil or you can let them grow, removing them when you repot. You can separate the suckers when you repot, pot them up separately. Those suckers usually will grow into plants identical to the mother.

Suckers do not trailers make. Trailers are a specific type of violet. Suckers make very mess looking plants. Suckers do sap the mother plant. Suckers are unlikely to kill the mother but at some point in time suckers should be removed.

That picture I posted shows the small clump of leafs known as "sucker" on the lower left. The leaves are small and don't fit into the rosette shape of the mother plant. I need to separate 5+ suckers from the mother plant but I have been waiting for the Mother to stop blooming. As anyone can see, the suckers haven't quite discouraged the mother plant yet. I have been waiting a while. I am letting it grow that way on purpose.

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I looked up Rob's Combustible Pigeon. I would save those suckers, let them grow, then separate and pot them up for new plants.

If the sucker has roots, plant like any plant. If the sucker does not have roots, set it on top of the soil and it will usually grow roots. It helps to dome the plant or put it in a plastic bag while it is rooting.

There are web videos and web sites which show how to separate and pot suckers.

If you have too many, I have some very nice Home Depot Noids I am willing to trade :) *kinda new to violets myself*

If you are talking about Sport, then post a picture and someone will know how to preserve and propagate Sports.

Yes, suckers. Have been home all day due to snow and reading about too many violet things. My brain is getting all tangled up. I did find 4 new violets I think I will need in the near future. I think I am going to have to figure out how to put a shelf in my kitchen window for all the new plants I would like. School may be out on Thursday so I can start researching that next.