Well, I agree with you Irina. I think my biggest mistake was to immerse the bottoms of the pots in water, after repotting, to moisten. This saturated the soil and then it was very cool and rainy here for several days and continues to be cool. After setting up my light shelf and wicking resevoir, I repotted everything in new, lighter mix and allowed the wick to moisten the soil this time. All of the roots on every plant, Nolvosan soak or not, were dead, due to the wet, cool soil, and since I had run out od vermiculite, the perlite was not enough to aerate it, it was just too dense and too wet. I am very sure all of them can survive, they all have nice, healthy stumps to reroot from. They are all in 2'' pots now, even the larger ones, since they have no root mass. With being in a lighter mix and having stable temps and lighting, they should look beautiful again within a couple of months, I am sure. My questions are: After reptotting, do you water the plant in or let the wick work to moisten the soil to barely damp? This is what I have done this time, but if the wick isn't enough, I will know today and top water lightly. Also, since all of my violets are now essentially suckers, with no roots, will they root just being potted in normal mix, kept barely moist and wicked? I don't have any means of covering them all and keeping them well lit at the moment, but if getting them covered or bagged is really important to saving them, I will figure something out. Thanks everyone.

Thanks, Jo, for the newbie shout out! I have been a GW member for a few years, but kind of fell off the scene a few years back. I'm back now & I have to say, I really missed this group of people on this board. They're amazingly knowledgeable & friendly! Folks on here helped me tremendously when I had a small veggie garden a few years ago. I can't wait until I have the proper fencing to make a new garden in our new yard! :) Thanks to everyone for being so friendly & accepting of all our newbie questions & sharing your skills with the rest of us poor unfortunate souls who are not so smart about gardening. :) I hope that maybe next year, I can come to the Spring Fling. It seems like ya'll always have such a blast & while I wouldn't have much to offer in the way of plant swapping, I could always collect my flower seeds to share. If anyone's brave enough to want morning glories or moonflowers, that is! Moving to southern Oklahoma & leaving all my friends & family behind to be a stay-at-home mom for the last 4 years has made for a lonely transition. I picked up gardening as a hobby to share with my son & pass the time & the people on this board made me feel like I belonged, even though I'm a newbie. Thanks a million to ya'll :)

I'm tired here as I was up too late again... but, I just noticed this thread and had to comment. Yes, it's a whole lot of work that totally was noticed by us. We appreciate all our valuable seeds from this big swap. This was my first "want list" swap ever, so I learned a lot, had a ball of fun, got to know better or for the first time a whole lot of wonderful participants and a wonderful HOST and co-host, AND got some treasured seeds as well along with some surprises I can't wait to grow out. I appreciate that you put every waking moment outside of working and family have to's into this swap. Thank you! Blessings, Angela

Juno....here is a link to the old thread that led ruby22 to ask questions. It probably has more information then you could ever want to read but I do hope it's helpful. Here is a link that might be useful: Old thread