African Violets

Take two rows of leaves off the bottom of one of your plants by gently pulling the leaf to one side or the other until the leaf pops off and either plant them, give them to someone or throw them away. You can leave as little as three or four leaves on the plant without damage to the plant. Squeeze the sides of the pot to loosen the roots from the sides and gently pull your plant out of the pot. Take a sharp knife and slice 1 ½ inches off the bottom of the root ball. This won't hurt your plant, it will thank you later. Slice away about ½ inch of soil around the sides of your plant, then gently scrape the main stem to clean off all the old dead brown plant material. This is where new little roots will grow. Now, get a clean pot - 2 inch for minis, 2 ½ inch for Semi minis, and 3 to 4 inch for Standards. Place a small amount of soil in the bottom of a clean, sterilized pot. Put enough soil in the bottom so that when you set your plant in, the bottom row of leaves will line up with the top edge of the pot.

Now, cover the newly scraped stem with fresh soil, new roots will grow within four weeks or so. Spoon in soil around your plant. Gently firm the soil down as you add more soil until you get to the top of the pot, don't pack it down real hard though. Some people think you shouldn't firm the soil around the newly planted plant, but from my experience the plant may become loose in the soil if you don't. The last row of leaves should be even with the edge of the pot.

Plant should not be loose. If your plant has a very, very long neck, you need to slice off the entire root ball and plant the scraped stem in the soil. Leave a stem that's about 1 to 2 inches long and firm it in the soil. Moisten the soil slightly (not soaking wet). Place pot and all into a zip lock bag, zip it up and leave it for a month. Give it good light. Occasionally open bag and blow your breath in it to give it some oxygen and fresh air, don't let too much moisture build up, then zip it back up again. After a month, begin to harden it off by opening the bag a little more each week, but be sure you don't let it dry out totally. Give it little drinks, until you can take your newly rooted little plant out of the bag for good.

These can be found online by typing in your browser, African violet self watering pots. These are available in ceramic, or plastic, many of our hardware stores or nurseries carry them also.

A sucker that grows from the side of the main stem of the plant and can cause the plant to grow distorted and not straight. You can remove these suckers when they reach about one and a half inches with a pencil or skinny object and stick it in where the sucker is growing and pop it off, they usually pop off very easy. Plant them in some soil less soil in a 2 or three inch pot, water sparingly and place pot and sucker into a quart size zip lock back for 6 to 8 weeks. Leave bag open when you see moisture building up and let bag dry out a little bit, then zip it up again.

Yes, there are African violet clubs in almost every town,go to the related link below and where you can find a club near you that you can join. These clubs provide tons of information and you can learn how, when, and where to show your African violets, it's so much fun and a wonderful hobby.

These are the African violet classifications; There are: standard which include large growers 8-16 inches diameter, miniature not over 6 inches in diameter, semi miniatures not over 8 inches in diameter, trailing, there are no size limits at this time. These are recognized by the African violet association.

African violets are male and female flowers. They have pistils (the female part) and stamen (the male part)

You never totally rid African Violets of mealy bugs. For bad infestation take plant out of pot trim most of roots off rinse off and, replant in a clean pot. Go to garden center get soil mealy but pesticide.

An African violet has five petals.

African violets are propogated by leaf cuttings.

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Unfortunately off the top of my head I cannot think of one, but hopefully my clarification of the meaning of your question will help future answerers answer it :D

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It has been my experience that African violets seem to prefer being a bit "pot bound" Mine tend not to bloom until the appear a bit crowded in their container.

They also need a fair amount of sunlight to bloom. I keep mine on the covered front porch in summer where they get lots of bright but no direct sun light, and they bloom all summer.

Saintpauliis are clump growers so when becoming too large take the plant out of the pot, gently shake off the soil and loosen the roots, find pieces at the base with roots attached and gently pull it away from it's neighbour teasing the roots out with it. Pot up the offshoots and you will have new plants.

They would be called Horticulturists.

you can self pollinate them by taking the pollen from one flowers anther and sticking it to the tip of the stamen of a different flower.

African violets can be grown all year round in the house using flourescent lights or a North window.

Please refer to the related wikiAnswer link that has already been answered about fungus.

If you mean a white substance covering the leaves it's most likely powdery mildew. This can develop due to a lack of air circulation. Put a fan somewhere near the violets to help circulate the air. You could also change the violet's location if possible to improve its environment.

To kill the powdery mildew already on the leaves you can spray a light mist of Lysol onto the leaves. This won't hurt the plant but it will damage any flowers currently open on the violet. You can also wash the leaves carefully in warm water to remove the powdery mildew.

African violets do not like direct sunlight because the leaves will be burned and unsightly spots will appear. They do need good light from the north or east window. They require 8 to 10 hours a day to bloom well. Give enough water to keep violets moist (not soaking wet) all the time.

South Africa. Originally African came from Tanzania Africa. The proper name for them is Saintpaulia. Seeds came from Germany. Armacost & Royston Greenhouse in Los Angeles grew them in the 1940's - 1970's approximately and was the first large greenhouse to grow them.

The reason they are reaching to the sun, they need more light, but not direct sunlight or they will receive burned spots. They know somehow that reaching upward they will get more light.

There are many rose bushes in his garden.

Try some strong weed killer.

Yes, if you place a couple of leaves with stem of about two inches in a glass of water it will root. But if you leave it there to grow for a long time it won't be very strong. The leaf will grow much nicer if you plant them in some African violet soil less mix and place them in a zip lock bagy for six to eight weeks.

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