African Violet Thread

[AntiqueB]

The one that was blooming for me stopped. I didn't get to deadhead: fatal mistake!

 

[Finnie]

The one that was blooming for me stopped. I didn't get to deadhead: fatal mistake!

Do you mean the whole plant died, or just the bloom? It’s 50-50 whether I deadhead or not. If I don’t have scissors with me I often can’t pinch them off bare handed, so I leave them until I come back with scissors. Or eventually they wither away.

 

[Finnie]

I need to check my records of what got repotted against which ones are dying off. Will do another update after I do that.

I checked my repotting records and did a sort of roll call. Besides the Variegated Buckeye Cranberry Sparkler that is wilting, I have lost two of the repotted plants. They were ones that were collapsing anyway before repotting, so the repotting didn’t save them.

There are a few more that were going downhill before, and those seem ok as of now. So maybe I was able to save those. But a lot of times it just takes quite a while for a plant to finish dying, so they are not out of the woods yet.

Today’s plant count (not counting leaf sets, just actual potted babies through adults):

47

Edit: I had 48 before. So between dividing some and losing some, the total count stayed almost the same.

 

[AntiqueB]

I find deadheading regularly encourages more blooms.

 

[Debbie292d]

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I visited a friend yesterday and she gave me cuttings from a type of tradescantia that grows tiny little leaves. Hers is still in a water jar and it’s really going to town. When I got home I stripped the leaves off the lower stems and put them in water. In just 24 hours, tiny little roots have started where the leaves used to be!

Is this also called Wandering Jew? I have one and it's very hard for me to keep it alive. It seems it needs way less water than I was giving it. It's "died" twice, but I just take some barely surviving cutting off of it, stick in water, it comes back, and I start over. They grow fast!