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!

 

[Finnie]

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!

Yes, that’s the one! I’ve had the more common kind, and it tended to get really leggy. So I would trim off the really long stems and stick them into the dirt in the hopes that they would fill it in more. But it never did. It was just a bunch of bare stems drooping over the side of the pot with all the pretty leaf part hanging way down underneath. I didn’t like the looks of it, so I got rid of it.

This little one seems like it grows in a more bushy fashion. At least my friend’s looks that way. Time will tell with mine.

 

[Finnie]

Well here is the next 2-day update on the pink cabbage rose one. The first bloom seems to have peaked, and I will be deadheading it soon. But new buds are forming.

Today’s 2-day update:

I’ve had to remove some bad leaves. I hope this one isn’t about to crash.

 

[Debbie292d]

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I’ve had to remove some bad leaves. I hope this one isn’t about to crash.

I'm excited to get a couple. I couldn't find your verigated Angel one on Etsy last night again, but that's okay. They're all so pretty! I will order in the spring when temps stay above freezing.