African Violets and Gesneriads: Hidden babies, 0 by Plantcrazii

Plantcrazii wrote:
Last night all of the moms got a hair cut. I had to trim most of them completely down to just a tiny thing because the babies were growing all the way around them. No light was getting to them and they were turning white. So most of the moms got cut way back. I hope that I did not cut too much away but there was just no way for the babies to get any light with mom in the way. There were a couple that had only a little baby so I left a lot of it.

There was one thing that I did notice that I wish I had documented with my camera. The bigger the leaf was, the bigger the babies were. I'm not sure if it did this because it was a Space baby or not. But the ones with the biggest and most babies were the ones that had the biggest leaves. Just thought I would mention this to see if anyone else has noticed anything like this before. Have any of you ever noticed anything like this?

Here they are now, growing in light and they act happy to finally "see the light".

The mom that these came from was not looking very good at all. She had bloomed but she was looking bad. I finally figured out that she was in a 4" pot and it was scruntching up all the leaves. And not only that, but it was in one of the self-watering pots that I do not use anymore becaue they are way too deep. Since I have taken the mom out of that pot and put her in a 5" pot, she is looking much better. Her leaves are starting to relax and she is looking good now. She still has a way to go but she is so happy to be out of that pot. I have about 4 others in those pots and I either want to replace them or put them in a regular 4" pot until I have the money to replace them. So my advice to you using those really deep pots, don't use them. They just don't do well with the AVs that I have had them in.

Jesse