African Violets and Gesneriads: A new way of doing things, 0 by Plantcrazii

Plantcrazii wrote:
Here is an update on my AV plant shelves that I have in the greenhouse. I now have 4 shelves of violets sitting on containers. This really is the way to go for me. The water in the containers lasted about 3 weeks. Plus I just added some more violets. The top two shelves had to be watered again and it does take some time, but when you get finished, you can sit back and look at what you have done and just smile. I don't have all of them needing water at the same time which I planned that way. I thought that would get too overwhelming so I sort of staggered them out so that that don't all need water at the same time. Here is a photo of the same shelves but with more violets on containers (the last photo I showed I only had 3 shelves completed and now there are 4). The shelves that you see under the shelves with containers are babies that are still with their mommies that I am in the process of potting into their own pots. And on the right of those you can see a domed lid that has tiny clippings that were sent to me to grow little plants for my terrarium. I have since put up two 6 ft shelves beside this shelf unit to put more of the babies that I pot up on. I seem to be running out of room. But don't we all have more AVs than we have room for. But we just keep adding shelves and keep on growing. I told my DH that I needed a new greenhouse just for my AVs. I could put everything else out in it and just have this one for the AVs. I have to keep the temperature at 65 and above all the time and they seem to like it. It did drop below 55 a couple of times when we did not make it home in time to turn the heat up but they did not seem to mind it.

I'll shut up now. When I post something I seem to get carried away. But I'm very passionate about growing AVs, especially the ones that I have grown by leaf. It is one of the most enjoyable things that I do. So I will just keep doing it. :)

Jesse