African Violets and Gesneriads: Last few days of May blooms, 0 by bmedel

bmedel wrote:
Susan you have me laughing again, not ready for the AA AV yet huh, I think you added a few steps there as it will take a lot more than 12 to get me to stop too!!! LOL Enjoy watching your husband golf and the visit with friends!

Kim your "Keeper of the Slippers" is adorable, I agree with Dimmer, it is a beautiful, peaceful picture!! I have a wild flower blooming all over the woods here that's foliage reminds me of your Lady Slippers but the blooms aren't close. I need to dig out my Idaho Wildflower book and find their name, maybe they are related??

You are on the right track with letting your strep babies be up to meat and potatoes before separating!! Loved the analogy and that is how I do it, big babies before I lay a hand on them! The number of babies you have on those two leaf pieces is amazing, I've never had so many from a leaf done AV style!!

As for the Kohlerias all I can tell you is they are in a north facing window in natural light. When I first got them (from Out of Africa, seller choice package of 10) they were nice sized plants and I topped all of them and planted the tips. The tips grew and the original stalk died back to the rhizome??? After that I left them alone and just watered them regularly with Eleanor's VF 11 and for at least the next 6 months all I enjoyed was foliage, they have beautiful foliage IMO! Then this winter, like February, the long leggy things started to bloom and a couple of them have never stopped! Others have died back to the rhizomes again and are just putting out new growth. So basically I have no idea what I'm doing with them, I just let them live on that shelf doing what they want and if they bloom I take pictures. LOL

And thanks to your inspiration Kim I have a strep cross that took!! Maassen's White as the father and Bristol's Tractor Beam as the mother! I love looking at that seed pod forming! My others didn't work but I am happy to have one that did at this point!!!

I'm back to just enjoying foliage on Pearcea sp Equador right now (it is gorgeous!) but I see that new blooms are forming.....
~Brenda