African Violets and Gesneriads: Never turn your nose up at an unknown strep leaf offered!, 0 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
Let me see how to explain how I do it................not very good at teaching anything.

When my streps get dry on the matting, I pour water and fertilizer in the tray. I measure how much I put based on the size of the pots. I try to keep the same size pots in one tray. For example, all 2 1/4" go together.........all 4" pots go together, etc.
After the plants have sat in the water and fertilizer for several hours, I go back and check to see if there is any sitting water. If not, I leave the streps alone until they all dry out again. If there is extra water in the tray, I use my turkey baster to get it out of the tray.

With the heat of the lights on for 11 hours a day, the matting might stay damp a couple of nights but then it dries out along with the plants..........

In this picture you will see that I have not put the string in these pots yet............the ones on the right are in 4" pots so they don't need watering as often as the 3" pots on the left in the picture.............just showing an example of pot size. (Forgive the fact that they have not been groomed in a long time)