African Violets and Gesneriads: Tight brittle leaves-why?, 0 by helenethequeen

helenethequeen wrote:
When I had many - I grew them under lights and most of them only 8 hrs. Show plants to be were on a light schedule accoding to the book "AV Grow to show".
Fertilized 1/4 tsp per gallon and poured the water into the trays which were covered with white wool blankets sitting on top of egg crate. SOOO the violets only got watered perhaps every 10 days when the blankets were dry and the violets semi-dry, so to keep the cap. action going for next watering. had beautiful AV's. Also this was in NY - had a humidifier for them. Fan in summer..... etc.

Pic is: AV Pushover, set up in the whole room,AV Happy Cricket, AV Red Ferrari. 20" Fan to show the size of the plants. These were all winners in show.

As you can see the AV's have only 3 rows of leaves - they were just beautiful.

This message was edited Jul 13, 2010 1:13 PM