African Violets and Gesneriads: Going on another Field Trip! the SFO AVSA meeting!, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
Next in the meeting, all members (and I signed up and paid dues, so I'm one now) get a 'Project Plant', it's a mystery leaf and the first member to get flowers wins a prize. Winner gets $5, second $4 and so on. so it's a fun contest among members. (I don't think I'll win, but never will say 'no' to a leaf! he he he)

Here's the interesting thing about the project plant. It's already rooted and in a 1/2 styrofoam cup with holes in it. This is called the 'Texas Style' or 'Texas Method' of potting up violets. I had no idea what that meant, so I raised my hand and asked ( I probably drove them nuts, as I did this through the whole meeting - all the while snapping photos)

Texas style is a method (here's the cliff notes) of potting a violet with perlite in the bottom of the pot, holes spaced about 1" apart all around the bottom 1/2 " of the pot. See the holes?

The mixture is perlite and vermiculite in the cup. Nothing else. Here are some links (which are already added to the sticky master page, but not uploaded yet) if you are interested in this method.

Potting Violets in the ‘Texas Method or Texas Style’

http://www.avsa.org/AVMFiles/GrowingShowPlants.pdf (this is a PDF file, AVSA file on Texas Style Potting, you will need Adobe Acrobat to view this)
http://violetreflections.com/newsletter/newsletter17/main.ht... (Violet Reflection’s newsletter on Texas Style)