African Violets and Gesneriads: Every Morning I help Mom check our African violet !, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
Ali, it's spelled Chihuahua (I only know for sure since my one of my best friends has one whose name is Carmina Rodriguez Lupita or something like that)

At the AVSA meeting we discussed the fact that AV's have been hybridized to death, causing so many to be unstable. They were all complaining how unstable AV's are and how they sport all the time or revert. (I am thinking to myself, I LOVE sports! Some come out to be Chimera, and I had just phoned you about Irish Paradise) but I can see their point. If you WANT the original, then it can be frustrating to have every leaf you put down sport to some oddball. Tea (of teasviolets ebay) was saying the same thing on Violet Reflections forum. I said that I'd like to have her problem!!! AV's sporting all over the place! LOL.

I love the excitment of a sport. BUT if I paid big bucks like some one did for Silverglade Truffles ( they paid like $106.00 for the plant! )
ebay item 7752826732

then I would be pretty upset to have it revert to some plain single pink or something like that.

Next AVSA meeting is about hybridizing. I want to hybridize Heavenly Girl with something like Georgia Melon. OH MY! how pretty would that be. Variegatedd ruffled girl folage with Georgia melon flowers! (fainting!)

Here's my computer generated mock up of how I would want it to look.
hopefully I can learn to hybridize well and make the big bucks!

This message was edited Mar 27, 2006 10:14 AM