African Violets and Gesneriads: November BINGO, let the game begin!, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
'Biscayne Trail' -- standard trailer with girl foliage and violet-purple blooms.

This is one of my favorite plants, but it took nearly a year to fill out and look nice. When it first started suckering, rather than branching outward it grew up and up, into a 3 inch "totem pole" full of little suckers. Definitely an ugly duckling, it looked really peculiar for months! But eventually the suckers did start turning into outward branches, and once it filled out in the pot it started blooming. :-)

By the way, if anyone has a date on any of my unregistered varieties (like 'Biscayne Trail' and 'Sure to Please'), PLMK... I'm trying to tag my "vintage" varieties, in part so I can be sure to propagate and share the older ones.