African Violets and Gesneriads: New Member needs African Violet ID, 1 by bmedel

bmedel wrote:
I went looking for Garden Angle again to ask a question about this plant and noticed she is selling lots of leaves. I bought 24 leaves from her in December of 2006. The careful packing and labeling was amazing. I had never put an African Violet leave down before and jumped in with both feet. I put them in little cups and then put them on a cookie sheet on top of my desk in a south facing window in the dead of winter. It seemed to take an extra long time (I wonder why, fluctuating temps, gray snowy days, no humidity to speak of...) but eventually 18 of those leaves put up babies, lots of babies. I had to beg people to take baby plants from me this spring : ) Wish I would have found DG sooner, I would have loved to have given them away to anyone that wanted them. I now have 16 babies left and I am looking forward to growing them bigger and seeing them bloom for the first time. Here's a picture I snapped a couple of weeks ago of them.