African Violets and Gesneriads: Who else grows African Violet Trailers????, 1 by bmedel

bmedel wrote:
I'm with you Rain, wait to see the bloom and then do the topping :))) I saw both Mother's Lipstick and Hirsuta open a bloom before I cut them in half. Some of the others had buds and I had to be ruthless in topping them :))) anyway. So now we'll see how long it takes for the buds to open or if they do after such brutal treatment. LOL

What I found really interesting is a few of them, 3 or 4 had new plants coming up from the tuber (rhizome?) in the bottom and they had green leaves on them down their under the soil? One was big enough that I planted it on it's own and the others I left be and I have one that has sent up three new little plantlets besides the original rooted part and the top that I planted back in the same pot. It will be nice and full!!

So it was very interesting to re pot and work with them and see all the under workings of these interesting plants. This is a picture of Mother's Lipstick but I couldn't get my camera to really show the lovely yellow throat it had....

~Brenda