African Violets and Gesneriads: Share something new about growing AVs!, 1 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
We are all acquiring so much new knowledge in growing gessies of all kinds. If you would share with the group, we could all learn some more.

I have learned that I need to make selections of avs from hybridizers who are not living in dramatically different climates than the one I live in. It was hard for me to understand why the prettiest violets at the shows were hybridized by people from (just for example) Kansas down to Texas. Now I know that they just grow better in the right climate for each violet.

I don't have the batteries to my camera to show you what a plant hybridized in New York grows like down in hot balmy Texas weather compared to other plants hybridized closer to home.

I need a picture to start this thread...........Let me find an example although a poor picture as it doesn't show the whole plant. This is Party Dress and she grows in every direction and could never be sold at a sale , let alone entered into a show.