African Violets and Gesneriads: October Blooms, Part 2, 1 by GoldLeaf91011

GoldLeaf91011 wrote:
Ever more, beauties, Gail....SpinArt always blows me away..

kivit - the avsa magazine comes out every 2 months, So, it starts with Jan/Feb and so on. Your first issue should be the Nov/Dec one. I can understand how badly you felt about the Pink Dreams episcia. The good thing is, you can always get another. I do like the pink variegated ones.

mrsbonnie and cedarnest are right about fantasies. If important to them, some growers when they have a good fantasy violet will propagate them like a chimera so they continue to have that original plant's characteristics. Putting down leaf cuttings from a fantasy doesn't always gaurantee the babies will all be fantasy...some might not be or some might not be as good as the mother plant. Fantasy can be highly variable.

I remember one time painstakingly growing what was supposed to be a fantasy violet from a leaf cutting of a variety I wanted so badly and wasn't easy to get. I pampered it, kept it disbudded, etc. Then I allowed it to bloom which I thought would be the grande finale and guess what? Not one speck of fantasy. I should have let it bloom one stalk while growing it out to see if it was going to be right.

This is a violet I would like to find...Chiffon Maritime. Will someone with FC2 look it up please?