African Violets and Gesneriads: March OT, 1 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
I have to share the story of Tia Pink. There is a man in Beorne, Texas who found this plant in Florida that someone had hybridized but it is not registered. Ken, the owner of the nursery, only wanted to sell a couple of cuttings for 7.50 a pot. I just kept waiting looking everytime I went to see if I could get a basket for sale. Finally last summer I found both Tia Pink and Coral Flame. However, the Coral Flame was nothing but a propagation woody plant that didn't eve make it.

But.........I grabbed my scissors and took cuttings from the mother dying plant and now I have a basket of her outside (small but growing)...........will go take a picture of Coral Flame, a registered plant not nearly as pretty as Tia Pink. I just put her little pots all together in this basket yesterday.

I just stuck some new leaves (strep) and tried 1/4 Volkmann's wicking mix with 3/4 perlite............let you know what happens...........