African Violets and Gesneriads: IDEAS WANTED: Inexpensive or self-made, small "violet" pots., 1 by SilverTigris

SilverTigris wrote:
Wow, that is absolutely amazing that you still have snow on the north wall of your house, but hope that Spring hits you soon even if you have to manually start to kick it out of town ;) We've also had steady temperatures of between 60 and 75 degrees the past couple of weeks ourselves and I'm in Zone 8/9 (at least I think I am..lol) It's definitely been a weird winter to say the least, but hope you're able to start getting out to work in your garden soon.

I also wanted to come back and post the pictures I took of the gravelly "sand" that I mixed into the soil I planted my AVs in when I repotted them the other day. My one AV was in a pot that was WAY too big for her and the other was in a 3 1/2 inch flimsy plastic pot that she was purchased in and I wanted to replant her due her outtermost leaves were only about an 1/8th of an inch from the inside rim of the pot where they connect to the base of the plant itself. I mix these pebbles in the soil at about the same ratio that you would mix perlite into the soil for them maybe a tiny bit less.

This message was edited Mar 20, 2010 10:53 PM