African Violets and Gesneriads: My New African Violet, 1 by SilverTigris

SilverTigris wrote:

lbrabec wrote:Katie,
Some do grow naturally more upright,but usually it is because the plant is not receiving enough light.It may take a while to see a difference.As far as pinching off mature leaves goes,I would not remove any unless they were old,yellowed or limp.Also any old leaves that are smaller than the others can be removed and be sure to remove the suckers.

Do you know the name of the one that won't flatten out?

Lynn

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this.. I've been busy, busy, busy trying to get my Veggie garden up and going staking and caging my Tomato plants, re-potting my sprouts and getting other seeds started and moved outside when old enough. We've also got a nesting pair of Carolina Wrens on our back porch now. They've found that the Microwave stand that we converted into a T.V. stand makes a very nice place to build a nest. They've got an egg laid so we're leaving them alone and letting them raise their little one before we complete the re-screening of our back porch that we had planned on re-screening this week...lol

Anyway, the one that will not lay her leaves down is my Rita Look alike. She's been under a grow light for the past 3 - 4 months so I seriously doubt it's an issue with not enough light. All the leaves are healthy not limp at all. The only reason I was thinking of pinching off some of the leaves is due to the crown looking crowded from how upright the leaves are right now. If for anything they are so stiff that they look and feel like they'd snap right off like taking a fresh crisp carrot and breaking it in half (not spongey/rubbery at all). .

Her leaves were upright like that before I replanted her into the pot she's in now and is part of the reason I repotted her in a bigger pot. I have sense found a shallower pot that I can move her to that is suppose to be the same diameter but think it's actually smaller (at least it looks smaller) but was listed as the same size in diameter as the pot she's currently placed in, just much shorter (2/3's shorter). Here is a picture that I took of her the day I repotted her. The plant in question is the one behind the smaller AV. I'll get an Updated picture to show you that there hasn't been any change in how the leaves are positioned. Also, I've thought about taking her out from under the grow light to see if maybe less light would help her to lay her leaves down.

Here's a picture of her right after I re-potted her (the one in the background with all the blooms).