Ok everybody... Dave says to have you all go here to express your wish for an African Violet & Gesneraid forum... best make an effort to support the wishes for that forum.
Winter is coming and these are all great TROPICAL house plants no matter where we live...
http://davesgarden.com/t/447205/
This forum can include the following plants and some are known by diffrerent names, but the list will give you an idea.
African Violets
Episcias/Flame Violets
Chiritas
Achimenes
Aeschynanthus
Alosobbia
Columnea/ Lipstick plant?
Codonanthe
Kohleria
Nematsnthus/ Goldfish plant
Sinningia/Gloxinia's
Smithaiantha
Streptocarpus
Thanks for any support you can give to our small group.
MsC./Lottie
This message was edited Jul 30, 2004 4:49 PM
Please Help us get a new forum African Violets & Gesneriads.
If we are including the little Wally world african violets I would be interested. I have 10 of them and they are very pretty.
You betcha Honeybee.. I have a house full of "No Names" Wally World and love em all the same...they are every bit as pretty and love seeing pics of them.. come on and join us.. even if we don't get our forum we still would love to have you...
MsC.
I would love to have a forum for African Violets -- I have a few that are doing well, and I like to propogate new ones from leaf cuttings -- always looking for some different ones. Mine do well in basement windows in my family room, which faces East. They seem to thrive there. Everyone who sees them thinks they are silk flowers!! Let's get that forum going!
I am sure that my friend, Mailman, would love to see a forum for violets. His wife grows a lot of them. I'll try to get them over here.
Oh, yes, I'm game, ........I love the Streptocarpellas, Streptocarpus, and the others named above..........that is a great idea! Elaine
I got bit by the African Violet bug in the winter. Now I've got about 15 or 20 of them! I'd buy more, but I'm out of room!
We did get the AV forum and it's off to a pretty nice start.. Come join everyone there...Please post your pics and share your info...
Here's the link
http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/av/
MsC
Hey,
I would love to see this forum added! I have about 30 african violets and several sinningia's. I have grown them on and off for about 15 years. Oh, also I have Rhizotamatous(sp?) Begonias, Rex Begonias and Angelwings. They are wonderful greenhouse plants too!
Charla
Ok I need to find out where you get the seeds or the pods for AV I am just starting to grow them. I have read a few things but it still doesn't explain where the seeds are on the plant or am I just Dim
Thanks
Dimmer
Hiya Dimmer,
Glad to see you are doing so well with the AV's...
You will probable have to make your own seed pods by pollinating your flowers yourself.Not many AV's will self -pollinate because of the way the flower parts are formed.
I posted a link to a web page with some very good information on the procedure in the AV forum, but to save you time here is that link.
Pollinating AV’s http://www.rachelsreflections.com/hybridizing.htm
A pic of a seed head… http://www.rachelsreflections.com/images/seedpod.jpg
Please join us on the African Violet forum
Thanks MsC..
This message was edited Aug 31, 2004 12:38 PM
Dimmer here's the link to the AV Forum:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/f/av/