I am going to have a ton to share from my bargain violets.
I have plucked several plants out of many of the plugs I bought from DP greenhouse.
Once I have a complete list of the plantlets..I will let everyone know!
separating my bargains..GOOD NEWS!
WOW Lorry ! So exciting ! I have a box of 50 plants being shipped to me tomorrow ! I can't wait. Well'll sure have a lot to share and trade !
I going to post my trade/share for shipping , handling list when I'm all done and do them all at once. I've been busy transfering babies from Mom leaf ! So many :)) Loads of fun !
I dont' have any babies yet :( But I do have many suckers up and many plantlets..So I will have a list this week :)
And yup! You should be excited! I also have another package coming from him and can't WAIT to see what is in it!
Oh yes this has been a blast ! And Begonia got a whole bunch of good ones ! Super fun trading :)) I love plaing and potting my plants !
Yup :) It was well worth the price tag :)
I also bought some of the plugs he had for .50
I thought, if my leaves don't grow :)
I will still have some things to trade out at the very least
wow awesome ! I am going crazy waiting on my box !
If I can keep them alive. I'm having major gardening failure here. Killing them with kindness I suspect.
I've overwatered almost all of my noid's and then was able to 'save' some by cutting off all the wilted leaves and repotting and drying them out.
BUT Ali, I must confess, I have almost killed 'Smootch Me' and 'Rob's Antique Rose', crown rot. I had to do a crown cutting to try and save it.
(Big boo hoo here!)
my bargain violets and noid's on my new bedroom shelf have thrips. I cut all the flowers and buds off the noid's ( the culprits I suspect, even though when I brought them home I REALLY looked for thrips or signs of them, and didn't see any) and I'm going after the bargain violets today with my clippers because one had spilled pollen, so off with their heads!
not such a dynamite gardener anymore! :-(
Oh yes you are still dynamite gardener ! I find sometimes most in the winter you think your plants or leaves down are dry but their really wet, wet in the middle. Go figure. This is one reason I don't let my plants sit on resivoirs of water that gets cold along with the cold air. I always water with hot /warm and it's warm only after it turns warm. I give my wick plants enough to drink in 15 - 30 minutes and trays are dumped, containers for wicking have enough water to drink not sit. I also let them dry out in between watering not desert dry like catus though. The cold seems to just make them more wet but cold wet. When it's cold you will want to give them tiny bits of water just enough for their little roots to drink but not enough to give them soggy cold wet feet the hate.
Keep them as warm as you can and give them lots of light.
Thrips and mites and mealies..on and on you are probaly not going to see without a 3x power scope. And lots of bugs/insects hide from the light which makes it even harder. Or if the plants just came along with eggs. It probaly was the noids you posted ahile back with the spilt pollen. I know this is sad I just am so afraid of the HD and store Av's. Their among so many other plants that come from every where.
One of my Hospice Volunteers came yesterday with a gorgeous Poinsettia from her Church. And she came in me in bed and went to put it on my kitchen table and I said wait please leave it outside on the porch as it could be carry Mites or something to affect all my Av's. I'm happy sh brought it I like them plants outside they grow really well but I was not going to take chance of in the home.
If you take the blooms off , spray and isolate, it can take a good 3 months to see damage from bugs. Re-pot and let dry out plants that got to wet and cold. It will be ok. And if you lose some no big deal theres tons more of where they came from ! Try to save leaves .
Gosh last Spring/Summer I was doing terrible. I had over 500 leaves down they were getting to dry and dying even though my husband was trying to keep up with them but taking care of me 24/7 and working part time and housework...I did lose hundreds. Also if I have a plant and I don't like how it is growin I throw it away . lol
Back at our other home I'd throw out babies and my husband would plant them in his garden. For two years his African violets were the largest at our home ! Elise was about 18 or nore inches across always blooming , it got rain, and hosed, winter and hot 95 degrees heat and sun, no special treament. And that plant grew so perfect. Gosh I wish we had dugged it up when we moved .
I think sometimes we give our plants too much care.
Your still a terric Mom and dynamite gardener ! . Don't worry about any plants or babis lost. I'm not sure what you spray for Thrips but I do know the eat from the blossoms and will starve. Maybe the neem oil will also help. What ever you do repeat every 7-10 days for at least three times.
It will be ok please don't worry you are a dynamite gardener !
Thanks for the vote of confidence! I'm spraying with neem and then half strength Bayer rose systemic (which treats thrips/mites/mealies etc)
I'm mixing soap with the neem so that it acts like a 'spreader/sticker' surfactant.
The good thing is (trying to see the silver lining here) that I'm quickly getting through the AV learning curve with this forum. I've learned several reasons why my AV's haven't survived in the past and why I'm killing them now. I'm pretty sure that I can save the ones that I drowned earlier.
Going to play with my bargain violets today. Get them all nipped and tucked and sprayed.
Ali, if you have time, can you tell me which ones on my list of new kids that are trailers. I don't want to divide them if they are supposed to be with multiple crowns.
I'll post them over in the 'Bargain Violet' thread if I haven't already. I tried to get most of the info via the web regarding the reg #, hybridizer etc. Just not sure which are trailers or not.
Thanks again! Glad to have this forum to boo hoo to!
L
p.s. Here's one more 'pest' I'm fighting! She decided to take a nap on my propagation mat. I plugged it in to warm it up because it wouldn't un-curl and was stiff. While it was warming up, she curled in a ball and took a nap! Ali, believe it or not, her name is Rosie Baby!
(just a coincidence)
p.s. She was named after Kate Hepburn in the African Queen.
OhHHH she's adorable !
Oh Begonia! I successfully murdered EVERY AV I ever had not that long ago.
I even gave up on EVER owning any because it was a slaughter.
We all have a learning curve! and the beat gardeners lose plants!
Things will look up I am sure!
I have Rob's Antique rose...I believe I have some cuttings down of them...so not to worry! We can hook you up!
Keep trying! It will work out!
Lorry
I'm not giving up just yet! But I sure learned a lesson on over watering this past week!
I have lot's of leaves down (if I can keep the kitties from digging in them! darn rascals!) and all the new violets are isolated so hopefully they wont infect others. They are all on the new bedroom plant stand.
I ordered some chiritas, streps and episcias from D&G on their $1 sale. So hopefully they will survive too. The chiritas are noid's but since I've never had one I figure it won't really matter to me if it has a name, so long as I can keep from killing it.
Trust me, I've killed my fair share of begonias too. More than I can count! In fact, I had a major disaster in my greenhouse last week. I had put down some slug and snail pellets which turned to mush and then promptly molded and crown rot a lot of my prize begonias! Rats! so I have been having garden failure all around! I also overwatered my favorite Silver Queen philodendron which I've been nursing along from a teenytiny baby cutting. It was looking great and now it has half of it's foliage turned yellow! (overwatering!!!)
On the other hand, some of my babies look GREAT. One creeping charlie has never looked better, it's ready to trim and make babies! So some good some bad. Just cant wait until spring. The GREATEST news is that we've passed the winter Solstice (12/21/05) and that means each day will have one extra minute of daylight. So after a month, we'll have 30 minutes, two months 1 hour and so on. Can you tell I'm NOT a winter person.
I need to relocate to FL with you gals during the winter time! We've had a week of rain solid and I'm so over it already!!!!!
Begoina I can't wait to see your next box ! Chiritas are super great ! They root and grow plants so amazingly fast ! And Streps and Episcias ! I'd love some babies, leaves and Epsica stollens noid or name no mater. Pretty Please ! Oh my I can't wait for my box too !!
Begonia, I have a small 'Silver Queen' that I can probably snitch a cutting from this spring.... I think the person who sent it to me called it a pothos rather than a philo, but honestly the vining philos and the pothos look pretty much the same to me, so who knows. LMK if yours doesn't pull through, and I'll add it to our spring trade list!
Oh, shoot, my memory is foggy.... now I'm not sure if mine is 'Silver Queen' or 'Marble Queen' (I'm in Pittsburgh, plants are in Frederick), but it is green with nice bright white variegation. I also have 'Red Velvet' philo and both green and green & gold pothos.
Thanks Critter, It's an odd philo, not a pothos. I'll shoot a photo of it later, but it seems to be hangning in there. Thanks for the offer of the other philos, iI have micans (red velvet) and the standard green as well as Brazil. I do believe that I no longer own a pothos? Hmmm going to have to take a peek in the greenhouse. I do have one - I think it's a pothos, but I can't remember... brain is out for lunch....
yup, did a dave's search and I have Satin. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57710/index.html
Have had it for years. It sits on my Hoosier cabinet and almost touches the floor. CAn't tell you how many times it has gone bone dry and the weight of it pulls it to the floor where it spills all over and then gets repotted!
It could use a trim and repot the babies, plus a little food would help. Honestly it's been there about 10 years.
LOL! I know what you mean about how tough pothos are... I had a green one in my *windowless* office in Chicago (std institutional fl. lights in the ceiling), and it grew like the Audrey II... I have a green & gold one that I keep looping upon itself as it spills down the side of the terrarium, and every so often it gets too dry and takes a nose dive just as you described! I recently cut back some 15 - 20 foot vines from my green pothos and have a big bunch of cuttings rooting in a vase. (That's another one I can't tell about -- my neighbor who gave me cuttings of it and the green & gold one called them both philodendrons, but they sure look -- and grow -- like pothos.)
So as not to have hijacked this thread completely, I'd like to add that I'm waiting breathlessly for more photos of Lorry's new bargain babies! :-)