Yea, me too Lorry, I'm losing sleep over Sky Jems, http://www.senpoliamini.ru/ermolenko/SkyJems.jpg
Shiawasee Trail and Biscayne Trail.
(here's a teaser)
http://www.senpoliamini.ru/ermolenko/SillyGirl.jpg
I have to have a drool bucket everytime I look at these!
Basement babies have moved uptown!
Oh and what about Biscayne Bay Trailer
http://www.avsa.org/Photographs/BiscayneBayTrailerLrg.jpg#http://../Photographs/BiscayneBayTrailerLrg.jpg#
sigh!
Jill I need a Silly Girl too !
I have a Shiawasee Trail plant for you Lauria, and Irish Flirt, Irish Paradise, ....and more !
I have lot's of girl leaves growing too . Orchid Girl , ( vintage AVSA48), Mini Minx ( rare vintage), ectrci cowboy, Honey Blue Angel,Wonderous Girl,
Simplicity, Sassy Shell, Ultra Violet Dusk and more .
I am trying to grow enough for who ever wants.
I have some superduper minis growing too " some are limited" some I promsied out to you all..
Baby Moonbeam :)), Baby Colors, Luvy ( have one now in one inch pot blooming :)) so cute, Sassy Wonder ( she's small but I think I have leaves down,
Mini Papa, Hyla's Little Lyra, My favorite bloomer Funny Bunny ( even have one in a one inch blooming !) Space Cadet, some Mac's plants, Tomboy Blue, couple little Optimaras, Oh my goodness I can't remember them all but I'm growing them girlies and minis for sharing :))
I've got ears up on 'Biscaye Trail'! And it looks like I'll have several new plantlets of 'Silly Girl'. Lorry, I'll move her to the top of your list... but I think I'll have enough to go around... 4 plantlets in the picture above, and another pair of leaves is looking good.
I think the picture I posted of my "main plant" of 'Silly Girl' in bloom may show the effect of a little powdery mildew on blossom color. It looked decidedly washed out next to these vibrant blooms on this oldest 'Silly Girl' plantlet!
First blooms are such fun! This is the first blooming for this young plant (grown from leaf) of 'Rob's Whiz Bang':
I've got several others nearing their first bloom... fat buds about to open on 'Rob's Love Bite' and 'Rob's Humpty Doo'!
Here's the newly opened first bloom of 'Rob's Smarty Pants'.
Found this thread pretty late.
Things are looking good, my friend. and look at those flowers...
Petition to ban Powdery Mildew from Earth:
Jill
Kenton
Anyone else?
Jill, Identity Crisis. I am having a crisis until I know the name of this one:
Golly, Kenton, we can't have you in crisis! That's one of the 'Rob's Outer Orbit' leaves I got from The Violet Gallery in the fall. The first plantlet is mine, the next will go to my Secret Easter Buddy, and then... we'll talk, LOL!
Check out these way cool blooms: http://www.robsviolet.com/rob's_outer_orbit.htm
Hyperventilating! I recall that name! Ouch! Ouch!
Oh wow..anyone know of someone selling Sky Jems! Simply stunning!
Biscayne is INCREDIBLE too...Seems I favor the multicolred girl leaves. I thought limelight was unique that way but I guess not! Any and all of these are now TOPS on my wishlist LOL
Thanks Critter..I would appreciate that!
Jill, I would have never picked Rob's Outer Orbit from their web site photo, but your LEAF! WOW, for sure I'd have chosen that one!! Nice.
I know Lorry, isn't that Sky Jems a knock out!! The hunt is on!...
critter, thanks a million for the information on spacing of shelfs and lights. I have copied and saved it in a Word document for future reference.
Yup..I adore the 2 tons girl foliage ones :) That is why I love my limelight and persian prince so much! So it is definitely a hunt :)
Do you all use the 1-1-1 ratio of vermiculite, perlite, and potting soil for your leafs? I used to get both vermiculite and perlite at WalMart, Home Depot or Lowe's, but they never had it last year.
I use to use Vermiculite but got tired of buying it lol . I use 3 parts perlite instead and my plants have been very happy. When I have worm castings I use 25 percent of worm casting too. Love the texture ! I also use Bat Poop :))
I use 1:1:1
MG Potting Mix : Coir : Sand
I know this sounds crazy, but perlite scares me. I don't like how it looks, in pots or worse yet if it goes into the compost and out into the garden. Then the dust... then that terrible crunching noise it makes... I like organic-in-nature.
Doesn't Jill have the nicest little babies? Have you also noticed that pictures of AV Forum Folks are so much more beautiful than the online catalogues? Like Begonia said: "I would have never picked Rob's Outer Orbit from their web site photo." Same goes for Lorry's 'Rob's Shadow Magic,' and 'Rob's Argyle Socks.'
WOW what a nice selection of AV's you have...I have like 3 of those shevles..never thought of using it for for plant stand....but I will now...gonna get a brand new one just for me and my babies. with new lights for it to...I am hoping that when i bring all of my houseplants in at the end of the summer that maybe the light will help them. And what is neat about those shelves, they are extremely sturdy and you can move them up and down on how wide you want to make the shelf. I think I paid like $70 for mine...and will get another with the flouresent lights...hmm, as i rub my chin, wonder if they make plant light bulbs like those long skinny ones that go to them.
My hubby is gonna kill me....but he knows how happy plants makes me, i am sure he will gladly get me a shelf :o)...thanks for the idea critter....
And i so want to try to get my AV's to have babies, got a nice website from here, might attempt to do it.
Have a good night all,
Char
OH, you *must* try propagating your AVs -- it's such fun to see those new little "ears" poke up!
I'm very pleased with how this shelf is working out. I think I paid $50 (might have been $60) for it at Sam's Club, but by the time I added 5 double bulb florescent fixtures, a box of 32 watt T-8 sunlight bulbs, and a power strip, my total was closer to $200....
Just a note. My shelf unit came with flimsy frosted plastic inserts to put on top of the wire shelves, and I'm glad to have them. If I drip a little water on the shelf, it stays there (or drips off the side, which is no big deal) rather then dropping onto a plant below.... AVs are so picky about not liking wet leaves, so this was a good thing.
Gosh, critter. I can't believe how many you have and how beautiful they are. You really have the touch.
My brother's family was here over the weekend, and the kids were just awed by the shelves of baby AVs! Julianna (6) has her eye on a 'Midget Gumdrop' plantlet, while Johnathon (4) kept checking out the little plantlets coming up in the 'Apache Victory' leaf pot (big leaf in the middle of the second flat). Jacqueline (1 1/2) didn't have a favorite, but I loved the way she would bend over to check out the plants while holding both hands behind her back so she wouldn't forget herself and touch something she shouldn't! They're moving to a new house in April, and I think I should be able to manage a tidy little windowsill collection for them. :-)
Oh Jill that would be wonderful. Our neighbors little Grandaughter she is nine came over with her Grandma one day .I gave them some plants ! She stood here in no time and counted everyone of the plants and leaf pots :))( at the times there were close to 300 ! Then they had to go up North for a year and half. ( she lives with her Grandma and Grandma has a home here in our neighborhood half year). And after a year in and a half she remember her exact count and wanted to know if I was still growing Afrcian violets and how many I had :)) Sometimes she leaves me little colored pictures on my deck by the door :)) Kids are so precious and smart :))
My "uptown" AVs are still doing well! I thought I'd post a few new pictures....
Here's the shelf of older plantlets, mostly minis & semi-minis. The powdery mildew is still present on a few plants but has decreased, and other than fading out a few blooms it doesn't seem to have done much harm.
I have noticed that since watering with Murphy's Oil Soap (1 cap per gallon) a couple of weeks ago and again the other day, I am seeing fuzzy, light colored mold on the surface of the soil in some pots.... It could be the pots just got too wet, but I'm wondering if it had anything to do with the Murphy's? I've just been picking the contaminated soil bits off the surface when I notice the mold.
Oh LOTS of cuties :)
What is the big guy on the bottom shelf in the corner? With the ruffle leaves?
I'm not sure who first posted the idea, but I've been trying a slightly different way of potting up leaves. Rather than just cutting the end of the stem at a slant and putting it only 1/4 to 1/2 inch into the potting soil, I've been planting more of the stem at a shallow angle. I still cut the end of the stem at a slant, but I also scrape my fingernail along the upper surface of the stem section that I'm burying, removing just enough of the outer "skin" that the surface of the stem looks a little wet where I've scraped. I think the idea is that this is like doing a much longer, extended slanted cut along which new plantlets will start.
Anyway, I believe I'm seeing more "ears" pop up in leaf pots that I've done this way. They really do come up all along the stem where I've scraped, not just from the cut bottom of the stem. I haven't done a controlled experiment, but my casual observations suggest that I should stick with this method!
Here are some leaf pots from my Big Blue noid... See the little ears popping up all across the middle of the pot? The stems of these leaves are planted shallowly and extend nearly to the opposite sides of the pot. The big leaf lower in the picture is also Big Blue, with the stem end cut & planted in my prior way. I don't think it'll end up with half as many babies per leaf as the other pot.
Lorry, if you mean the left corner, that's my main plant of 'Rob's Ragamuffin'. I love the ruffled, variegated leaves! (But my brother just said he thought it was "almost ugly" so there's no accounting for tastes. He redeemed himself by loving some of the others!) I've got a leaf or two started, but they're coming along very slowly.
It may be easier to see what I was talking about with this new method of putting down leaves in this picture... There's about an inch of stem (with top surface scraped) just below the surface with this leaf of 'Sure to Please', and there are ears forming densely all along that length. (A few ears are still not quite up... but I brushed away the soil and peeked.)
i read recently some place that it was better to plant the leaves very close to the bottom of the leaf itself...looks like its working so well for you..congrats.
I'd say some of the "ears" in these 4 pots of 'Cambridge Missy' are starting to look more like plantlets!
I am thinking that everyone I trade with this spring may get one of these babies, LOL!
Bob, I think one thing that is true with any method of planting leaves is that if you plant the stem end too deep in the pot (meaning more than 1/2 inch), it will take longer to see babies. Scraping the top of the stem and them planting at a shallow angle puts the "cut part" very close to the surface and also extends its length, so -- more babies, faster! It made sense when I read about it, and it does seem to be working.
There's still lots of variability in how long it takes a leaf to put up ears... but even leaves that look really bedraggled can end up producing plantlets, so don't give up on them!
Here's a leaf of 'Raspberry Rampage' that belied its scruffy appearance by finally putting up ears!
And here's a little leaf of 'Rob's Temptress' that has looked sad & wilty since it was put down... but it hung in there and rooted, and now it has two tiny sets of ears just below the base of the leaf!
MsC, the leaves you sent me are much happier now that they are under lights upstairs!
Here's 'Southern Delight', with a couple of happy plantlets:
Two leaves of 'Cherokee Trail' (also from MsC) have put up ears, too. As with the other leaf above, these have looked droopy since I potted them up -- but they are still makin' babies!
I've taken some crown cuttings that are doing well, too.
Here are two plantlets that I'm calling "Humpty Who?" since they're from suckers of MsC's sported 'Rob's Humpty Doo'... but they sure are lovely!
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I've also got a couple of plantlets about to bloom that I grew from a leaf (from another DGer) of 'Rob's Humpty Doo'... I know they won't bloom true to the chimera form, but I can't wait to see them!
I took a crown cutting from 'Champagne Pink' in early November that's now about the same size as the mama plant... and a month ago, I took a crown cutting from it! Now it has 2 crowns coming along.
.... and the secondary crown cutting has also rooted nicely!
'Champagne Pink' has such great variegation... I'm looking forward to growing a lush, trailing pot of it... but this one is not a fast grower for me, so I'll have to be patient.
These little ears of 'Buckeye Bellringer' are showing wonderful bits of pink variegation, and the red backs just make this little clump of leaflets glow!
I just posted it in the new SEB Trade thread, but I had to post this picture of my nephew's favorite leaf pot, with babies of 'Apache Victory' growing fast!
Talk about growing fast, check out the size of these plantlets of 'Rebel's Rosebud'! Compare this photo to the picture from Dec. 22, near the end pf the previous thread, http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/562567/
The 'Rob's Outer Orbit' plantlets in these leaf pots are getting bigger, too! SO cute!
And here's another pair of leaves from MsC with ears!
'Rob's Shadow Magic'
I think I'll have plenty of 'Allegro Appalachian Trail' to share around this spring! The crown and stem cuttings from my earlier hack & slash operation are looking great, and I also have these two leaf pots coming along well! The little pots at the top of the pic are (I think) crown cuttings of 'Rob's Gundaroo' and 'Ramblin' Angel'.
