I would love to see how your Easter Trade babies are coming. I'm at the wrong computer so I can't send pictures right now. I just potted up 7 little darlings so they will be ready to send in April. How is everyone doing?
Here comes Peter Cotton Tail
i don't think i'm doing well....i had better get with it..
Luckily my trade is in May. : ) I am not ready. : )
Well I have one in April and one in May. I'm sure I can find something to put in their baskets :))
i think i'm in may....hope so
You are Bob :))
I'm an April trader......and here's a sample of what I've been growing to send out (plus a few extra trades on the side!).
Here mine for the easter trade.I left my stems to long(newbie) lol.and they took along time to come up. There small but growing good.
and more.I didn;t sigh up for the other trade cause I didn't think I'd have enough.Oh was I wrong.so I'll have plenty to share:)
BJ and Jan
Looking good. I just received an email from the Baltimore AV Club. They are having a meeting on Monday March 13th. The program is a Spring Trading Post. More fun for the Springtime.
Here are the plantlets I am working on
Jan
love the doilies. I just finished one as a wedding present. It had love knots in it. First time for me with love knots.
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Nana, what type of shelves do you use? They look very professional!
great looking babies you all have ! Good growing
wow nanna yours are huge.It going to be a great trade.
Thank you.
I love doilies.What a nice wedding present it will make! Love knots sound beautiful.Please post a picture of it if you can.If you ever need doily patterns you just let me know.I have tons I can burn onto a cd for you.
Baltimore sounds like fun.Hope you have a good time and bring back lots of good stuff:)
Heres a picture on the doily I'm just finishing.One more row.
Oh there I go again talking doilies.LOL.I love making them:)
I have two shelves. They are quite sturdy because 1. I am clumsy and 2 my grandkids love to help with the violets and lean on the shelves a lot. I don't know the brand name. I got them in the garden store that I buy violets from. Each of the stands has 4 foot lights. (Two per shelf). One stand has two shelves and it gives off more light that the one shelf stand. Go figure. Don't know why. I keep the standard plants 12 to 14 inches from the light. The variegated I keep on the bottom row because the top shelf gets a little heat from the light fixture beneath. I keep dark leaves and girl leaves to the outside of the shelves
The single shelf has my minis on it. I keep them 6 to 8 inches from the light. I have been trying to stagger the heights of the plants to give me more room. Bill says it looks like a space station. I bought some stemmed glasswear at the dollar store and turned them upside down. The foot of the goblet is the base to set a plant on.
Well I'm sure that was a lot more information than you wanted.
Love the doily. I gave the one away so I don't have a picture of it. But here is a picture of another one I finished a couple of months ago. It's about 18 inches in diameter
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Beautiful Dolies Nanna and Jan ! You girls are so talented !
Nanna do you have pictures of different angles of your plants stands ?
I keep forgetting to hit send. I don't have any pictures of the stand, but I can take a few. I'm on the little computer in the study right now. Give me a minute or two and I will post from the other room.
Here are the plant stands. This is the large stand. The space stations is on the bottom. They are little micro mini plants
#2 of the large stand. It is on a table so I can work more easily
#1 of the small stand.
#2 of the small stand
I'm rethinking the arrangemnets on the stands for maximum area use. I may put the minis and the plantlets on the large stand and bring down the light. Then the small stand will be free for wonderful new plants
The plants in the front of the small stand are for the Easter Trade. I just potted them up. I have them on the table for a few days before putting them under the lights.
Very nice set up Nanna ! Did your lights come with your stands ? I wanted one of my smaller greenhouse like mini shelves on a tab;e but out ceiliing was too low. Yours are real nice . Thanks for sharing !
Thanks. Yes, the lights did come with the stands. I have a make-shift set up for the small stand. My table is too small. Half the stand is on the table and the other half is on a filing cabinet. Bill just finished a cutting block table for the kitchen and I'm going to twist his arm for a longer but narrow version for the smaller plant stand.
Great thread -- thanks, Nanna! I'd been thinking we needed to bump my January "progress report" thread with photos of our SEB trade babies... Since we're started here, let's continue with this thread rather than jumping between them!
I'll post more pics once my camera battery recharges... DH is heading in to the office tomorrow afternoon (he's been working from home lately), so I'll get to use the "good" computer!
Meanwhile, here's a photo of 'Rob's Whiz Bang'. I have a couple of plantlets that I started earlier last year that are blooming size that I'm looking forward to sending to my Easter Buddy, and this is one of them. Other plantlets may be quite small! I'll see what I end up with in April as far as leaves go... I'm rather hoping that I'll be able to do my 7 varieties as plantlets plus some bonus leaves, but of course that will take some cooperation from the "AV nursery" residents!
Please don't hesitate to post here whether or not you've had good luck propagating... As I've said before, it's perfectly OK to do your 2 plantlets as plants you recently purchased, and then add leaves from others in your collection... I figure that's a good backup plan in case of propagation disaster.
Some of my plantlets that I'd like to send this spring (secret trade and other boxes) still have really small root systems... I wonder if they will be all right to send or if I should send them along later when they've grown a bit more. ?? I did try to send one really tiny plantlet to MsC last year, and it did not fare well. I guess my other backup plan is that I'm willing to re-send anything that doesn't thrive!
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Beautiful plant Jill ! Stunning. Thanks for sharing !
Thank you everyone for sharing your growing pictures.
Whiz Bang is beautiful. I have noticed that when Rob sends plantlets they were planted in the pot about 6 months before I received them. I am assuming that the date on the pot is when he transplanted them.
I really don't know how long it takes to develop a good root system.
You ladies are SOOO talented :) I am sure that those doilies look great with Avs on them :)
I will post some photos of my babies when I get home :).
I am a may trader though. I didn't make it into the April one
April, May, Bring them on. Let's see how the babies are doing.
Nanna I love that doily.Do you know what book its in?
Yes! It is American School of Needlework. The Ultimate Doily Gook #1185. I got it at either Murphy's or AC Moore. Can't remember which. It was 8.95. I think I have made them all. Right now I am working on "Candlelight" It's supposed to be 27" diameter when finished. It has 43 rows. OH MY!!!!
Ok I finally took photos :) I am such a slouch!
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Nice babies Lorry ! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow! Lorry, you are going to make your May secret buddy very happy!!
Hopefully :) and hopefully all the wonderful people I trade with also!
Lookin' good!
Nice babies Lorry!
nanna thanks I'm going to look and see if I have that book.I love the doily:)
Thanks guys....Now I am just waiting for some to get a little larger ...I don't want to seperate many of then just yet...but I still have a couple of months..so hopefully will have lots of plants to go around :)