If you like plants by David Senk here is a great auction of leaves by Senk's plants !
http://cgi.ebay.com/African-Violet-Leaf-Collection-14-Lvs-All-Senks_W0QQitemZ7761986686QQcategoryZ75640QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Like plants by David Senk ?
African Violet Leaf Collection - 14 Lvs. All Senks!!
7 Varieties from David Senk - LQQK!! Item number: 7761986686
Wow, I'd bid but I have a feeling that in the next 2 days the cost will go way up!
Never know. I know in good weather bidding slows down. Winter bids always higher. But this is the best time of the year to put leaves down !
Plus when his leaves first came out they cost so much more. I paid like $ 18.00 for fruit fyl leaves.
WOW! That's a lot of money.
I have never had luck propogating his by leaf :(
I grew seven of his green and white wasp plants by leaf . I have had luck when I bought them from someone else. But the leaves he sent me died ?
Arre these leaves also for sale at Lyons or are they special ones that are hard to find?
They are special ones only sold by David Senk or by people growing these plants that have already paid big bucks for them. No vendor sells them.
I think rainbow violets will only sell hers on eBay. I got mine from the AVS sale, so I lucked out.
Ali, you know his web site has been down for months. What do you think happened?
Oh really I did not know it was down ?
Yes Rainbows has some of the plants but she sells Dates wasp for $ 8.00 for baby on her web sight but only sells Senks on Ebay.
PS I saw Nancy from Rainbows buying her plants from Senk on Ebay and she paid hugh bucks, then they come small and takes forever to get leaves to grow plants to sell. So she had to work hard to grow rare plants to sell. So these leaves will be a good deal !
the Bid is up to $25.00 right now, with 2 days and 8 hous to go!
Not a bad price now for 14 leaves of Senk's leaves.
If it had been a year or so ago I would have bid on them :))
Ended at $ 33.00 which is not bad these leaves are easy worth at least $ 5.00 a set. Hek lost of Vendors sell non-vare leaves for $1.50- $ 3.75 each " One Leaf "
Wonderful win ! And a Dg Friend won them ! Not sure if they'll yell Yippee it was me :)) But I am hoping they get lots of babies :)) Maybe they'll share of do the Secret Swap in the Fall :))
yippi it was me..........lol it was mewooooohhhhoooooooooooo wild bob
Congratulations Yipee !! Bob hope you get lots of babies ! Sure hope you will be joining in the Fall for our super duper Fall secret swap :))
Yea!!!! Glad it was a DG guy!!!!
Yes me too :))
good mornin g allison. i am happy yippeethank you guys.i should get them today or tomorrow. i still have a lot of questions lol. haw much light do i give the leaves every day? 24 hrs a day or what? i really want to do this right. i want babbies to trade later on. yippee wild bob.
Hey! I just looked at this site. The leaves (2 of them) went for 33.00. Holy Cow. On a good week I can buy groceries for the week on that.
Yes but I think it was seven different Senk Av's x 2.. 14 rare leaves. Which is well worth $7.00 or more a set ! Optimara charge $6.00-$8.00 for a set of theirs.
You did real good Bob. I paid Almost $ 20.00 for one set of his leaves.
Bob give them 8-12 hours of light. Non buring light . Window is Ok as long as there is not hot sun. Or if you can close blinds or have lace curtain to block during hot part of the day. I have some window where when it's hot I close blinds and then open them later. I use all my windows :)) Or you can put them real close under lights on your stand. even 2-6 under as long as not touching is fine. I even had to grow them window and lamp before I got a light stand !
Have fun ! Ask all the question you want ! I hope you get zillions of babies for our big Fall secret swap and trading !
The first two Senks leaves I bought the green and white wasp one. It cost me almost $ 18.00 for the set. They gave me 7 really nice healthy plants. Five I sold for $ 20.00 each and two I sold for $ 30.00 each. I now how two of those leaves down and his leaves do take a long time. This time I will keep one :)) IT's the first and only variegated wasp with green and white flowers :))
Yippee Bob you did great ! I'll be sending you plants soon too :))
Yippee Bob! Glad I didn't get into a bidding war- lucky for me I wasn't up to the task, I would have been cursing the winner!
hi every one . hi allison . i am all shook up. lolthey sent me 16 leaves /plus 7 real tiny leaves. i guess they are micro mini leaves. fruit fly leaves. really tiny. do i put each one in a seperate pot? or all together? yippeeee wild bob
Bob I like each one in it's own pot. Sometimes I put two in a cup and later I just have to separate them later extra step and work.
Fruti Fly wow. I paid big buckes for those leaves before . And the two babies I got sold good $$$ . Any babies of these leaves sell one two plants you'd more than your money back :)) You did real good Bob !
Here are some links to Wasp plabt pictures and interview with David Senk.. I'm sure its all in our Sticky too !
Wasp African Violets
http://www.metro-garden.com/node/37
David Senk
Hybridizer of Wasps & the Unusual
Trying tp pull up interview with David Senk cant ?? Maybe you can .
here this works !
http://groups.msn.com/AfricanVioletNotebook/davidsenk.msnw
http://groups.msn.com/TheVioletVoice/interviews2.msnw
Link with lots of wasp pictures.
http://www.rainbowviolets.com/id18.html
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