Anyone Growing ~ Vespe Verde - green Senk wasp ?
Wonder how high it will got on Ebay ? They use to sell 30.00 up and way up when David Senk sold them
Vespe Verde - green Senk wasp! Item number: 7771464806
http://cgi.ebay.com/African-Violet-Vespe-Verde-green-Senk-wasp_W0QQitemZ7771464806QQihZ018QQcategoryZ75640QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
This baby took forever to groew but at last blooms ! Anyone else have blooms yet from the ones I sent out !
What a sweetie!
thaks JIL :)
That is adorable Allison. I have to go check on ebay and see what's happening in the a/v world.
Well last one I saw on Ebay sold for over $30.00. I have two extra suckers babies can save you one !
I have not seen David selling for a long time ?? I know he had mites and got rid of them and was selling again. Maybe he had another problem or got busy with his faily and full time job ?? He sure hybridized a lot of nice plants several I grew ! Only one I kept.
VT, that is such a cute plant!!
Thank you . One little one I kept and have two little sucker babies from it ! All the others from the two leaves I bought I gave away.
Hope Jan " Jannich" made it threw her cold spell she loves wasp. Her plant looked better than mine last time she showed me it .
Hi VT,
I just did an advanced search on Ebay for completed auctions and was so surprised to see a plant of Vespa Verde (Senk) sold for only $3.00 (auction ended Dec.7-06) and another leaf auction for $1.50
It is such a sweet little violet and I'm sure you are glad you kept it to enjoy.
WOW when David first starting selling them they were going sky high even to $$100.00 !
When I bought my first two leaves I paid almost $ 20.00 . Being a Wasp, variegated and green and white bloomer all three things I enjoy in an AV I had to have it ! Not to mention it is the only wasp plant with green in it's flower !
Well those two leaves gave me 7 really nice plants ! I meant to keep one but all sold for about $30.00 each ! I kept a couple leaves that time but they did not make it :((
Last year I was able to buy two more leaves for around $8.00 ! I only got 4 plants this time . I gave three away kept one ! When I gave them away athis plant had just sold for almost $40.00 !!! just this past summer. I looked back in No Jan's picture her's plant looks great larger and more fuller than mine. But when her wood burning stove went out she lost a lot of plants not sure if she lost this one ?? But I also have two other plants from the suckers off of this plant !
I grew a few fruit flys ! That plant was fun ! The leaves a couple years ago were costly but the plants sold high also $$$.
I have grown about all of his plants some he sent me free. But this is the only one I have left !
David told me he was going to register this plant ~,Vespa Verde (D. Senks) It has white wasp blossoms variably edged in green.Variegated Foliage, Delicate Green-edged Wasp Blossoms "Vespa Verde" Vespa Verde blooms easily and its medium green semi-miniature occasionally-bustled foliage forms a nice rosette Semiminiature (User Database)
)~but most likly he said he was going to change the name as his frined was using ( Tina Moreno) was using the Vespa name.
I bought all her leaves too. She said she was going to register them ??? But this has not happened.
Her leaves way way high. One set went for $40.00 . I lost mant auctions but did buy all five sets. They grew well into good size nice blooming plants . I got many plants and gave them all away.
Good ole memories :))
If I was ever to buy another African violet plant after growing at least a thousand different varieites from leaf ! It would be a flowering noid or a flowering Optimara . :))
I still have mine Allison.I think its getting buds!
Oh Jan super ! I know you love Wasp ! I've always been a Wasp lover too ! I was so excited when this plant came out as I love blooms with green too !
Last photo I saw of your plant in No. your plant was stunning ! So happy you still have it :))
Hope you get many, many blooms !
Merry Christmas !
How aboyt a red, white with green wasp bloom :))
I know what you mean VT...when new and novel violets first come out, they always sell high...the good old marketplace and the law of suppy and demand at work. I agree with you in that I wish many of the hybridizers would register their plants as well.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Will you be getting together with your children? If so, have a wonderful time.
Yes if we wait to buy or Share ! We can all have a lot of fun plants !
I have leaves down to share in the spring.I hope it gives me lots of babies!
Red, white with green,Sounds pretty cool.
Yes it would be a Holiday Wasp plant !
Hey when the it came out being the first green and white wasp plant people went nuts ! Just like when the first Pink flowering first double pink , and first girl foliage , first Chimeria :)) Oh the green blooming Streptocarpus plant came out I tried to win that a few times but it always went to high .
All the first AV's were blue shades Blue Boy being the first.
Blue Boy (41) 1948 (Armacost & Royston) Single dark violet-blue. Ovate, pointed. Standard
Edit to say First Pink Girl :)) Pink Girl (AVS48) (R. Baxter) Single pink. Ovate girl foliage. Standard
First Girl, Blue Girl (AVS48) (C. Ulery) Single blue-violet. Round girl foliage. Standard
In the fifty's Lyon's came out with the first double pink it brought lots of money ! I forget which double pink it was anyone know ?? :)) There were three in one year.
If my memory does not fail me the first double pink came out from Lyon's in 1953 three plants were named by Lyon. I think it was Double pink Cheer but the name might be wrong but I do recall the first Doube pink was from Lyon !
Double Pink Cheer (186) 10/29/1954 (L. Lyon) Double pink. Quilted. Large
Double Pink Cloud (187) 10/29/1954 (L. Lyon) Double dark pink. Quilted. Large
and
Double Pink Puff (188) 10/29/1954 (L. Lyon) Double pink. Quilted. Large
Ok now to do a google see what I can fine.
This message was edited Dec 21, 2006 5:10 PM
