This Sport of Little Stinker was a sucker but the foliage is not Chimera Foliage :( and the flowers Sported too. So foliage and blooms sported on this sucker but she has been blooming straight about 2 months the deepset blue flowers ! Her foliage is the deepsest dark old fashion green !
She's happy anywhere she sits ! She was on the porch table for a month until it got too cold not she sits in window in our home she takes very little care to make her smile :))
She is a Real Beauty Allison!! : )
Thanks ! I only have 2 Av's blooming and a couple Gesneirads.
She is so pretty thou Little Stinker is a cool Foliage Chimera I don't mind she Sported :))
My Chiritas seem to be enjoying the cooler weather too !
Allison, I love the sport. What a beautiful shade of blue. The chirita is gorgeous. I am trying to wait patiently for my chirita to bud. Both are very young plants.
Their fun plants to grow ! My Chiritas I had not got them to bloom for a long time. When we moved over Oct 30th they have been living on the screen porch they got happy and starting shooting up bloom stalks !
Allison: I keep forgetting to ask .... how old, or large do Chritia's have to be before they bloom? Mine are just little babies, but I can't wait for them to grow up to see what they are gonna look like blooming! Are they very fast growers? I'm hoping next Spring, or possibly early Summer to have blooms.
Lin
I fount they are virgorous growers, and need not be large to bloom. Though different ones grow different sizes like Av's some are Minature and so on.
My Chirita sinensis 'Hisako' bloomed young . This picture is of it in October 2005 and still a baby. She grew really big and I took lots of leaves off of her to share and to progate .
You should have blooms for sure by Spring !
Light is important
This is one of my favorite links for growing them.
http://www.maavs.org/html/growing_cheritas.htm
I think i am gonna have to start growing some of these AV's Mrs Treasure.........................
You will enjoy them Mr. Mark :))
Gonna have to find out where to get them in this country!!!!
Are there many sellers in the UK???????????????????
I don't know I've never been there ?
Hi Mark,
You are lucky to have the world famous Dibley's nursery in the UK. Fabulous for streps and gesneriads, etc.
http://www.dibleys.com/
Oh my goodness I forgot about them . Now you really are lucky ! Wish I did live there your so lucky ! I am jeolous Mark .
I have bought a few books and some Strep food tablets from them. They ship super fast. They sell African violets too along with Streps and other Gesneriads. Gosh Thanks Snow I can't believe I forgot about them.
Yup ;>)
Hmmmmmmmmmm they are in Wales....................... not that far away really!!!
Thank you for that snowrose......................
Ahhhhhh you see mrs treasure............................ world famous and in UK!!! Cant be bad!
:))
just been reading their website....................... wow they sell some lovely plants!!!
yes they sure do !
wonder if Lauri knows about this site........................... i may have to hide it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
