Young man...your love and interest in the African Violet is inspiring...I would wish to gently add: please don't get your leaves wet....ever. I say this bc your leaves will eventually rot. Otherwise, you show yourself to be a great steward of the plants. I just read about the fan, that is quite good, they do love to have airflow and the fluorescents give heat which the AF loves. Well done.
I think a lot of advice is "true" in a sense that it works or doesn't work in that persons environment. I have all my stuff under grow lights and a ceiling fan on almost 24/7 so things dry out fast. if you have slow moving air and not a lot of light it may be different. But again who knows
Thank you so much for your advice! I was absolutely clueless as to what to do with my four very crowded violets. I will have 12 by the time I separate them! I guess I better adopt some out to friends!
African Violets are Orchids, put pot in water and let them set for an hour or longer until soil is damp, then remove. I have lights on them all night, then only morning sun. They all are healthy, work, but love my African Violets. Loved your video.
What a crazy bloom! They looked kind of interesting clumped together with the leaves going every direction, but clearly they needed more space to thrive.
great video! I had a tiny one and now it is huge and I need to divide and report it because the pot is too heavy for me to move (I did a mosaic on the pot adding to the weight.). Hopefully I will be successful. Thanks!
Im not an expert or anything but my grandma always tells me to water them from the bottom (pour water onto the dish where excess water would usually flow) and it will suck up the water.
That’s because the leaves can be damaged when cold water sits on them. Bottom watering prevents water from touching the leaves. As you can see in the video, however, he got the leaves quite wet and the plants did fine.
I do not have a green thumb. However I found that I can keep violets alive. I had one Violet that had blooms for almost an entire year minus three weeks. During that three-week period when there were no blooms, I added a plant fertilizer stick, and they started blooming again.
Really good video but I kept cringing watching you mist the leaves. Water will burn the leaves. Water from the bottom. Get some grow lights and African violet soil and fertilizer and they will start blooming.
@@TechplantChannel it's because of the environment they are native to. Please just listen to people trying to explain this to you. Sure you may have lights that dry it rapidly but in nature that is not how they thrive. They get their water from the soil. I understand you have a RU-vid, but please listen when people try and give you advice my great grandmother has been growing hers for 50 years give or take, I even have some sprouting now. If you're going to give advice, not everyone has your set up and behaving like you did would kill their plants.
I have one massive African violet and somehow it hasn’t ever made and offshoots. It’s literally about as big around as a pie plate and the Maine stem is almost as big around as a quarter. It flowers a lot but not babies.
I have no idea how you were able to dunk those plants in water and then spray all the leaves. If even one drop of water gets on a leaf I panic and carefully dry it. If not, I loose that leaf.
