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Re: INDOOR-GARDENING digest 616

Hello Jim, several months ago you wrote about  removing suckers from your AV
plant.  When I grow new plants from an AV leaf, there are almost always
several little plantlets that form at the base of the stem.  Is this what
you were referring to as suckers?  How do you know which are suckers?  Will
the plant grow better if I remove the suckers?  How long does it usually
take for the plant to grow large enough to bloom?  Do your plants really put
out buds in only four months? Every one in the group seems to grow violets,
so perhaps someone else has answers to these questions.  Your help is always
appreciated.

Vera Diehl
San Jose


-----Original Message-----
From: James Gray <jjg2@c-cor.com>
To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org <indoor-gardening@prairienet.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: INDOOR-GARDENING digest 616


>Dee2540@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone:
>>      I am back again with a not so bug problem.  I have an African violet
and
>> have had several before this one.  When this violet was bought it had
>> beautiful flowers on it that lasted for quite some time.  They have never
>> bloomed again.  I have tried everything from fertilizers, fish
emulsifiers, to
>> a rusty nail placed in the soil.  How can I get this violet to bloom
short of
>> singing it to sleep at night?  It is in a Northeast window with the
blinds
>> halfway down to shade it.
>>      I would appreciate any words of advice.  Also I have heard of a new
>> growing medium of gel consistancy instead of soil for plant growing.
Anyone
>> hear of it.  It is being manufactured in Texas.
>> Dee
>
>
>It's probably not going to flower in a shaded Northeast window.  It
>needs more light.  You don't need to shade a north or east window in any
>case, really.  The thing you want to shade most houseplants from is full
>afternoon sun, and north and east windows don't get any full sun after
>about 11:30 am.  The indirect light that comes in a north window doesn't
>need to be filtered or shaded.
>
>Flowering house plants fall into two groups: light-influenced and
>temperature-influenced.  African violets are light-influenced bloomers.
>They need a certain number of hours of a certain level of light every
>day to bloom and keep blooming.  That's why they work so well under
>fluorescents.  I'd move the plant to a more eastern or even a western
>window.  I'd filter the west window, though.  I don't think you need to
>actually shade, just put a sheer fabric curtain in between the plant and
>the glass.  That should cut down the intensity enough to make the plant
>comfortable but not so much that you defeat your purpose in putting the
>plant in that window.  An east or southeast window, though is probably
>best.  My violet is in a southeast window (in a candy jar terrarium,
>though) and is starting to put out buds after being almost destroyed by
>an attempt to remove suckers about four months ago.
>
>Good luck!
>--
>Jim Gray
>Quality Assurance, Tipton
>jjg2@c-cor.com
>
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