African Violets
by
Rachel's Reflections

WELCOME ........ 
This site is all about African violets.... caring for them,  starting, propagating,  hybridizing and growing them! Propagation with leaves, suckers, seeds are explained in layman's terms,  with the help of  detailed diagrams and pictures! This should  be a great learning experience for the beginner grower.  I also have a mailing list that  can be joined from this page!  It will take you to a site with loads of information.  If you can not find your answers here or in the files there,  post to the list.  I have experienced show growers and hybridizers  there  to answer your every question.  So, go now and enjoy my site.   I would love to hear that you put it in your favourites!
 Rachel

This is a Canadian site originating in Thunder Bay Ontario

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
 ---  Mark Twain

This site was last updated on
November 05, 2007 03:01:06 PM

 


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Sources for African violet seeds

 VioletReflections mailing list Learn how to keep your african violet plants safe while shipping.keep plants safe while shipping babies babies babies, it is hard not to keep them all.separating babies
24hr Bug treatment Learn how to keep your african violet plants safe while shipping.keep them safe while shipping soil can sour and when this happens you should act quickly or you can lose your african violetsoggy soil
grand daughter sells African violets not lemonade!african violet stands the smell of ammonia coming from the soil when you water your African violet means your plant is in trouble.leaching  soil recipes, but I have my favourite.soil

You may borrow any of these tools. It would be nice if you would leave some too.african violet tool box

 Your plant is getting a long neck? Chop it's head off!long neck problems  suckers are another way of propagation, just cut them off and re-root.suckers
african violets like to be clean!bath your african violets Your african violet is growing a long neck? Chop it's head off! long neck problems  (more) Here is an attempt to photograph a picture of a sucker, and highlighting the area. "sucker"  picture
 Broken leaf? Not a problem!broken leaf? I fell in love all over again.love affair I have put a lot of thought into giving you these urls.. when I realized there is a good chance of a web spider picking up these sites and put the urls on the search pages as has happened with other sites, I realize that I would feel better giving them to you myself. These are the newsletters that have been published to my VioletReflection mailing list. Vr Newsletter Archives
Darn! what would this world be without bugs? bugs and symptoms you can grow babies faster, but you won't have as many.making babies faster starting leaves my waystarting leaves
Put your babies on display!displaying the little ones My other world, a haven where it is always peaceful. my other world watch us remove a sucker.sucker removal
Fertilizer every time you water!fertilizers With as many african violets as I have I should expect to see some funny things at times.natures tricks fast link to the updates I have just added to the site. updates to this site.
I grow african violets and will soon not have enough room for my poodlesgrowing african violets african violets have very fine seeds.planting your seeds stem is gone, and there is not enough left to make one? Try this.wedges?
humidity. african violets like it as much as you do.humidity Pot your plant up in size on a regular basis.potting up an african violet your african violets like warm water. to eat, drink, and bath or shower in.watering
I will hybridize this year. I am so anxious to start.hybridizing african violets make a mold for your plants.potting up one size to another wicking is wonderful, but I still like to water by hand.wicking 
Just because someone bragged about their violets don't run home and blindly do exactly what the other has done. Sometimes it only brings headaches. If your violets are sick of course you must try something but if there are no problems why look for them?If it ain't broken,  don't fix it! rooting hormone again.rooting hormone Here is a page with a mix-mash of things. My way of treating other house plants for bugs. Rob's Lucky Penny and a cute greenhouse I received from my grand-daughters on my last birthdaypotpourri
Jeff Smith so kindly gave his permission to post his notes on hybridizing here for you.Jeff Smith on hybridizing Use rooting medium on suckers and tops of plants, not on leaves.rooting hormone (more) My way of propagating chimera's and how keike grow makes a difference in how many babies I was able to glean with it.chimera propagation
african violets can grow almost anywhere.lighting a great picture of an african violet seed pod.seedpod  

 here are some other sites I have on the internet
I will sell some leaves and small plants this coming summer of 2004 here is my photo album, not to indicate that I have them now. I change my violets often, but I believe there are a lot of people who visit just to look at the pictures.VioletReflections There are times when I run across an interesting site I will give a brief announcement of what it is and where you can find it. I call these my "Rave Reviews". These are not applied for. I make this judgement when I see the site and feel it is worthwhile telling people about it.Rave Reviews I will always love plants. It feels like the outdoors inside.I love other plants too
This site has been awarded quite a few awards.Awards I raise toy poodles too! They are always a source of JOY. Denis and I would much rather watch the litters playing than our favourite television shows.Wagontale Poodles I love and admire my small city. Please visit with me. I will try to get more pictures here in the near future.Thunder Bay & area
Mother is Mother, I thought I was a good one, but I have at least one child who doesn't thing so. Hysold  (The reflection in my mirror) I wanted something no one else could possibly have, so I made my own. My Logo please send me email. Everything is welcome from critizism to suggestions for another page. Send me email

Should you wish to suggest other subjects you would like to see covered on this site or ask any questions  please feel free to contact me

 

As most of you know I have been keeping a "sites" page you can access from a link at the bottom of this page. 
Today I have a new one for you.  I will keep the current link here until another is available.

 This site is informative, clean and most important family orientated. 
when I visited on May 25, 2007
 

    
 

Ninette designs banners, logo's and even builds entire sites!
She  also designs tattoo's.  It's your body,  it is personal, and it deserves
 the best.  Ninette's images are original, all are copy rite and the work is  excellent! 
She also made the banner immediately below for this site. 
 

     
   
Janet (Stromburg) is the hybridizer who is responsible for the 
beautiful, hardy" Allegro" african violets.   
She is a member of the VioletReflections mailing list
 and is very willing to share her knowledge. 
These are her wonderful pages.    
       
 Janet's Low Tech method of starting african violet seeds.

Janet's page on keiki grow plus 
     

 


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