Let's talk about violets

tashash

Please share your experience of growing Uzambara violets. No matter how much I try to get them at home, they always die. I just can’t understand the reason, I’m already afraid to have such flowers, but they are so beautiful!

Don’t plant them with leaves, they won’t take root. It is better to buy an already healthy plant and under no circumstances water it. Pour water into a saucer and lightly spray the leaves twice a week. They don't like the sun very much, the leaves become stained and die. In general, such violets did not live with me for longer than 3–4 years. Now I planted gloxinia and am completely happy with the choice.

My friend loves violets, they are all so fat and blooming. She plants them only with leaves, but she didn’t give me how many. Everything is wasting away for me. I don’t experiment anymore, although I really like violets.

She took pity on the flower for you. I always buy them, but all the leaves or small seedlings that I gave to acquaintances or friends were always accepted. The funny thing is that some of my flowers don’t bloom, but when I give them as a gift, they send me all the photos with a flower that I didn’t even know could bloom. Both funny and sad.

No, I didn’t regret it, I just didn’t take an adult plant, I always thought I could handle it myself - I’d grow it. And since I have no luck with violets, I won’t take an adult flower, I’m afraid it will die.

My mother-in-law gave me a mature plant, it bloomed for several months, it stopped blooming in January, but it looks quite healthy. maybe resting). I decided to try dilution as an experiment. I cut off a leaf, rooted it immediately in a pot, and covered it with a glass on top. It sat there for 2 months, I occasionally watered it along the edges of the pot, and now it has released rosettes... two at once. both are not at the base of the leaf, but slightly to the side. looks pretty weird, but I'm waiting to see what happens next

Gloxinia also doesn't seem to like the sun. I realized that it is from this that brown spots appear on its leaves, after which the leaf dries out and falls off...

Gloxinia is capricious not only with light. The leaves are withering due to lack of water, the spots are very waterlogged. In addition, it needs fertilizing once a month, and in December - February, the dormant period, there is little watering and a stable temperature.

Yes, I remember back in my childhood, my mother once raised gloxinia, pink and lilac. So it completely disappeared during the winter - it slept for two months in a pot under the closet, and then it was put back on the windowsill and it produced leaves and then bloomed.

tashash, negative experience, also experience. Sometimes you need to get into trouble to learn. Maybe my advice will be useful. The leaves can be planted all year round. Break off or cut from a bush, preferably from the 2nd row. Make an oblique cut with a blade and let it dry for 15-20 minutes. Place in boiled water, adding ash from a burnt match. You cannot put it in crystal and cold water. We put it in the light in a dark place and wait for the roots.

I grew a violet from a leaf, it blooms all year round. I water it rarely; in summer I try to protect it from the bright sun.

My friendship with violets also didn’t work out, apparently the energy doesn’t match. Now I planted two fuchsia flowers: white and crimson. It is no worse in beauty than violets and grows quickly.

For me, fmalka is an unpretentious flower - I water it 2 times a week, it stands on the north side and blooms constantly. Maybe the atmosphere helps.

Start with the most unpretentious varieties - these are the usual lilac and purple ones. The most favorable window is eastern or western, that is, there should be light, but diffused. Under no circumstances should the flower be sprayed or watered abundantly. Buy a shallow pot. Good luck!

The favorable temperature for Uzambara violet is about 20*C. Acceptable temperatures range from +17*C to +24*C. At this temperature, Saintpaulia grows and blooms normally. At temperatures below 13*C, the violet will die; it will not be able to withstand temperatures above 30*C for long. Cool conditions at 15*C - 17*C will slow down the growth of rosettes, but will form them more compact, the flowers will have richer tones, and the varietal characteristics of the colors will be better revealed: edgings, strokes and “fantasy” spots. At a temperature of about 24*C, Saintpaulia rosettes will grow faster, become spreading, and bloom faster, but the edges and edges of the flowers may disappear.For example, Saintpaulia Emergency at 17*C will bloom with dark red flowers with a spectacular wide white fringe, and at 25*C the white border will be barely noticeable or disappear completely. Therefore, higher temperatures are favorable for young growing “babies”, while cooler conditions are preferable for mature mature Saintpaulias.

At first, I also could not understand the reason for my failures in growing violets, and then I began to be more attentive to watering, regularly watering the edge of the pot so that the water did not fall into the middle of the rosette itself.

At first, I also could not understand the reason for my failures in growing violets, and then I began to be more attentive to watering, regularly watering the edge of the pot so that the water did not fall into the middle of the rosette itself.

Watering in the case of violets and its peculiarities, this is really very important, if you water it the wrong way, you see the violet is already starting to disappear, I also had a similar problem with watering for a very long time.

Do not place violets too close to the radiator; even the violets standing on the windowsill all shrank because the heating was on. They also do not like drafts and shade, and do not grow well in such places.

I have been growing varietal violets for a long time and with pleasure, I have participated in many exhibitions of violets and plants of the Gesneriaceae family in general.

The very first and most common mistake is to use a large pot for the violet; its roots are small and you don’t need a lot of soil. For a standard-sized violet, a pot the size of a low tea cup is enough. If the variety is compact, a pot the size of a coffee cup is enough. Violets do not like filling - they rot quickly.Drafts and cold. But they love coolness very much and it is very difficult to find the right temperature. I save myself as simply as possible - I add sphagnum moss to the soil. It prevents rotting and heals wounds.

How often do Saintpaulias need to be replanted?

Am I the only one who doesn't smell like violets?

Violets do not like direct sunlight, but they will also do poorly in a heavily shaded place. The soil should be light, not clayey, since the plants have a weak root system. Don't flood! Violets are prone to rotting; it is better not to top up than to overfill them with water. You can water it in the pan, or from above, but not on the leaves. I also use fertilizer for violets with an antifungal component, sold in the form of a spray, I spray it on the ground, under the bush.

Just like that, you read a post about what they like and what they don’t like about violets and you think, is it really necessary to have such whimsical flowers in the room? It's no wonder they don't take root with me.