Hello,

You are very fortunate. Photobucket makes the HTML for you. All you need to do is go to the picture you want to paste.
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There are three little windows below the picture that has HTML code in them. They are labeled url, tag and img. What you want is the "tag" window. Place the cursor in the window next to tag and click once. That should highlight the line. Next, copy the line into the clipboard (go up to EDIT and click COPY)

Now you can go back to the garden Web and write your message. You can paste that html code, that you copied in photobucket, where ever you want the picture to be placed

That's it. If you have any problems don't be afraid to ask and I try to help you further.

Good luck and have fun,

Larry

Thank you, Larry.
I remember doing something similar previously. But just a few days ago, I couldn't.
I will try now and see what happen.

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Oh yeah, it's so simple. BTW... here's one of my new plants.

How do you post a photo that's a digital you have on your hard drive? Thanks! Mother Barbara

I guess this message will be an experiment. It seems GardenWeb might misinterpret the code I'm using below. If it doesn't post properly, I'll follow up with a correction.

sisteranna1, unless your computer is registered and permanently connected to the Internet you cannot post them directly. You have to upload them to a website like photobucket, kodak, Yahoo, or other place that you can keep photos. Then when you post to GardenWeb, you type in a link to photobucket or wherever using HTML code. It really is not hard. haxuan used the following code to post the picture you see above...

<img src="http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b306/maichieuthuy/My%20African%20Violets/DSC02966.jpg">;

All the symbols would be the same and the quotes are critical. In your case you would use the http location for YOUR picture. If you type what you read above, you will haxuan's picture in your message like this.

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Okay it worked right. By the way, that is a very nice looking flower on your plant!!

Hi Sisteranna,

Actually, there is a way for you to display a digital picture on your hard drive even if you do not have an online photo album. You will have to post it over on the Gallery. To get to the Gallery go to the main page of the African violet Gallery. Just before the first thread you should see the following line:

On-Topic Discussions [Switch to: Exchanges : Gallery]

Click on Gallery and it will take you to the African violet Gallery forum. Posting a picture there is a little confusing. First you need to type in a message and then click on Preview Message. After that you can upload the picture from your hard drive by clicking on the browse and finding your picture. Everything else should be self-explanatory.

The only thing is your picture needs to be smaller than 60KB. Garden Web won't let you upload anything larger than that. To make your picture smaller than what it comes out of your camera you will need a picture editor that will resize. If you don't already have one, I really like Irfanview for its simplicity. It is a free program and you can download it to your computer by going to: www.irfanview.com
If you have any trouble with this, send me an e-mail and I will try to help you figure it out.

Good luck,

Larry

Ok I'm trying it too.
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let's see..ta-da!! There's Floozie! Thank you! That's from Picturetrail and it's the 'auction' tag.

I'm trying this too... Here is a picture of Ness Fantasy Gold.

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hello! can anyone tell me what's wrong with my plant? i repotted it a month ago, placed it outside the house where it is shaded, but gets enough morning sun. it's leaves started curling, but the leaves are not yellow or dying. please help.

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Why didn't you start your own thread? You'll get more response that way. This thread is almost a year old!

Anyway, Is there drainage in that little pot? It looks like it has been planted straight into it and no drainage.... does water come out the bottom? Root rot could be your problem.... But maybe not?

Outside in the morning sun is much different than inside in the morning sun. Your sun in the Philippines is much stronger than ours further north. Might have been too much for the plant! I'd think full shade is in order for AV's outside.

The leaves ARE dying, from what I can tell, either from rot or too much sun.(or both) AV leaves do not generally recover from wilt.

Repost your question, someone else might have more hope for your sad AV!?
Diane

I want to try it too!

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Oops, tulips, but ain't they gorgeous!

Here is a pic of my prized possession, Optimara Modesty. Sadly, it died last year

Per my previous post, here is my O. Modesty:

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Tammy

it is so nice to read your posts with your positive attitude and enthusiasm. That's a pity you do not live in Denver - we would love to have you in our club.

What I was going to say is about your pics. If you want to present them in a better way - you need to use some kind of editing program. I use Photoshop - but it is expensive to buy, I think every camera has some kind of software sold with it including Photoshop Elements.

You need you pic trimmed so most of it is a plant not your blinds and you can play with the contrast, brightness and color a bit. Next time you do a photo of your truly beautiful violet - make some kind of a dark background - for example you can drape a dark blanket on the back of the chair and put a plant on a seat. What happens is that when you use your digital camera - it makes a quick automatic estimate of what exposure it needs to use based on your white background which reflects a lot of light - and your violet comes up dark.

Hopefully I am not sound too pushy.

Cheers

irina

Oh, no, Irina, I appreciate the compliments! I'm just a simple moron when it comes with digital cameras, and I used photobucket to load this one on. But I will take your advice and use a dark background and clip for taking future pics.

*hugs*

Tammy

No - Tammy - you are not a moron. You are in the same boat with all of us amateurs.

The digital camera - even of point and shoot class - can give you very good pics. You just need to plan and try to play with it - you can always delete the pics you do not like.

Dale Martens - the hybridizer of Texas Hot Chili streptocarpus - and a bunch of other yummy things - just got a best pic award on the gesneriad convention. You know what she uses - a Nikon Coolpix 4100 if I am not mistaken - quite an ordinary camera - plus a ringflash light and a tripod - and what she makes - it is to die for.

It is nice to have a macro option on a camera - it makes a good quality closeups. And you need to have a tripod or at least put your elbows on a table to minimize movement - and you can make a portrait of your violet you can be proud of.

Please - try - and show us.

Good luck

Irina

I'll just have to find this Nikon Coolpix 4100. These cameras are coming down in prices these days. I really must learn; but my son hogs the one camera we have all to himself (Kodak Easyshare) and he's the one that knows how to use it! I'm gonna learn!

Anyways, THANK YOU for your great AV advice. I only learn from you guys on this board, and I just received new AV's and some leaves from ebay, they're resting for 1 month before I repot them.

*HUGS*

Tammy

Hi Tammy,

I also have a Nikon CoolPix camera. It is just great. I have taken some wonderful plant pictures with it.

Larry

This was helpful. I wasn't sure whether to use the tag or what on here, but now I know. Some of you have some beautiful violets. I've been growing them, making cuttings, etc for about a year and a half or 2 years now. I have 16 violets. I had over 20, but I gave the others to my grandmother who bought the house we just moved out of. Most of mine came from walmart and I wish I knew their varieties. I also have a few mini's that are Rob's Violets from the Violet Barn (i think)and I rescued a few dying ones from Lowes. I would love to have a few hundred of them if I could find room, but my mom says they look junky in my room. I disagree. They make my room lovely to me.
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Hi Africanvioletlvr, and welcome. Don't listen to your mother. Your room looks great!

Larry

Thanks. That was also my room before I moved though. The shelf (the top one in the picture) is currently not on the wall. We placed the smaller one directly in front of the window and I placed my minatures on it. They are growing great now because of the light. My window is not a giant window though like at my previous house. My larger violets will probably take some time to adjust to the changes (just as I am) I am having to open my blinds completely, pulling them up and everything because my new room feels eerily dark. I wish I still had my vaulted ceilings and old window, but oh well. My friend has absolutely no light getting in her room and the violet I gave her is still as happy as ever.

They will die without light eventually... Just not immediately.

The easy fix - you need to get a shoplight. WM - under $7, couple of 48" tubes - cool white or plant and aquarium, 2 plant hooks to screw into the ceiling, 2 chains and may be a timer. You hang this contraption 12" above your violets - and you are independent from your windows. I had this setup in a windowless office at work. And they will bloom like never before. Since you like biggies - try to find some violets that have LARGE in a description - and collect them.
Your DaVinchi -or Anthony - or whatever it is will never grow that huge. I just looked at my Beachcomber - and it is 18" diameter and it is under the lights - that's why I keep it at work - don't have space for it at home.

If you can - try to find a good book on violets and not an old one. The best is by Melvin Robey. He has 2 of them - and the one that covers everything and more than you ever wanted to know is published in 1982 and it is of 320 pages - try to get it through the interlibrary catalog. The smaller one - African Violets - Queens of the.. about 198 pages - is quite available in the libraries.

Your violets are big and healthy - but do not have enough bloom - quite possibly it is not enough light. You need to read about grooming - for example - you do not want let suckers grow - you mentioned that one plant gave you 5. I would prefer to have a full head of bloom instead of tons of suckers. So you need to pluck them off so they won't drain the plant energy.

Since you like this chat - you know that we like to direct everybody to the rachelsreflections.com site. I think it is a very useful place to check.

Good luck and a lot of future awards on the violet shows

Irina

Thanks for the information, and the plant with the suckers...I always remove them. It just makes more! It's my maui violet. It's baby in a seperate pot has a billion blooms on it right now. My maui hardly ever blooms (probably because it keeps making babies and such) but my other violets bloom a lot.

I do not understand what you were saying about the Davinci violet. It is a large violet (one of my largest) I'm pretty sure it has a circumfrence over 12 inches. Also, I plan on putting my shelf up soon. The light comes in in the mornings on the wall the large violts are going to be going. If I have light issues still they will go in the dining room a few hours of the day because it gets the same exact light as I did at my other house (which is just a few streets away)

Hi - let us try to discuss things in order.

1. Suckers - some plants sucker more than others - that's Maui for you. Try to remove suckers as soon as they get their nose out. You can take a sharp pencil and scrape them off. You do not need to grow and root all of them.

2. Size of the violet. I am talking about the diameter, not the circumference. C = "pi" x D, where "pi" is 3.1415
So if we have a violet with the diameter of 16 inches - the circumference is over 50 inches. I read in old African Violet magazine issues that people managed to grow plants of 24 and more inches diameter. Imagine these monsters. Now people usually grow smaller violets - just because you can have more varieties on the same shelf space. The are more than 14000 registered varieties of violets - so you can imagine that there are microminis as well as extra large ones. Your DaVinchi is an average standard. You just imagine what your mother would say if you put a couple of real biggies on your drawer. Something like it is what - rhubarb?

3. Light issues. AVs need certain amount of light - for example 800 foot candles for 12 hours a day. Big greenhouses with light fixtures over their shelves can control the amount of light and the time it is on to get their plants blooming all together at a certain date - may be Mother's day. We cannot control the natural light that well. So - if you put it on a windowsill at the east looking window - it will be OK unless you have trees growing. Or you can put them near the southern window but you need the sheer curtain to reduce the light. You see - the exact foot candles and exact time is lost. You cannot say that you get exactly the same amount of light as in a house 2 streets down because the window may be different or the house is looking south west instead of south. Usually they need to be very close to the windows, not to the wall - because the amount of light decreases proportionally to the square of the distance from the window. But to know exactly what you get - you need to get the light meter and see how many footcandles you get on your plant shelf. If it is too dark - they will grow lots of leaves with long stems - but they will not bloom at all or may be just a bit. While if you create them the conditions that they like - they bloom 10 months out of 12.

I hope I didn't bore you to sleep. What I was trying to convey - is that growing AVs to some extent is like cooking. You need to use the basic recipe. You can vary it a bit, and it will be OK, but too much - and it will be something different, may be total failure.

Good luck and keep growing

Irina

lol. I'm not a total failure with AV's. Everyone says I take after my great grandmother. she used to grow them like crazy, but i never knew her.

Size: I measured my Davinci and if I did this right: Maybe 14 inches across if you extend to the furthest leaf on each side.

Lvr -

go for the record size. You can have it twice bigger - if you start with a large variety.

There are things we inherit - my Granny was a supergrower, some things things we learn. My Granny was growing super roses using her magic elixir - which I can tell you - included goodies from the outhouse. I am making my own concoction which includes alfalfa pellets, kelp and epsom salt - and I got the recipe from the web. No goodies. But works really well.

So - use your magic touch - and read the books too.

Happy growing

I.