gruenwelt -

Can you unorder them? They are really not the best for the plants, mainly they look very nice.

If you want to try self watering pots - I think the best are Oyama pots.

If you get these pots and cannot send them back - there are several things you can do to make them work. You need super light soil - 1:2:1 - peat perlite vermiculite. You can take a store bought AV soil and cut in half at least with perlite. You pot your violets and do not fill the reservoir until they are up and growing and big enough - so the leaf span is 3 times bigger than the pot diameter. Water from the top. So - do not put baby AVs there, you need to move big violets and if your soil on your violets is heavy - like what they sell AVs in stores - you need to shake it off and remove as much as possible.

Good luck

Irina

Yes - the porous ceramic will pass the fertilizer. You can use a weak solution of 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon per gallon for each watering. Try to find one without urea, Peters Specialized for AVs etc.

Put the leaves down from the violets you are repotting - so if they will die - you will still have the babies.