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Detailed site on how to hybridize African Violets

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Posted by NewPenny z8a-7b WA, USA (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 8, 03 at 5:18

I read an earlier post that mentioned African Violets as a good plant to try to hybridize. I did a web search and found this site that has instructions AND diagrams. :-) Maybe with it's help I can try hybridizing mine... now if I can just get two plants to bloom at the same time I'll have it made. :-P

Take care, Penny

Here is a link that might be useful: Hybridizing African violets

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  • Posted by Jon_D Northern Calif. (My Page) on
    Sun, Nov 9, 03 at 17:37

Penny, by all means try your hand at crossing AV's. It is a very good learning experience. Just remember, that there have been thousands and thousands of AV crosses that have been made. Also, there are thousands and thousands of AV cultivars that have been named and registered. Lastly, among the many genera of gesneriads AV's have the longest time for maturation of seed pods--about 8 months. One friend picked some pods after four months and let them dry before collecting seeds. She got germination though it was much lower than if she had left the pods on the full term. But, how many seedlings do you want to raise, anyway? :)

There are many other gesneriads that are easy to make crosses with and have had relatively little work done on them. I recommend any of a dozen or more genera as worthy of working on and easy to work with--streptocarpus, columnea, nematanthus, chirita, sinningia, kohleria, achimenes, smithiantha, episcia being some that come quickly to mind.

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Jon thank you for letting me know how long it takes the seed pods to mature if I get any to form I probaly would have thought I'd failed when it took that long to ripen. The reason I was thinking about trying the african violets is that I have one blooming and one about to bloom. Normaly I'd still have quit a few flowers blooming outside but this year we had freezing weather early. Outside I think all that is blooming are my Schizostyles "Oregon sunset". And hardy pink cyclamens. Can't realy cross polinate them as they are all the same kind. :-) My winter project (that I had intended to do last year) is going to be trying to grow ferns from spores I've been collecting and also one type of orchid seed I traded my ferns spores for. These are also long term projects so the african violets would fit right in. :-) Usuely I only buy house plants when they've been marked down then I try to "nurse" them back to health. :-) I got my African violets for 25 cents up to $1 are mark downs after they where through blooming in the stores. I'll read up on the planting of and care of African violet seedlings. Sounds like I'll have a few months to get something set up for them. I'll read up on the other plants you mentioned. Maybe I'll find them on markdown tables to. :-)

Take care, Penny

  
 

 

 


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