Hi Tracy,
I grow all my minis and semis in 3oz. plastic Solo Bathroom cups. A mini should be no larger than 6" and semis no larger than 8". If the plants grow larger than what they should, take off a couple rows of leaves to keep them to size. I am assuming that they are Optimara plants. Hopefully they are named so you can check to see if they are minis or semis.
Fred in NJ

I live in Canada so I am not sure where they come from.....but I checked out the optimara page, and it looks like New Jersey.....I dont really worry about the names too much, I have only a couple named AV's. The other one I can not be sure as there were no flowers on it, but the leaves were very symetrical and healthy so I grabbed it too.....that one has some buds,so I will know soon enough.

I am looking for a blue AV and can not find them anywhere, I mean blue, not the dark purples.....are these harder to find.

As for my mini, I think I will leave him in this container, it has drainage holes, and it isnt bigger that a dixie cup, I have those too, I started some mini leaves, so I know to eventually put them in that.

Thanks Fred!!

I drill holes in my dixie cups with a small cordless dremel drill (Actually it was for carving pumpkins, but I put a drill bit in it.) I had previously done it by heating up a nail and "melting" holes through, but this was slow. This tool was cheap after Halloween. ;o)

Watch out for the moisture in any dixie cups you planted without holes in the bottom.

Most of the blues I see are more of a "baby blue" or "sky blue" than a "deep royal blue." I haven't found one like that yet, but I'd be interested in it!

AVs don't have the gene for 'blue-blue', so anything blue will have at least a tinge of purple.

Korina

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Hi again Tracey,
What Korina said about blue AV's is true. It's also true for reds. If you go to the AVSA.org site and click on photographs you can look at photos of AV's and maybe you will find one that suits you.
Fred in NJ

Hi Tracey, In Canada you might expect the little guys to be Anthofloris varieties. They are shown at the Harster Greenhouse site but the site isn't up today for some reason. I collect them and they are wonderful varieties, if you post pic I might be able to ID them.
Debbie in MI

I too drill holes in my 3oz cups but not for the same reason, I have completely given up on top and bottom watering, I have been wick watering now for some time and I love it even thou there are cetain rules that need to be followed. I have some plants that I thought were semis but they are now 10inches across. On these I have been using 9oz cups for the rootballs are so big you couldnt even cram them into a 3oz cup. But yes even thou av like to be rootbound common sense must still be employed. The pics I posted of the thumbprint etc. was in a 9oz cup. In the near future I will be posting another pic of my plantlets that are now flowering, one of those are dog ugly , but I will still post up.

Have you posted those pics yet Steve?? I saw the babies, but I want to see flowers, how long did it take from a plantlet to flower??

Tracy