mscynthia,

Don't feel alone.....I repotted a fully blooming 'Iceberg' one night. For some unknown reason, I felt the need to turn the pot upside down to look at the bottom......TWICE!

I dumped it on its head, or it jumped out of the pot, and nearly killed it. If it hadn't had the blossoms to cushion some of the fall, I probably would have had the same catastophic results as you did. It was a little beat up looking, but survived ok.

I still occasionally tip one over, and consider it an occupational hazard.

Welcome to the forum.

Barbara

That's not technically murder; it's more aggrevated assault. Murder comes later, along with man- I mean violetslaughter, and even more assaults to poor innocent little plants.

Barbara, *twice*? Sounds like your Freudian slip is showing...

Korina, mass (plant) murderer

Tick: Like a great blue salmon of justice, the mighty Tick courses upstream to the very spawning ground of evil.

Don't feel bad. Just as my few AV's where starting to bloom, we got a new kitten. I walked into the living room just as 3 plants and the kitten were falling between the bookcase and the window. I sacrificed the worst damaged AV and now he(the kitty monster) has his own AV on the bookcase next to his Catgrass. I still enjoy the blooms, and he bites off the leaves and plays with them on the floor. The other two survived the fall and are now out of his reach.

One of my cats has found one of my AV's is a comfy pillow, I'm not sure which cat it is but they've squashed it flat. It's a game plant though and still alive through all this abuse. Think I'll save that pot for the kitty grass in the future.

Thanks for the consolation and the good stories - they made me feel much better. Aggravated assault I can live with :) Or rather, my AV can!

The remains of the poor plant are doing well and the flower bud that didn't break off is still developing. I should probably disbud it . . .

I just read about "stripping" an AV and I'm telling myself that's what I did, albeit unintentionally. :)

Cynthia

mscynthia,
Yeah, definitely don't feel bad. I have one of those almost killed my violet stories too. I only had one of my avs for about two months before I accidently dropped a set of hangers on it (I used to put it in my closet at night because it got so cold in my room... I liked to keep it in my room during the day though). I was moving something and somehow bumped my hangers and they fell off onto my plant. I lost about six leaves, I split one, and I bent about one or two. It is so funny how when you try to be sooo careful not to do something to harm a plant, you accidently drop it or do something else to cause it harm.

Elizabeth