Help! What are these brown spots?

10 years ago

This is a plant I purchased from home depot in early November--trimmed some leaves, applied root hormone, then repotted in african violet soil & perlite. The small brown spots are very very small and first appeared on one leaf, now I am noticing small brown blotches on the stem. I am wondering if this is possibly from bugs, or the fact the leaves are large and resting on the pot. Maybe I even potted to deep? HELP!

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irina_co

10 years ago

It is nothing. Mechanichal damage.

By the way - the pot is way too large. They bloom better if the diameter of the pot is 1/3 of the leaf span.

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irina_co
10 years ago
Plus I think you have a sucker coming on a side. You can wait a bit until it grows a bit larger, cut it off and root it. Or just remove it now. The spent bloomstalk needs to be removed - but it will dry off on its own anyway. Healthy happy plant, nothing wrong with it.
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Carlie Rae Glass
Original Author
10 years ago
How can you tell the difference between a sucker and just new leaf growth?
irina_co
10 years ago
If you look at your rosette - the bigger leaves are on the bottom, then the next row, next row and center with the smaller leaves. Leaves actually come in a row of 3.

If you have a new growth with small leaves coming from the lower part of the ste or from a leaf node - it is a secondary shoot - it is a sucker.
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Carlie Rae Glass
Original Author
10 years ago
Awesome! This is my second plant. Very new to AV. What's your experience? Your information is very helpful. So should I repot now and while repotting remove the sucker or should I wait?
irina_co
10 years ago
Carlie -

You have an very enjoyable journey ahead of you - learning all the cool stuff about AVs. I am growing AVs for 15 years, showing them, judging them on a Shows. Still working on the improving my technique.

You need a squatty plastic so called azalea pot - probably 3.5-4" diameter. The one the plant came from is good enough. Clay pots are not that good for AVs, they burn the leaves when they touch them - plastic is cheaper and better. You want to make a plant more presentable - use ceramic as a cashepot.

If you want to try to root and create another plant of the same variety - keep the sucker growing for another month. If not - just scrape it off - it will take the energy from the bloom and the violet will look lopsided. Just take tweezers and pluck it out or cut it off with a knife trying not to damage the main stem.

There are god books on teh AVs subject - there is Pauline Bartholomew - on how how grow AV to Show - it is short and to the point instruction book on how to grow the very pretty - and everything by Melvin Robey. There is a lot of useful material on AVSA.org - and you have the rest of the month to see very interesting videos on http://allaboutafricanviolets.com/ podcasts.