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African Violets

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Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)

10 years ago

One of my mini African Violets blooming today is the variegated trailer, Pixie Runaround Sport - a purple and white chimera. So cute! This time of the year the flowers are very dark and contrasting with mostly green leaves. In cooler months the flowers tend a lot more pale but with more heavily variegated leaves. Slowly it's maturing ito a very robust plant.

Another chimera African Violet that has been blooming it's brains out for me the past weeks is Yukako.

I have several others in bloom right now but mostly I have kept them disbudded as my summer has been very hot. Now it's starting to get cooler, a lot of them are throwing up buds for the autumn.

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Rosie1949
10 years ago
Hi Patty! Question,,,since you can't propagate a leaf from a chimera,,,can you take a cutting from a trailer and it will root???? I mean it IS a sucker of sorts, am I correct??? Because if that is the case,,,,hmmmmm!!! Just thinkin! Rosie
Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
Original Author
10 years ago
Yes, you propagate chimeras by crown cuttings, or suckers, or by bloom stalk propagation. That is correct.
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Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
Original Author
10 years ago
I need to disbud my Yukako again and put those bloom stalks down, but I've been so busy I keep forgetting.
Rosie1949
10 years ago
Thanks for the confirmation! I guess I get a little "stumped" by a violet that won't grow from a leaf! And it never occurred to me a trailer could be a chimera! Rosie
Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
Original Author
10 years ago
You can put down leaves anyway and grow violets from it, but they won't be chimeras with two sets of chromosomes. They'd be regular, non-chimeric.

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