At least you didn't fry it with your chicken. Deep fried AV....

Yes, strangely, I've never seen a chicken with stalked leaves.

I don't understand how flour could bleach out those leaves. I am sure you brushed/washed it off very well. So how could flour do this??? Rosie

I don't either...i was kinda hoping someone would be able to explain that. Anyone?

Dbarron had salt, pepper and garlic in his flour...And he dipped an AV in an egg wash...Didn't cook it through though, used soap and a scrubbing brush to remove the goop... It still smells like garlic....

Cruel treatment - poor little AV bleached from pure terror... I would too.

Lol!!!!! Good one Irina, however this wasn't even seasoned flour (I could imagine salt doing real damage).

I guess the moral of the story is that you shouldn't flour your miniature African Violets....now standards, maybe?

Butter my butt and call me a biscuit... You sure are in a cooking mode.

Irina, that was a good one, BOTH of them!! I am still chuckling! Although butter my butt and call me a biscuit is an image I could live without for the rest of my life! lol Never heard it before butt ('scuse the pun!) I like it!!!

dbarron,,,step away from the violets!!!!! lol Rosie

I will never say butter my butt and call me a bisquit enough. Thank you for the new expression. Life is always better with a crazy phrase.

Love that, very funny!

Well, having decided to get over it's flour shock, the plant is actually getting pretty lovely. Maybe we should dip them all in flour (hee hee). The flowers are making a complete ring around the plant now.

Just shake Tabasco sauce in front of it!

Well, just to show you that it hasn't gone flour dipping again, and is recovering nicely....a shot taken under nighttime lighting (so not as vibrant as "real" light).

I know you'll say terrible culture Irina, but it's grown in an unshaded south window, it's where the leaf was rooted, etc. For this one, it seems to work.

Oh, and I *did* make from scratch biscuits this morning and I did butter one :)

"But(t)" it looks like it recovered nicely! lol Rosie

I am not saying "terrible culture". Healthy heavily blooming plant. Some grooming will enhance the presentation and a judging score. ;-))

Yes, I know...I know...but it's just my little house plant, it doesn't need judging...but I appreciate the full head of cheery flowers. I thought it was going to die after it's flour dip (you never saw it when it was "fresh").

I do admit to noticing the sucker (but only after posting the photo) and thinking..I should divide the thing in spring.

why not now? You will have 2 blooming plants in spring...

Because it's blooming well, and I'd rather have slack time after things are green outside?: )

I appreciate the comments. And yes, I feel my AV knowledge racheting up as I experiment with different conditions and the plants reactions. However, I never planned on dipping the AV in flour...really.

I rearranged things for winter, and my AVs are much appreciating the east window versus the somewhat darker north facing window. Not that I don't have gesneriads in every window...lol.