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Hello everybody certainly glad to have you dropped in again for one of our regular get-togethers here in the old tool shed

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I've been getting quite a bit of mail and there've been so many questions coming in about African violence

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Well, they've been about

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Been more questions on African violence than any other two subjects put together. So I decided to

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See what I could tell you about them today and

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Try to answer some of your questions. I also want to tell you about the

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African Violent Society of America because that's quite an organization that's been growing very rapidly

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Seems to be taking the country by storm. They've got

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Approximately ten thousand members and well, they have conventions every year in various cities

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So if you have an opportunity to see one, I think you'll find it well worth your while

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Of course, you have to be a member of the society to get in on the convention, but you can always get a membership

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Well now let's have a look at some of these violets. Here's a very nice one and

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You'll know that this is the single crown type some people and I think principally amateur growers

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That are entering their plants in various shows like to grow the single crown because it's more symmetrical and

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It makes a very nice plant and with proper care it'll grow large enough to fill a good-sized pot

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Well compare that though with this one this

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Multiple crown plant see here's a crown

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That's a complete plant growing over here another one on this side and one round and back but also

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Take a look at these flowers because this is one of the later varieties. It's a double African violet

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There's been a lot of work done in

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developing new

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varieties of violets by the

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Hybridizers and people that like to cross them pollen from one cross it on to another plant and

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Develop new varieties in that way. I'm going to tell you something about that in just a minute

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But first I want to show you something about the various colors. They come in pink and

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Here's a white one over here and while we're looking at this white one

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I want to just show you how

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This variety has a tendency to grow up and form sort of this trunk underneath

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A lot of you have asked what to do about that because sometimes it becomes rather unsightly

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Well when you transplant it just bury it a little deeper

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so that's completely covered up and new roots will come out from that when it's under the ground and

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You can make it look

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Normal and natural again and not sticking way up in the air this white one is

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Well, I can't think of the name of that myself now

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White lady and pink beauty. Here's a pink beauty a

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Lot of you have asked about yellows and

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Whether there is such a thing as a yellow African violet, but I've never seen one and I

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Haven't heard of any

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But I know that all the hybridizers are trying to develop a yellow African violet and when somebody gets one

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They'll really have something that'll be in big demand. You know, it's a funny thing about human nature. Everybody wants

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What's rare and that not very much of if African violence came?

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Normally yellow and the blue ones were rather rare

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Of course, the big demand would be for blue, but that's just human nature. We all seem to want something a little different

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Well some the question that most of you have asked now is how to make your violets bloom and

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The best way that I know of when you've got a healthy looking plant like this is to

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thin it out pull some of the leaves out and

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I'm going to show you how to do that in just a moment. But first

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There's a matter here of interest that I'm sure you'll all like to know about

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Well now to go on with

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Leaf pruning or cutting the African violet in order to encourage bloom

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Just take a few of them and sort of twist and pull at the same time

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Taking some from near the top and around the sides

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Prune it evenly both top and bottom

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Then when you get these leaf prune of these leaf cuttings

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You might as well save them and start some more plants

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Now there's several ways that that can be done

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one is to take a tumbler of water and

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Put a piece of wax paper over it with a rubber band around holding it firm

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Then you can punch a number of holes in that wax paper and one advantage of this is that it conserves space you can put

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Oh six or eight or even more sometimes in a glass

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Here's one that I started about a month ago. You can see some of the little roots that are already starting

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I'll just put that back in there now

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you shouldn't transplant this to soil until the

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The little crown has started to form now

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When I say you shouldn't

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Sometimes a leaf will will form roots, but it won't form a crown and just why I'm not sure but it

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It just works that way so you can save yourself some trouble by not potting them up until you see that the little crown has started

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Here's another way of doing it just taking a pot with a regular potting mixture of soil

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And I've always used the one-third soil one-third sand and one-third peat moss

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Take your leaf cutting and stick it in the soil about oh

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Half to three-quarters of an inch. I'd say about three-quarters of an inch. Be sure you keep it well watered

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Not too wet, but just so it doesn't dry out completely

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Now if you have a number of cuttings, here's a very nice way of doing it. This is in sand and

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You can see that I have a larger pot here

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full of sand with a small pot in the center and I put a little cork right in the

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The hole to plug up the hole in this in this little pot the advantage of that

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Is that you can fill this inner pot with water?

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and it will seep through very slowly through the porous clay and

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Keep the outside moist. Of course, I'm gonna water this sand because it's not quite as wet as it should be

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Then if you have a pencil

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Or any little stick just make a number of holes

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Just just far enough apart so that the leaves are not going to be touching one another or too crowded

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Then you can take these and just set them in and firm it down with your finger

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It's very important to have that sand firm around the stem of the leaf

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You can put in all one variety if you want to or you can put in several varieties do them the same way

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Now depending on the variety

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Will make a difference on how long it takes for these leaves to rot some rot much more quickly than others

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But don't get discouraged as long as the leaf is firm and sturdy and looks healthy and haven't turned soft or rotted

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Believe it there and the chances are that it will eventually form a little crown of course

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as I said before sometimes a leaf will form roots and just doesn't form a crown, but that's

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That's quite seldom

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Another way of starting these leaves is in expanded mica

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And here's a little dish with the sum with two leaves already started

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This one has a crown that you can see quite plainly and over here

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It's just coming through the expanded mica. If you take a real close look perhaps you can see that

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Now a leaf will start anywhere from one to sometimes 20 crowns

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And when you speak of dividing an African violet that usually refers to dividing these crowns that have started from a leaf

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After you have

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Established a plant you can divide the individual plants if there are more than one in a in a pot

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but you don't divide the

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One single plant the way you do with some other flowers

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Now most of the commercial growers will put anywhere from three to five crowns in one pot

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But as I said before I think most of the amateur growers like to put a single crown to a pot and

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Develop a more uniform

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Violet in that way

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Here's some

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violets now some plants that have been potted

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After your leaf has formed a the crown like that

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You can transplant it from the flower pot of sand or whatever growing medium you have

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Into individual pots and as you can see this one. Here's the original leaf and it's

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Started quite a few crowns there. I'm just going to tap this out of the pot and

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Show you how to divide it because at about this

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Stage is a time when you should divide that if you're going to and if there are more than five crowns

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Well, it's it's really necessary to do that. So you just take and break the soil

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apart with your fingers and

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Sort of ease those

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Apart these various

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Individual plants now you're going to lose some roots

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But if you do it carefully and work it gently and gradually now, there's one

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Well, I say there's one actually there about three

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one two three there four crowns there and

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This is still large enough to divide again

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I've divided that three ways

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Then you can take separate pots

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With the regular potting soil mixture and I like to use one-third sand one-third the good garden

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Loam and one-third peat moss for planting violets. You take these in this manner and

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Fill them up and firm them down and then don't forget the watering

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Very important to water that right away

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You'll notice I'm watering this from the top a lot of people

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Prefer to water their violets from below by just setting them in a little dish of water

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Filling the dish letting the water seep up from below

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Why talk to a number of the commercial growers and

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They don't do that. They don't feel it's necessary and

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From the experience I've had and the millions of plants they grow I think they know what they're talking about

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The important thing to remember is to have the water room temperature or slightly warmer

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it's the cold water that's apt to make spots on the leaves and

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Retard the growth and cause some of the difficulties

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so in watering your African violets, don't hesitate to water them from above and

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far that goes a

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Lot of people like to take a little rubber spray like this and if you are living in the city where the plants are apt to get

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Dustier you can just give them a good

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Strong syringe with clear lukewarm water and wash all that dust and dirt off you'll find that that

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promotes good healthy growth also

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Say talking about making your violets bloom

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Here's a something that's interesting I thought I'd show you I

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was talking to dr.

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WWW Wainwright who is a professor of dental radiology over at the University of Illinois

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And he told me that a lot of the dentists and including himself when he used to be out in San Francisco and

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practicing

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In their spare time when they get home and after they finished making a lot of inlays, you know

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They cast these inlays and special fillings and so forth and various metals

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Make castings of other things just as a hobby and dr.

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Wainwright's hobby is casting African violets and silver and here's the way he does it

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here is the rough casting that he takes the African violet and

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Makes a a plaster cast of it just the way he does in some of his patients mouth

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and then from that he makes these little silver African violets and

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I thought it just interesting. I

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Wanted to bring them in and show them to you. He's got quite a few of them here

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then he can put them on pins or make earrings or

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Anything like that that he wants out of them, but it just seemed to me. I never thought of

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African violets and silver this way so I wanted to bring them in and show them to it because I thought you'd like to see it

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Well, I'll put these back now

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Here is just another matter of interest for you and I'll be back again in just a minute

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Well, I've tried to show you how to start new plants from leaf cuttings

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You know, there's another interesting way of starting new plants and one that you can try yourself

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and that's not only starting new plants plants, but developing new varieties by

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Crossing or hybridizing two different existing varieties

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That's the way some of these new varieties are developed and who knows maybe you'll be the one to develop a new yellow

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Well to begin with you want to select two different varieties

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Characteristics that you'd like to try to bring out in the and the new plants that you will raise from the seed

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Take one variety here. I'll take this pink one and

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We have to get the pollen from one onto the stigma of the other and in order to prevent the possibility of

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Self pollination. It's a good idea to remove the antlers here and they're fastened right on to the petals of the flower

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So if you just remove the petals you'll notice that the antlers come right along with them

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Then we'll go over and take the antlers from this other variety

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The the antlers of the African violet usually don't open of their own accord

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Most flowers do and this is something that's quite different about the African violet

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So if you take a little pair of

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nail scissors and just cut those open

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so that the pollen

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Can come out and bring that over and just dust some of that yellow pollen right on the end of the stigma

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And that's this little sort of hair protrusion

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If you look at the African violet very carefully the flower you'll see

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this little

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hair-like protrusion sticking out at a very abrupt angle and away from the

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Antlers just as if nature intended that the pollen from the same flower shouldn't get on there

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It's also a good idea now to

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Label to take a little tag and tied around the stem of the flower that's been crossed and mark the parentage of

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The two varieties that you've used to making this cross

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And now in about six to eight months depending on what variety you're using and also the season of the year that

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Well that

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Stigma or where you've made the cross where the flower was will begin to swell and I have

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On this plant. I'll show you one

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Here it is. It's kind of hidden away under the leaf here, but I'll just pull this out so that you can see it

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Now here's a seed pod that's forming it's not fully developed yet

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When it's ready to take the seed from it, it'll turn brown and get rather brittle

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Then you can break that open a lot of people think it's a good idea to keep the seed in a dry place for

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Another month at least before you plant it

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Well, there's that see that pot isn't quite ready to

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Open up yet. I have some seed, you know

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You can buy African violet seed at some of the leading seed stores. It comes very carefully wrapped up because

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Well, it's it's quite valuable. I don't know just what it would cost a pound

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But I was checking the other day on snapdragon seed. That's pretty fine, too

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It's not as fine as African violet seed is because this is just like dust

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But snapdragon seed is worth about six thousand dollars a pound. That's over ten times its weight in gold and

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Of course you get millions of plants and when you buy a little package you get just a very small fraction of a pound

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now in planting the seed you want to use a pot that is

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perfectly clean

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Well, if you have a dirty flower pot, you may have some fungus disease that will carry over and attack your new seedlings

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some people like to plant their seed in soil with a

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Little sphagnum moss on top but as a general rule anything that you can grow your African violets in

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That is the mature plants you can use for starting your seedlings

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now the important thing to remember is to spread the seed on quite lightly and

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Just take and tap the pot the side of the pot with your finger like this to jar it a little and that'll make the seed

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Settle down in there now when you water this of course you can't use a watering can

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You can't water it from above because it would disturb that seed so much. It's a good idea to water

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the your seed the pot that your seeds in by putting it in a pan and letting the moisture soak up and

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Here's some seedlings that I wanted to show you

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That have all been developed from seed from the same seed pod

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And you can see how some of them are much further along some of these little plants

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Are much larger than the others. Well a one reason for that is that some plants have

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carried the or inherited the

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characteristics from one of the parents used and some of these others from the other and

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Of course some plants grow faster than others so that can account for the difference in the size here

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I'll to pop these up

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I'll take a pot here

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with some soil some of our regular soil mixture and

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just lift this out with the spoon very carefully and

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and of course this can stand watering from above because

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That's pretty good size. You want to make certain that you water them all right away. I

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Think that'll give you an idea of how to hybridize or cross

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African violets get your own seed and plant it and raise some plants from seed

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Think you'll find it very interesting you want to give them a

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fair amount of light put them in the open window until they're sprouted and

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Protect them from the real hot Sun

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I have some time-lapse pictures to show you of some of the seeds

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Germinating and plants growing but first another message that I'm sure you'll find interesting

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Well, let's just watch these time-lapse pictures of the African violets and listen to the music

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Well, here are some other pictures that I want to show you these violets belong to mrs.

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Donnelly Hanson of Evanston, Illinois

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She grows them under artificial light down in the basement

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Mrs. Hanson's very active in the African Violet Society here. She's trimming off some of the

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dead or wilted flowers

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It doesn't help

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To grow them in the basement. I'm sure you'll find some of them

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As far as the growth of the other

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Or development of the other flowers are concerned, but it trims the plants up and makes them look neater

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And when plants are entered in a any show or contest well all the dead ones of course are always trimmed off

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but here are some of mrs. Hanson's plants there certainly

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Beautiful plants nice and healthy and look at those leaves

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Just as green and rich looking

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They'll run the other table she has the thermostat an auto thermostat a humidist at and the thermometer

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And here are some of the younger plants

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She starts lots of cuttings and she's done quite a bit of hybridizing

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Here's a nice tray full of cuttings that are well

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They've developed into young plants now that formed crowns and quite a few leaves coming up

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And here's the time switch

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She controls the amount of light that's given the plants each day the lights go on

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Automatically in the morning go off again at night

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Well, I guess that gives you an idea of the activity and the growth and

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How some of these flowers develop it's always been interesting to me to watch these plants grow and the speed it up action

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Well, hope you've enjoyed our little get-together today and be sure to come around and for our next regular get-together

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And I'll be seeing you then

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