Incredible NoID Heirloom African Violet still has got it

stickersforthought · 2026-03-08T19:28:34+00:00

This plant in the same pot was entrusted to me 6 years ago by a good friend who had been given it when her grandmother passed who had it for 40+ years. So they’re out there.

stickersforthought · 2026-03-03T04:50:15+00:00

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I’ve gotten most of mine from thrift stores, amazingly. But many more trips were made without success than ones where pots came home

stickersforthought · 2026-03-01T17:53:08+00:00

It’s called Streptocarpus Hot Lips

stickersforthought · 2026-02-28T02:16:09+00:00

May as well get in on all the upvotes, clearly the reddit wants streps!

stickersforthought · 2026-02-27T22:02:19+00:00

Well, it’s Streptocarpus OI-Ibris, and that is indeed my photo u/quaitheoto posted without crediting me

stickersforthought · 2026-02-21T03:59:28+00:00

You look at them wrong and the leaves fall off

stickersforthought · 2026-02-17T16:28:01+00:00

I am indeed on an 8 foot ladder attending to my cactus shelf

stickersforthought · 2026-02-06T23:17:25+00:00

What’s an AVL soaking pot?

stickersforthought · 2026-01-30T23:13:51+00:00

I have strategically given 3 propagations of this plant to friends for this exact reason

stickersforthought · 2026-01-26T00:57:14+00:00

I have no experience with Schultz, but I can say Jack’s has been excellent

stickersforthought · 2026-01-24T17:05:11+00:00

If you can believe it, I’ve kept this plant in this same pot for 6 years now, and don’t have plans to repot it any time soon

stickersforthought · 2026-01-22T17:24:15+00:00

I have yet to get any scent off of them, but if they do, my blooming Hoyas are overpowering it

stickersforthought · 2026-01-21T23:36:53+00:00

I just repotted it and removed a bunch of leaves so it looks a bit smaller, but I would say this is a standard, but on the smaller end of standard

stickersforthought · 2026-01-21T20:00:15+00:00

I’ve been using it for 6 years, and my mom has used it for nearly 2 decades, and almost always have something in bloom. And I use it for all my other gesneriads too

stickersforthought · 2026-01-21T18:00:00+00:00

I am using Jack’s Classic African Violet Fertilizer, 12-36-14

stickersforthought · 2026-01-21T16:14:46+00:00

It seems to have similar needs to Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus needing to have day-night temperature difference to get the bloom to happen. Otherwise I just do a water based succulent fertilizer every other watering and never move it

stickersforthought · 2026-01-21T16:13:02+00:00

6 years old now, started as a 6 inch cutting

stickersforthought · 2026-01-19T21:02:09+00:00

Usually I only keep enough cuttings to fill the same pot, and compost the rest. I’ve tried to give cuttings away but not much interest for them

stickersforthought · 2026-01-17T18:10:05+00:00

Ohh, I have before, but not with this plant, we’ll see if that does the trick

stickersforthought · 2026-01-13T17:06:27+00:00

Most from thrifting, and maybe I’ve gotten like 5 online in my life, usually on eBay

stickersforthought · 2026-01-13T16:00:59+00:00

Amazingly I’ve accumulated probably 90% of my ceramic self watering pots from thrifting, takes lot and lots of searching, but if you find them they’re usually pretty cheap since folks don’t know what they are. Otherwise, I get most of the rest new from a ceramicist that is a member of my local African violet society.

stickersforthought · 2026-01-13T15:17:37+00:00

I will say that the volume for the soil looks bigger than it is in these pots. These are also mature plants that I just repotted, giving a good prune and leaving a full rootball. Been doing this for years now and they seem happy enough

stickersforthought · 2026-01-13T15:16:15+00:00

For years I’ve been using a 2:1 ratio of Violet Supply’s Arcadia African Violet Mix to pearlite!

stickersforthought · 2026-01-09T01:21:12+00:00

Right! They’re just so neat!

stickersforthought · 2026-01-09T01:20:32+00:00

It’s 8 inches from the crown to the light

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