CARE UF YCUR APRICAL VICLET | 
LIGHT - Place your violets where thoy get good light at all timcs but not much 
direct sunlight in the summer months. In winter when the sunlight is not as 
strong they will need more. When healthy plants have light, yellowish foliage 
they are probably getting too much sun. Very dark green foliage and lack of 
flowers means they are not getting enough light. 
WATERIIG ~ NEVER use cold water. Use water that is lukewarm or at least as 
warm as rooin temperature. If you water from the bottom be careful to remove 
the plant from the water when the soil shows mo.st on top. If left too long 
in water the soil gets soggy and roots will be damaged. Part of the time at 
least they should be watered from the top because they shovld have sone 
leaching of the soil to remove excess soluble salts. The plants need to have 
the foliage sprayed occasionally with lukewarm water and it does not spot the 
foliage if no sun hits the foliage until the plant is thorourshly dried off. 
TEMPERATURE - The average house temperature of 70 - 72 degrees is very 
satisfactory but they will do good anywhere between 60 to SO degrees but 
they like the temperature to be as even as possable. Sudden chanves of 
tempeeature or strong drafts of air will cause the fioweis to crop. In cold 
weather keep plants away from unprotected windows at night or when temperature 
could go below 60 degrees. 
HUMIDITY - Many times the humidity in the home is too low for Violets to bloaa 
well and to increase it place the plants on a saucer or tray of pebbles, sand 
or chicken grit and keep weter in tray but not enoust so that the pot is in 
the water. Humidity is often hicher in the kitchen than in other rooms. 
sOIL » African Violets need a light well drained soil. A good soil mixture 
may be made up of light garden soil, sand, leaf-mold, peat and rotted manure. 
try A 7 “ t = . * 
this should be sterilized. 
d about every two weels of any 
rections on the package. 
FERTILIZERS - The plants should have a fee 
good complete fertilizer, following the di 
WHEW) YOUR PLANTS FAIL TO BLOOM = It may be that they have been shifted into 
a pot that is a little too large and it will take a little time for roots to 
develop but usually they necd more light than you are giving thom, regular 
feeds of fertilizer, less water letting them get a little dry between water- 
ings and when the plant gets too full of leaves or crowns they should be thin- 
ned out by removing some of the outside crowns or repotting, or just thinning 
out some of the loaves. 
PROPAGATING - In propagating violets from leaves use a- shar; knife or razor 
blade and cut off the leaf stem leaving about one inch of the stem and place 
in vermiculite or sterilized sand up to the leaf and keep moist until small 
plants come and are large enough to pot up in snuali pots. Single crown plants 
usually look better and bloom better than plants with more than one crown. 
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