updated 12/29/2008  2008
Scavenger Hunt |  Rules | *** Items to 'find' will be added to this list, beginning Wednesday, September 10th. Randomly, several extra credit items will be added. *** Items will generally be in the form of a question. Answers will be 'found' somewhere online. Some questions will include hints; others will require some detective work! *** You will have approx. 10 days after the last item has been listed here to find as many of them as you are able. *** Type them in a list in an email and send to thevioletvoice@yahoo.com by the deadline of midnight, Wednesday, January 7, 2009. *** Prizes will be awarded and announced a few days after that date. -
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12/1 Item #3 -- One of the most important ways to identify a specific AV cultivar/hybrid is to use blossom shape. Can Can Trail (Harris) is a fully double flower of what shape? (hint: check out our NEWBIE'S NOOK for help!)
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12/1 Item #4 -- Nancy' Show Journal is a peek over her shoulder as she tends her violets, grooms them for show, reports on show days, and lists her opinions on how her plants performed. In a July 2008 post, Nancy explains her club will have a 'big splash of a show' for next year. She is planning to have many plants to enter in which new class in that show? (hint: the answer is on the 'last page' --link in the first entry-- but the entire journal is a good read!)
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12/29 Item #5 -- The Lakes Area Violet Growers have a FAQ page. What is their answer to the question "Will water harm the leaves of my African violets?"?
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12/29 Item #6 -- This answer will be found on the African violet page of The Plant Expert. What is a good way to re-create the climate of the original habitat of saintpaulias?
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9/26 Item # 7 -- (extra credit) The AV Book List is a list of many books on the subject of African violets. What is the name of the author with the most books included on the list?
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12/1 Item #8 -- (extra credit) AVSA recommends dividing a clump of plantlets around a rooted leaf when the baby leaves are approx. what size?
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12/29 Item #9 -- (extra credit) Rob and Oliva have a great Library section on their Violet Barn website. Their Streptocarpus article contains the answer to this question: African violets typically produce only one bloom stalk per leaf axil. Is this also true of streps?
Answer: | Prizes | *** One Grand Prize of (TO BE ANNOUNCED) To be awarded to the first list to arrive with all 9 correct items - (winner's name goes here)
*** One Second Prizes of (to be announced) To be awarded to two members whose names are randomly drawn from among all lists with at least 6 correct items - (winner's names go here)
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