I'm often asked, "How old does a violet have to be before it will bloom?".  It depends on a number of factors including light, food, and temperature. What you are looking at here are trays of leaf starts. Each tray contain 24 "mother" leaves. Most of the violets seen here are the baby plants that have come up before we separate them from the mother leaf. Notice how many of the babies are blooming even before we separate them and put each one in its individual pot. The mother leaves were put down in July and this picture was taken in November. Since we have been using Nutriculture fertilizer, we see this frequently. Although, blooming this young isn't typical, it isn't all that unusual for us either. We actually should disbloom these, but time is always a factor. I consider these zero months old, because they haven't started growing on their own yet.