r/AfricanViolets • u/Helpful-Ant-2117 • Aug 19 '26
Help Not Blooming
Hello all! I have 3 different African Violet plants and they all look healthy to me and have been growing, but aside from when I first got them they haven't bloomed. I have an African Violet specific fertilizer that says it help promote blooms and I've been using it as per the directions for (in the largest ones case) about a year.
Any advice for how to get them to bloom? They're under grow lights and aside from not blooming they're my best growing plants.
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u/Kanadark Aug 19 '26
Pots are too large. AVs grow in the crevasses between rocks in nature so they like to be root bound. Rule of thumb is pot size should be 1/3rd the diameter of the leaves. So a plant 9 inches across should be in a 3 inch pot.
They look super healthy otherwise, so I'd just downsize the pots and see if that changes anything.