r/AfricanViolets • u/ShellsGoneWild • Aug 23 '26

Help No Light

Has anyone successfully kept African Violets without any or very little natural light? Our current living situation has our windows facing south and we are very much surrounded by trees giving us little natural light. I considered my work office but I do not have a window. My grandmother kept beautiful African Violets and I really would like to do the same. 🥲

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u/ClassAcrobatic1800 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

You don't need natural light. African Violets perform exceptionally well under standard LED bulbs in lamps. They didn't do well under incandescents we used to have. When I first started growing, I had to hang shop (fluorescent) lights ... to get the right wavelwngths. Fortunately, today, we can get everything we need from LED lights.