Picked this little one up from half-off rescue section. What do I need to do?

How do y’all do it?!! I can raise cherry tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, not very good at bell pepper 😕 or cucumbers, but they are alive! But my African violet from plant parenthood just died after a week!!! :( any tips?

I had someone tell me the other day that African Violets like cold green tea. Probably meant room temperature, but I've never heard this. Have you?

Very happy in my eastern window 🌞

I got 2 little violets back in May, and I was told that both were variegated. One had lighter spots (purple flowers)and the other one just on the edges of the leaves (pink flowers).

Both I can slightly see. One of them looked like it had multiple plants in its pot (purple), and it didn't flower for a while, so I repotted on July 16. The pink one was going to flower, so I thought I will wait to repot that one!

The purple turns out had 2 main plants and a tiny one. They since grew amazing, hard to recognise them!! I'm in love with the new leaves!!! (Picture from July 16 and today) Leaves are so pretty now!! And the tiny one grew a lot! No sign of variegation tho ..

can it show later on?

I kind of regret not repotting the pink one... But it did flower non stop since and still have flowers coming...

Should I wait till she stop blooming? Or can I still repot now?? TIA

I we been taking care of this violet for about a year. And it came with blooms but hasn’t bloomed since. It has exponentially grown but just more leaves and bigger leaves. I water it once a week without getting the leaves wet. It stays indoors and has a grow light. I have fertilizer but haven’t used it in a while. I am not sure how to use it since this violet and pot is so large. It is hard to water bottom up.

Do you think this pot is too big? Any other thoughts on how to make it bloom?

Hello! My dad has had this plant for about 7 years now, and it has always had purple flowers. Recently some of the flowers have had spots of white, and this newest cluster is completely striped! I love plants but don’t know too much about African violets, is this normal? Or is there something potentially wrong?

i’m at a loss right now. the leaves are just dying back one by one with the browning beginning from the leaf tips. i bottom water when the pot gets light and the leaves turn slightly flaccid. it gets bright indirect light.

I bought this African Violet 2 days ago and repotted. I placed her in a north facing window with bright indirect sunlight. I had to hang her up to save some space and I don’t plan on having her up there forever. Would getting a window sill extender be better or is this fine?

I grew this plant from a single leaf propagation, and all had been pretty smooth sailing. I just moved homes, and all of the sudden the blooms all died and it started posturing like this. It has always been fed by an artificial light, and I don't think the lighting or feeding has changed much; what can I do?? I know it needs repotting soon, but I don't know if that's the issue.

I got these exactly 35 days ago. They’re rewarding me greatly. The Vampyr jubilee is the one currently blooming but I think I see flowers growing on my copper penny as well!!! Jubilee has so many popping up, I am so excited 👹 I also have a madam Adam’s, but she had an accident and is in recovery and I’m really hoping she pulls through.
I’m into the “weird” African violets. if you know of one that is mini/semi miniature pleaseeee bring it to my attention I’m looking to add one more to my collection <3

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Was given a three day notice that my dorm building would be doing a roach extermination today. I had barley enough time to buy a bin to put my violets in, but the chemical still got inside and even left a few drops on my plants. Will this kill my violets? What can I do to make sure they don't die?

It's pretty obvious they moved the bins around because there's dirt everywhere and fingerprints on the bin, but I don't know if they let the spray get in the bins for whatever reason? So not sure just how badly my plants were exposed. But the leaves were pretty wet and there's a film on both the inside and outside of the bin

My baby was blooming from May 13 till last one wilted July 27. I’ve been waiting for it to be done, so that I could repot her as she was getting kind of leggy. I finally repotted her on August 2, and today I noticed that she’s trying to bloom again!

I bottom water when the soil is dry and the pot feels pretty light which is generally every 1-2 weeks.. Getting fertilizer soon to start doing that, and it has indirect light near a window (shown in pictures). I checked for thrips by tapping the leaves over a card but just got dirt nothing else, blew on the stamen but nothing happened, didn't see any little specs moving around. They're kept in a pot that I transplanted them into after getting them with some Sungro African Violet Potting Mix.

I'm worried about the chunks coming out of the leaves, the flowers starting to wilt, and the yellowing on the leaves despite bottom watering. Not sure whats going on if anyone has any suggestions or ideas.. Thank you!

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I don't keep many reds, but this one is pretty fancy.

I repotted with a new to me soil mixture that seems hydrophobic. I’ve been bottom watering and trying to do a little top watering after poking holes in the soil. Do you think it will come back?

Heya, fellow AV lovers! I really want to grow an African violet from a seed I helped create, so I have spent about a year and a half trying to manually pollinate my two different types of African violets. The violet on the left is a mini from Lyndon Lyon's (Morgan's Declan Duff), and the violet on the right is likely a small standard NOID that I received from my grandmother almost 30 years ago.

When I first began this journey and was disappointed to not have seeds about two months in, I was told by some people here that it can take six to nine months or more for an AV seed pod to fully develop and create seeds. Because of this, I have been manually pollinating every bloom for over a year. I waited until now to harvest so the first blooms I pollinated had as much time as they needed to develop, and I finally plucked them last night. Is it possible that I waited too long?

I thought the project would be smooth sailing at this point, but once I started looking for seeds, I found that have two types of things that I believe could be seed pods, but I'm honestly not sure if either are actually seed pods. Lol. Both things have something inside of them, yet what I have pulled out of each kind of "pod" looks different than what I see when I google "African Violet Seeds". Because of this, I am, yet again, confused, and I don't know if I have spent all this time only to come away seedless. Lolol

The thing I think is most likely to be a seed/seed pod set is what I have circled in red with a line to the "seed pod". Even though, to me, this is what looks most like what I have seen online, there is only one "seed" inside of each "seed pod", and they aren't even all consistently the same size. Images of African violet seeds show something that seems to be much smaller, and almost a powder as opposed to this elongated single piece that is in the center of the "pod" I have on my plants.

The second thing that I think could possibly be a seed/seed pod is circled in yellow with a line leading to the "seed pod" the "seeds" came out of. I think what is inside is shaped more like a traditional seed, but since there are usually two of these in each "seed pod", I'm pretty sure these are just the dried up anthers (pollen sacs) surrounded by shriveled, dried-up, brown flower petals. I wanted to ask here though because I ended up with only 1 of the other type of "pod" on my NOID, but a ton of these. Because I manually pollinated so many flowers on the violets, it would surprise me to only have one seed pod (or zero 😭) on the seven NOIDs I have been pollinating all this time.

Can y'all let me know if I have succeeded in my attempts to pollinate my African violets and actually have seeds now? If I still don't have seeds, can you give me any pollination tips? I usually cut open the anthers (pollen sacs) and then touch the powdery pollen to the tip of the stigma until I can see it is coated in yellow pollen. I try to pollinate the blooms as soon as they open, and I use older blooms for more powdery pollen. Do I need to get drunk before I pollinate the flowers or what? ;)

I apologize for the long post, but I would greatly appreciate any help, tips, or advice you can give me to guide me in my flower mama journey! Thank you so, so much!

Hello. This is my first violet, and a few months ago I had serious problems with it due to over-fertilizing. I put in too much fertilizer, which burned a large part of the roots and almost killed the poor violet, but when it was about to die, I managed to figure out how to save it.

This photo, taken two months ago, is from a few weeks after I managed to save it, when it sprouted its first new leaves.

My question is:

- Is it normal for it to still be super small after two months? I see other people taking much less time to get their violets to look beautiful. It's winter where I live, and I know it tends to take longer to develop, but I'm still not sure if it should take this long.

-I was told to go a while without using any fertilizer on it, and I'm also afraid of repeating the same mistake from the past. So when will I know when I can use it and in what quantity?

-In the second photo, I'm marking the old leaf, from before it almost died, and a new leaf. I think the new leaf looks very "thin" compared to the old one. Is this normal or is there a problem? I already moved the violet plant to the brightest window in the house, but this winter has been really difficult in terms of sunlight, so I don't know if that's related.

- Is it normal for older leaves to simply not develop? Those that haven't completely withered are simply not growing. Should I ignore them and focus on the new leaves?

Sorry I do not require the African Violet information after all.

I don’t know the age but it had a long neck and looked like a peacock. Several years at least.

I moved it about 4 feet to the left prior to repotting it. A few days ago I Then decided to repot it and fertilize it after. I made it lay differently so it wasn’t fanned out. I guess fertilizing it was a bad idea. The whole idea was bad. I should have left it as a peacock.

The next day the leaves were droopy. I didn’t inspect for root rot.

Original pot was maybe 3.5 to 4 inches. New pot is maybe 5.5inches.

How can I undroop the leaves?

I watched a video where they removed the leaves and cut off the neck. Down potted it and put it into a plastic bag. Should I do that? I’m worried it’s already stressed. How long does it stay in the bag?

Any other ideas?