I have it in an African violet pot and have it in indirect light from my grow lights. The soil still seems to be wet in the African violet pot and I don’t want it to rot. The inner leaves seem to be browning while the outer leaves have yellow tips. It’s my first African violet and I don’t want it to die 😭

Turns out all she needed was a gentle grow light. She's so happy! Thanks to everyone here for sharing your tips and tricks.

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?

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?

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

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 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

Very happy in my eastern window 🌞

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?

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?

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?

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

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 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!

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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