Can I revive my African Violet?
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Can I revive an overwatered African Violet?
Comments (1)You rotted the roots - so you can cut the root system off and up the stem to the clean tissue, remove the bloomstalks and wilted leaves and reroot it. You can start rerooting it in water right now - and plant it to the soil later - because the root rot is working up the stem now. You need to do the surgery now. The info you can use on how to root the crown should be on this site. My advice is to read whatever you can find on this site - it is a treasure trough of lovingly put pics and explanations on AV culture. Good Luck Irina Here is a link that might be useful: Rachel's Reflections...See MoreMy cat destroyed my African Violet. Is there hope?
Comments (6)Hello Imaginae, Like Thom, I'm no expert on these things, but I've had some success with saving dying plants from my local box stores. If you have no leaves at all, I think you're going to have a hard to saving the plant since there is nothing to trigger the photosynthesis. I totally recommend you try to save it though, if for no other reason than the challenge of it. I would place the plant under fluorescent light, make sure it's in appropriate moistened soil, and place a ziplock baggie over it to maintain moisture. If nothing happens after a month, then the plant probably isn't going to make it. Do you know what type it was? Perhaps you could obtain a leaf to start over....See MorePruning and/or Reviving an African Violet
Comments (5)IF in fact it turns out the plant continues wilting you can at least take off a few good leaves and root them. If you don't have proper soil mix you can start them in water and they should have roots in a few weeks and by then you will be able to learn how to plant and grow the babies that will form. Hopefully though, you can still save the plant. If it keeps wilting you can also try taking it out of the soil and examining the crown where it meets the soil. If not brown and rotting you can trim off the roots and repot the plant to grow new roots. Someone else can explain this process better. I've done it successfully but not good at giving written directions for it. Good luck! Tricia...See MoreCan my African Violets be saved?
Comments (5)in my (woo hooo) two years of growing AVs, i've pretty much given up on "pretty planters" - they aren't practical, and once the fertilizer salts start crusting up, it's rather unsightly. so, looking at your plant, i'd suggest to start over. you can set that last leaf, but it will be a year or more until it gets big enough to fill that pot again. now, some AV Rules - you probably know most of them already, and don't worry, all of us have scorched, drowned and frozen plants too ;-) 1. water. drowning is BAD, dry is bad, drenching after dry is VERY BAD. you want to aim for moist, more or less consistantly. if they are wet, let them dry out - you can put them on newspaper or take them out of the pot. if they dry out, water a little, then later a bit more, not all at once. 2. sunlight, BAD. you want bright, but not direct sun light. hold your hand over the plant and check you see a fuzzy shadow. 3. you can (probably) revive a plant that has no crown but decent roots, or one that has no roots but decent foliage. - if you are missing both, you're in trouble. 4. "feeding" (or watering) a plant back to health does not work. typical procedure with stressed plants is to check roots & foliage. remove rotten bits, put the plant in moist (not wet) and very light potting mix (typically lots of perlite and some type of potting soil, peat, or av mix). removing ailing leaves is a balancing act - even poor foliage provides more photosynthesis than none. then bag the plant and place it in bright shade....See MoreMaile Hatch
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