I have Rhapsody in White that has the largest flowers that I have ever seen on an african violet. They are huge. Let me know if you would like one. pattyk

Where there's green, there's hope! First, give it water right away. If your plant has lots of leaves, remove the outer row so the plant doesn't need to spend energy reviving old unnecessary growth. Second, your plant needs to be "groomed" (remove dead flowers and their stems back to the main crown, clean the leaves, etc.)and repotted. Clicking the link below brings you to a photo-illustrated potting lesson. Use a pot that is 1/3 of the plant's post-leaf removal diameter since overpotting can kill the plant or delay blooming. Use a mix of equal parts of peat, perlite, and vermiculite. You can also buy African Violet soil mixes, but they are about half peat, so you'll still need to add more perlite and vermiculite. The different ingredient shapes and textures leave air spaces in the mix and keep it from packing down so the roots can grow really well. I bet that in no time your plant will be "alive" again and showing its appreciation with new purple blooms. Here is a link that might be useful: Repotting a Violet

That is rather hot for AV's but they can take it. Watch closely for mites however as that is an ideal range for them to proliferate while the plant stresses in the heat. If you can keep your temps below 80, your AV's will be happier for it. On the other hand, with temps over 85 degrees and up, if you can keep the plant alive, it does raise the odds that it may sport on you. Possibly to become a chimera, but it's also riskier that it could take root or crown rot and collapse suddenly. So putting down backup leaves to start new babies would be a good idea. Sounds good otherwise. You certainly do not have to pinch the flowers. If the plant is otherwise happy and healthy, you may continue to enjoy them until it exhausts itself but be warned that the crown may die if there is no active growth. To me that's not a big deal because I restart my plants from time to time by leaves or suckers, anyway. If you do not want that to happen, then yes I would suggest removing the flowers and all buds until you have good strong growth with new leaves. A plant /can/ exhaust itself by blooming to death, though that is more common with Streptocarpus than African violets in my personal experience. So you have options! ;)

African Violets have flowers when they're trying to reproduce. That takes a lot of energy and plant resources, so it doesn't happen all of the time. African Violets may have periods of blooming which last 4-8 weeks or so, ... then the flowers die down ... and the plant is ready to make seeds. If you remove the faded flower stems before the plant makes seeds, ... the plant will rest and recoup its resources for awhile, ... and then will begin to try to reproduce again, starting with a period of blooming. If a plant is healthy, it may go through this cycle a few times a year, meaning that you will get flowers for extended periods a few times a year, ... separated by similar periods ... when it's resting and rejuvenating to bloom again. I just pulled the last faded blooms from one of my AV's yesterday. It will be without blooms for awhile (probably a couple months), ... then will bloom again. That is why I have more than one AV (to say the least). That way some plants can be in bloom ... while the others are resting. Right now, ... about half of my AV's ... are in some stage of bloom while the others are resting from blooming. In two months, the situation will reverse ...