Thank you, Irina, for your advice. Last Sunday when I looked at the plant, the inner circle of leaves was firm, so I took the plant out of the plastic bag. I guess it might recover "breathing healthier" air outside the bag!!! My AVs are at our second home where we only visit bi-weekly. Now I'm shrivering thinking it might not recover at all without my care! Anyway, I'm not that unfortunate having a sick AV. Yesterday, after so many trips looking for AV around Saigon and Dalat, I finally found a seller with about 10 plants. Guess what, I bought 7 of them, all having different colors and forms! In fact, I feel SO HAPPY now and think I won't look around for sometime! Thank you again for your advice. This wekend, I'm taking the new plants to Dalat and will check out the sick AV to see how it's doing. If it's still sick, I will do as you have adviced.

These are 3 minis that I like too. Keep on watering them, Orchid Jubilee may still respond. Did you cut off the broken and still attached parts? A little B1 for stress might help out here too. I got kind of a ratty looking plant in the spring and now it's nice and lush and full. You might also get some Vitamin B1 and put on Vi's Violet. One of my minis did something similar for another reason. As a last resort, this was a favorite of mine, I dug it up carefully and put it in a pot without a saucer with good drainage holes and watered it with vitamin B1 for stress and transplant shock. I continued giving it water every day long after all the canes appeared to die. Two weeks later I got new growth off one of the canes and I gave it some more B1 and I have a rose growing again. It gifted me with a bud and a bloom yesterday. Did surprise me, it's an own root and I thought the new growth would come from the roots. When I plant new minis out in the garden I put tomato cages around them. This keeps my dog and the cats from laying on top of them and from digging the little plants up. Leslie

Hi all !!! Ok I have a pix of my wick system. As you can see it is pretty simplistic. This is one of the plants that is recovering from the furnace out this winter. I think it looks pretty good considering. I also use a 16 oz cottage cheese container & lid. I cut out a circle so the pot sits about 1/2 inch down into it. For sturdiness. I use a lot of variations depending on what materials I have on hand. Also here are the two new violets I bought at Walmart. Funny thing about that. There hasn't been a violet in Walmart for I don't know how long. Didn't I say that in a previous post????? And I was in there several times before this Easter and all I could get was the Easter cactus and a clearance pot of Hyacinth. So when I posted I had to groc shop on Friday,,,the first places I stopped was Walmart and Lowes. Walmart had 4 violets!!!! A week AFTER Easter !!!! Glory Be !!!!!I bought 2 of them. They are both Optimara's, labels are stuck on both orange pots. Yes,,,,I know they are Optimara NOIDs. That's ok with me I think they are beautiful. And,,,the violets at Walmart cost MORE than the violets at Lowes or Meijer. Then I went to Lowe's. Remember I said they hadn't had violets for a very long time? Nothing since November. Well, they got in about 10. AND they also had 6 of them in the six inch pots! Nothing I didn't already have so I left with nothing. Now I go to Meijer (groc shop) but first I went all the way over to the other side of the store to see the violets and they still had the same ones they had before Easter. So I got nothing. Well,,,That is my latest violet saga! Been keeping track of the round robin and I can't wait to hear about all of the different violets every one is getting. How nice! Rosie

Yup, soil looks perfect and also does not look like the usual Optimara potting mix. But please, remove all the dead stuff. It does look like a rare Optimara "space violet" in even more rare green and white color. We do not usually identify AV's here, but because that was mentioned, I agree. If that is what you got, then it is one of the sturdiest AVs around. You got yourself a beauty. It is obvious you cared for your plant, giving it decorative pebbles in a pretty pot. And even sending for a moisture meter! But honestly, they do best in plastic. The glazed pot is also not ideal. Also, the leaf span will eventually cover the pot. So no top soil treatment required. When the leaves have the correct amount of water retention, they will feel stiff and look fresh and hydrated. Your foliage already looks 50% better in just a few hours. You can also place your little guy, in its saucer, then in a small bowl, such as a small cereal bowl, add your pebbles, and water. That will give it humidity. Aegis is correct, it is done blooming for now. Once it recovers, it will bloom again in several months. Also, his suggestion to get two more is excellent. The AVs do better when near others, in a grouping. If you want suggestions of where else to get AVs, do ask here. (We generally don't recommend the grocery store. But a quality orchard or nursery might be ok. The main reason is you do not want to bring in tiny bugs called thrips from retail store plants.) Yoh have a choice with bulbs. You could get a full spectrum bulb through Amazon. A tad expensive, though. As for light, depends on where you live. Where Aegis lives, full or direct sunlight is ok. But where I live, in sunny California, the light must be filtered, no direct sun, only partial shade. So, do read the Optimara link Aegis sent to learn about proper lighting for spring in your area. Summer light will be stronger and shifts position. It does not look like it needs the plastic bag treatment. But you can take a square piece of Saran Wrap and drape it over the top. You can prop up the Saran Wrap with some type of plastic pick. I use plastic lid stoppers from Starbucks. They have very long picks on one end with a wide rounded top. These are just temporary measures until your little guy recuperates. Note that African violets will seem counter-intuitive, at first. Their root systems are disproportionately small, they have no trunks, or main stems, so the leaf span is tight. They grow slowly. They need less direct light, and less water than you think. Aegis, that's a pretty Kahlih Marie from Harmony House! Joanne