I received this African Violet after an elderly woman who used to work for our family passed away. She kept many of them potted. It was originally in a very very small terracotta pot, but it looked healthy. Eventually the leaves started looking wilted so I gave it a good water, still looked wilted. I repotted it with African Violet soil and the leaves still look wilted. Several leaves have shriveled at the stem and fallen off. Help, how can I save her?? I live in zone 11 so it's warm. Should I give it some outside time? Any advice appreciated.
by Annual-Amphibian2657
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no advice but mine’s doing exactly the same thing, commenting to hopefully boost for both of us :,)
Don’t put her outside. The bugs will finish her. Before anything else, go ahead and bag her. That’s a lot of changes she’s adapting to. When she starts perking up, we can slowly change one thing at a time.
The leaves are wilting cause they’re losing water pressure faster than their damaged roots can feed the leaves. The roots get easily damaged when repotting.
Need to bag her. Literally just put it in plastic bag and close the top. This will increase the humidity to roughly 100%, the leaves will have a harder time losing water to evaporation and it’ll recover faster as it grows new roots.
Don’t put it outside.