PETITTI African Violet Spotlight | How to Grow, Propagate, & Care for Violets

African Violets, a.k.a. Saintpaulia ionantha, are one of the most popular flowering houseplants because they are easy to grow, tolerate average indoor conditions, and can flower throughout the year. Watch this video with Noelle, Horticulturist and Education Director with Petitti Garden Centers, to learn more about how to be successful with African Violets. According to the ASPCA, African Violets are a great pet-friently plant to have around! These plants prefer bright, indirect sunlight like you would recieve from a northern or eastern exposure window.
Pro-Tip: African Violets can develop a long "neck" of the plant. If your flowers and foliage have extended out of the pot and started to flop over, we recommend removing some of the root base, repotting and burrying the "neck" so that only 1/2" is above the soil.
0:00 Intro
1:20 Light
2:45 Watering
5:15 Temperature
5:51 Soil
7:03 Re-Potting
9:15 Fertilizing
10:50 General Maintenance
12:20 Propagation
14:37 Managing Leggy Plants

[@kristaself126]

Now you make me want to go buy several African Violets. ❤

[@PC-zg3eo]

Very informative!

[@imp822]

Super helpful!

[@scarletgolightly]

As a kid in the upper Midwest we had the best luck with sun from a south facing window.

[@DaisyBorrero-ps4xh]

Great video, thanks

[@bronwynodonnell8548]

Great information thanks 🇦🇺 Bronwyn

[@wendygreenfield9631]

Thanks for the simple, concise African Violet primer 🌸

[@denisedelgado3350]

Thanks Noelle! I have one blooming now 💜

[@PetittiGardenCenters]

Happy gardening!

[@PC-zg3eo]

So for those leggy ones, you are saying that we should cover the stems with potting soil? Thank you.

[@PetittiGardenCenters]

Yes, if you have African Violets that are growing up, out of their pot and bending over with a long "neck" or stem, you remove the length of the neck from the bottom of the root ball. So, essentially the violet with sit deeper in the pot, then you do place more potting mix around the bare stem/neck until is comes just below the lip of the pot or just below the bottom of the leaves.

[@arlettatrammell8460]

I have a question I've propagated a couple of leaves and they started to shoot out the little teeny babies from them I have two that when they babies came out the babies actually came out with little balloons on it that look like they're about ready to flower they've got little purple flower heads is this normal

[@PetittiGardenCenters]

Yes, sometimes little violet plantlets do have enough energy to produce flowers, but it is best to pinch those flowers back so the energy goes back into the leaf development. Let one bloom so you can see it's development, but we recommend pinching back the rest so your plants will get bigger.