African Violet Buds!

[My Green Pets]

Beautiful terrariums.

I bought a mini african violet a few months ago and repotted it, and within days all the blooms and buds had withered.

The leaves are nice and green and growing, but no buds. Liquid ferts and more light you say?

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

Beautiful terrariums.

I bought a mini african violet a few months ago and repotted it, and within days all the blooms and buds had withered.

The leaves are nice and green and growing, but no buds. Liquid ferts and more light you say?

Newly bought African Violets do not need to be repotted. They generally need repotting when overgrown.
Your plant withered because you disturbed the fine relationship between the root hairs and soil around it by repotting it. Also, when repotting, unlike orchids, you have to try your best to keep all the potting mix around the roots intact and just add more fresh mix around the larger pot (or new pot of the same size).

I grew these for years in the same pot without repotting ever with great results.

With time, the plant will come back to life, but some (if not all) of the withered buds may not come back to life. They will continue to bloom when conditions are favorable to them.

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Originally Posted by RandomGemini

Okay.. wow... tapatalk posts TINY pictures!

I will not be posting photos with tapatalk anymore.

The buds (larger):



The older pic:



The pink and purple violet: I'm not sure what to call this coloring.

The flowers in the second picture are my kind of African Violets.
I love the blue violets of all shades and then the white one with blue halo, or the blue with white halo.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

Beautiful terrariums.

Thank you, CW (and everyone else).

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

I bought a mini african violet a few months ago and repotted it, and within days all the blooms and buds had withered.

Bud loss could very well be due to a combination of repotting and overall change in its growing conditions from where you obtained it. I wouldn't worry about it. They tend to be prolific bloomers. (It is VERY common, in fact, for folks who show African violets to completely disbud their show plants a month or so before showtime. By the time the show comes around, the plants will then be in full bloom.)

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

The leaves are nice and green and growing, but no buds. Liquid ferts and more light you say?

If you did a major repotting (changing of media) then your plant may be still adjusting to the repot -- establishing a root system, etc.

I, personally, would not fertilize at this time. If the plant is still adjusting from the repot, fertilizer can wait. For that matter, the new media should have plenty of nutrients. AVs that have been grown in the same pot for a year or more tend to benefit from fertilizer as they deplete the nutrients that were present in the media originally.

More light could very well be key. Are the new leaves growing more vertical or is the plant maintaining a more or less flat rosette?