what type of pot is it in and what type of soil?

for years i'd never had luck with them blooming until i moved to an apt that had a west facing window. that plant grew tremendously and bloomed almost contantly (when i moved into my house all my plants were left in the car overnight and froze )

i was given some a few years ago - back to the no blooming due to lack of proper light. then someone gave me a plant stand with grow lights. AND i transplanted the av's from the one pot they were all in to smaller pots. i chose to put them in the african violet self-watering pots.

wow! they started growing immediately (they'd not been doing well in the other pot) and they bloom all the time under the grow lights. i've got them set to go on at sunrise and off at sunset.

does your neighbor have a south or west facing window to put it in? also, switching it to the av pot might help - they really do need a constant supply of moisture (and that's hard to manage in regular pots without overwatering, which they don't like).

Here's my pink leaf one. I didn't even know it was one of those when I got it, but suddenly all my leaves started looking like they had sickly brown spots on them. I just kept an eye on them and the leaves kept changing until they were pink.


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Lord, please let me be the person my dog thinks I am!

-i have had pretty good luck with av's.i put mine in east window. if your leaves start looking bad cut them out. then water with some tea water.( not real strong). remember always water them from the bottom.i have found that if i cut my dead blooms off it helps.

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JUST STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES

regardless of what kind of water you have (unless it's well stuff), you should always let the water sit so that the chlorine dissapates.

24 hours is usually good enough.

i always keep a supply of water for watering my plants in plastic jugs.