You may be watering them too much. The droopy leaf stem on your picture reminds me of that. Also you might be giving too much fertilizer. I don't give any fertilizer to young plants until they are well established. Also, may they need slightly more light. Good luck.

If you haven't already done so, I suggest isolating these plants away from your other plants, at least until you know what is causing the problem.

Dear djoneso7,
It looks like your violets have had the sun burn the leaves, because of the black marks. I would transplant them with new violet dirt, keep them out of the sun, be careful not to water the leaves for that puts spots on them. Also you might spray them with an insecticide. When the leaves stay tiny and bunch up they may have mites. The older plant looks a little leggy and probably needs more light. I'm sorry. It's sad to lose a beautiful violet.

Bess_2008

ellie May,

Sorry your violets have taken a turn for the worse. Let's try to salvage something out of this.

First of all is your potting mix. Too much peat moss, holds too much water, two part reservoir pots only make it worse. So what I suggest is you mix up some of your own potting mix. If you have African violet potting mix, you can use that as your base. Measure out an amount into a bowl, then add an equal amout of perlite, and an equal amount of vermiculite. This will give you a light mix that is much better for your violets. If you don't have AV potting mix, that's ok, just use regular peat moss, keeping the ratio of peat, perlite, and vermiculite 1 to 1 to 1.

Get a 3 oz solo type plastic cup, make a hole in the bottom for drainage, and take the baby/mother leaf out of the clay pot and repot (using your new mix) into the solo cup.It really doesn't look quite ready to divide, so let it grow some more.

Take the other plant out of the two part pot and remove as much of the old soil as you can. Take a really good look at the roots to see if there are still nice white roots, or if they have turned brown and mushy. If brown and mushy has happened, you have root rot, most frequently caused by overwatering. If so, there are lots of posts about the process of re-rooting the crown, so do a 'rot' search.

Next throw away the two part pot and the clay pot.

The most important thing is to get those plants out of the pots and mix they are in.

Barbara