I hope this problem is related to the water problem. You may have to buy bottles of water for the plants. That's too bad.

The minute someone says plant wilt I have to ask if the plant seems overly wet when you touch the soil because plant wilt is a big indication of an infestation of soil mealy bug which is hard to get rid of and expensive to buy the products you need.

So that is why I hope it is just a water problem.

Take the plant out of the pot and look for white powdery residue on the sides and bottom of the pot as well as on the root ball. Don't confuse the perlite for the white powder.

If you have white powder, please let us know again and we can suggest the best ways of handling the situation.

Nancy

Hi Caramelissa,

Well, I can tell you for sure that it is not your water. We have chloramine in our water supply. I know this for a fact because I used to have tropical fish and had to treat the water specifically for chloramine. I have grown African violets in this water with chloramine for over 11 years and my violets have been and are perfectly healthy.

I would suspect you have some kind of root condition as Nancy has suggested. I would venture either soil mealy bugs or root rot. First look at the soil and check for a white fungus looking substance as Nancy has suggested. If there is no white substance than I would suspect root rot.

I hope this helps,

Larry