I LOVE THE VARIEGATION!!!!

You probably can wait until it perks up before replacing the soil. If you want to dry it a bit - put the pot on a stack of paper towels - they do absorb water easily. The second thing you can do - spray the leaves with water every so often. Third - take a couple of leaves and put them for babies. Every time you get a new plant!!! This is a must. The plant can croak for whatever reason and you will have your own starters coming- more of it your own babies will always perform better for you than the plant you got from somebody. They will be well acclimated to your home and do beautifully. Exception - Chimeras - need to wait for a sucker...

THANK YOU :D I love the variegation too!! I'm gonna just let the plant settle a bit more before I do anything. Setting it on a paper towel is a great idea! I'm gonna do that!

The rest of my plants came today!! I'm so excited :DD

Brand new Mac's Scorching Sun, because I just loved the variegation so much! It even came with a little flower <3

This one is a.... *checks reciept* Pink Satin Pillow. It wasn't what I ordered (I wanted a Rebel's Astro Spinner) but Lyon must not have had it in stock. I told them they could substitute their choice, as long as it was another standard size chimera. I'm happy with their choice! The blooms are cute and the leaves are in nice condition. They're bright red on the bottom and actually much nicer than I was expecting!

This was my pick from Violet Barn: a little Festive Holiday. I was in love with the color of the blooms so I had to have on lol.

And lastly, and updated photo of my Mac's Coral Carillion from PJs. She's hanging out. Still kinda wilty but I think she's still in shock from the shipping process.

Oh ps That windowsill isn't their permanent home. I've basically set aside the entire top of my dresser for my plants so they live over there, away from the window's draft (and under a grow light). This windowsill was just the best lighting I could get with my phone.

Seems that Coral Carillion has suckers ...maybe - and it has the spent bloomstalk with good size leaflets : Root Me!

Is that what those tiny leaves on the long stems are? I've never seen that before so I figured it was something to do with the type of blooms it has (it came with no flowers and since it's only been here a week, I haven't had the pleasure of seeing it bloom).

Some of the varieties have small leaflets on a bloomstalk, so the flowers are spent - the stem dies. And some vaireties - some oldies especially - have larger leaflets - and sometimes after the flowers are gone - these leaflets stay alive, the hidden buds start growing and you have a basket - a little plantlet coming from a bloomstalk. It is more typical for Streptocarpus - but happens with AVs too. That's how you can reproduce chimeras - you take this bloomstalk with leaflets, remove the rest of the flowers, cut the stalk to 1 inch - and stick it in a soil down to the leaflets. Keep the pot covered. The success rate depends on the variety and it takes time. I managed to get Yukako babies started this way. Couple came blooming true, one came white with green edge.

If plant number 1 is still wet after a week, did it arrive that way? That is too wet. Your photos show the typical large, healthy plant size that Lyons sends!

Oh cool! I was curious since I've never seen the leaflets on the stalks before! I'll have to try rooting the stalks then!

and yea, it was pretty wet when it arrived in the mail and the soil hasn't dried out much. I haven't watered it at all because of that. I put it on a paper towel so I'll check on it tomorrow morning (working night shift, yay). I was thinking about changing the soil just so it'd drain better but I don't want to disrupt the plant if I don't have to.

You can lift the plant out of the pot and set it on paper towels. Suggest you email the vendor to let them know in case the plant succumbs as that is too wet. It doesn't take much to over water in preparation for shipping. It can happen to the best of us. Joanne

Settings it on the paper towel definitely helped. The soil feels soft, like its hydrated but not quite dry yet. The plant came right out of the pot with no resistance so I took that opportunity to thoroughly check for mites (as I know that can cause droopiness too and it doesn't hurt to check). Seems fine on that front, as I expected. I'm guessing it's drooping and scrunched up in the center because it was too wet?

Grabbed a pic of the plant outside the pot, just in case that'd be helpful.

From first impression your variegation looks like "Lillian Jarriet" foliage. I may have the spelling wrong of the last name but if you google it you will see what I mean! I love that type of foliage! Rosie

It does look like that, yea! He pjs eBay listing said it was mosaic foliage but idk if that's the same thing.

One leaf fell off (it had pinched itself off on the side of the pot while drooping), and I pinched off the two smallest leaves. So she seems better; just needs to acclimate I think.

I don't know if the names are interchangeable. Maybe someone else can enlighten both of us. But I do know,,,,back in the day,,,,,I had Lillian Jarriet and she was very pretty. Would love to have her again. She is on my "Wish" list! Along with 39,629 others! lol!!! Rosie

Ma c's Coral Carillion is mosaic variegated green and yellow - according to the First Class. Looks right to me.

Hm, so I guess the terms aren't interchangeable. The Lillian Jarriet are still beautiful! I love violets with interesting leaves.

Whelp. All the outer, un-crinkled leaves of the Coral Carillion are falling down. The stems are limp, but there isn't any sign of brown or anything on them yet. I'll give them some time to perk back up. She's in a plastic bag with new soil so maybe she'll be ok.

As to your scrunchy center-plants are often packed tightly together on the shelf before they are sold. This causes the outer foliage to grow upright and the centers are unable to grow out properly. When the plant is in its final growing spot, it should resume its normal growth pattern. (Among other plant professions, I worked in a greenhouse doing production.)

Linda, you are correct. One of the first things I do when I bring a violet home if it is "reaching" is:

1] give it a couple weeks to adapt to it's new location. It may settle down some.

2] trim off all of the outer leaves to get to the better growth [start the leaves!!]

3] try to take as much soil off the roots as possible and repot. (to give it MY mix for wick watering.)

4] no fertilizer for about a month.

This works for me. Rosie