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African Violets and Gesneriads: Wilted Heartland's Greybeard episcia, 1 by Seaecho

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Subject: Wilted Heartland's Greybeard episcia

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Seaecho wrote:
I just received this plant, along with a few others, yesterday, and now, less than 24 hrs. later, its starting to wilt. I'm starting to get really nervous. I've dreamed of owning episcias for many years. I was so afraid of this happening. The room its in is about 35-40% humidity. Its now droopy, compared to yesterday when the leaves were held higher. All the other episcias look fine. I put it in a glass container that is about 7" wide, and put a gallon plastic bag over the top of the container, in the shade. Is that the right thing to do? And how long before I dare take it out of there, and place it back on its pebble tray along with my other new episcias? I was afraid this was going to happen, trying to grow episcias in dry S. California. Yesterday, the humidity was only 7%. Only reason the plant rooms are higher in humidity is because of all the plants, lol. Here's a pic of the victim.