A friend and I went over to the Violet Gallery probably 6 plus weeks ago.......Shortly after bringing mine home..I hadn't taken it out of the sleeve for several days and then I repotted and several days after that it just collapsed...Look like you scalded it...Emailed the gallery and she had no idea what may of happened to it.....Well my friend just told me yesterday that the 3 they had gotten and repotted right away had just all did the same thing.......and this was weeks later.........does anyone have any idea what is going on with them........Mine just died after that and I am sure my friends will do the same......
Help
Did they get cold?
No to cold.....I had gotten several others myself and they are fine.. so far.......Friends all collapsed.......
Too wet? I'd take it out of the pot, gently, and get a look at the roots... If the soil mix is really wet and the roots don't look too good, leave it out overnight on a paper towel to dry out a little and then repot into nearly dry mix, just a teeny tiny bit of moisture in it. Put a baggie or a dome over it, with a couple of chopsticks or something so the plastic isn't touching the plant... that'll hold in a little humidity around the leaves. With extra humidity around the leaves, the roots don't need to take up water, and they'll have a chance to recover. That's if the problem is root rot. Otherwise, I don't have a clue!
I dont think the problem was root rot..I was wondering maybe a fungus of some kind.......Seems funny to me that 3 would do this all at the same time and several others didn't...All treated the same......
I know there are a lot of people who would disagree with me about chemicals, but I am just a farm girl. Whenever i see a potential problem that could ruin all my plants, I don't hesitate to grab the 3 in1 fungicide or even the Avid. I started growing gessies this past January and I have only used Avid twice when I thought it was absolutely necessary. Sure enough, all the plants looked like new in a matter of days.
Knock on wood, I have never had anything spread among my gesneriads or houseplants because i never give it a chance to become a big problem.
I especially use the fungicide for powdery mildew (which really won't hurt a lot) or for mealy bugs in the soil, etc. If I see the need to treat one in a room, I treat all of them. I do use it when I know the lights won't be on until the next day.
Anytime I think that the soil on the top has gotten too wet and yucky looking, out comes the fungicide.
Don't anyone hit me through the screen of the computer (LOL)
Do you think bluepoppy needs to hit these plants with a fungicide?
I would as a fungicide is really quite a benign chemical to use if you have to use a chemical. I have to believe that the soil has something to do with what happened but I don't know a lot.
I was wondering about the soil, or maybe the hardness of the water (or just a change from the water they're used to)... but that would seem like it would affect all the plants, not just some of them... it's the idea that just some were affected this way that really has me puzzled. I was hoping somebody would come along and recognize the problem!
I certainly don't know. I am not a good one to be answering because when I can't figure out the problem but know there is a problem, I just choose among 3 or 4 things I use. Sometimes I use the granules of fungicide which are better at spider mites than the fungicide spray. Physan is always at my right hand not as a preventative but to treat for crown rot or the stem.
and then to complicate your answer...these plants are in 2 differant households.........I lost one...friend lost all 3.....and these were got at the Violet Gallery.....wouldn't think we brought a problem from there but looking like i t to me............don't really think there is a way to treat them...........they collapsed...looking like mush and then just die....don't think anything would really revive them....
It sure sounds to me like they somehow got cold--I had one do that in a windowsill when the temp. outside dropped to -35, the windowsill must have been below 60--it just got mushy and collapsed. It could be, maybe??
Were the leaves just extremely limp or kind of translucent? When plants or leaves have gotten too cold they will usually collapse but the leaves will be kind of see-through in places. It doesn't take much cold to affect an AV. Root rot is real sudden, no warning, one day you have a nice plant, next day it's flat and hanging over the sides of the pot, but the leaves will be solid.
Have you asked about replacing them?
It wasn't that cold here and if they got too cold then why would one on either end of the 3 not be mush????