Hello llteaniebeanie

I think your new violets have some relocation blues.

Usually the transplanting is a shock so you need to baby them a bit - and high humidity is an answer. Put them in a transparent plastic bag or cover them with an angel cake lid. The soil should be barely moist - but the air should be humid - they are transplanted- and they do not have enough roots yet to absorb the water they loose through the leaves.
Fungus gnats are mostly nuisance. Your plants will perk up - and you can address it afterwards.

Good luck

Irina

As far as humidity, should I cover the plant entirely, or do I need to allow for airflow? (Thanks, by the way. I think I can handle that method.)

I don't need to worry about the gnats, then? I read somewhere that the larvae might eat new roots, and where my violet is trying to take root, that worried me. If they won't hurt the plant, then I suppose I can deal with them later.

Should I be surprised that even though it's just taking root, and having so many other issues besides, the foolish thing is actually flowering? It's brand new and fairly small, but it has two flowers and half a dozen buds. This is since it's been repotted, mind.

Thanks for the help!

LL -

You can open it just a bit, so the condensate is not accumulating in the baggie.

Gnats mostly eat the rotting material. Even if they can sometimes chew on the young roots - they cannot kill the plant. I think Nancy advised to drench the pots with a solution of Clorax to get rid of them - search the chat and find the proportion - but in any case I would wait until the plant will be looking better.

I.

LL:
About that cold but sunny window sill. AV's as a rule do not like direct sunlight. If you have a florescent light in your room, put your violets there. Combined with the humid plastic bag, your little guys will eventually recover. Remember that they do everything in slow motion, botanically speaking.
Good luck and be patient.
Krys

I. - Thanks for the tip. I have my AV covered now, I'll let you know how that goes.
But Clorax? Like, the bleach?

Krys - I don't own a fluorescent light, the closest i could get to that is a black light. I don't suppose they'd like that? ;) Right now, it's living under my desk lamp, but that's more of a creative attempt at keeping it warm than actually giving it light. I think the over head light in my dorm is fluorescent, but I don't think it's bright enough to be of much real help.

LL -

you can use your table lamp if you get yourself a compact fluorescent - these spiral thingies that have the info on the box - 27 wt gives as much light as 100 wt incandescent - get yourself a big one - like real 100 wt, not 27wt - and you can screw it in your lamp and will be both for warmth and light.

Black light fixture - you can you replace the black light tube with the cool white.

Good luck

Irina

Hi, Beanie,

Someone mentioned in another thread that they put waxed paper on the window glass to diffuse the sunlight. I have some opaque-ish shelf liner that I have used for that purpose also. But I think your best and most consistent light would be the desk light with the fluorescent bulb, as Irina suggested. If you get the violet 'bug' you'll need that windowsill.

I'm in Biddeford, cold and snowy here too.....

Barbara