Just this week, the bottom leaves are all droopy.
It's been in the same pot for years, given clean water, and placed back in same location.


Help please.

Take it out of the pot, divide it, and repot some of it in fresh soil.

If it's a plant that tolerates being root bound (not sure what that is), it may need a heavy soaking. A saturation. Sometimes old root balls look moist on the pot surface but are bone dry deep down.

It's an African violet. They get like that when overgrown in old soil, but will keep blooming anyway. Might need brighter light now that the days are shorter and less fertilizer. Try a soil refresh and division in early spring.

I haven't seriously grown African Violets in a long while but some causes for leaf curl on AV's can be due to tight roots (the plant may need a larger pot, or root pruning and then planted back in the same pot), cooler temperatures, insufficient light, pests.

African Violets do not divide (unless there are offsets).

Suddenly wilted could mean root failure: salt build up, soil compaction, root bound, hydrophobic soil... I would tip it out of its pot, shake off as much soil as possible and give it some fresh soil. Even the very largest violets need only a 5" pot. Mine are all in 4" pots.

Do you fertilize? It looks a little pale.

Lucy68 said: African Violets do not divide (unless there are offsets).

You're right Lucy, I was misleading there. Whenever I unpot my violets, they have multiplied and have entirely new sets of roots. Separating is the more correct description.