--- title: "Good afternoon friends! Newbie plant momma here & Iโ€™ve just beenโ€ฆ" description: "Good afternoon friends! Newbie plant momma here & Iโ€™ve just been gifted a potted African Violet & would love any advice to keep her happy and healthy. Sinceโ€ฆ" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/j77NmlhctjZgfmZZjSD3Hj?language=de" community: "Anything about plants ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ" author: "๐ŸŒฑ ๐‡๐š๐ณ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ŸŒฑ" published: "2025-03-09T16:38:04.548751Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/CvF7ejj6MCk1ul9pjUuDFdnzHN1BMe98vc9Roj_Wk9U/ihFTaOUiR3y9mIxkwWeDXQ.webp?size=large" --- [Community](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=de) / [Anything about plants ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md?language=de) # Good afternoon friends! Newbie plant momma here \& Iโ€™ve just beenโ€ฆ _Gepostet von ๐ŸŒฑ ๐‡๐š๐ณ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ŸŒฑ am 2025-03-09_ Good afternoon friends! Newbie plant momma here \& Iโ€™ve just been gifted a potted African Violet \& would love any advice to keep her happy and healthy. Since Iโ€™m very new to plant care and this plant is above my knowledge Iโ€™ve been following the instructions this app gave me but Iโ€™m very open to more advice! (ใ……ยด ห˜ \`) ![Anhang 1 von 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/CvF7ejj6MCk1ul9pjUuDFdnzHN1BMe98vc9Roj_Wk9U/ihFTaOUiR3y9mIxkwWeDXQ.webp?size=large) ## 4 Kommentare ### monster\_maniac kommentierte am 2025-03-09 all i know is they do well in low light bc theyre a tropical plabt(dont quote me)and are used to growibg on the ground ### KJM kommentierte am 2025-03-09 They love East windows, they do not like water on their leaves, regular fertilization especially during the growing season, you can propagate with a single leaf (although I have not been successful at this other people have), they prefer small pots usually the pot is 2/3 the diameter of the plant. #### ๐ŸŒฑ ๐‡๐š๐ณ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ŸŒฑ antwortete am 2025-03-09 Thank you!! โ˜˜๏ธŽ ### Wolfen ๐Ÿบ kommentierte am 2025-03-09 Definitely bottom water. They can get crown rot very easily if you top water them. They do like bright indirect light. --- _Die Planta-Community (https://getplanta.com). Lesen ist fรผr alle offen. Um Beitrรคge zu erstellen, zu kommentieren und zu liken, hol dir die Planta App: https://getplanta.com/download_