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two or three times a week i'll bring out a video but without further ado going into today's topic
which you might be able to see here in front of me and i'll see if i can bring it into the camera so
hopefully it will focus it is the peperomia frostrata or the string of turtles and i'll try to
move it even higher up so you might be able to see how long this vine is now this is a plant that's
kind of near and dear and there's a story behind it for me and i'll kind of just tell
you briefly about it so this was a plant that i got and it was quite a full bushy
trailing kind of plant pot the ones that you get with the hooks at the top essentially
and i got this from a plant nursery or plant garden center actually
before it got really really really popular last year here especially in the uk you couldn't find
these you were finding one or two strands of this and it was selling for five or ten pounds
no i got a very full plant for i think 15 pounds which was great it was probably only about this
long but there were struggles with that plant and this is one of the few pepperonis that survived
in my care and it's one because i've really tried hard to get it to work i don't generally tend to
have such a good experience with pepperoni i know there's a lot of youtubers out there that really
really get and they love peperomias go check out their channel nick paleggi is one of them
and summer rain oaks um they're really both quite good and they love their pepperoni so
they've probably got some good advice i actually tried following a lot of their advice but i still
struggle a bit with mine i think this is a great pepperoni is generally a great type of
plant for people that are a bit more forgetful with the watering i tend to overlove my plants
which generally means i tend to overwater them a bit pamperomias are really not that forgiving
but this plant specifically the soil that it was in wasn't great it was in plastic so it wasn't
it wasn't getting through the moisture in the pot quickly enough so i think it struggled a
bit with rot and then some points when i let it dry out too much it'd start drying out
it just really wasn't ever very happy so one day i just decided to go for the nuclear option
i chopped off everything it was also starting to get pests at that point i dealt with all the pests
and it can be quite tricky with something that is this dense and this many tiny tiny foliage um
on um the vine it will also drop vines like mad if you've got one of these you know exactly what i'm
talking about the little turtles go running all the time they're always trying to escape you also
might be able to see here there are i think there are some inflorescences and these on pepperonis
are generally called rat tails and you might be able to see why they're kind of a very very small
and skinny spadix but with this as i said i chopped it back i took off some of the
bottom leaves on all the vines i left all the other leaves normally i wouldn't do this on a
plant because it would be taking up too much of his energy to maintain these leaves but most of
these leaves these turtle trails are actually quite succulent so i thought let's attempt it
dumped the roots or the the cut part of the stem into some water and left it there and it just
eventually grew roots i put it into my light airy aroid soil mix if you need a video on that
go check out my channel today when i talk about how i create mine i think there's also a link
that i've put on there now where you can see all the ingredients that i got from amazon
and yeah put it in some terracotta and it has been growing very very happily
this is in bright indirect to medium light i think it's more on the medium side now
and it's doing quite well it did okay in the bright bright light as well i don't think this
would be okay with low light or even low to medium light so just bear that in mind
at the moment just to give an understanding even with the fine fine roots that you get with a lot
of peperomia this is still getting watered every three to four days and i'm comfortable with that
previously in the big pot that it was it was getting to the point where it was getting once
ever it was getting watered once every 40 days that gives you an idea of how long it was taking
for that water to kind of really get absorbed by the plant it wasn't evaporating because it
wasn't in terracotta the soil mix it was in it was horrendous it's retaining too much moisture but
since i've moved it onto here it's been much much happier as i said one of the few pepperonis that
have survived in my care and it's mainly because i was born in the 80s i'm a bit of a 90s child
i was raised with things like teenage mutant ninja turtles this is great this speaks to
the child inside of me essentially and anybody else who was really into that
um cartoon they there's probably a soft spot in your heart as well for a plant like this
and uh another thing as well is once i was growing up i also had both tortoises and turtles so both
on land and in the water and yeah i think a plant like this i just had to give it
another chance and see if i could kind of get it to grow but yeah this is a bit more
about the pepperoni pastrata of the string of turtles if you've got any questions comments
see how you're growing it in your environment and you want to share with people please do down below
in the comments we're building a nice little community where people are actually discussing
things down below which i think is absolutely fantastic and yeah hopefully you enjoyed
hopefully i shall see you here soon and i hope you have a great rest of the day thanks bye