hi everyone its Marianne and welcome to my wasteless life in this video I'm gonna
share with you my favorite string of plants and how I care for and propagate
them so the very first one is a string of pearls and this was very trendy last
year I remember when I first started my plant journey last year this was one of
the plants that was very much sought after but it was very difficult to find
and if you find them they can get quite expensive but right now this are a
little bit more common and a lot easier too and a lot cheaper to find as well I
did get mine at a farmers market for about four dollars which was quite a
steal back then just like I said this was very hard to find and it came in a
four inch pot and it wasn't very filled out yet so I had to do some propagating
to make it a lot fuller but Mr Norrell sovereign route brought over the winter
and I think it's because I had it in a pot that is much larger than it's
supposed to be I upgraded it too quick to a six inch pot because I was excited
to get my string of pearls bigger but it wasn't really the right one for it but
because the water wasn't raining out fast enough and a string of pearls is
basically considered a succulent and a lot of people forget that or don't know
that when they get district' so a lot of times the reason behind people fail with
their string of pearls is true to over watering so when it got over watered it
did suffer from root rot I had to take it out from the soil to us in and I
transfer it into this pot and I started propagating it in Spagna moss and it
bounced back pretty well in the sphagnum Moss as you could see it has already
trailed really long and I didn't take it out of sphagnum Moss because the string
of pearls roots is very delicate and if you have propagated in-spec we must
before you'd know that this bag we must stand to stick to the roots and it's
very hard to get out so I just decided to keep it in the Spagna mass medium and
it's been doing pretty well it continues to grow but the thing with this bag
Tomas is a grow medium it doesn't have any nutrients in it it is a very sterile
medium though so while string of pearls don't really require fertilizing maybe
just once a year during your growing season I do now fertilize this every
month using a fish emulsion just to give it some nutrients since it doesn't get
any nutrients from this magma moss so here I'm fertilizing this purse string
of pearls at the same time I'm watering it I'm using a
liquid fertilizer the fish emulsion which has a 5-1 1 NPK ratio and I'm just
gonna pour it on the top of this magma moss and let it drain down the tray and
I'm gonna let it absorb it a little bit and then I'm gonna take it out and let
it try out a little bit before I bring it back and that's pretty much it I do
try not to pour a lot of water in it because it is spiked with moss it does
hold a lot of moisture so I don't want to overly saturate this bagra moss as
well so I just mean we put about a cup of that water but if I'm not fertilizing
my string of pearls or any of my string off plants I do bottom water them just
to make sure they're just getting enough water that they need and they're not
getting over watered and there are other string of plants that are also kind of
like the string of pearls like the string of dolphins the string of bananas
but I'm not really into those type of string of succulent plants I really just
like a string of pearls so that's why this is the one that I have and it's my
favorite next one is the string of course this was also very popular very
sought-after plant and I don't think this one has done out of turin at all
people still look for this well it has to become more available especially in
the west coast is still as as available in many places I know here in Maryland
I've only found this once at a home depot and it was sold as a succulent in
a four inch pot I didn't get it then cos there wasn't really much on that four
inch pot for the price to recharge it although it was just I think about five
or six dollars and I already had this so I got mine from Etsy it was the very
first time I bought plants online and I bought it from Etsy and I was really
happy with the seller that I bought it but I don't think they sold succulents
again ever since because I haven't seen them post anything under si shop again
at least not in the string of parts think I bought it for about $7 and I
paid for six dollars shipping at first they had a hard time adjusting like the
tips were drying out but eventually it started pushing out new growth and it
started to trail really really long and come fall early winter I decided to
propagate it and I actually gave some of the propagations away during my very
first giveaway but then over the winter it suffered from mealy bugs and by the
time I caught it it was really bad enemy ly bugs
ordinarily are easy to get rid of but because the string of hard
stems are so delicate and so thin and I call it too late so it's near impossible
to get rid of the mealy bugs and still save my string of hearts so I saved the
strands that I still can propagated it in perlite and now it has bounced back
and it's starting to trail again when you're reporting any of the string off
plants in the soil medium just make sure it's a very very well draining soil mix
with a lot of para light and if you can do 50/50 perlite maybe even 70 percent
perlite and your soul mix then what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna fill this up
almost all the way to the top and I'm gonna get my string aparts so as you can
see the string of Hearts have this large tubers where all the roots are forming
and also where the strands are coming from when plotting up string of Hearts
and I learned this from Christian raise the plant guy don't bury the tubers all
the way in just guess it would be easier to tell if the string of hearts need
water or not I'm gonna show you also another way that I learned from Nick
Peggy how to tell if your string of hearts needs water if you don't have
your tuba showing right and I'm gonna replant this tree of hearts by just
putting the trooper on top of the soil and just lightly covering up the roots
of the string of course I'm making
that's how it looks and it has a few trails going down already and I just
called up some of the trails that don't have leaves in them anymore so that it
could fill up the top of the pot and even though it's not a succulent it is
considered a swine at least when it comes to its care and what it is I don't
just wait for the soil to be completely dry I also performed a taco test which I
learned from Nick palagi you hold one of the mature leaves of the string of
hearts and tried to fold it like a taco if it's a very assistant then your
string of parts don't need watering yet even though if even though the soil is
really dry but if it actually folds up very easily then your string of hearts
already need water next favorite string of plants is another string of hodges's
the variegated string of parts or the surrogate woody I Vergara I got this a
surprise present from Elizabeth with who is the winner of my 500 subscribers
giveaway so in a way I actually won that giveaway because this is a wishlist plan
of mine and I was really surprised when I received the platinum cause I wasn't
expecting it and I was even more surprised and happy when I saw that she
sent me a variegated string of Hearts and I've been one thing to spread for so
long and if the regular variety of this hair Peggy or woody I it's hard to find
this variegated string of Hearts is even harder to find so I let some of the
strands dangle inside it you can see how it looks like when it's already trailing
look how beautiful that is against this white pot or what I've been doing is
looping around the strands on top of the soil just like this and hopefully this
would grow roots from the nodes where you could see some of the tubers already
forming and I'm just gonna light out on top of the soil like that and it would
produce more strands that way so yeah so this is the string of Hearts very geta
this currently not just my favorite string of plants but one of my current
favorite plants right now and I really really can't believe that I already have
this plant in my possession so thank you so much Elizabeth
I really really appreciate this gift from you and last but not least in my
favorite string of plants is the peperomia bruschetta or a string of
turtles this spin my wishlist plan ever since I
started my plant journey it's very very difficult to find it but it has popped
up in garden centers earlier this year when people were actually finding it at
Lowe's and Home Depot and but I couldn't find it in my local Lowe's and Home
Depot but I really wanted it and one of the public gardens in our area actually
started selling this online but it got sold out pretty quick and I was really
bummed but I went to the local Facebook group that I am that does plant swaps in
our area and I asked if there's anyone that has peperomia per strata of three
of turtles that the Realty trade for my master is still the pecan uh and
somebody said yes and over this this weekend we made that contact class
curbside plant swap where I drop off the plant on his doorstep and this was
waiting for me on their doorstep and I was really happy with this string of
turtles I really wanted it I think I've mentioned in previous videos that I am
suburban Maryland I'm at and the University of Maryland mascot is that
the studio go Terps so this string of turtles have that sentimentality to me
as well and this is a peperomia and I'm not really into peperomia a lot I don't
own quite a lot of peperomia I have the Pylea prep remedies which is
the closest I have to a peperomia I did have the peperomia pixie that I got also
from a plant swap and also a peperomia of the folia which I actually sold off
already but this is the peperomia that I really really wanted to get but the
thing with proper Omiya prasada is it's very delicate and it's also a very slow
grower and as you can see over here you would see some leaves over here but this
is actually just fuzzy leaves these are not actual strands or rooted strands I
just put it on top it's not gonna propagate that way this one propagate
from a single leaf but I just wanted to put it here as long as it looks nice and
on top of the soil just to cover up the areas that are empty but the way I
propagate this proper Omiya press Tata is also by layering I do use bobby pins
like this to make these friends stay close to this soil but I don't try to
push it down because I don't want to damage devices well kind of like the
string of Hearts they're very sensitive so I try not to push it down a little
bit but just enough to anchor the vines down and another way that I am probably
a pepperoni press Tata because when I got this trade there's also some
cuttings that are not true and the way I'm propagating this is a similar and
the way I'm propagating this is kind of similar the way I propagated my string
of parts the very first time that I showed how I propagated in a blob so
what I've done is I've taught that long string of Hearts into several pieces
I've crushed up some spagna moss by crushing up the sphagnum Moss it's
easier for me to remove it from the roots and transfer it to soil grab some
more spackling moss wrap it around and then just pop it in here just like that
and therefore the rest of the smaller ones I'm just gonna lay them on top and
then maybe sprinkle some sphagnum moss in between the leaves just so it will
stay down what I'm going to do is just miss this every day until I see some
significant root growth and then start watering it but even then I'm probably
not gonna give it more than like a tablespoon or two of water that's it so
this is kind of like similar to this but then this time I'm using a coco coir and
perlite mix and I'm also covering it with this so this is like an airtight
container just so I could keep up with the humidity so I don't have to keep
spraying it just to make sure to maintain the moisture off the soil but
doing this method especially with a peperomia and a string of parts or a
string of pearls even it's important that you monitor it as well and check it
every now and then because too much humidity might also cause the stem to
rot and you do need the leads to be connected to stem with the node for it
to propagate you want to be able to propagate it using a single pearl or a
single leaf from this string of hearts or the pepper O'Meara strata trust me I
tried I wish it could work that way but it
doesn't they also propagate well in water I just find that it takes quite a
while for them to propagate in water I've also tried directs soil propagation
with the string of pearls but it it never really worked out for me in fact I
lost the cuttings that I tried to propagate direct soils so if I'm not
propagating it water I prefer propagating it this way and I prefer
doing this method just because I could propagate more from the same vine I just
routed from one side I can also route it from every node of the leaf it's just
easier to take care of and monitor as I wait for it to propagate and I'm gonna
keep you updated with this peperomia pressed Radha or string of turtles to
see how successful I am with propagating it in this method because this is also
my first time propagating a pepperoni Australia this way with a string of PARs
and string of pearls I can give you my word that it works but when peperomia
Pro strata it's also my first time doing it so I'll keep you updated here on my
channel or follow me on Instagram insect talk and I will give you updates there
as well so this are my favourite string of plants the string of pearls this
string of hearts sir Peggy woody I in the string of hearts variegated and the
peperomia Pro strata so I really love this class they're beautiful trilling
they're beautiful even when they're not trailing there are my favorite string
off plans you take care of it like a succulent it needs very high amount of
light it could withstand direct bright light so this one isn't a hanging
planter on my window and this three are on my windowsill once they started
trailing like my string of pearls probably gonna put them in a hanging
planter by my window as well special for string of hearts whether the regular one
or the variegated one if you want to keep the pink variegation
if you want the regular string of hearts to be pink on the back then you have to
give it a lot of light and when it comes to watering they're like succulents you
only water them when this one it's really dry and with the string of hearts
you can do the taco test where the leaves fold then it's time to water them
because they store their water not just in your tubers but also in your leaves
same with a string of pearls and the string of turtles they do store water in
their leaves and even though the soil is very very dry they still have reserved
water and when the string of pearls the way you know that it needs watering
aside from the really really dry soil is that the pearls start to look dull
some of them would look shriveled and also when you touch them they're sticky
with a burrow me Oprah strata I'm still learning with this plant like I said I
just got this but I suspect it's pretty much the same way you have to wait until
the soil it's really really dry and for the leaves to be soft a little bit
before I start watering them again so for a plant this size in this terracotta
pot and I'm giving it lots of bright direct light I'd say I'll be watering
this every three weeks on average just depending on how dry it get and if the
leaf starts to soften I do have earthworm castings in the soil
mix that I have my string of turtles and string of Hearts in so that's enough
fertilizer for them I believe but if I were to fertilize them I would use a
liquid fertilizer probably the fish emulsion and I would
probably only do it once a month max or maybe even honestly just every three
months or more likely even just during the growing season and honestly towards
the end of the summer as we get close to the fall I would not fertilize any of
these at all
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