Combined a couple of marbled peperomias from Ott’s Exotic Plants together 😊 Feel free to turn this into a thread to share any of your favorite peperomias, or share care tips for anyone new to the species. If anyone needs help with their peperomias, I’d be happy to try to help troubleshoot with you. I really love how every leaf is so unique with the marbling. Highly recommend this variegated cultivar for anyone looking for a less finicky variegated plant 🌱
Gorgeous! We love peperomias, definitely adding this one to the wish list!
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The mother plant!
Omg it’s huge! 😆 I love it! I’ve got 2 of the sweet and sour variegation like that and they grow like little weeds. I’m gonna put little Christmas lights on mine this year 😂
I have a marbled and a baby rubber peperomia. Does you think it’s possible to combine them? It’s probably a silly question but your pictures made me think they could look cool together. I love the way yours looks!
1 like Here are my favorite peperomia plants! I have a set of 6 in 2 inch pots on Amazon and they are so cute. You can see them closer to the window. I was surprised at the fantastic condition they were able to arrive in after coming in the mail. The raindrop is probably my favorite of all of them, followed by the Chinese money plant. The pepperspot is the plant I stress over the most! The branches are so delicate and break off easily. I plan on going back to Ott’s again later this summer. It’s so fantastic!
Yeah, you can combine multiple marbled peperomias into a pot together. The trick to it is to wait until each piece of the peperomias have all completely dried out. It’s okay if you have to let the others dry out more than usual to have them all dry before adding them into a pot together. The idea is that once they’re together, you water the plant after repotting to lower the risk of shock and so they’ll all be on the same watering schedule from then on. Another option for this would be to get multiple peperomias at the same time from a store with similar soil dryness levels and combine it then. The way I did mine was I picked two marbled peperomias at Ott’s that were similar in size, and ones that came with multiple pieces in their pots. I gently worked my way through rinsing off their old soil until they were reduced to just their roots, then put rooting powder of each piece’s roots. I then arranged them together kinda like a bouquet, taking my time to test out which piece I wanted where and where they all fit the best to look like one big plant together, then held the pieces together with one hand as I lowered it into the pot and added soil around it with the other hand. That’s the trickiest part, and I highly recommend getting someone to lend you a hand and put the soil in for you so you don’t have to worry about making a mess or having to readjust your “bouquet” of stems. I repotted them all into a small pot (like I’ve mentioned before, they need to be snug in their pots, even the larger ones, so make sure the pot is no more than 1-2 inches wider in diameter than the new root ball now that all the pieces are together. For example, the pieces were each in 2 1/2-in wide pots, and when I combined them all, they were all in a 3-in wide pot when I was done.) with cactus and succulent soil to ensure proper drainage for it. I usually find they come in peat-heavy soil from nurseries or box stores, so I tend to remove the soil from peperomia obtusifolias right away, since they’re much less likely of shock from repotting as their caperata counterparts. That’s about it! Just be careful to take your time removing the old soil if you buy them in a poorly draining soil. Their root systems can be delicate so use room temperature water and run them under a sink, then carefully work your way through gently rubbing the soil off the roots with your fingers. I got all of mine from Ott’s, but you can definitely try your hand at rescuing a couple peperomias from Lowe’s or Home Depot and potting them together. Just be sure to quarantine the peperomias after combining them if you don’t end up removing all of the previous soil.
1 like I noticed that the plants from Ott’s seem to come in a thick spongy like soil. When I try to aerate the soil with a chopstick I can’t even get the chopstick into it. Is it OK in general for peperomia to remain in that soil for a while, or should I transition all of them to a well draining soil? Your peperomia advice is always invaluable! Thank you!
1 like The caperatas and similar trailing peperomias like your pepperspot can probably survive in that spongy soil. That soil is what I mean by a peat-heavy soil. It’s meant to hold a lot of moisture, which isn’t terrible in a nursery where they’re under very specific conditions, but I’ve found they tend to need a much better draining soil in the long run. For the pepperspot, it’ll be difficult to remove a lot of the soil the roots are attached to, and it’s probably safer to keep it in the soil than risk shock from removing it all. Just make sure the soil completely dries out between waterings and check the soil for dryness before watering. I have two caperatas that have to stay in that soil, for example, and they take at least 16-18 days to completely dry out in comparison to the 11-14 days my peperomia obtusifolias take to dry out. For an obtusifolia, they’re a hardier type of peperomia and can handle removing all the soil. It wouldn’t hurt to add Bonide’s Rooting Hormone Powder to the roots during the repotting process just it case it decides to go through any shock. I repot the peat-heavy obtusifolias and clusiifolias into Espoma’s Organic Cactus and Succulent mix. If you want a REALLY well-draining mix for those, you can add extra perlite and orchid bark to the soil, but I’ve found they do just fine in that mix without extra amendments. In short, the caperatas and your pepperspot are less likely to go through shock if you leave them in the peat-heavy soil. With the pepperspot, you can carefully take it out of the pot and see if it’s in a lot of excess soil, and gently remove some of that extra soil and place it into a shallower or smaller pot to help it dry out faster. I found that if you take it out of the pot, you’ll likely find that it’s in a lot of excess soil underneath the pot to raise it enough to fit in the hanging pot it came in. If that’s the case, gently brush some of the excess soil on the bottom and repot into something smaller or shallower that fits the new size of the plant’s root ball. Just try not to disturb the roots too much, and if you have rooting powder, feel free to sprinkle some on any exposed roots during this process just in case it tries going through shock. I recently did this with my string of turtles and it’s been just fine, but you’ll have even less chance of it going through shock if you wait a month after you bought it to do any of this. The obtusifolia variety like the marbled peperomia will do just fine being repotted into a well-draining soil, and I usually remove the old soil the day I buy a new one, but that’s if I buy them in the spring or summer. You’ll want to add rooting powder to the roots if you’re repotting them in the autumn or winter. Your watermelon peperomia, for example, is often placed in peat or moss-heavy soil, but is similar to caperatas in not enjoying a hardcore repot; so you can remove some of the old soil and replace it with cactus mix or add some orchid bark and perlite to the mix to improve the drainage. Hope this helps.
1 like It does help do much! Thank you again for the excellent advice.
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