--- title: "For those who have transitioned their plants to pon,leca etc. Which…" description: "For those who have transitioned their plants to pon,leca etc. Which ones hated it??" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/k9QMwLBGT5mC9dREJzWSPA?language=ko" community: "Anything about plants" author: "Madderdebs" published: "2024-09-04T19:08:03.264202Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v2/cloudinary/global_data/communities/everythingHousePlants.jpg" --- [커뮤니티](https://getplanta.com/community.md?language=ko) / [Anything about plants](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md?language=ko) # For those who have transitioned their plants to pon,leca etc. Which… _Madderdebs님이 2024-09-04에 게시함_ For those who have transitioned their plants to pon,leca etc. Which ones hated it?? ## 7개의 댓글 ### MattL님이 2024-09-04에 댓글을 남겼어요. Ugh, I transferred an orchid to LECA and murdered it. But I had some Hoya cuttings in it and they did fine. ### Malinda님이 2024-09-04에 댓글을 남겼어요. my philodendrons didn’t like it . At the moment I have Alocasia , Syngonium , calathea \& my dwarf banana in pon \& they are loving it . . I’ve not used it for any others so far . Oh! I did have maranta In Pon but it died but I was just starting out with pon so it’s most likely my fault it went crazy when I first transitioned it \& looked great but I wasn’t sure about watering pon at the time. I would like to get another to try it again but maybe a younger plant . In my experience my younger plants transition better than the older ones . ### K님이 2024-09-05에 댓글을 남겼어요. All mine have done well, but with two notes/caveats: 1\) I have never moved a non-tropical, and have an instinct against moving things like cacti and succulents over 2\) More mature sensitive plants (Alocasia, Calathea) may shock a little at first and have drooping/yellowing of leaves, but if they replace those leaves happily and quickly then I don’t view it as a rough transition 3\) I’m not gonna dispute anyone’s results and I certainly have less experience than the leca queen, but the “long method” to ensure success has never really made sense to me from a physiological perspective so I don’t do it. I can’t speak to how plants weather transitions from potting mix to water and then semi-hydro because I don’t do it. I’d imagine some do better and others worse. #### K님이 2024-09-05에 답변했습니다. Oh, I should note that I have monstera, alocasia, calathea, philodendron, amydrium, and begonia in semi-hydro right now. All have handled it well. I eventually transition all my calathea to a leca/perlite mix and I’m moving that way for begonia. Alocasia are heading this way too. So basically the ones people often describe as very fussy with watering. The others seem successful either way so far but I’m still testing growth rates. #### Malinda님이 2024-09-05에 답변했습니다. I def had a learning curve going into pon \& my Alocasia I had at the time looked like they were on their way out but then these little babies started popping 😍. What is the long method? #### K님이 2024-09-06에 답변했습니다. It’s where you take the plant fully from soil into water for several weeks/months, let the “soil roots” die off and grow new “water roots”, and then move into semi hydro rather than going direct from potting mix to semi hydro. #### Malinda님이 2024-09-06에 답변했습니다. Ok yeah I don’t do that . I just rinse the dirt off \& plop them in pon . I feel like the sooner they are put in those conditions the sooner they acclimate . As long as they aren’t drowned in water they have been good that being said at first I did kill 1 or 2 until I learned the water intake for them . For me that’s a waste of time to wait for the roots ect especially since mine have grown “water roots” in the pon so it does the same thing when introduced to semi hydro anyway without waiting . I just started moving my Syngonium last weekend. ![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/U_HeMMwuLegbQrSKz5Ed1X85GT58qu3Ff6C6ZctN8lQ/ICG0yZWHQTaq0l4jkrLSOA.webp?size=large) --- _Planta 커뮤니티 (https://getplanta.com). 누구나 읽을 수 있습니다. 게시물을 올리고, 댓글을 달고, 좋아요를 누르려면 Planta 앱을 다운로드하세요: https://getplanta.com/download_