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Soup
Hey yall!! This is like not a pro tip but defo a tip, so I had my polka dot and my monkey mask in terracotta pots, and I was getting a real fungal gnat problem like, really annoying and so I was looking at the pots and noticed they were really damp but also has white mould growing on them, so make sure if you have any sorta terracotta pot it’s best to just use glazed ones or use plastic pots (clear ones because then you can see roots and how wet your soil is) and use terracotta as sorta a decorative cover. HAPPY TUESDAY PLANT PEOPLES
Mia
How should I water string of hearts and string of pearls? Some people have said spraying the top others have said dunk it or water as normal, I'm unsure which to do...
ToPlantHarmony
Am I crazy to try to split a peperomia?
My frost peperomia was already huge when I bought it and I’ve never been happy with the size. It has a single root ball with multiple stems, and according to Google 🧐 if I carefully cut away a few stems with some roots I can divide it. Has anyone tried this? I don’t want to kill it.
Eliya
Here’s a little plant biology:
Plant cells have specific structures known as central vacuoles, which keep the cell in a hypotonic state(meaning that the cell is always completely full of water). When a plant doesn’t receive water for awhile, the vacuoles slowly empty out, which causes the cells to become limp and the plant to wilt. Keeping a healthy and flourishing plant through a proper watering cycle means that the plant cells are always packed full of water, and rarely ever go limp!
This is really just me studying for my science test 😂
