I’ve been lusting after these for ages. How beginner-friendly are they? I’m not totally clueless, but I’m mindful of biting off more than I can chew.
Wachendorfia
This is a beautiful Tradescantia zebrina! I live in Costa Rica where it grows outdoors. In its natural state it’s a ground cover and also climbs nearby trees. Here’s a wild patch we have on our property. It dies back completely during our dry season but returns when the rains start again. Periodically I grab handfuls of it and stick cuttings in indoor pots with other trailing plants to add a nice contrast and mix of colors & patterns. In pots it will eventually trail down really long, and the longer it gets the further apart the leaves are so it starts looking kind of straggly and stringy. I just snip off the ends, root them in a jar of water, and then add the new cuttings back into pots to keep them full. Enjoy!
I’m a beginner and I’ve had very good luck with this particular plant and other varieties of TradescantIa. They propagate very easily from cuttings put into water. My Zebrina and Purple Heart were both grown from cuttings that I took from plants at work (with permission).
ToughOk4114
I love this plant! The colors just speak to me!
deathbethemaiden
I love wandering jawns. They are my favorite. What an absolutely beautiful plant
lcl0706
I just stumbled across one of these in an outdoor setup, labeled as an annual, which it would be where I live if you planted it outside. It’s nicely established with several vines and was like $4. So obvs I snapped it up. I was surprised when I found out it’s considered an invasive weed in its natural habitat 😂 but that tracks, because I have a T Nanouk I propped a while back and that node grew roots in like a week. Super easy to propagate. Love these guys.
Also, I have the exact same rainbow film on the lower half of my giant living room windows. It was originally put up to blur my small dog’s vision to the outdoors because he’d bark at every single damn leaf that blew by. He outsmarted it quickly by discovering if he stood on his hind legs on the back of the couch he could see over the fill. Now it just casts rainbows in my house 😆
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I’ve been lusting after these for ages. How beginner-friendly are they? I’m not totally clueless, but I’m mindful of biting off more than I can chew.
This is a beautiful Tradescantia zebrina! I live in Costa Rica where it grows outdoors. In its natural state it’s a ground cover and also climbs nearby trees. Here’s a wild patch we have on our property. It dies back completely during our dry season but returns when the rains start again. Periodically I grab handfuls of it and stick cuttings in indoor pots with other trailing plants to add a nice contrast and mix of colors & patterns. In pots it will eventually trail down really long, and the longer it gets the further apart the leaves are so it starts looking kind of straggly and stringy. I just snip off the ends, root them in a jar of water, and then add the new cuttings back into pots to keep them full. Enjoy!
https://preview.redd.it/h91wsy9i9sxg1.png?width=1414&format=png&auto=webp&s=00034438ea1a0790fb5e9077d9313c8b7a1db153
I’m a beginner and I’ve had very good luck with this particular plant and other varieties of TradescantIa. They propagate very easily from cuttings put into water. My Zebrina and Purple Heart were both grown from cuttings that I took from plants at work (with permission).
I love this plant! The colors just speak to me!
I love wandering jawns. They are my favorite. What an absolutely beautiful plant
I just stumbled across one of these in an outdoor setup, labeled as an annual, which it would be where I live if you planted it outside. It’s nicely established with several vines and was like $4. So obvs I snapped it up. I was surprised when I found out it’s considered an invasive weed in its natural habitat 😂 but that tracks, because I have a T Nanouk I propped a while back and that node grew roots in like a week. Super easy to propagate. Love these guys.
Also, I have the exact same rainbow film on the lower half of my giant living room windows. It was originally put up to blur my small dog’s vision to the outdoors because he’d bark at every single damn leaf that blew by. He outsmarted it quickly by discovering if he stood on his hind legs on the back of the couch he could see over the fill. Now it just casts rainbows in my house 😆