One is to just leave the tuber on the vine and press it into the soil. It is quite a decorative plant which can be grown inside the house and it requires very less care. String of hearts how to care for an indoor ceropegia. Theres also a variegated form of it which has a touch of pink. You can skip the water and go right for soil, if youd like. The little beadlike pearls on the stems are called tubercles, and form after the plant has produced small tubelike purple flowers. String of pearls is often grown indoors, but it can also grow outdoors in u. Rosary vine plant care growing ceropegia rosary vine. Really easy to care for and even easier to propagate.
Genus ceropegia can be evergreen or semievergreen, erect, climbing to trailing, usually succulent. The string of hearts or rosary vine is a great trailing houseplant. I pruned it every month last summer but it grew back fast every time. Choose the sunniest room of the house for growing ceropegia rosary vine.
There are a few ways to propagate ceropegia woodii or string of hearts, but this is how i have found great success with it. A fingernailsized specimen would be a great option. String of hearts how to propagate ceropegia woodii. String of pearls is a succulent, and like other succulent. The string of hearts is a trailing succulenttype plant with long slender stems. Along those stems grow pairs of small heartshaped leaves. Display your string of hearts plant near a window that receives full sun throughout the day. They have beautiful marbled patterns of white on green on the top and pinkpurple undersides. String of hearts plant really does seem to be made up of dark green, silver, and purple hearts on a string. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 to 12.
How to propagate string of hearts ceropegia woodii youtube. How to care for a string of pearls plant home guides. Im going to plant mine in a large hanging basket with string of pearls and string of bananas. The string of hearts is one of the most popular and trendy houseplants today. In warmer climates, you can grow it outdoors year round. To propagate a string of hearts using the tuber method, try to find the largest tuber thats on the plant. The string of hearts plant also called as ceropegia woodii or rosary wine is a plant that has long strings of heartshaped, inchlong leaves. It is super easy to care for, grows at a satisfying rate, and so string of hearts.