r/StringofPlants

Do you have a favorite?

In May I ordered some clippings of variegated string of hearts (I’ve always wanted these pink beauties, and since my SOT are thriving I thought it was time to give them a try). I killed them so fast. I spoke with the seller and he was surprised I was able to kill them. So I ordered two rooted cuttings, followed the instructions carefully (which were to plant in succulent soil, keep the root balls right under the soil, not too deep, in a 3” unglazed terracotta pot with drainage but no added amendments (I’ve got everything but just succulent soil was instructed), water thoroughly then hang it. It was doing well at first, but I didn’t think it was growing enough so I moved it. (The June 27 pic is the first pic I took of it in the new location. It is closer to the window. Perhaps it’s getting burnt? Now I think it’s dying. So I’ll move it back where it was, but does it look dead? Should I fertilize? Repot in something smaller with substrate or some earthworm castings? It always seems dry but I don’t water it a lot. My SOT barely get watered and they love life. I did give in and order a big pink string of hearts and it came with fungus gnats, so I’m treating that one but being sent a new one. Do SOH hate me? Any help with saving this one would be MUCH appreciated. I really want it to do well! Thanks!

Ok want to see if this is norm or if others have advice. My VSOP is doing well, tonsss of growth but I noticed the pearls are almost matte and have lost their shine. The prop I took and rooted from it though… I mean those pearls look almost unreal.
Mom is in terracotta, uber chunky mix, and under a pretty strong grow light - probably getting 2k FC.
The prop is in plastic, similar substrate, but under about 6-700 FC. Both get fed the same water with diluted fertilizer.
Could mom be getting too much light?
Not complaining of course I’m grateful for my string of growth! Genuinely curious and here to learn 🤓

I got my VSOH in march and has been doing great, the top is is full of pink plump hearts, but the vines are so crappy looking. I think it gets an even amount of light, and I wait till it’s completely dry to water. I use a VERY diluted liquid fertilizer with every watering and only bottom water till it’s wet at the surface. Should I water more often? Also, all the vines bloomed flowers about a month ago and I thought that was a good sign? Could the flowers be taking away energy from the vines and leaves? Should I take the flowers off?

This heat dome has made a lovely humid sauna that my Hoyas love…. And this mushroom that just grew overnight in my SOP.

Repot here we go! 😭😥😓

This SOP is my original that I burnt by accident last month. With the help of everyone here she is doing great and thriving again. I think my VSOH is so darn cute in the heart dish

I’ve had these for a little over a month. I accidentally overwatered them, but I let them dry out for longer than a month straight, and just watered them yesterday.

They get bright indirect to direct light everyday.

I can’t figure out why some of the stems are shriveling. There is new growth, and everything but for some reason some stems are still turning brown and black.

Can anyone help 😭

I have two string of hearts I bought, my first ever plants, and I thought it’d be nice to put them under a grow light in this hutch I have. After a week, they started getting really soggy and the leaves would break off. Is it too much light? Lack of air flow? I watered whenever I could fold the leaves like a taco like I read, so I’m not sure if it was too much water. I took them out and placed them on a window sill. But wanted to know if my idea to have my plants in this little hutch is a bad one. I would post a pic of the string of hearts currently but all of their stems entirely broke off so it looks like a pot of dirt right now. Hoping I can save them.

I purchased some plants online and they’ve been quarantined. I noticed a little bug in the variegated string of hearts when I unwrapped it, but it moved so quickly into the soil I couldn’t get a pic. It came very overwatered. I was checking them today to see if the overwatered plants had dried out and I noticed more of these tiny bugs. I separated the string of hearts and put it into a plastic container for now, and a couple of the bugs went onto the container so I got to take a photo. I did a peroxide watering (1 part 3% hydrogen peroxide to 4 parts distilled water), then I read that’s not good for it so I’m going to go spray the leaves with water so they don’t burn :/ I also put sticky traps all around it. I’m guess if this is a fungus gnat that I have to treat all of the plants that are isolating together? Is that what this bug is? Does the hydrogen peroxide dunk work or would mosquito bits be better? Please help! I don’t want my other plants getting these. I’m itchy from talking about it.
The plants currently get about 10 hours of light from a grow light because they can’t be near my other plants (they were getting 8 but this one started to lose variegation), and they haven’t been watered until today because most showed up soaked! I have everything I need to repot all if necessary, but probably not the skills lol.
Those little strings in the plant are cotton from the packing- no mealies!

The only other string of plant I have is string of hearts..thanks for the help.

Honestly I think the original water propagated strands are doing better than the ones I chucked in soil.
Plumper leaves, flowers for weeks and less guessing than the Russian roulette that is watering the planted one. I think there’s a set of leaves that are always squishy on that one for some reason 😭

All of these started off from two 3 inch SOP plants, one variegated and another regular one. One of my favourite plants

I’ve propped my string of heats and am using the butterfly method in sphagnum moss. how often should I be checking to see if it needs water?

I have a small ruby necklace, string of dolphins and string of pearls in two inch pots. I ordered them for my bday and they arrived very rough, so I haven’t repotted yet, but when I do I’m wondering would it be ok to put them in a pot together? Or would that be a dumb thing to do?

I got a new variegated pearls, regular pearls and a var. SOH. Wish me luck. While the new reg. Pearls was in route the poor gal I fried in the sun turned herself around and began thriving again. I did take a couple of the strings from the new 6” and laid them over the bald spots. I need to go get some more potting mix ingredients and a terracotta pot tomorrow and we’ll be in business!