Why The Leaves On Your Tradescantia Are Dying | Tradescantia Care Guide
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2024
- This is a full care guide for the Tradescantia houseplant with tips about light, watering, propagation, pests and more.
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After much skepticism and reluctance I have started to bottom water my plants. Every video you put out promotes this and I finally gave in.... and WOW. I should have heeded to your great tip ages ago. Fungus gnats are a fraction of what they were plus my plants are so much better. And it does make sense as roots are promoted to grow downwards (as in nature). This promotes stronger roots and happier plants. Thank you so much !! Keep on insisting on bottom watering as it truly is a plant saver. It took me some 30 of your great videos to convert..lol.. The learning curve is so much faster than I imagined
Great stuff, glad you found the conversion helpful!
The zebrina is the only tradescantia that has survived my care. I ffind them difficult for some reason. The zebrina was literally down to one node(no leaf) in her first 6 months with me and somehow came roaring back so she's earned enough respect for me to keep her around. We have a love-hate relationship.
Oh no that’s a shame. What do you think the problem was?
I think the problem is that I can't keep up with how often I have to propogate to fill in the bare area at the base. She grows so quickly year round.
I have started to pin the vines to the soil so they can fill in the bare spots. It roots so quickly and makes a big difference in how the plant looks.
I can't seem to keep up this mine either I've got the wandering jew or whatever it is and I got the the deep purple one and they're just crazy I just can't keep up so I think I'm just going to do away with them there were more work than what they're worth I wish I could grow all my plants like the ones I'm going to get rid of
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Mr Sheffield needs his morning coffee.
I got an absolutely massive tradescantia from my local garden centre and I wasn’t 100% sure about its care. Thanks so much!
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I loved watching this video! I learned alot, and will now be trimming back my plant, and using the cuttings to grow more stems. Thank you for a great video. Very Informative!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching
It would be interesting to see an experiment where you try growing one up those clear "moss" poles filled with compost or coco coir etc and see if it holds its leaves since it can root into it, great video.
Interesting 🤔
Thank you so much for this video! I picked up a small pot with 3 cuttings and planted all 3 in my mourning gecko enclosure. I have volcanic soil (bio/fluval stratum) in it and I didn't know if it was just the soil or if this is the normal growth rate for zebrina. I'm thrilled to know they're easy to propagate, it's only been a few months and they're hitting the top of the enclosure now and bending so I'm going to trim them soon and add it to my crested gecko enclosure. Such a stunning plant, I had no idea there were so many varieties!😍
Absolutely lots of great varieties and so easy to propagate. They’re a menace in some climates in the wild.
Great video. Lots of good info. Looks like my plant needs a lot of help. The stems are long and thin with lots of small leaves that are turning brown. The side that is against the window is almost all dead! I need to make a lot of changes ! Thanks to your video I have a better understanding of what to do now 👍
Great, glad you found it useful
Thank you
I bought an older one a few weeks back and it just started to die off. I am glad there is a large chance it's a normal occurrence and not my fault!
Tricky plant to look after for sure. Dead easy to propagate so I usually start again with the plant after a while
My daughter bought me a gorgeous Nanouk for my birthday in early March 2023. I thought I was overwatering it then I thought I was underwatering it and it looks horrible now . I wish I had seen this video sooner. I will root some cuttings and start over. May the original plant RIP.
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Thank you for the great content you are sharing here. It's much appreciated.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great, I just had a cut in water some roots appeared, going to put it in a pot tomorrow, hope it works well.
Thanks
It will they are so prolific!
Thank you for sharing beautiful and amazing plants lovely collection beautiful houseplants lovely
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I have my zebrina outside getting full sun and it has gone absolutely insane!! Used to live inside and was barely growing but outside in the sun it is getting so large and bushy I have had to trim it twice in the last 4 months alone! Also getting flowers like mad!
Would never have done this but after given the advice from a reliable grower in my local area (gotten advice from her on several plants but zebrinas are her specialty) and she said to put in the sun and it has become a main eye catcher in my garden!
Cool sounds great. It’s not in the ground right?
@@SheffieldMadePlants goodness no! It’s in a hanging basket!
Interesting facts about tradescantias. Good to know about their natural environment 🙂
Glad you found it useful!
Very nice and informative video, thank you very much.
Thanks for watching
Mr. Sheffield didn’t have his big cuppa this morning 😊
So helpful video for me , thanks 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Great channel, really informative, best advice for house plans on CZcams in my opinion.
I have learned so much so cheers.
I have quite a few house plants, I luv probating and making new plants.
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N I ask why you don’t have any air plants?
Keep making the vids, you should be on mainstream TV
Awesome, thank you! I’ve never really liked the look of them to be honest. I might give em a go to do a video at some point
Bonaide Systematic never used a yellow sticker again. Love your Tradescantias. I thank you.
Nice tip thanks.
Thank you subscribed because I like how you explain
Thanks for the sub!
Your colour t- shirt goes with the plants
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Great information
Thank you 😊
Lots good information
Thank you 😊
Love your videos, you have so much knowledge to share thank you!
So if they dont like water droplets but like humidity should we be misting them every so often? I keep reading they like to be misted but now I'm unsure
Thanks! I don’t like misting any of my plants. Doesn’t really do much.
Thanks for the information. I am new to the species and was having concerns with the dying off of the leaves. Looks like I will be propagating some new plants. Peace
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Great information. Question can I use a moss pole with this plant. I have the tricolor variety.
A live moss pole might work
I have different pots with tradescantia silla montana. It's an extremely strong plant. You can give it a lot of water or keep it without water for a month. It always finds its way to survive
Oh yeah nice plant!
Not mine😢..it was so pretty when bought now I've cut it all back and trying root what I cut.
@@shellyaubrey7048what kind of window is yours in? If poor light and poor watering then it won't be as resilient. I have mine in a north window and it's doing great! I get brown spots when I leave for a week and it dries out. Gl
I just started watching the video but I have to comment on the plant placing. I have south east facing window, gets direct sun from morning till noon, but I have plants in the corner of that wall which has quite a lot of shade and this is always my problemn- the light. I can't place it in front of the window as I don't have space. We literally position our plants on the walls, but none of my walls gets direct sun and I am thinking if my plants have good amount of light :/ especially those hanged on the ceiling.. :/ because there is always shade
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You do great growing these! I have a couple fuzzy varieties....And a variety that turns white when it gets colder outside....I have the nanook too! And a couple more....love the plain green version too, but do not have that anymore....I love that tri color....
Is the fuzzy one a teddy bear vine? Is the white one a sillamontana? Not got that one yet. Tricolor is my favourite for sure!
I just don’t understand why these or any plants cannot tolerate water dropping on leaves. A friend of mine has one mixed into an outdoor summer plant with flowers etc and she waters it regularly with a watering can as well as rain coming down on it. It also receives direct sunlight. Hers looks great and mine had rotting at the base of the plant by the dirt. It’s very scraggly looking and hers is so full.😊
Outside is different. Obviously more air etc to dry things out quicker. Inside is stagnant
Zebrina is difficult to care, so fussy, this is my 3rd time at it (had 2 previously, that i had to return to the plant nursery, they give a year's warranty) even though I let it dry out before watering, to prevent over saturation (i have lots of succulents, Some love water, others dont)
* I handled the plant with care, but the leaves started yellowing & then turn brown & crispy 😑, now the whole thing is thinning out (many people on CZcams blog about such experience) so i dont understand how ya'll comment that it's easy to care for. Because of the mixed messages I'm getting from the plant i dont know what to do with it. 🤔🙄
The dying back issue is a pain and really frustrating. Honestly there’s not much you can do about that. What about propagating the plant back into the soil to fill the pot out?
@@SheffieldMadePlants The half has not been told with caring for Fussy Plants (I'm thankful that the plant nursery i shop @ allow me to do returns within a year, when they get overwhelming, i return....) it looks Horrible...will try propagation, thanks much! 😊
I bought two tradescantia spathaceas. One fell on the floor and never managed to grow it back fully, eventually dying for overwatering. The other one I've just got two cuttings off it, put them in water. But I think even this one struggle a bit to grow. The tricolour seems to be much easier to maintain. I guess the spathacea is more sensible to watering, and they didn't come with the right soil (bad seller). With the cuttings I'll pot them with perlite. I guess they will thrive. The only thing, this spathacea seems to not grow much vertically as I see in many pictures, but far more horizontally (the stem). Does it need a tight pot to grow more compacted and less horizontal?
Mine sits faceing south west and does very nicley in the summer time, the winter not so much
Yeah winter is tricky
When you bottom water, how do you give liquid fertilizer and plant food ?
Same as normal really. Give it a good drink with fertiliser for it to soak up
Have gotten a beautiful nanouk . Does it grow trailing at all, or only straight up.? Ty
Beautiful aren’t they. They start to trail as the stems get longer.
I appreciate the purple shirt
Im not sure if tradedcantia and Wandering Jew are the same plant? Mine have leaves that are purple and green strips, the vines have a purple coloration. How do I prevent the vines from becoming leggy with no leaves? Ive been successful in the past 1.5 years in having my wandering jew self propigate. It grows hardy on my north facing porch. Its so hardy that small bits that landed on red clay have taken root! Im slowly getting back into raising houseplants and sharing cuttings with friends. Im a new subscriber and enjoy your videos.
Thanks! Leggyness is normally a sign it’s not getting enough light
I need your help! I am having my first ever pest problem and its mealy bugs and on my red wandering jew. This plant is absolutely HUGE! I have chopped at the soil level, got rid of the pot and soil, and am treating with alcohol solution with dish soap and water. HOWEVER, how can I be sure that they are all gone? There are sooo many leaves and stems to check and I am afraid I will miss one and reintroduce the plant to my collection. Its in isolation now and as I said before, I have propagated the entire plant. Can you offer me any advice on this? I have had her for so long and I do not want to lose any of the plant. It fits a 10 inch pot and the longest vines are over 3 feet.
Sounds like you’ve done all the right things. Keep it in isolation for a couple of weeks and keep checking every day. A magnifying glass can help spotting little critters.
Can pinning the stems help with the dying back? Can I pin instead of snipping ?
Pinning works well if you have the room
Do you know if Ivies, such as the needlepoint ivy, have the same spreading habit? B/c mine is dying off the same way as the tradescantia 😅
Might be similar. Probably wants to attach itself to crawl
Hi do you still lots of this kind of plant? They seem hard to keep looking nice. I can never get them to look good for long. I have a mini one that is very cute. So hard for me to keep going. Thank you. 😊
Yeah they always end up looking bad
My plant of pink variety trandescantia has brown spots on leaves. How many should I stop watering now
Might be a problem with water splashing on the leaves
I got my plant on mother's day. It's full. Leaves are falling off. It's so full I can barely stick a finger in to check the soil. Do I need to put in larger pot? Thin out leaves?
I’d only change if it’s rootbound. Sounds nice and lush
Sir ji bahut jyada beautiful plants h aapke
I have one that i bought small at Lowe's last summer. It hangs in front of a kitchen window that is East side. I got a hook and hung it from curtain rod. It is now almost touching my floor. Do i cut all those limbs off and put back up top?
it's the Sabrina btw
Yes it propagates so easily. It grows like crazy!
Its funny but i was watching your video when it dawned on me my tradescantia is really getting long and im not haveing the problems youve had with yours then i realised mine is grown down the wooden wall unit its sat on.I had the green and white one on the unit and it did well no problems i then moved it upstairs to a shelf same light conditions but it is getting leggy and like yours.So my thought is like some plants grow better on wood or mosspoles up bigger leaves thicker stems is it possible tradescantia likes wood next to it? I mention this because 30yrs ago i had on on a wall unit at the end that grew to 5 or6 foot and was really dense is their something in the fact they like to grow down stuff?
Did it grow roots into the wood?
@@SheffieldMadePlants no it didn't but the side of the unit the tradescantia is thicker. The side of the unit which is open is weeder and thinner.The one that I had on the wallunit did well their but since it has moved to a shelf has started to thin,same light conditions, same heat,same window but upstairs can't explain it but no roots into the wood it's weird.By the way love your videos and your humour and thanks my husband surprised me at Xmas with the moisture meter you have didn't even think he took any notice of your channel as he's not into plants also my son when he goes to bed always says night my plant freind so you've got a catch phrase going.Hope you have some idea why the tradescantia grows better down a wall unit as I'm baffled.
Anyone please! Will my trandescantia prefer a self watering pot?
I see no problem with that 👍
Hi.i have a few of that same moisture meter from Amazon.i leave them in the soil all the time.Am I supposed to take them out in between watering?
I don't leave mine in the soil
@@SheffieldMadePlants ok thanks. Il take them out now.
I am having a love affair with Trads lately. Do you have ‘Jose Puig’? It is a small bridal veil type with almost black leaves that have green margins and it puts out the sweetest white flowers. It’s just stunning. I literally just sit and stare at it sometimes lol.
The moisture meter i got from your store arrived today and hopefully I’ll be ableto finally get my calathea orbifolia to put out more than 3 leaves at a time…
I don’t think I know that one. Sounds lovely I’ll have to check it out
@@SheffieldMadePlants i haven’t seen it in a store yet but you can get cuttings on Etsy. I got mine as part of a trade for a butterwort and it’s probably the best trade I’ve ever made. lol have i mentioned i love Trads?
Hello, I need some help with my Mannuk Purple Jew plant. I have my plant in a west facing window where it gets about 3 hours of direct sun a day, and about 4 hours of reflective light. I did fertilize if for the first time, and most of the tips of the leaves have started turning soft and black. I've always watered it only about 1 cup of water every week. It is telling me it now wants or needs more water? Help. Thx
Let me know if this helps
I Stopped Killing My Tradescantia Once I Learned This
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@@SheffieldMadePlants Believe it or not, I just watched this and it does help make sense of how this plant operates. I'm going to trying placing it in softer light. I bought mine a year ago and for 6 months it was gorgeous. But this I moved and moved the plant, and I started having all kinds of issues with it. Thx
How is it that many people say not to get the leaves wet? They do get wet in their natural habitat, no?
I rinse the leaves of my pallida, cerinthoides, mundula, fluminensis, albiflora, zebrina and the Callisia gentlei weekly and don’t experience the rotting leaves.
Could the rot be caused by wet leaves and not enough air circulation?
When I rinse the leaves, I make sure to shake them a bit to remove any excess water (don’t want too much water dripping on the floor and furniture) and put them back in place. But I do provide good circulation. I combine showering the plants with my daily chores and open all doors/windows (doesn’t matter the season).
The rotting because wet issue seems to affect my Nanouk more than anything. This plant really doesn't seem to like humidity. It is probably to do with air circulation. In my experience Trads don't tend to like having water droplets on the leaves for too long.
Nice collection by the way.
@@SheffieldMadePlants thank you.
I smell a new video coming up😌
It may be an idea to take some cuttings and try it out?
Like to a test with one plant that gets bottom watered, one that leaves gets rinsed and placed back in its spot without additional air circulation and one with air circulation?
@@Latayla like it!
Why do zebrinas turn diffrent colors?
What colour have they changed to and from? They get more pale green and less purple when they are not in enough indirect light.
I definitely killed the leaves in my tradescantia and peperomia by using a homemade spray pesticide and leaving the leaves wet 😢 Waiting for the leaves to grow back.
If it is a crawling plant, why not stick a pole in the pot so that it can climb? Or can it nor climb vertically?
Worth a try
I am unable to buy spring water, i live in the city and thankfully the ph of the water isnt high. I how ever treat rhe water with water conditioner for fish tanks. I use prime take 1 drop a gallon.
So do I 😁
I can’t seem to keep them alive!
I think i have a baby bunny bellies tradescantia, have you heard of this and is care same for all tradescantias?
Is that a Teddy bear vine?
I don't know I can't get a accurate answer when I taken a picture with Google. Leaves are green and fuzzy but purple underneath
This morning all pictures are saying Baby Bunny Belliies
@@keriwallace2022 oh yes I think I know the variety. I like the furry ones. They seems a little less temperamental
Is it still in the tradescantia family?
The leaf hates water
why is my tradescantia zebrina leaves becoming green? How can I stop this?😢
Too little light probably
@@SheffieldMadePlants They were outside on direct sunlight and at that moment they were purple and green, no problem.
I would say that it started to be green when I moved them inside. Do you think it's related?
@@angebelyse731 maybe too much direct sun then
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your voice is sooooo much nicer when you talk naturally!!!!! please continue that kind of talking and less of the „presenter mode“.
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If a plant dies back, its leaves die but its roots remain alive. PHRASAL VERB Collins english dictionary
I'm in the process of killing mine right now. I have replanted it twice and it is just mush. 🤕
They normally bounce back because they grow so quickly 🤞
Every nanook i have ever had has died
Even my zebrina has died off
Eventually they seem to lose their way
😂like your nice spider. Lol
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On the wall?
Great video but next time more emotion lol
Wandering jew.
Fussy plant.
The spiderplant just died!
This video rocks, but my tradescantia doesn't seem to want to fall into any of the things you talked about. I have four cuttings from a year ago. The cuttings rooted super fast in soil, but the plant never started to trail. I repotted it a couple of weeks ago and the stems have started growing/looking like they want to start vining, but the leaves just die before any real growth happens. Brand new leaves are dying within days. I'm so bummed, hoping someone has had this issue before.
Like your advice Helpfull! TY🪴
You bet!