Dioscorea Discolor (Variegated Yam) Care and Propagation in Water, Moss, and Soil - With Updates!
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2021
- The Dioscorea discolor is a variegated dioscorea hailing from Brazil and Ecuador. I daresay this is the most gorgeous plant in my collection - and also the easiest to grow with fast growth speed. The reddish and greenish hue on the leaves and the veinings make this an impressive design. I share the full care tips for this plant and show you different ways to propagate it (in sphagnum moss, soil, and water propagation), with updates of the cuttings at the end of the video as usual. If this is accessible and affordable in your area, I can’t recommend highly enough to grab it!
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Omg ive been looking for a propagation video of this plant for so long. I didnt know if u could propagate by cuttings! Thank you for sharing u saved my life
They so easy to propagate. Grows like a weed 🙂
All true yams will root in water from cuttings. Just imagine Dioscorea discolor used to cover the railings of a balcony! Spectacular. It does go dormant at the first sign of cold weather or shortened day length. Hardy for USDA Zones 9 - 11 Tropical. Close to the equator perhaps that won't happen. In full sunshine the backs of the leaves turn a brilliant purple.
To root difficult plants you can use willow bark tea made from willow bark and warm, not hot, water left to stew for a day. It is great for watering in woody plants that are being put in the ground from a pot.
Whoaaa this is very good tips!
Thank you Sean, beautiful plant, I see if I can get one. Always looking forward to your videos.
my experience with this plant is it will grow like a weed once established in a larger pot. sometimes as fast as several inches per day. such an amazing plant!
Cool! Thanks for sharing that
Please release more vids everyday! 😂 Love every video! I watch your vids when I propagate/repot everyday 😂
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Thanks mr cingciong
Beautiful, around here mostly see the one is called begonia vine love that color and so easy to propagate, thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for the video .I love when you have updates . Beautiful plant.
I finally got this plant Sean, looking forward in growing this beautiful plant. Thank you again for this video.
What a beautiful plant! I haven't come across them here in Canada yet. The new growth reminds me of baby anthurium clarinervium leaves, so cute. And what a great idea using tomato cages as trellises! I never thought of that, I'm forever looking for mid-sized trellises for my plants and can never find any. Now I have to wait til spring til the shops start stocking them again 😂 Thanks for another great video!
Thank youu
Thank you for putting out a new video again. We appreciate the fact that you put out the effort despite your uber hectic life! Here's to more plants! Hehe
Of course! Ive got months of vids filmed ahead too 😀
Hi Sean congrats on your propagation. Continue to present more videos. From Sunny South Africa
@@onlyplants Yup. that's one of my favorite things about how you approach vlogging. It's especially apt for plant care vlogging since updates are all in by the time you release a video. Truly awesome!
Beautiful plant…Googled it here in the US, expensive yes for me but perhaps others might not think so. So beautiful, thank you.
They used to be cheap. 😀
Hey that’s cool Plant thanks for sharing I hope your propagation’s do well. I’ll keep an eye out for it here in America 😊 Thank you
Very nice. I bought it for U$$8 here in Brazil.
All your plants are so gorgeous!
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I’m watching this now. I’m excited you did this because I have one to work with. ☺️ Also, thinking of all in Indonesia who are experiencing the affects of the volcano. 🙏🏻
Thank youuu. The volcano is quite far away
That’s good news. 👍
Awesome and lovely plants! Awesome and lovely plant owner. Always love your vidoes. 🥰❤
Thank youu 🥰
I have this plant, my vines reach 7 feet and my leaves are about12 inches long and about 8 inches wide. Thank you for educating me. I bought the root from the local supermarket as an experiment. It was beyond successful ..invasive even lol I have to trim it back every few days or it'll get way out of control.
Oh yes its so out if control now haha but I enjoy this as a weed! 😀
I just got one! Does your go dormant in the winter if it's inside with bright light, humidity, and warm temps?
@@jovandenaut6023 Indoors it becomes a perennial and yes all house plants go dormant in winter. They need this rest to extend the life of the plant. just like us
I got one today, yeah! thanks for your video
Yayeee good luck
Very beautiful plant!! Holy cow!!!
Yes, it is very pretty. I will be walking slower by the yams in the store now, just wondering if one of those has been mistakenly put in the pile. Never saw this ever.
Beautiful 😍
Great video again! Could you make a comparison in water propagation with different speciens and different number of cuttings in each jar? If you find time for it in your busy schedule 😅
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Hi there. If it grows like a weed I suggest you also let it flower and then harvest the seed. Obviously you won't know what you will get, but this looks like an easy self-seeder.
Yeahhh I want to get into flowering and seed sowing later on in my journey. 😀 when I have more space to work with.
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You can propagate it whith the air potato he makes . Thats natural propagation of dioscoreas. 😉
How Are you doing that?
wait im confused, doesnt this plant have a caudex? how does that worl?
The green dioscorea does form caudex but Ive not seen it on this variegated one indeed… puzzling it is!
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I enjoyed the video. I have a question. Is there anything to be careful about if breeding plants, which are mainly rooted in hydroponic cultivation, are transferred to an earthen pot? When I transfer and plant plants rooted in water into the soil, stems and leaves often melt down.
That depends on the species. Begonias are notoriously finickey. Also I use very airy potting mix and I keep it very wet at first, slowly watering less and less over time.
How you revive your moss
Is native to Argentina too
Whoaaa good to know. i guess it can take winter cold then! 😀
@@onlyplants No, she is native to Misiones, a province of Argentina where the climate is predominantly tropical, but winter affects her a lot.
Cool plant, Haven’t seen it in the States yet, but I don’t think it would ship well :T. Hopefully it will be available in the US soon!
Ooo but theres lots of stock in the US. Its more common there than here 😀
Tubers will be dormant now.
Don't buy in winter, they will be frostbitten
Do you need to have a node to propagate or do they do so with just leaf cuttings? Sorry if you mentioned you it in the video…. I keep getting either distracted by what I’m doing or interrupted throughout the video. 🤪 I’ve played it three times so far! 🙄
Haha you need a node, which means a section of the main stem
@@onlyplants ahhhh ok! Thank you!!!! I didn’t see the little nubby node on yours but my eyes must be bad! I’ve got some draceana cuttings in some water and they have rooted. I changed the water instead of just adding because it smelled foul. I rinsed them in 2 parts water and 1 part peroxide. Hope that works. Do you think I should have left the cuttings out to dry before propagating in water? I’m not sure why they were starting to rot. Also you are incredibly talented at plant care! Thank you!!! 🖐
Beautiful plant. May I request for a tour around begonia greenhouses there. I watch Indonesian blogger but I only understand mahal, mura, dahon because we have same term here ni the Philippines. I want to know their media and how they take good care of their begonias. Thank you very much!
Ill try to find some begonia nurseries, theres some in Bandung I think
Thank you. We love begonias here in the Philippines.😂
Finally got one! I've been searching for one ever since I saw this video. Does yours go dormant in "winter"? Can I keep it growing inside in a warm, humid, bright space?
It did go dormant but they grow back 3 times as big!
During dormancy you wanna back away with watering a bit
First time 1:03 am ph dec 4 yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyey
Such a stunning plant. And in Ukraine it cost just around 5$
They are so fast growing ya. Prices will fall once more people have it here
Hello, may I ask. Why are my new leaves pure green without color texture? Is it the wrong breed?
Its possible. The dioscorea discolor is a specific variety.
Is there info or a tutorial to propagate the tubers?
Ive seen tubers appear in other dioscoreas while the leaves are grown in mid air! Im sure you can chop single nodes and stick them to soil!
Been low-key obsessed with this plant since this video, alas I cannot find it in the US right now…everywhere is out of stock… maybe people grow it outside in summer so they don’t stock now?
They used to be so common 😅
@@onlyplants hopefully they’re just hiding for the winter since they can die back here 🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏻
Is it ok to plant my adansoni in moss?
You can propagate them in moss but I dont recommend keeping them indefinitely in moss
common name di Indonesia apa ya kak?
Setau aku nga ada common name. Tanaman ini lumayan langka dan asal dari luar
Do you have Bergonias ?
Tons of them 😀
@@onlyplants Please advice why do the edges go brown ? and what can I do to prevent it thank you
What's the secret? You grow up in few weeks? Please tell me
They are naturally fast 😀
Hi! I know why some of your props where not as succesful. it probably has to do with the fact that they were exposed to most sun and props wont root well if the vessel get a lot of light. Leafs want light but roots dont!
It would be an interesting experiment to do… clear and covered glass water propagation
@@onlyplants you will be amazed by the results, in terms of how fast and the amount of roots that develops in the dark
Love your channel but I gotta be honest I hate it sometimes cos you make me think about all those lovely plants all the time. Sometimes it gets so bad I actually go to the nearest nursery at my place just to get the baby version of it (within what I can afford). I bought a baby ficus elastica yellow yesterday evening not noticing many of the leaves has this small brown dots on it. I hope its not a diseased plant....I'm so hopeless when it comes to understanding plants
You can always treat it. Neem oil treats pests, bacteria, and fungus
@@onlyplants got it, thanks
Sean, “not good for the environment”, “I don’t recommend this”, so why do you use these products?
There is no alternative. I have 3000 pots of plants in my collection in a very tight space. For the average home growers with less than 100 potted plants I would discourage it and go with natural means.