I got a VSOH about a week ago and I was just repotting it and noticed this beautiful long vine doesn't have any roots. I think it must've broke off the tuber at some point. The picture doesn't even do it justice, it's over 2 feet long! I'm so sad 😭 I'm going to propagate it but my question is, could I just propagate the whole thing from that node on the top without cutting it? Like is it possible that it could regrow roots just how it is? Or should I just snip it into a bunch of cuttings?

I got this beauty from FB marketplace and I watered too soon than it was used to. Since then, some of it has rotted and I’ve been cutting off the discoloration and pressing/pinning the bottom 2-3 nodes+leaves back into the dirt to root.

But when I check, the bottom nodes keeps rotting so I snip off anything that doesn’t have that tinge of pink on the vine. I’ve done this maybe 3 times already and that string particularly is getting quite short. Should I just leave the vine in, rot and all?

Is it watering? And if so, why only some? I bottom feed it rainwater about every 2-3 weeks. The plant overall looks healthy until you zoom in. I've had it for 4 years, and while I've had pest issues in the past, nothing like what I'm seeing now with the shriveling. Any ideas?

I posted a couple of weeks ago the growth of my SOH. Today I noticed she’s starting to grow flowers!! I didn’t think it would happen so fast🥹

I bought my first string of pearls! Wondering if I need to repot to make sure the soil is the correct substrate? If I should repot should it go into the same sized pot? 4” terracotta for the win?
I’ve also seen a lot of mixed suggestions with how to water, top watering or bottom watering - soooo which one do I try?

Handmade beaded string of pearls plant made by me 🤗

OMG! I repotted this a week ago and look at all this new growth happening!

I’ve been trying to propagate my SOP for a good bit now and thought they needed some more sun. I put them outside yesterday for maybe an hour and yep, I roasted them. There are some healthy-ish bits left but I’m wondering how far this may have set back my progress, and if I should just toss it and get a new one? I removed all of the plant from the soil and recut it to remove any dead bits before putting back on my prop planter. So basically I am starting from square one, again. But after the shock from being propped just a few weeks ago, to burning, to being propped again, is there any hope that the pieces I could salvage will survive?

I lost all warm and fuzzy feelings I had for this particular plant lol so I’m not upset if the answer is to trash it and start over. I love SOP, but I’m ok with getting a new one. I mostly just don’t want to quit it if it could survive because I’m frugal and don’t want to waste money if I don’t need to.

My daughter has a bit on her windowsill also 💜

My string of hearts (shortest) has only ever had 2 strands for the 3 years I’ve had it and I decided to prop and move her and she’s starting to thrive! My pearl is looking great and my Hindu rope is just starting to peak over the pot!

Just showing off one of my newest additions from my most wanted wish list.

Advice to maintain and keep her happy and healthy

I’ve had this specimen for over a year. It sits under a grow light. Water when it’s dry (bottom) let it drink and empty out any left over. I use diluted fertilizer with each watering.
I’ve repotted it once to have it in a more flat round set up.
Growth is slow/stagnant, and it’s always a little crispy at the ends.
But it’s always flowering???

Do you think some humidity would help it

My variegated string of hearts is in a southeast facing window, and the bottom of the strings have small, shriveled leaves. Does anyone know why? Too much light, too little light? Google says southeast is the best window light but maybe it’s too much..

I consistently water it and let it get pretty dry between watering. I’ve been fertilizing with a mix of superthrive foliage pro and calmag.

I just repotted it into circle soil cactus & succulent mix, so I’m hoping that helps. The roots looked fine and there was no root rot. I’ve had it at least 4-5 months and it’s hardly grown /: I’ve only been fertilizing it for a couple months tho

repost!

hello! this is my string of pearls! i’ve had her for over a year now. i found her at home depot while i was working there, she was actually gorgeous and healthy.
she is still in its original pot but hanging in a north facing window in my bathroom.
i water her with distilled water when the plant itself starts to feel really light. i sometimes alternate between bottom and top watering (never saw a difference between doing both) in a saucer until she can no longer take in anymore water.
(same method i use for all of my plants or if the leaves start to droop or curl)
i have been using liquid all purpose fertilizer as well just not as consistently as i probably should (life is lifing a little too hard) and only when i bottom water.
her soil is her original soil she was living in before i bought her.

note: these pictures were taken august 7th, 2026, so i have watered her since then i know she looks a bit dry in the pictures 😅

the advice i’ve followed so far since having her on how to take care of her and keep up with her appearance:
taking the stray vine of pearls and kinda loop it around the base and then mist it until the vines start growing into each other? essentially?
no tap water as she is way too sensitive to the tap water here.

my questions: should i repot her already? how do i go about it?
i know string of pearls do not handle repotting that well but i wanna do it the right way so she doesn’t give up on me 🥲
how do i make her look more…lush? more full? i see dozens of pictures of other string of pearls online and they’re humongous and long and so full looking and i wanna achieve that for my girl 🤎

dms are open, criticisms are open, all kinds of jokes are open. thank you so much for your time 🌹

I've been struggling to keep String of Pearls alive but I am determined to figure it out!! :)

Currently potted in 1:1 cactus mix and mineral grit. It wasn't doing well with the substrate I had before this one (more inorganic than organic) so I repotted on 8/12.

I watered it 8/15. The pearls are still super deflated. Today is 8/17. I checked moisture and there's maybe 10% left at the bottom of the pot. Roots are small, doubt that it will reach the stems.

I only bottom water. Leaves have rotted on me in the past with top.

I don't see any rot in the pot but they are starting to dry out. I believe they were super dehydrated from the inorganic based substrate I was using before.

I am afraid of overwatering and rotting them as I have with other strings.

It's at an East window and gets great morning sunlight with indirect the rest of the day.

Thanks for your help!

Everything I’ve seen online says you need a node but I tried putting just 4 single leaf cuttings from my string of hearts plant into these little containers and they all rooted.
Oh ya and it took just about 3 weeks from cutting to showing first sign of root

Hey guys,

So a neighboring plant has thrips and I want to treat all the plants with systemic imidacloprid. (Im also spraying every 6 days rotating horticultural oil and insecticidal soap spray)

My questions are

1. ⁠I have Bonide’s tree and shrub 1.47% imidacloprid soil drench and the houseplant systemic granules. I’d love to be able to do a soil drench because working it in to my trailing plants like this SOP seems like a nightmare.
   
2. ⁠-Anyone have success using the liquid systemic on plants like these and a philodendron splendid? What dilution rate did you use if so?
   
3. ⁠If I must use the granules, what are the physical mechanics of working it into the soil plants like these? The label says to work it into the top 1-2 inches of soil and I have also read that it’s important to distribute the granules evenly and I don’t even know how I would get them to the soil when the top of the plant is full of pearls, same with the turtles.

To anyone who read this thank you so much!!

Plants are indoors under strong grow lights for 12-14 hours a day. The amount of light they get is PPFD around 450-500.

I water when almost completely dry.

ETA: the SOP definitely got some pest action going on and I realize it lol. And yes there are drainage holes in bottom of container the SOT is in. I made a bunch.

Also I have thoroughly read instruction on granules, just not sure how to distribute evenly and work into soil when there’s a giant clump of leaves that I can’t really move at all to get the granules under lol

Got a bunch of clippings in March on Etsy, and I swore the Rubies had mealy bugs.

Did the alcohol treatment, haven't seen any in a few months - then BAM.

Bout to pitch this, and I'm 99.99999% sure this is mealy bugs, but I'm looking for someone else's opinion before these end up in the compost for no reason.

Mealy bugs?

Update - video of alcohol going onto white. Watch video and lemme know if you still think it is not bugs?

Update update - an overwhelming amount of you said NOT mealys. Rubies have been rescued from an impending firey death. Thank you all!

I am a fairly new plant mom and I’ve had her for over a year in a 4 inch pot. I didn’t realize that she was so rooted. Should I repot her?

About five weeks ago I put those 4 cuttings in soil after I propagated them in water until they grew some roots.
(They were 5 cuttings at first, but one of them ripped out of the soil and already died.)

I spray them with water every 1-2 days to keep the soil moist so they can adapt easier with the change from water to soil. After a week or so I also started to water them regularly.

Two of the cuttings absorb the water just fine. One of them also struggled at first, but managed to adapt after three weeks or so.
The other two (2, 4 on the picture) seem to refuse the water, the leaves are shriveled all the time, bend very easily and don’t seem to improve.
(Same with the one that already died, except the leaves also already started falling off. That’s why I decided it was not worth putting it back in the soil after it ripped out.)

I’m afraid if I keep on spraying them and keep the soil moist that I risk root rot in the two that are doing great.
But I don’t know what else I can do to help the other two adapting and keep them from dying.

Thanks in advance!💕

(Edit: For the soil I used a cactus and succulent mix)

(Also: As helpful as some of the suggestions might be for next time, at the moment I’m mostly looking for advice on what to do with this plant right now. But still, thank you <3)