Peperomia Care Guide
Peperomia has a lot of varieties and are all easy to grow and quite low-maintenance.
These plants are actually way more interesting botanically than people might think.
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FLOWERS:
Ever seen tentacles sticking out of your Peperomia? Well don't worry, those are inflorescences, all Peperomia have them. The inflorescence (also known as a spadix) can be pollinated and can pollinate itself, but also has teeny tiny flowers on them.
The entire structure is considerd bisexual, not how humans and other animals can logically be attracted to both males and females, but in botanical/scientific terms, bisexual means that the plant/flower/inflorescence have 2 sexes; male and female parts.
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WATERING:
Water your once a week, and it can even survive if you forget to water it for up to a month (in my experience) due to their thick leaves that hold water, kinda like succulents.
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LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
Thick leaves mean that it can handle a bit more light, so don't worry if it gets some direct light. Avoid putting it or any plant really in a dark corner or even worse in a windowless room, plants need natural sunlight or a special UV grow light!
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PROPAGATION:
You can propagate them by leaf, division, seed and stem cuttings.
Leaf:
Pinch or cut off a healthy leaf, either stick the petiole in water or moist soil, it will eventually root and grow a tiny plant, and if you're lucky even multipule!
Division:
Peperomia are usually sold with multiple plants in one pot, so when you're repotting it, go ahead and divide them and pot it up in a seperate pot.
Seed:
When you pollinate or it pollinates itself, the inflorescence will grow teeny tiny little seeds that you can germinate right away either in some moist soil or a moist paper towel. Germination usually takes around 2 weeks.
Stem cuttings:
One of my favorite methods to propagate any plant! Quite litterally just take a stem cutting with multiple nodes, remove lower leaves, put it water, let it root and pot it up!
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MEDIUMS:
Last part of the care guide, i know it is a long one sorry about that, i try to keep things short and easy to read, but this is the last part.
My mom's Peperomia love my soil mix consisting of soil, perlite and leca. It is easy, cheap, works for most houseplants (there are plants that prefer a chunkier soil mix or a mix that holds more moisture but this is my go-to soil mix, although i might be using a different mix when you read this, but this is still a nice mix) and provides just what this plant needs.