What's up, plant family? Devin is here, and welcome to the next installment of Houseplant Essentials
where I give basic tips for some of the most popular and what I think to be are some of the
very best houseplants to grow. Now, in today's episode, we're going to be talking about Pylea
peppermioides, the Chinese money plant, coin plant, friendship plant. This is a plant that
hails from the Yunnan province in southeastern China, I think southeastern China, in the
mountainous regions, and it actually hails from about 5,000 to 10,000 feet above sea level
in rocky, craggy soil that's actually rather forested and actually retains a little bit of
dampness pretty regularly. So first and foremost, since it does come from the rocky, craggy soils
we want to make sure that we give it potting mix that is very well free draining. So if you're
buying a houseplant bagged potting mix, you can think about adding in maybe three parts of the
houseplant bagged potting mix with one part of perlite, and that's going to create a nice
excellent draining soil mix for your plants And furthermore they love to be grown in small containers that allow them to be rather root pot and that going to allow them to really fill out those containers
with their roots just like they would out in nature. Now in terms of lighting, these plants
I find that they do their absolute best when given quite a sunny location, at least to get them nice
and happy. Now for us in the northern hemisphere, that means a southern or a western-facing window
is excellent. Sometimes a very bright eastern facing window can do well also and in the southern
hemisphere that would be a northern facing window or I guess east or west facing windows as well
Now once they're very nice and happy like this you can actually decrease the amount of light that
they're given simply putting them into a well-lit bright area. They don't necessarily need to remain
in that best sunniest real estate that you have in your home and one of the unique things about
about these plants is that if you have them growing in a location and you never turn the pot
what will happen over time is that they'll kind of create like this blanket of foliage all in this wonderful linear plane It looks very unique very cool That one of my favorite features about this plant Now in terms of watering since of course they come from those areas with that rocky soil with sharp drainage they like to be flushed with water regularly
but any excess water that might be sitting in our tray should be immediately discarded
I tend to water mine about once every seven days or so year round
Now, with regards to fertilizer, I like to use my family's blend. It's called Roberta's Bounty
It's an all-purpose fertilizer. You can find a link to this in the description below
and I'll use it once every three to four months or so, and that is absolutely perfect
These are what I would call high-shedding plants. They often have leaves that turn yellow
and that will either fall off, or you can just pluck them off and remove them. So
if you have leaves that are turning yellow regularly, it's not something to be concerned of
unless it's like your whole plant just turns yellow all at once
So I'm constantly maintaining mine and removing any spent foliage like you can see just like that
So by growing your Pylea peppermioides in a bright room with a nice snug container where it not swimming in too much excess soil with a soil substrate that is very nice and free draining where any excess water is allowed to just flowly free out and discarded
you can keep your Pylea peppermioides very happy, looking beautiful in many different areas of the home
and its beautiful rounded form is great when paired with things like a snake plant for instance
another member of this house plant essentials list and one last cool tip about these pilea
peppermiortis it's also called the friendship plant because they create many little baby pups
like you can see right here simply by taking your fingers plucking them right out of the soil you
can then take them to some water and propagate them creating a brand new plant that you can share
with friends, family, or create a new plant for yourself. And with that, now you know all that you need to know
to keep your Pylea peppermioides, the coin plant, happy. If you enjoy this video, make sure to click like
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