Curio rowleyanus (String of Pearls) Houseplant Care - 235 of 365
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2019
- Curio rowleyanus, formerly known as both Senecio rowleyanus and Kleinia rowleyana, is commonly known as string of beads, string of pearls, string of peas....for its iconic green beads, which has been quite a temperamental plant for some of us. It takes the spotlight as #235 of "365 Days of Plants".
In this video I'll discuss where it is originally native to, where I'm growing it in my home, and basics like light, watering and fertilizing.
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Curio rowleyanus (Senecio rowleyanus)
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My string of pearls plant, aka Priscilla Phantasm, started growing so much when I whispered to it that I love it and that I’m taking care of it and give it a little kiss. Lol
I was talking about this very thing with my daughter recently. I have an orchid cactus that hadn't bloomed in years and I had a talk with it and asked it very kindly if it would bloom for me and it did! It was covered in beautiful blooms for a very long time!
Yes totally agree I sing to my plants as well dear
I love this 🥺 I hope Priscilla is doing well!
I had this plant in front of a south facing window, with all my other succulents i tought it would thrive but it kept drying so bad and loosing stems !! I placed it in front of my eastern facing window so it gets really less light but it thrives !!!
I have to water it a lot and often , even in winter, surely because it is in a little terracota pot with very draining soil.
I really don t understand this plant but i love it 😊
( sorry if my english is bad i'm french 😅)
I bought a tiny baby string of pearls this past summer and it’s THRIVING I am soooo proud of it and so impressed and amazed. It just loves its little window so much 😭😭😭
I had this plant outside for the summer and the squirrels stole it out of the pot
Plant Dad I laughed when I read this. It’s sad and not funny but...sort of funny haha. Stupid squirrels.
The squirrels have gotten so bad in my area I cannot have ANY outdoor potted plants anymore. They scatter/destroy them all!
😢
loooool
Aw, man! This plant was next on my to-get list and I was all ready to name it 'Senecio Del Toro' and now that idea is shot to heck. Bummer!
I started my small collection of houseplants in April this year (thanks to Jenna marbles video tbh). Im in love with all the color and growth they produce, but I have lost two plants in the process: a succulent and this string of pearl. I probably would do better now since I understand light and watering better, but string of pearl was a difficult one for me as a complete beginner. I fell in love with it when many plant books listed this plant, but the care for it is like a picky succulent in my opinion.
Watch me, I'll probably get a string of pearl this coming spring lol
I come for the info, and always get distracted by your hair. It’s amazing.
I just bought your book. I can't wait to get started growing healthier plants. Always look forward to your daily posts. Keep up the great work
I love the string of pearls, and this one is on my wish list, and I want to be sure I have the right growing conditions for it before I bring it into my home. Thanks so much Summer, I have totally been enjoying this series, See you tomorrow.
You're right...gorgeous, interesting plant...but, very challenging.. in my experience. I may give it another shot, though. Thanks, Summer! :)
One of the all time great house plant curiosities. Great conversation starter and one of my favorites. Beautiful, odd, green and interesting. What else?!? Your plant is nice. I enjoy it as a hanging plant.👍
It’s a lovely plant and the variegated form looks like wasabi peas💚
Thank you so much for the great advice, you are truly a great plant person.
This one together with a Ceropegia woodii = one of the most stunning plant combos ever, they seem just made to each other.
Wow Summer, you know a lot about this plant. I did not know they flower! Thank you for sharing🌿👍🌿
This helped me understand my plant so much! I recently bought one in the summer, and was getting mixed information about how to keep this plant.
I ❤ that you suggest an immediate repot upon purchase! Most "influencers" warn against this, but I find my success rate correlates with how soon I get them out of the plastic pots. The few occasions I've left plants in their nursery pots for a month or longer, they die back or completely implode. I now think of immediate repotting as a taboo secret that rarely fails me.
I love your vocabulary
I love how accurate you are with the plant info. I'm from South Africa and its a very uncommon plant here. We don't see it in nurseries like our other popular natives... like gladiolus, BOP, Agapanthus and a myriad more. Love your videos though
You are so knowledgeable and i just love it. Thank you i just got these and needed this. 😊
I observed in my dad's terrace, that this plant with intense light gets a red-purple color, slightly. Thanks for sharing 🙏
was wondering when you would do a video on this plant, thanks for the video Summer.
So harddd to look after, thank you for this video
This is a fun plant to grow. Some people have them with very long strings. I have about four of them that I got last year and they're doing well.
It’s great for hair plugs. I recently purchased a Buddha head pot and planted this Curio in it to cover the ‘bald spot’.
Now if I can only find one that better matches his hair color! Then again, green hair is back in style.
Oh yeah, Summer, I keep forgetting to mention it but you could put Socotra on the travel list of the future. I think you would be a superb guide for all the plants on that island! Just wanted to drop that idea off with you.
The flower smells more like the spice cloves. Mine are super dark green. I got them from a plant store a couple of weeks ago and under a grow light for winter 24/7 is what is making them the darkest green. So healthy!
I had my houseplants since I was 6 years old. I had everything that you can possibly imagine and plants that people had never seen blooming bloomed? I'm not sure what gave me the knowledge to take care of my plants but I just did it and sometimes I knew the names and sometimes I didn't like my Hoya my peperomia The String of Pearls but I didn't use the names like you do. When I hit my late twenties I moved into a house that was out in the country and it was heated with wood stoves and as I told somebody on another Channel I had gotten my Hoya from just a leaf in a styrofoam cup for a nickel at my kindergarten school Fair. They had things for sale and there was just a bunch of plants and there was that leaf and I don't know why I wanted it but I begged my mom for a nickel and it ended up being the best Hoya ever! But one night it got exceptionally cold in the room where my plants were in the fire had gone out and the person that would normally take care of that did not and my plants froze and I lost pretty much everybody. I was in my 40's. So I don't have any of my Historical house plants left but I know somebody who does have cuttings that are huge plants now so I can recover 5 or so. Not my original Hoya but one that had been in my family for many many years. My original one bloomed non-stop always. I remember being a teen and as the flowers would be ending they get a strange sent to them and I would get in trouble for not cleaning the cat box and go from that sweet smell to a smell that people thought was something else. But I loved it that plant like it was a person or an animal maybe more. Hopefully one day when I have moved into a better place I'm kind of in a temporary situation for a long time LOL but when I have a better window better Windows. I shall beg for cuttings of my old plants! and then of course I have all my new ones including this String of Pearls and it's small but it's doing really well it's a happy little thing it got a jumper have a plant I can't remember that jumped in with it that I've got to get out because it's prolific and making babies and I don't want it to overtake my String of Pearls I just haven't done it yet. that wasn't said very smoothly but you got the idea. Sorry I can't see the words I'm using voice to text. So if something is exceptionally odd just do your best to figure out what I was trying to say the phones are being very strange today!
I loved this story, thank you.
Such a lovely story Plants certainly become our family I talk to mine Jesus gave us all of creation to enjoy 🌹🕊
Hi Ms. Gomez if you ever became an author I would buy your books. You are a gifted storyteller. Best wishes
@@Englandmw this is too sweet! I'm disabled and I'm having problems so I use voice to text. And mostly do this when I have horrible insomnia and have been up for days and not eating. So I get criticized often for rambling or sounding like an idiot when I've actually highly educated and apparently have a a high IQ!? Whatever that means because how do you measure that? I got by on Hands-On rather than books when I went to school to become a doctor of many different things including naturopathic health. I can help people and I can help animals. Oddly enough I just met a man he didn't give me the creeps at all and I usually I'm pretty good at that. It ends up he's a writer and he'd like to write my story because I have some pretty intense things that have gone on. I thought it would be better to make them into individual stories rather than taking everything and stuffing it and one book. If you truly mean this and aren't being sarcastic because I have been insulted a lot. What do you think of that? Breaking everything up into smaller stories which have plenty of details to make a book. I would appreciate his help because I'm not a writer and I don't always can be a message as well as far as punctuation improper use of words even though I graduated with high grades. Certainly not in math or writing lol. If you really mean this thank you so much. When I talk about anything in my mother it's definitely from the heart. That may be the appeal. Some of my stories are just horrific some are beautiful though they end sad! I've had an amazing amount of life and 50 + years almost 60.
Again if you're saying this truthfully thank you so much!🌱🐸💜
@@gomezaddams6470 What in earth has this got to do with the string of pearls plant
Great video as always summer. I just picked up both varieties the variegated and green one. They are absolutely beautiful 😍 Yours looks so pretty. Thanks for sharing. It's always such a pleasure to see you and your plant collection 🪴
I feel good now cuz she said it was hard to keep it all happy all the time but I find it really easy 😂
When I saw the fake version of this in Kmart I immediately told myself I'm going to get the real plant!Two years later I have them indoors and outside my patio!I did have some ups and down at the beginning but now I got to know what it needs😊
I didn’t know that they flower. Thank you for sharing.
High quality content🥰🥰
I have this plant snd really love the look. One bloom perfumes the whole room that it grows in which is a small second bedroom. The fragrance reminds me of the clove pink smellI of Dianthus plumarius cvs. I have it growing on a windowsill facing due south for the winter. In the summer I move it over to the top of my bookcase to the side of the window. I guess I'll be taking the label out of the pot now to erase Senecio and re-write Curio!!
Thanks for the information 😀
Amazing. ...
Thank you for another great video! I bought this plant and propagated it successfully so now I have a mom and baby plus I potted one for a friend. I never knew about the blooms so maybe I haven’t been fertilizing enough? (I’m happy with pearls) After listening to you I think I may pull back a bit from the window and water a bit less although we heat with wood so that part can be confusing. We keep it toasty warm so I’m not sure my plants know what season it is.
I would just let it dry out fully and then soak it all wet and keep it even in full sun if it can handle it, if it does't survive its probably cos soil mix balance is all wrong, it should hold enough for plant to survive and not go insane on having to water once a week if possible, i have 50 plants i never water once a week except during summer with my pilea and my spider plants and hanging pothos.
I love this series! (Although, I'm watching backwards, haha.) Thank you!
Oh . It is string of pearls. About bugs. I use black soap liquified it works perfectly. Yes it is true most of insta owners show it with less bright green in if not yellow pearls in some sides. Thank-you for those tips dear we love you
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Mine is struggling 😪. I think I let it it dry too much and now that I am paying attention it seems like the peat might of solidified. Hopefully I can save it!
Mine grows best in a west facing window.
It stayed nice and full on top but as it got longer I hang to pull it closer to the ceiling, it lost the top pearls when I got less sun from above.
It grew 4 ft in one summer
Can you do a video about the neem oil comment that you made and further elaborate on the issues/precautions with neem oil? Thanks!
I moved to Palm Springs California from north Florida and I brought mostly succulents, cacti, etc, but I couldn’t do without my few favorite non-desert plants and they’re all suffering 😞 guess I’ll be investing in a humidifier
I love their smell:)
Pozdrawiam z Łodzi :)
@@juliakuczera2 :)pozdrawiam i zapraszam na moj kanal.
Thanks for the video. You mentioned to immediately transplant into a terracotta pot when you first buy the plant. My plant came in a 6 inch by 4 inch deep shallow nursery pot. What size of terracotta pot should I transplant it too. Thanks!
I grow mine in a somewhat similar situation as yours. It's about 6 feet from my SW facing sliding glass door, so it gets great light all day long. I water thoroughly occasionally. It seems happy, the pearls are plump but not to the point of popping. It's about three years old now. So how do I get it to flower? What is it missing?
Now I’m nervous 😬 I hope mine will grow I just have some starts
Hi Summer! Can this plant actuyll be grown in water forever? Like after propagating it in water just leave it in water?
Thanks so so much!
New to your channel...👍
Do you mist Rosemary daily.
Think I saw rosemary care here a while ago...
completely off topic but your hair is so gorgeous
I have mine hanging at my window south side and no problem, no burning.
Mine grows on the door of my fridge, a few steps away from a south facing window so it gets a bit of direct sunlight around 11am. It sits in 3 medium sized magnetic pots, next to a string of hearts. Nice plants that can help to reduce the carbon footprint of the fridge while adding a nice "jungle" vibe. Next step will be to add 2 tillandsias !
Lol carbon footprint of the fridge. Great excuse to put plants on every electrical device in my home
I bought a lg plant, it died right away. I got a sm one for replacement...I am growing it as I do my african violets...on a wick, & using my home made violet soil...peat moss, compost & pearlite. it is working. it's very healthy, & growing fairly fast. it's confusing as everything I read or watched on you tube, says not too much water, & dry out before watering. Plus fertilizing like you said, but I also fertilize w/my violet fertilizer every time I water. it stays moist also. So, is it living on borrowed time? it is so healthy. it's also under grow lights. There's no dead or dying on it either. I have a cute hanging pot to put it in. no hole in the bottom. So I plan on putting it in a sm plastic pot to set in the new ceramic one, above the water in the bottom. Have you ever heard of this before? Any advice?
Mine is got last summer nd she hasn't grown much however she has survived about 5 falls (cats!) Down to 3 strings now and I'm propagating one in water with the hope of repotting the whole thing soon. It takes time to understand this plant for sure..
Ps. Should we mist them?
I just got one, is it ok on a table about 4 feet from a east window with some grow lights abouts 3 feet?
I am having such a hard time keeping this plant happy
Do one of these videos on Silver Squill?
I prefer useful information to be short and sweet to the point. This is not one of them but thank you for making the video.
I've not been successful w/ propagation. I've tried clipping the bottom and planting into the crown of the plant. I've tried dipping the clipped ends into a rooting hormone. What is your suggestion?
Try water propagation
Do the flowers contain seeds?
can u propagate it from all parts, or does it have to be the growing end only?
I hope she answers you. But I know what is mine when one of mine was not in a proper place to get light on top I just took one of the long strings and twirled it back into the pot in a circle and sprinkle Just A Pinch of soil. Just something for it to touch but not drown my other ones. And it grabbed on and things shot out of it like crazy and it filled up the top of it again. Plus it made more strings falling down.
Is it true String of Pearls go dormant during summer?
A UA-camr says its growing season is in Spring and Fall. Cut back on watering during Summer. I've killed String of Pearls in no time, every time.
Weirdly, I've lost two string of pearls, but my string of bananas grow so well, I've propagated it three times.
I’ve heard from another person that the string of banana was easier to grow
I just got some starts of this string of pearls
Maybe it will grow but if this lady struggles with it
I know I will
Can I put my pearls in a concrete pot indoors? Or terracotta better?
Have you tried papaya leaves 🍁 with lemongrass water 💦
Crap I just overwatered my band new string of pears plant. They look like they are about to burst. What do I do now
Mine, the leafs are fell and wringkled. Don't know what to do... Please help
Can they grow in a North window?
I wish i have this string of pearls .
I already have string of tears
Mine got stolen now left small propagated ones, and how they turning into banana shape! OMG
I can not grow this plant. 😔
I gotchu bro what's the issue?
i cant either, they always die, fast on me, i gave up finally, stick with a string of bananas, much eaiser
Add me to the list, too. No luck..tried 3 of them at different times.
I can grow anything but this
Bright light, water half as much as you did before lol or twice as much as you did before.
This plant is calling me, I saw this at the nursery today n didn't buy, mistake!!
My string of pearls is so dead I only have a 2 inch string propagated lol ☹️
I’m terrified to repot mine.
It wasn’t trailing when I bought it, and after being in south window this summer, it’s trailing and very full on top.
Are the roots typically shallow? I know it grows as a ground cover in it’s natural habitat. I plan to pot up one inch depending on what the roots look like now.
Mine died soon after i repotted it. This and Burros Tail are incredibly tricky. I think it's always best to buy them in an oversized pot to begin with.
I found a cool square terra-cotta planter, but I’m literally scared it’ll die...😳🥴
My borros tail was easy-ish. I wish I didn’t gift it at the end of summer.
@@k.m.7015 If you have a garden centre or a nursery near by. May take the plant to them. I think they would be more than happy to help you with repotting the plant.
I too, am horrified of repotting it out of what it arrived in..
@@brandimartin5229 I thankfully found a few that were in oversized pots and doing well, if i manage to keep them alive they won't need any repotting for several years.
So all week you’ve been doing plants i currently have in my own collection, specifically the plants I keep in my room. I want to know how you put a camera in my house. It’s uncanny the past 6 plants. Now if you do Chasmanthium latifolium (I’ve never seen anyone else keep one indoors..) I’m going to have to sweep my room for your hidden camera.
Mine isn't doing so well. I think I may have underwatered it.
What are benefictuals??
They are not senecio?
They have been reclassified
Can NOT keep these alive to save my life! I’ve tried the pearls and string of bananas with no luck. I’ve tried everything and watched some many video ps and advice articles. I just can not keep them alive. Bought a beautiful established string of bananas and it lasted a while but it still died.
You should soak them and then let them totally dry out. Feeling the weight of the pot does help. In the winter I keep it totally dry in an unheated room ( below 10 degrees but no Frost obviously with my other cacti ) This really should do the trick
I believe the water and soil are key, i ised to be like you, i killed more than 3 before i caught on, top tips that nobody says: dont repot it when you bring it home!! And dont for the love of all thats holy use cactus soil on this plant! It likes a fast draining soil but you need a general type of soil that can hold moisture for a while, it does not like dry soil at all. I kept mine from the shop untill i was fairly certain the soil was drying and put water sparingly, it keeps growing now but i still keep my eye on it non stop.
They’re hard!
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the one i had died from mealybugs. couldn't get rid of them. haven't bought one of these since.
70% ethanol in a small spray bottle, spray plant thoroughly and leave overnight then wash just as throughly the next morning, all bugs will be gone;)
I kill this plant every time. No idea why 😒