Never forget the first time i saw those pinkish worm shaped bulbs in a pot I was emptying out one fall. I thought maybe some alien creature from another planet. But i threw them in with some fresh soil to see what monster might come up. Very happy when it was oxalis, whew.
I'm really not fond of terracotta pots for the most part, but I plopped my Oxalis into one just to be sure it can keep its socks dry. It's like she doesn't know it's winter outside - girlypop has been blooming for months! 🥰
I got gifted one a couple weeks ago and don’t have a good space for her to live, so I just put her on top of my fridge in a decently bright kitchen and she has EXPLODED with new growth- now I’m conflicted to move her
Mine has never gone dormant and I have 3 of them and mine hates to be dry, as soon as she gets dry she faints I rush to her side and she springs back into life, I have her in a south window, I tried her outside in the sun one summer, and even in the shade she closed up like it was night. Mine seems to be quite contrary.
I wish I'd know this year's ago when I kept "killing" mine no matter what I did and ended up throwing them out and finally giving up on them. You truly are a plant god! Thank you for the renewed hope! ❤
I've kept a green and a purple for years. They're one of my favorite plants. They look like trash right now lol, but it's almost warm enough outside to bring them out of dormancy.
@@SheffieldMadePlants They look like a mess right now but I'd never realized they needed that trashy dormancy period till earlier in the year. My sister told me to quit watering them lol.
Niiiice, I have the same plant, and I'm glad to see you have it as well. I leave it to "die" in end winter, and start watering it later in spring, but now i might start using your technique Master of the Sheffield Cult. Thanks 👍
Ok here I am Mr Sheffield ready to watch. That plant is beautiful I want one now lol, oh there’s the bin!😅😅😅 I still gotta get me one of those moisture checkers. Also I want to get a light meter as well. Seeing these plants in the stores did nothing for me, but seeing them here makes me want one now 😍thanks for your time! Loved this video.😊
Another timely video! My ox is either dead or in dormancy and I didn’t know how to care for it (because it used to bloom year round). I’ve been watering it on the regular AND it lives in a south facing window. ALL the wrong things!🤷♀️ Today I will properly care for my ox and repot in March. We’ll see what happens. Thanks!
Not sure if you know blink 182 but I read " all the wrong things " in the tone of their song all the small things. Now I can't stop " all the .. wrong things.. truth cares and truth brings "
My purple oxalis is about 34 years old. I have found she likes to be watered regularly (but not wet feet) and plenty of sun. She has looked beautiful whenever I give her these conditions….until about 18 months ago. She started getting faded light spots on all of her leaves, kinda like plant age spots. She looked awful and wasn’t pushing out as many new leaves and the new growth was weak and also spotted. I wasn’t sure if it was from a pest, although it didn’t look like pest damage (I had been battling mealy bugs and the occasional scale at the time). I couldn’t find anything about the condition, so I decided to clean off all of the soil in case there was either fungus, bacteria or bugs hiding out there. I took her outside and used the garden hose to vigorously spray and scrub all traces of soil off the corms. I spread them on paper towels and dried them completely, then, to hedge my bets, I wrapped some of the dry corms in paper towels and stored in a cool dark place in a brown paper bag. The rest I replanted in the same (sterilized) pot, and she is back to her happy self now, basking in the sun. Glad to see with a little care, plants can grow old gracefully. I only hope I can do the same!
You could not have timed this video anymore perfectly. Ordered some tubers of this oxalis in early January and got the email yesterday confirming they’ve been shipped, so was going to look up how to grow them on. Seriously cannot believe how fortunate the timing was. Keep up the great videos 👍🏼
I did the same thing with my Oxalis plants last fall, as well as with my Calladium bulbs. Once the plants had to come inside, it was like they were telling me they wanted to hibernate. I let everything die down and kept the pots kind of out of sight. I am still waiting to wake everyone up, but can't wait to see what will happen! Your video shows me I'm on the right track.
I think we've all been sold a bill of goods by plant merchants: we assume our plants should always look like they looked in the shop/catalog. As you've remarked before, those looks are often forced. Find out your plant's true nature, accommodate it, and you'll be well rewarded. This video is a perfect case in point. Thanks again.
I bought your moisture meter and I love it. It really does help avoid over and under watering. I’ve never had an oxalis. I might have to try one! It looks like a fun plant buddy.
FYI, not to split hairs, but technically, for the Oxalis Triangularis, they're called 'corms' rather than 'bulbs'. Mostly semantics, really... corms, bulbs, rhizomes, tubers... , pish, posh, po-tay-to, po-tah-toe, to-mae-to, to-mah-to... however you want to say or call it, I suppose it doesn't really matter as they're all so similar at the end of the day. But technically, horticulturally that is, there _is_ a slight difference between them, so just thought I'd point that out for the sake of it! lol 😉 Great videos, btw... great tips, and I love the humour you add to your videos! Cheers 👍🙂
Yikes, I have one I bought not too long ago, actually during the winter , I live in south Florida and my plant sits by my glass door and under SANSI lights. I didn’t know much about it, thanks for the info. Will keep an eye on it during winter and see if I need to replant bulbs.
I've a bulbed oxalis plant in a different species than yours on the video. I planted it in last early spring as a small bulbil and became a mature plant in mid summer under my care. My oxalis plant grew over 100 bulbils from 1 tiny bulb before it went dormant in October. I repotted these bulbils recently and saw a few of them sprouted and hope that it'll flower in summer!
I love my purple shamrocks! They do great outside where I live and require little maintenance. I use them as fillers and weed control in some of my larger pots. They look great with my amaryllises :)
I do the same with mine. 🙃 I found the best place for them is on my deck floor in a deep pot. They looked the best as all I see is their gorgeous leaves and little flowers and not too much of their skinny legs. 😊 However even in the north facing part of my house they do get very thirsty during those very hot days! I absolutely adore and love them. 💜💚🤍
Hi I live in western Canada and have had an oxalis for years, in winter it gets straggly but never totally dies back, which I had no idea they should. It’s starting to fill out again but the shoots are long and straggly. Not bushy at all! Any particular reason for that? Thanks Lou
Mine never goes dormant and stays great all year long. I just reported it because it seemed too overfull. After a few weeks it perked up and the new pot is already almost full.
I happened to plunk one leaf into some water and there were roots a few weeks later. Now it's a year later and this plant is quite small, but very sweet.
mine seemed to etiolate a bit and did their best to cover my haworthiopsis. think they got moldy in the bottom of the pot, i threw them away. they are a bit cute, but they kept messing with my other plants.
on the one hand, watching plants come back from hibernation every spring is a ton of fun on the other hand, half the reason i grow indoor plants is so that i can *avoid* dealing with the boring dormancy periods as experienced by the outdoor plants...
@@SheffieldMadePlantsand on the other other hand, finding out how many more tubers are in the pot than last year also sounds like a bit of yearly enjoyment...
Thank you so much for this video😊. I can’t tell you how many of these plants I’ve thrown away thinking they were dead. I’m definitely going to try this in the fall after I buy another in the spring🙌. My first comment even though I’ve been watching your videos for a while now. Greetings from Long Island NY.
Always learn something new on your channel to up my plant game! Question: I use my water meter religiously to check soil. Do you wait until it reads in the red zone with your plants (“2”) or do you water when it’s in the 3-4 range (veering into the red zone)? Thanks for the fantastic content 🌿
My Oxalis Triangularis is 25 years old this summer! 🥰 let it die every winter, and gives it new soil early spring :) They will grow and bloom faster if you put the bulbs in water for an hour before planting them in soil.
thank you so much, I thought my plant was a goner, but I did not know its name so I couldn't find anything about it, I have a question, have you ever come across a - Dieffenbachia - AKA - the dumb cane plant
I stumbled across your channel looking for peace lily care, and since watching your videos the past couple weeks one of my baby Monsteras pushed out a leaf with TWO fenestrations. Coincidence? Or are they listening……
I've had one of these for years and its one of the easiest plants to grow. It will go into dormancy on it's own whenever it feels its ready. Just wait for it to all die off and then just cut off the dead stuff. It will come back on its own better than before and bloom like crazy then a few months later will go into dormancy again. Almost never have to re pot it; just add a little fertilizer once in a while.
Question: have you done this with Alocacia yet? I have the two where one has decided to look unhappy and its twin looking content, but I'm worrying if i force them to "hibernate", maybe they'll be twins again in spring lol
Now I'm excited! I have one that has done okay(better than when it first got here)but looks like next year I will hide it in a closet til it gives in, then voila! even thicker. As always, thanks for leading us out of the woods. 😅
Thank You Thank You Thank You!!! That's one beauty I always longed for, but also sensed it would need Special Attention that I couldn't provide. With this, I can begin searching for a trustworthy nursery (any tips or recommendations?)...soon as I finish rofl @ your hilarious comedic phrases like "second coming of You Know Who!" Keep 'em coming!!!
@SheffieldMadePlants Great! I actually live in Virginia, US...but I've learned to search anywhere else for all the "important" stuff for my plant babies! I often shop back home in NYC, but sadly, I lost contact with the old neighbor who owned one of those little beauties...
I had one of these plants years ago andhit was a mess .. but then saw the rhyzomes... Perfect left it for the winter then watered in spring...Shazam! Good foliage
@@SheffieldMadePlants and today with the crazy end of the world weather gonna turn some old fish(mackeral) kale,cabbage blueberrie and some veryold blue meanie mushrooms inot plant food.. should feed well I am hoping.
Thanks so much for this video! I always bring mine in October, give it a 100% cut back of all the foliage right down to the soil, then have the satisfaction of watching fresh new growth during the winter months. I do have to cut it back again in about a couple of months as they become too leggy reaching for the light. However, I think I’m going to try this dormant stage with one of mine since it is a monster now after 3 years and would like to repot it. I’m in NE Ohio, I wonder if it is too late before it goes back outside in May? Great video! These shamrock are one of my favs and such an easy plant to grow and keep alive! 😊
I ordered 3 different types of bulbs last spring and planted them all in a huge antique bucket. I brought them in for fall and, yup, they look pretty sparse. I water lightly and they are under a grow light. I can't wait to see the show next spring when I put it back outside. I leave mine in the same pot for a couple years.
I look forward to this as I have two of those plants that sometimes don't do very well. However I have an off topic question about the moisture meter. It's been probably the best lesson I've learned on your channel! However I'm wondering what to do when testing a (usually ) bigger pot and part of it reads dry and another part reads moist? Thx!
I have two of them. One outside on my porch, which thrives year round. My other one is inside and she does take a short winter nap for about three weeks. I love that pop of color. 😎
@@SheffieldMadePlants actually it was probably longer ago than that. I think five years ago I knew plants cycle but either way I sure did throw it away-yeah that was way back before I knew anything.
I’ve tried a few times, mostly failures. I’d let them go dormant for a few months and they’d never come back. Read somewhere they only like to be dormant for three weeks, so tried that and it’s the first to actually grow back, but only sparsely. Wish I could figure it out, cuz I love these plants!
@@SheffieldMadePlants Actually, I’m just remembering my plants had bulbs, not these orange wormy tuber things. I wonder if they’re a different species?
I have a 34 year old purple oxalis. I recently had an issue with it and decided to take it down to the korms. I vigorously washed all of the soil off of them in case there was a fungus or pest. Then I laid them out on paper towels to dry completely. Then I repotted most of the korms, and wrapped the rest in dry paper towels and stored in a brown paper bag. They did fine that way. Just don’t put them in something air tight because you want them to stay completely dry until you are ready to plant them again. Be sure to label them clearly so no one tosses them out!
Yes, I was gifted two leaf cuttings of a green one and a purple one over twenty-five years ago and still going strong. By strong I mean they have seeded in many of my houseplants. One thing is they did cross breed and now I have every shade between green and purple that exist. They don't hurt the plants they privilege with their company, so all is good.
I'm going to try this for caladium. I tried the method where you gradually decrease the watering, and then take out the bulbs to winter in a paper bag with some absorbant filling. The bulbs completely withered away. 😢
my poor oxalis has put me through it! Overwatered her, then cut back and she looked lovely. I've had it for several years (without it going dormant - thank you florida!) but them she started looking rough. I let that b go dormant and shes BACK! Love this plant
I had one and it lived outside I didn't realise it was a houseplant 😂 I'm in North Wales. It made it through a few winters and went dormant during this time. Last winter it didn't make it unfortunately must of been too cold and it rotted. Might try one in the house next time 😅
