scindapsus plant care + huge repotting failure (jade satin, exotica and treubii) 

Hahaha.....oh trust me when the camera isn't there it's a STORM

@@EverythingPlants lol I could see you wanted to cuss it out, the self restraint was impressive! My moonlight has a fairly large root system but is only two smaller vines and looks horrible. It's putting out new leaves though so I'm hoping I'll have a full looking pot soon... It's not helping me that with the cool temps I've got mice sneaking in and doing their own gardening, uprooting my plants and then planting seeds! One should not need to weed houseplants but here I am 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️ At least with the gardening mice I know which spots to put traps at night...

Aww...thanks Karen. It's happens to ALL of us lol

Oh ya.....happens to all of us. That's the nice things about the plant community is sharing those experiences and emotions that sometimes STEM from it 😊

They are wonderful.....but slow growing at first. Are they still pretty uncommon around here in Saskatchewan. Are you rare where you live?

I live near Ottawa Ontario and they’re definitely harder to find

@@kristathompson9888 I've been waiting to see this one become more readily available....but it just never does.

@@EverythingPlants HI Jeff, I stumbled upon a Jade Satin at a plant shop near me. I'm not sure if I bought one or two of them but i haven't seen any since. I have propagated both the Jade and the Exotica in perlite. I cut several long pieces and put them in a tall Wendy's cup. Water it well and mist it. I have done the Exotica in a tall square pot with some soil and mostly perlite. I put them under a dome and mist them occasionally. I hope that you are able to get another

Thanks April!!! It happens to all of us....I just wish it didn't happen to this one

I'll accept that hahaha. Thanks so much for watching. This is an older video now....please check out for newer content as well!

Thanks so much!

Of course!!!

It happens to EVERYONE HAHA

I laughed when I received the tiny bottle in the mail haha 😄

It was just such a shock to me at first. Haha

Haha....thanksfor watching my video

Try putting a pothos cutting in water with the scindapsus But the perlite prop box works awesome ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6c-Oz8aXNzM.html

Scindapsus are definitely more difficult compared to pothos and harder to propagate. Perlite prop box is a good way to propagate these plants

@@EverythingPlants yeah after seeing your videos of the perlite prop box I’ve been toying with the idea of doing that. My standpoint on plants right now is to only get the select few I’m very interested in and work with those small few only. Light is always the issue with house plants and my lightening isn’t the best and I don’t have a really good grow light to accommodate, so space and light is at a premium at this point for my moss poles. Idk, long and boring reply to your suggestion hahaha. But yes., perlite prob box definitely looks amazing and a good way to go. Here’s hoping to win the lotto and being able to have all the things for plants! 🤞🏼

Thanks Juan! That is so awesome you were able to save them and get roots

@@EverythingPlants will we be getting an update video on some of your plants??? 😜😜😜

I'll have to keep an eye on them and don't let the dry out.....too much haha

Oh it will recover fine. It was just a bit of a shock at first. Thanks for following my channel! How is your plant doing?

Hey Mel! They are all lovely and I hope you can find those varieties soon.

I will definitely be watering those cuttings!!! And good luck with your choppin

Hahaha...things happen. I'm not worried about it at all. Thanks for watching Doug!

Thanks for watching, Melissa!

Exactly 😂

Ive seen it on another video once and thought to myself that doesn't look like a Jade satin, but now this makes complete sense. Thanks proxima centauri

Good luck in your Jade search!

Thanks Jennifer! I have a feeling it's not going to root fast enough and I'll be putting them in the perlite prop box

@@EverythingPlants Yea, I have not had luck with soil prop on any of my scindapsus even with a bag tied around it for high humidity. 🤷‍♀️

Happy to help lol

Interesting....I didn't know heat would cause that as well. Makes sense though

Maybe someday!

Good luck Gloriana!

Hahaha....we all have! 😅

Oh ya....I show it all on this channel....good or bad.

Typically the big box plants don't have the best root system. It is the same with plant stores too. I once bought (2) Silver Ladies, went to repot them in a more suitable soil and found almost NO roots. Needless to say I lost them and haven't tried them anymore

Pothos and scindapsus are such gorgeous plants. That is pretty crazy some of yours didn't have roots. Were you able to save them?

@@EverythingPlants I was actually able to save 1 Silver Lady. She's a year or more old and still in a tiny pot. Gave up on the Argerious

@@diannenaworensky6698 isn’t that the worst! I was so mad but I’ve learned I really have to inspect the hole plant including roots so I know I actually have a plant 🪴 not just cuttings

@@EverythingPlants yes so far it’s taken & looks way better! I wish I would have looked to see if it was an established plant! It has beautiful leaves & I guess it looked so good I would have never thought there wouldn’t be any roots 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks Pearl!

Hey Connie! Thanks so much for subscribing. What was wrong with your plant?

@@EverythingPlants Thanks for your reply! I think I'm not letting it completely dry between waterings. It's a single stem plant my hubby surprised me with, over a year ago, which I potted up on a moss pole, and it has hardly grown. Think I've only had one or two new leaves and had to remove one that didn't look healthy (maybe fungal?)...😔

@@EverythingPlants Also, it's been just over a year and I have very little growth. I got it during autumn last year here in Sydney. It gave me only 2 new leaves till now and so I'm hoping that as we are just coming into spring here it will start growing like crazy.🙏

Oh no....how is it doing now?

@@EverythingPlants I had to root a few random broken pieces. The main part of the plant is recovering nicely, but I'm pretty sure I will not be trying to repot this plant for at least another 2 years. It seems to take them a lot longer to get root bound then say a pothos even though it looks like they have put off tremendous growth up top.

Lucky you…I’ve been looking and the plants are priced too high and I don’t even like the choice of pot and hanger I’d rather just buy the plant in a nursery pot

Better go check on it haha

@@EverythingPlants Oh it recovered finally. It is better off when I leave it alone. I learned to wait for the curled leaves

Hey Tina! No, I still add pothos into my water props for sure. I am so glad it has worked for you. I am actually sitting here trying to come up with some ideas for more pothos experiments.

@@EverythingPlants, I read about the invasive nature of golden pothos in Florida, and how they grow huge, fenestrated leaves as they climb up trees and choke the life out of them. I considered growing some cuttings up a moss pole to see how big the leaves would grow as a houseplant. I have seen it done with other varieties, like Cebu Blue, but never with the golden. I don't know if I have the patience or if I would even be successful; I am not the Sydney Plant Guy!

That is amazing Anna! I agree with the exotica and for me it's the large leaves.

This is an amazing idea!!!! I will plank one of these cuttings

I haven't had a struggle lime this one in quite awhile. Is that what happened to you? Like individual stems came loose?

@@EverythingPlants A friend gave me cuttings from her scindaptus Silver Ann.The leves wereabout the size of my thumbnail. Took me months to root them. All seemed to be going well and I wanted to trellis but putting a trellis on a 4 inch pot was about impossible. I up potted my cuttings. I think there were 4. and for months they stuggled. Finally I saw roots coming out the bottom of the 5 inch pot I had put it in. Upped it all in one lump like you did and within days I had curled up leaves. I new if I did not take action right away I was going to lose everything. By then I had 6 vines and the leaves were getting larger. I had lots of bare stems where leaves fell off. I ended up chopping all the bare stems and I think I did put them in perlite to roo.t On a heat mat. I let the roots get really long then potted and this time I put all in a half to 3/4 size gallon jug. It has been like this now for a few months so I am hoping I revived the whole thing. I would think it can live in this jug pot for several years and when it does come time for a repot I might just slit down the sides. Especially after seeing what happened to you and also what happened to my Mexicanum.

Thanks ildiko Jones. I am happy to say the plant and cuttings are doing just fine. Now for your question....I spray down my plant leaves all the time and I've never had an issue. Is that what you mean?

@@EverythingPlants Yes, that was my question. I’ve read and heard many say that scindapsus plants don’t like water to touch their leaves (which made no sense to me because in nature I’m sure they do, but what do I know? 😆) and some even recommend to bottom water them. Anyway, thank you for your response. I’ll be less worried now about getting them wet. PS I heard myself when you said: “I can’t believe I did that.” I’m still laughing about it.

@@EverythingPlants It just dawned on me that I had not acknowledged

@@EverythingPlants It just dawned on me that I had not acknowledged your good news about you beautiful jade scindapsus doing well. I’m very pleased!

@@ildikojones7073 thanks for responding!!! I know in a plants natural setting it usually has better air flow then in our homes. People always say we'll they get wet outside, but that is the difference between the two environments. Good airflow is key!

Thanks Kendra!

Ya, but we adapt and overcome! Haha

I do have a bunch of perlite prop box videos if you are interested!

@@EverythingPlants thanks for the reminder. I will take a look.

Nancy, I was just telling Jeff that I take those long runners and put them in a TALL Wendy's cup and filled with perlite. Water well and mist them. I have also put them in a soil mixture with alot of perlite and put them under a dome. I think that I'm up to 6 props this year. They make beautiful baskets 🪴♥️🪴

@@diannenaworensky6698 thanks for the tips.

@@nancylee1883 My pleasure, I hope it all works out for you !!! 🪴♥️🪴

It will recover and grow again haha

Whenever I fill up the wallygrow planter it soaks it up fast and I obviously don't refill it until it dries out again

Hey! I have seen some slight damage on a few plants and I will definitely be ordering another batch probably this week. When I had the beneficial mites I think I took care of the issue because I havent seen any pests or damage in months....until now.

@@EverythingPlants oh fantastic, thank you for the reply!😍

The bin from home Depot and the walls are foam board from the dollar store haha

Send me a picture to Instagram if you have an account and I can take a look for you

Ya, stuff like this happens all the time to everyone. You just adapt and overcome. I'll have to check on the ones that lost the roots

I recently did one about snake plants

Thank you for the quick response, yes I just watched that today and you should do more like that- so I can watch MORE of your knowledgeable videos.

I was raging on the inside haha

I am not waiting for the leaves to curl.....and these can tolerate a wide range of light. And base your watering off those different lighting conditions. I don't understand why you continue to watch if you clearly don't like the videos?!?!