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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Growing a String of Hearts Plant

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today Karina from Sacred Elements is back, talking about the famous String of Hearts plant, or Ceropegia woodii. This trailing succulent is absolutely gorgeous and somewhat easy to care for...but there are a few things to watch out for! Karina is a "Jill of all trades" and has an incredible aesthetic eye, boundless creativity and a fantastic mind for houseplant care. Hope you enjoy the show. Learn More: Karina's Website Karina's Instagram Sacred Elements YouTube Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We're here again with

0:05.9

Karina of Sacred Elements and today we're talking about a pretty cool plant. It's

0:10.4

actually one that I just got in my home. It's called the String of Hearts.

0:14.8

A Latin name, I believe, is Seropagia Woody. It's also known as the Rosary Vine.

0:19.3

It's just a really interesting, interesting house plant. It's a drooping vining plant that has these succulent

0:27.1

esque leaves that of course form the shape of a heart and they also have a really interesting

0:31.1

texture to them and they can grow quite long.

0:33.9

I believe Green has one over nine feet tall or sorry nine feet long,

0:39.0

although I guess if you were to train it upwards it would be nine feet tall.

0:42.4

But today we're going to talk about how

0:44.2

she cares for it how did she get one that was just this amazing this beautiful of a

0:49.1

specimen as well as how do you propagate it because one of the ways that you can kind of bush it out,

0:54.2

make it look really interesting is by propagating it and then planting those propagated vines

1:01.0

into that same pot or maybe even starting a new one. So,

1:04.1

Karina, how do you care for this bad boy?

1:07.0

Hi, so let's see again, something I have learned along the way is that it is a succulent

1:16.1

bind so it does not kind of first and foremost does not like to be wet it likes to

1:22.1

be watered really well and then left alone for weeks.

1:26.9

So I feel like that's kind of the main thing.

1:29.8

The other thing I do is I do feed all of my house plants about once a month. I add organic

1:35.4

fertilizer to the water and I see so they get basically a monthly dose of food and I

1:42.3

think that's kind of at least part of the reason why mine's

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