You just need a piece of the stem to put in soil/substrate. The pilea(2nd pic) seems to have little stem above the ground so any removal will be quite obvious and jarring as well as there not being much to plant.
You could probably just grab 2/3 branches off the first one and try different methods of propping(water, soil, perlite, moss etc.), the first one looks a little like a pepperonia but I may be wrong.
elmz on
First one, probably just cut a stem, and put it in water with good light.
The second one, the same. Cutting the stem will set your mum’s plant back, though, it will take some time to recover. Pileas often make root shoots, little baby plants growing from the soil, you could separate one of them and have a new plant.
Edit: yeah, that pilea is too small to grab a cutting from, and it won’t be growing root shoots just yet.
Different-Crazy6329 on
The pilea (2nd pic) will pup in the future.
IntelligentCrab7058 on
With love
yingyangyoung on
Just take care of the pilea and it will sprout little babies in no time. They’ll pop up in the dirt near the base and you can dig them up and plant them like any other plant.
There’s a reason it’s sometimes called the “friendship plant”. It’s constantly pumping out little babies.
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You just need a piece of the stem to put in soil/substrate. The pilea(2nd pic) seems to have little stem above the ground so any removal will be quite obvious and jarring as well as there not being much to plant.
You could probably just grab 2/3 branches off the first one and try different methods of propping(water, soil, perlite, moss etc.), the first one looks a little like a pepperonia but I may be wrong.
First one, probably just cut a stem, and put it in water with good light.
The second one, the same. Cutting the stem will set your mum’s plant back, though, it will take some time to recover. Pileas often make root shoots, little baby plants growing from the soil, you could separate one of them and have a new plant.
Edit: yeah, that pilea is too small to grab a cutting from, and it won’t be growing root shoots just yet.
The pilea (2nd pic) will pup in the future.
With love
Just take care of the pilea and it will sprout little babies in no time. They’ll pop up in the dirt near the base and you can dig them up and plant them like any other plant.
There’s a reason it’s sometimes called the “friendship plant”. It’s constantly pumping out little babies.