Beginner Gardening: Little to no fuss houseplants?, 0 by purpleinopp

purpleinopp wrote:
Thanks, Christine! The soil was loose there this spring after putting the Sans in, so it was easy to stick cuttings of Tradescantia pallida there soon after (the purple plant, for those who might not know.)

Yes, Tim, as long as you let Sans get very dry in low light, they will 'stand' for it. Boring to have a plant in suspended animation when there are others that would grow fast enough to notice, IMVHO. Just not ideal if one is choosing from nothing though I've lived in places where that's all I had to offer for years at a time. Sans just wait it out as long as they don't rot.

Here's the same plant, in October 2002, struggling after a few years of too-low light and admittedly too-moist/too-often soil (with Aglaonema modestum.) I thought all plants wanted to be soppy wet as often as possible back then. Glad it stuck it out to be brought out in the sun in AL eventually.