Beginner Gardening: Weird!!!! Wandering Jew, 1 by Plants4myPots

Plants4myPots wrote:
I've got Zebrina too, and I'd totally blame the extra sunlight for turning it green...

Bought mine when they were probably just cuttings in a tiny pot from Home Depot in June, and they were not so pretty at first - just kinda muddy purple looking. By August , the ugly leaves were gone and the new growth was all vivid purple and green. At the end of September, I saw new hanging baskets of Tradescantia in HD, and I thought to myself, "I have that plant! Why hasn't mine grown to be long and pretty like those?" So I stuck the pot in a sunnier south-facing window earlier this month for a week or so, thinking maybe it would grow faster. Not only did it start to noticeably grow... the purple started to turn green, and the green to silver.

Since my plant isn't old - I've only had it four months... and it's only been "fertilized" twice, the sun has to be the culprit. (The only fertilizer it's gotten is what it could get from the MG potting soil in June/July, and when re-potted it in coconut coir in August, I soaked the coir in fertilizer-water.) I've put mine back in the more indirect west-facing window - hoping the purple will come back. If not... I'd taken a few sprigs off the plant before it started to turn (to try training a new plant to be a bushy trailer like the ones I saw) and they're still purple.

I'll let you know if the purple comes back... and I'm posting some pictures so you can see the "progression" This first one is from when I first got it in June...