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sajwani Dobbs Ferry, NY Jun 30, 2007

I am usually posting out of desperation of some new houseplant dying so I thought I would post a success story. Considering my usual 50/50 chance of a houseplant of living, this was a miracle. A stem off my boyfriend's hanging "money" plant broke off once when we were moving. I laughed at him for taking the dying stick with its one measly leaf and putting it in a tall beer glass filled with water. Now, one year later it has sprouted tons of leaves and has an amazing root system. It does wonderfully simply sitting in its glass of water and partial/full sunlight. I do however wonder if I should try potting it ever? Or maybe just leave it alone. Fussing with it might disrupt the miracle.

btw if you see brown marks in the leaves, those are bite marks from my cat attempting to eat it

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sajwani Dobbs Ferry, NY Jun 30, 2007

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plantladylin (Zone 1) Jun 30, 2007

From the photo of your plant, the leaves look more to me like the Chinese Evergreen. Here's the Plant Files info on it: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/603/

Isn't it wonderful how things will easily root in water? I take cuttings from a lot of plants and stick them in bottles/glasses/vases of water! You could pot it up in well draining soil, but if it's growing okay in water, you could just enjoy it in that manner. I've read on here that sometimes plants grown in water will suffer when transplanted into soil because in water they grow very fine, feathery type roots and when you pot it in soil it doesn't do well.

Here's the link Plant Files info on Money Tree: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/56220/

Take a look at both of these and see which plant you have for sure. It may be that your plant is the money tree, my eyes aren't as good as they used to be. Do you have a close up pic of the leaves that you can post? Whichever one it is, it is very healthy looking and doing well.

Great Growing!

Lin

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sajwani Dobbs Ferry, NY Jun 30, 2007

I think you are right, it is a chinese evergreen. or something similar. And for now I also agree it should stay in the glass, or perhaps be moved to a larger glass/vase at some pt but no potting. I haven't had much luck lately with potted plants

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Bhavana34 Medford, NJ Jul 01, 2007

Some plants just do great growing in water, the Chinese Evergreen you have, nephytis (arrowhead plant?), pothos and philodendron, some hoyas, spider plants, swedish ivy, and I am sure many more!

The problem with growing them this way a long time is that the roots they have have developed to be in water, and if you transplant into soil, they may go into shock and the plant will have to develop a whole new bunch of roots for soil growing. So I say, if it seems happy, leave it be! You will never have to worry about over or underwatering, that's for sure!

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