I just had my first watermelon pep ever like an hour ago!! I love your video, it's so informative and realistic and absolutely gave me an image of how the reality of mine might be in the near future and will definitely do the propagation as soon as I have myself ready! thank you for the tips!

i've been thinking about getting the watermelon peperomia, this helps me alot more, now i know what to expect and how to care for this plant! thanks sooo much

I just got one, so I appreciate this video a lot! I'm not a bottom waterer but I'll definitely do it with this one. Thanks, Erika!

Best person on KZfaq that explains plants 🚫🧢

Best video about watermelon peperomia with full guidance! Thank you 😊

Very helpful for when mine is big enough to propagate. Thank you!

You sure know a lot about plants for someone so young!

I just got one literally yesterday. It looks wobbly in the potting soil. I’m taking a cutting right now! But it’s small 3.5” pot. Thanks soooooo much for your suggestion and tips!,

“First thing that you should do is snip off a leaf” Best advice ever

Thank you for the lead into this video. A lot of valid points you brought up here. Most of my tropicals have done pretty good, but I still have to keep a close eye on them. I will look for a larger and healthier plant the next time. Love your videos! Big Mahalo from Hawaii🤙🙂

I'm going to have to try this with my peperomia frost!! Thanks for sharing! I love the humidity bag idea! Great info. New subscriber :)

These plants are on my top 3 wish list plants lol yours are awesome thanks

Great video Erica! Very informative! Thank you for sharing 💚

thanks for the video! thats exactally what i need. my watermelom pep looks a bit sad right now

Great video and very informative. Thanks for the share!

Super helpful!!!! Just got some leaf cuttings in the mail (don't look great) and I'll try propagating both ways! Thx!

really hope you can keep this up

I'm so happy to see more videos from u! I look forward to u popping up in my subscription box!!

Imma try the soil leaf propagation. Thank you!

Great Video! Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you for this video! It was very thorough and tons of helpful and useful info!!

Hey Erika! I'm Erika! Came here to get a few answers to some questions I had about Watermelon 🍉 PeP! You covered everything! Thanks for being so thorough! ❤️🤟🍉🌱

This was sooooo helpful thank you so much!

Very very in depth thanks!

Great video Ericka👍🏻💚💚💚💚💚💚 I loved every minute of it! I don’t know why I don’t hop onto your channel more often. Time has been nonexistent in my home. Just wanted to tell you that I still support and love you. I try to watch your videos as much as I can and I have a hard time getting around to everyone. I have enjoyed thoroughly watching you grow and expand. This plant by the way is my most frustrating one in my eyes just because I can’t get it right... either it’s happy or it’s mad there’s no in between with this plant for me.🤷‍♀️🤣

I love this video.. so informative. I'm still figuring out mine. This video is really helpful. Thank you 😍💚

Thank for the great information

I've killed two that I tried to rescue from Lowes. I finally got one that hadn't been watered every shift, by every team member. This video was a tremendous help in successfully growing my new one.

Love your plant knowlege! Still a new plant parent. Hottest summer yet was a huge challenge while trying to keep my new plants alive. BTW your defenbacchia video was the first one I saw. Still trying to revive that through many props. I purchased a different variety that seems to grow better here. Take care, God Bless and Aloha!🪴

Poila is right, best advice ever, first thing that you should do is snip off a leaf. This was a great video lost of information.thank you so much. From Gatineau, Quebec.💖

Love this! Thank you so much!

my watermelon pep i bought from the plant farm on etsy is variegated, didnt expect that. i prefer a normal one tho, looks more like a watermelon. 😊

Great advice video, thank you! I’d just received my plant from Walmart order.

your schedule has been random but i love it

awesome info! thank you!!

Erika I love all your videos Im a new sub and i will try your tips. Thank you for taking the time to upload and share 🌱❤️

Thanks for the very useful advice! I ordered some peperomia from a nearby city, but unfortunately my Watermelon suffered quite the damage from the trip (and not sure whether it was healthy to begin with, as the soil was too damp). The plant is all droopy, lost a tone of leaves, has quite a few damaged ones. Not sure whether it'll pull off at this point, but your video really helped me to try and propagate it!

Very nice

And those propagations took their time..haha..i have some propagation too and 2 mos had passed for the 1st batch and they didn't had a baby yet but is rooted and sturdy.. Tried to cut it in half and let's see the progress.. Thanks for sharing your updates..

So glad you managed to save all those propagations! I watered mine once and it INSTANTLY MELTED. My salvage efforts were too late as my water props DIED ALSO. No more peperomias for me. Quitting them. Will admire youtube vids of them, though.

Thank you so much

Useful!

I have the raindrop, the conchifolia ( begonia I know but sort of similiar to these guys)and the watermelon version and the watermelon is the hardest one for me. It’s a difficult one to figure out Great video, I love the way you explain each process☺️🙌🏻

great video! I ordered one online and when it arrived today it....wasn't looking great...so I think I'm gonna propagate it just to have a backup lmao. They're so pretty! T_T

Great video! Should I leave it in the nursery pot for a while to establish better roots or re-pot right away?

Thank you !! My plant started dropping a tiny bit nothing noticeable and I didn’t think much of it, since it’s winter in nyc I thought I’d leave it a day or two more without water. Well I screwed up cause when I watered it I noticed the leaves were hitting the floor and I gave it a few days to see if it would stand up but it never did. So I quickly propagated it and now I’m waiting for roots to grow. This is a plant that needs a strict schedule to follow 🤔🤔

I just got a watermelon peperomia last week and i have been following you advise 🌱 would you also advise the same for other peperomia like peperomia rosso

You should use a moisture meter when it looks droopy and see what it reads, then afterwards you can check it's moisture levels and if it is close to the range that it looked droopy you water it

Hey - Thanks so much for this thorough video, I am really enjoying your work! I was wondering if you might have any insight on dividing an established (mini) Watermelon Peperomia... I just bought a plant and think I killed it, immediately :S Two of the three clumps I re-potted have wilted quite intensely and show no sign of perking up after two days. They're in clay pots and I have watered them hoping that the roots will heal. The other, luckily, is fine!!! I thought I was gentle with the roots, but, obviously I was not. I'm quite new at houseplants, HAHA. Also luckily, thanks to your videos I set a bunch of leaf cuttings in soil as an extra prayer. Woohoo!! Would love to hear from you

Wow good i love your.

I tried to do this but it didn't work as I think the light where I left it was not adequate. Do you use any kind of light for plants, grow lights? Congratulations . I admire those who like plants and share their knowledge.

Mine was doing so well over summer! I didn't change anything about where i kept it or how I watered it. Then a few weeks ago, it DIED. Slowly, one leaf at a time. Like it had root rot, but it didn't. I used a moisture meter because I knew these have a reputation for being death in a pot. It died at the same time in the same way as my red ripple peperomia. All my other plants in the same area were fine. The raindrop peperomia right next to it BLOOMED this week. Sigh. I think I might give up on any kind of corrugated leaf plant for a while.

Good job💚🙃

thank you for posting nearly everyday

Hey Erika! Thanks for the vid. I'm trying to save mine! It lost leaves and some of them turned all shinny black, I've never seen that before and I don't know if it's root rot. For now I think I might start bottom watering and take a leaf for prop fingers crossed

soooo dope!!! many thanx!!

Plantei uma folhinha hoje usando esse método! Estou aguardando ansiosa pela mudinha 😊

Thank you for this video it’s very helpful!!!I got into houseplants last summer and wanted a watermelon peperomia so bad. I hunted everywhere and then after being on waitlists for so long I ended up with four when they got “in season”. I have one just like that 6 inch of yours, same color pot and same hanging wire. It’s the one that has stayed the healthiest! I got one in the mail and it had very peaty and wet soil so it died :( and I bought another one at Anthropology and it also had very peaty soil so I eventually repotted into better soil in a porous pot and it’s still alive but ugly. I had to keep moving that one around because the leaves would get big black spots from drafts perhaps? The other two are in their nursery pot and are the healthiest even though they have what seems like crappy soil that dries into a solid dry sponge but I guess it keeps them from being overwatered 🤷🏻‍♀️. I want to get good at propagating these because I don’t want to keep buying more, even though I have sucked at propagation thus far but I only do it when a plant starts to go down hill and I want to “save” it.

hello I have a question, I also bottom water my watermelon peperomia, but even after an hour I still don't feel the soil being moist. It's still as dry as before.. would u recommend me to just take the plant out after a certain amount of time (no matter what the soil condition is) or keep waiting till the soil is damp?

Hi Erika! Thanks for your video. I have a question and hope you don’t mind. The new tiny leaves of my watermelon peperomia dried out but the soil is still moist. Do you know what may cause this new shoots drying out?

Hi! I just bought a couple of these from a small, local plant shop in Atlanta. They're all soil propagated plants. When I went to pick it up, the girl told me one of them was variegating and I said "oh, okay..." Because IDK WHAT THAT MEANS. Does it change the care I need to give to that baby?

Hello pretty! Just want to ask if i can use succulent soil for this plant?

Just got a small peperomia, should I put water in a small dish and place the plant there to water the roots? Thank you

Great info! Have you tried leaf propagation with other plants?

Cool

Can these care tips transfer to peperomia frost? I bought one from a friend and it was drooping a lil on the sides, but I pruned it recently and the soil is moist and old like not fresh because the top part the parts of soil are in chunks and perlite or pumice is not fresh

I bought one recently and the soil is more pea moss, she is doing well so far.. should I change her soil?

Hi! i'm very new to peperomia. In fact i am currently awaiting my first watermelon pep to arrive :D Very exciting! Here's my question: With humidity, i have a medical condition which tends to be aggravated by humidity, so most of my plant babies who enjoy being in a humid environment, i just mist often and once in a while i take them into the shower to enjoy a nice humid steam bath. So i'm intending to take your advice and try to propagate immediatly when my plant arrives, so would it be okay to keep well misted instead of in a humid environment? or is this a plant that is going to really need a humidifier?

On the leaf you cut, what causes those tears in the leaf? I have some on mine and was concerned about it.

My watermelon peperomia plant is curling its leaves upwards what does that mean?

I bought a sick one a week ago thinking i'll be able to save it but it's still not doing great. It came with pests in the nursery pot so I took off as much of that soil as possible and repotted it. So sad it's still not looking good. What do I do ? Is it possible to propagate a sick plant?

Is a baggie necessary if keeping in a greenhouse with a humidifier?

I have a question: Do you propagate immediately when they're small too? Please answer because I'm getting this plant, its arriving very soon.

Hi! I just got one myself. Was wondering if you can propagate with deformed leaves from calcium deficiency ?

I just got one Thursday and it is wet and droopy. So they will droop if overwatered, I believe

Great timing on this video, I just bought a baby Watermelon Peperomia. We'll see how long it lasts. Haha Thanks for all the info!!

Erika, thank you for this very useful video! I’ve killed two watermelons and trying to use all your tips for the third! I repotted it into well draining soil and terracotta pot on Sat. It’s sitting on east facing window sill under a patio (bright indirect light). I am slightly concerned that it is drooping very slightly after a day. I thought it needed a small drink (the soil was bone dry) so I bottom watered for 10 min. The soil still feels super dry on top but I didn’t want to overwater it. To help it out I staked it to a bamboo stick. Is that a mistake? Why do you think it was drooping? Could it be transplant shock or dryness?

Mine is so strange, I feel like I water it more often than any other plant I have. I have it in terracotta with lots lots lots of perlite in the mixture, so that could explain it. I bottom water mine when it droops, which is literally every week, even now in the Canadian winter!!

I love to make New plants😏 Any kinds really. It also save your hard earned money! But yea i have done it alot with My african violet. They Are like your Kids, i know its only plants but still..PS i gotta check if My plants have funky shapes LOL x3 just joking heh, great advices as always. Keep up the great work Erika. Not sure if u have told us ur fav plant? Id like to hear about it.

I am thinking about mixing the soil with orchid mix.

Would you suggest terracotta pots?

where did u get it? you seem to be in the same area as me and im dying to get it 🥺

Is it necessary to go into a bag?

With most of my peperomias if I wait until it’s completely dry, I will loose leaves. I have a couple of my peperomias wick watering. I’ve been transferring my water propagations in leca.

Good advice on propagating plants, especially the watermelon pep, when you first get them. I bought a string of dolphins from Home Depot (probably first mistake to even consider knowing their overwatering problem). Of course the roots were damaged and lost the whole plant even though top of plant looked healthy. (Turns out they had filled the top up with un rooted cuttings to make it look full). Urghhh! Lesson learned, NEVER again....

I bought a Watermelon Peperomia from a local nursery and it had a TON of tiny babies attached to it so if all goes well, I might end up with about 20 plants…

I too have a watermelon pep and I'm always afraid of overwatering it! I usually wait till the thickest/biggest leaf feels flimsy and bends easily, then I know it needs water. How long does it take for roots to grow when water propagating?

Everything I've read almost says the opposite of this video which is very interesting. A lot of sites say a pebble tray would be great for it but from the sounds of it, the plant wouldn't do very well in it. Thoughts on a pebble tray for a watermelon peperomia?

How is your variegated leaf doing now?

Do you have a video on your fly trap?

I've tried to water propogate 3 types of peperomia, but none will grow roots, after multiple months of waiting. Any tips?

Please reply! Do cuttings need to be calloused?

I water with hydrogen peroxide often to prevent many things from happening to my plants.

I bought this plant yesterday, some of leaf was broken and I just throw them away 😫stupid me

So I tried progagating my watermelon in soil, and did the humidity thing.. but within a week theres mould on the soil and the leaf were rotting. How is that? did i give it too much water? or is it the lack of sun? Please help :D

Playback speed at 1.25x 💓 used to KZfaqrs speaking fast. No hate 🙇🏻‍♀️❤️

Thanks for the thorough information! Now I know that I dont really want this guy! Give me a pothos!

Please don’t use water directly from the tap or make at least sure it’s lukewarm, otherwise it will shock the root system.