A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 need help w/ plant ID?!?

Christina,

There are some on there that look like mine. I think I can combine enough info to keep it alive. I had some friends over the other night and they noticed the plants in their little shot glasses and they want me to give them some when I get them going. No pressure! I hope they work out! I'll let you know!

haha! glad to see that i'm not the only one who uses shot glasses to root stuff!!

Rhoeo spathacea
(Oyster plant)



I have mine growing in Miracle-gro soil, in bright light not direct sun. In the summer it is outside and the soil likes to be always moist. Especially when we were in the 90s this summer.

YAY!!! CINTA!!! You are right, that's it!!! I'm so happy! I had put one in a teacup and it looked real cute, but I think it needs a pot with drain holes. Is that what yours has? Where are you in PA?

Well, this is interesting...when I looked up Oyster plant, it came up as Moses in a cradle! I'm so confused! It looks a little like the moses in a cradle that Christina has, but it is identical to what Cinta calls Oyster plant. How can these two be the same? What am I missing? Are they just different varieties of the same plant? I'm just happy to know how to take care of them, but I would like to be able to understand this as well

yes, they are different varieties of the same plant.

There's a lot of that out there lately - some of those pop ups can put files on your drive - spyware - if you don't have some good protection programs on board, avoid the pop ups.

We got a virus or a worm (something) the other day and Jeff was the whole day putting Ms. Dell here back together again. Ms. Dell wasn't amused -in fact she was downright gobsmacked!

Whatever the devil was that got into the drive caused all my executable files to change and nothing would open.

It was a nightmare.

When I can't figure where the seeds are in a flower or stalk, I just let it dry, crumble it all up then plant it all together - a couple of seeds are bound to make it.

I've learned so much here at Garden Helper.