u/Euphoric_Writing_165

ping help

hello! i moved my ping into spag moss about a week ago, the roots on her look much better but the leaves that touch the moss are now brown and dying. i decided to move her to fluval, do we think the issue was the moss? also feel like her leaves aren’t super sticky like they should be. any advice? she is in a terrarium for the humidity but is in her own little pot inside of it, cuz i have begonias in there and didnt want to deal with the soil change lol. also when i had her in moss i mixed some perlite into it which was the miracle grow brand. so wondering if that could also have been the issue.

lastly, ive heard propagating pings is super easy, just take a leaf off and stick it back into the pot, is this true? how do yall get those little tiny pings? they’re so cute!

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u/Euphoric_Writing_165 — 5 days ago

hello! I’ve had 2 begonia rex’s in a terrarium for about 2-3 months, one of them dropped its leaves but has a lot of growth. The other has been doing well until recently i’ve noticed the edges turning brown. I know they have small thin roots so I make it a point to not over water them. I don’t water them normally, I just mist water into the terrarium when needed. I was noticing that it seemed they were needing more water more often so I have been spraying them more frequently. It’s just hard to know if it’s too much water or too little. They were in direct sun and were fine, now they are in bright indirect, the humidity in the terrarium is pretty high so i also don’t think it’s that. Please let me know ur thoughts and what i should do differently. Should i take everything out and change the soil to half perlite half fluval stratum? they are in a very chunky mix with rocks and perlite at the bottom now. Thanks for your help! :) also sorry the pics are bad, it’s hard to get good ones with the reflection of the glass on the terrarium

u/Euphoric_Writing_165 — 15 days ago