Plants
Mini nerve plant
Fittonia albivenis (dwarf cultivars)
EasyFine in a closed jar
The nerve plant at half size, the easy pick for small jars.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 2,500 to 10,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 60 to 90 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 18 to 27 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below 10 or above 32 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 5.5 to 6.5 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.4 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.75 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Copes with wet
- fair
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- good
- Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.
- Copes with shade
- good
- How well it holds on in dim light.
- Copes with drying
- poor
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.09 ml/cm²/day
- Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.
- Leaf drop
- 3 %/month
- Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.
- Soft leaves
- yes
- Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.
- Full size
- 7.5 cm tall, 17.5 cm wide
- Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.
Care
- Day length
- 12 to 14 h
- Substrate
- Moist
What kills it
- drying out
- waterlogged substrate
- direct sun
Description
Dwarf nerve plants like 'Minima', 'Mini Red' and 'Mini White' share this entry. They grow to roughly half the size of the full plant and need exactly the same care. Keep the soil damp but never waterlogged.
Also called Fittonia 'Mini White', Fittonia 'Mini Red', Fittonia argyroneura 'Minima', mini fittonia.
Estimated, where sources were thin: all non-size values copied from species; cultivar-specific size; growth rates.