Plants
Emerald ripple peperomia
Peperomia caperata
EasyFine in a closed jar
Deeply rippled leaves in a neat mound. Let it dry a little between waterings.
What the simulation uses
- Light
- 2,500 to 10,000 lux
- The brightness it grows well in.
- Humidity
- 40 to 70 % RH
- Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.
- Temperature
- 18 to 26 °C
- Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.
- Dies at
- below 15 or above 32 °C
- Days beyond these temperatures kill it.
- Soil pH
- 6 to 7 pH
- Soil acidity it prefers.
- Grows up
- 0.4 cm/month
- How fast it gains height in good conditions.
- Spreads
- 0.5 cm/month
- How fast its edge creeps outwards.
- Copes with wet
- poor
- How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.
- Copes with still air
- fair
- 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
- fair
- How well it survives the jar drying out.
- Water use
- 0.06 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
- 2 %/month
- Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.
- Soft leaves
- no
- Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.
- Full size
- 17.5 cm tall, 22.5 cm wide
- Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.
Care
- Day length
- 12 to 14 h
- Substrate
- Moist
What kills it
- wet soil / root rot
- cold below 15 C
- drafts
Description
Originally from Brazil, it needs the soil to dry slightly between waterings and suffers in wet ground. That makes an open or vented jar a safer home than a damp sealed one.
Also called ripple peperomia, radiator plant.
Estimated, where sources were thin: humidity upper bound; growth rates; ph.