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title: Trailing jade in a terrarium | Glass Jar Garden
description: Trailing jade (Peperomia rotundifolia): Round fleshy leaves on thin trailing stems. Forgives dry spells. Needs light 2,500 to 10,000 lux, humidity 40 to 80 %...
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Plants

# Trailing jade
Peperomia rotundifolia

Easy · Fine in a closed jar

Round fleshy leaves on thin trailing stems. Forgives dry spells.

## What the simulation uses

- Light: 2,500 to 10,000 lux (The brightness it grows well in.)

- Humidity: 40 to 80 % 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: 6 to 6.6 pH (Soil acidity it prefers.)

- Grows up: 0.35 cm/month (How fast it gains height in good conditions.)

- Spreads: 1.5 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: 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: good (How well it survives the jar drying out.)

- Water use: 0.08 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: 5.5 cm tall, 30 cm wide (Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.)

## Care

- Day length: 10 to 14 h

- Substrate: Moist

## What kills it

- soggy soil
- cold

## Description
Its slightly fleshy leaves store water, so it handles dry spells better than wet ones. Let the soil dry a little between waterings. Soggy ground is the bigger risk.

Also called creeping buttons, jade necklace.

Estimated, where sources were thin: rates and limits are horticultural estimates, not measured.

## Sources

- [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peperomia_rotundifolia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peperomia_rotundifolia)

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