Tradescantia Plant Care Cheat Sheet

Tradescantia are unique and beautiful vining houseplants that come in a lot of different shapes, sizes, and colors.

Lighting: This is considered a high light plant that appreciates bright indirect light. It can tolerate around 3-4 hours of direct light touching the foliage. It's important to make sure that light hits the top of the pot in order to keep the plant full. To maintain the plant, a minimum of 200 FC is required. To achieve good growth, you will want to look for 400 FC.

Watering: This plant likes to stay evenly moist between waterings. That doesn't mean to constantly drench it, but that you want to let the top 1-2" dry out of the soil before watering it again.

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This quick cheat sheet is meant to give you tips and tricks for how to best care for your plant. All of the information above is based on my personal experience and advice with houseplants and the lighting requirements are a reference from Daryl Chang of House Plant Journal.

*FC is lighting measured in Foot Candles and requires a light meter to get an accurate reading.