String of hearts

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• RoddersUK Posts: 537

  June 2022

  Flowering?

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  June 2022

  Seed pods.
  

  East Anglia

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• Juniper4 Posts: 79

  June 2022

  @RoddersUK it's not flowering. I know what they look like on my plant.
  @Asarum not seed pods, as they have bead like tubers on the vines.
  
  Thanks for reply 

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• bcpathome Posts: 1,313

  June 2022

  Escape ?

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• msqingxiao Posts: 482

  June 2022

  Googled a bit and most other people do say it's seed pods
  https://www.reddit.com/r/StringofHearts/comments/p250yl/what_exactly_are_these_pointy_spike_things/
  https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/knnkam/spikes_on_ceropegia_woodii_string_of_hearts_have/
  
  Can I ask how you manage to keep yours so lush and healthy please?  The leaves on mine are few and far between....

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  June 2022 edited June 2022

  Juniper4 said:

  
  @Asarum not seed pods, as they have bead like tubers on the vines.
  
  Thanks for reply 

  Certainly look like other seed pods on www.
  Quote...."Seeds are readily produced in long thin pods and germinate easily."
  
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=ceropegia++seed+pods&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj61cH_ipf4AhUm5IUKHSO4CaYQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ceropegia++seed+pods&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDDIECCMQJ1DvBlj9DGCVIWgAcAB4AIAB2QKIAdkJkgEHMC41LjEuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=WQmdYrrFOKbIlwSj8KawCg&bih=577&biw=1280&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  June 2022

  What are the round things on String of Hearts?

  

  These structures are aerial tubers, also called bulbils, starting out as a white patch at leaf nodes and then swelling to form white balls. They can then be laid back on the dirt in the pot, or laid on the dirt in a pot to the side of the plant, adding a little sand under the tuber to help prevent rot.

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2022

  The tubers on the vines aren’t seed pods … they’re tubers (like potatoes form on the underground stems of potato plants).
  
   The long green pods in your photo are seedpods that form from the flowers. 

  
  

  
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Juniper4 Posts: 79

  June 2022

  @Asarum I apologize. Looks like you are right ☺️

  
  

  @msqingxiao @Dovefromabove thank you for correctly me and point me in the right direction.
  
  

  @msqingxiao it’s a new plant that I bought a month ago. Never owned one before. 

  Started developing these “seed pods” 2 weeks ago. Thought at first that they were new plump leaves. 

  
  

  It’s doing very well at the moment. It’s hanging near a east facing window. 

  It’s developing new vines and flowers. 😊

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• Juniper4 Posts: 79

  June 2022 edited June 2022

  Silver surfer said:

  Juniper4 said:

  
  @Asarum not seed pods, as they have bead like tubers on the vines.
  
  Thanks for reply 

  Certainly look like other seed pods on www.
  Quote...."Seeds are readily produced in long thin pods and germinate easily."
  
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=ceropegia++seed+pods&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj61cH_ipf4AhUm5IUKHSO4CaYQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ceropegia++seed+pods&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDDIECCMQJ1DvBlj9DGCVIWgAcAB4AIAB2QKIAdkJkgEHMC41LjEuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=WQmdYrrFOKbIlwSj8KawCg&bih=577&biw=1280&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785
  

  When I Google string of hearts how to care. 

  Most sites don’t mention the seed pods, only how to propagate from tubers. 

  Didn’t realise that they produce seeds aswell 😲😊

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