Baby Tears Plant Care & Propagation Guide

Baby tears plant is a perennial herb belonging to the cold water flower of Urticaceae, with beautiful leaf patterns, plant type of baby and baby, and Baby tears plant is more shade resistant. Baby tears plant can be arranged on tea tables and flower racks with scattered light for a long time, or can be configured with other plants, or used as a hanging basin to hang in a corner or prominent place. Let's take a look at the Propagation methods and precautions of baby tears plant! (Find more best indoor hanging plants here.)

Baby Tears Plant Quick Info

Botanical/Scientific Name	Soleirolia soleirolii
Common Name	Baby's tears
Varieties	Soleirolia soleirolii Golden Queen,Soleirolia soleirolii Silver Queen, soleirolia soleirolii Variegata
Uses	Used in terrariums and mixed containers
Origin	Certain islands in the western Mediterranean, primarily including Corsica and Sardinia
Light Care	Bright, indirect light but no direct sun
Soil Care	Moist, well-drained soil in a partial to full shade spot
Temperature Care	60-75 degrees
Humidity Care	Medium to high humidity
Watering	Water every 5 to 7 days depending on light and temperature
Pruning Care	Pruning will improve its appearance,
Fertilizer Care	Feed every two weeks in the spring and summer
Propagation	Press any attached stem or shoot into the moist rooting medium
Toxic	Child and pet safe plant

Baby Tears Plant Care in Detail

Baby Tears Plant Watering

Baby tears plant likes a humid climate. If the climate is too dry, baby tears plant will lack water, which will lead to poor growth. When we water baby tears plant at ordinary times, we should keep the soil slightly moist, neither too dry nor too wet. We can spray water appropriately in high temperature season, which can not only increase the humidity, but also reduce the temperature, which is conducive to the development of baby tears plant.

Baby Tears Plant Soil

Like most plants, baby tears plant likes sandy loam rich in humus. Usually, baby tears plant uses peat soil as the matrix. You can also use garden soil with river sand. If we want to improve nutrients, we can add an appropriate amount of base fertilizer. In addition, when we turn the basin for baby tears plant every spring, we also need new basin soil to avoid soil hardening affecting the growth of roots.
When it comes to growing any plant, we know that the soil is your main concern. But there is no need to worry as Baby’s Tears is unpretentious when it comes to soil. It will perform best in a rather loose soil which allows the water to drain well. Even though the plant loves humidity, drainage is important for healthy growth. For the best results, choose a slightly acidic soil (5-6 pH).

Baby Tears Plant Light

Baby tears plant has a certain negative tolerance, but likes sufficient light at the same time. It should be placed in the sunny place at ordinary times. We want to make baby tears plant able to receive light. However, in summer, you should pay attention to shade and avoid direct sunlight to prevent the leaves of baby tears plant from being burned. If the environment is too dark, the leaf color of baby tears plant will fade, affecting its beauty.

Baby Tears Plant Temperature

Baby tears plant is an indoor flower with beautiful leaf color. It is very shade resistant, but it prefers sufficient light and should avoid direct strong light. In summer, we should put the flower pot of baby tears plant in the North window. In winter, we can put baby tears plant in the south window. If the light is too dark, the leaf color of baby tears plant will fade. If the sun is too strong, the leaves of baby tears plant will be burned. The suitable temperature for the growth of baby tears plant is 18 ~ 22 ℃, and the temperature in winter should not be lower than 7 ℃.

Baby Tears Plant Humidity

The maintenance methods of baby tears plant and other potted plants are similar. They prefer to grow in semi shade with soft scattered light, or can grow under bright indoor light. Baby tears plant is more suitable to be raised near the windowsill facing east or North. It's not good to keep it in places with too much sunlight or too much direct sunlight. The leaves of baby ears plant are easy to get sunburn.
Both baby tears and creeping fig need high humidity to thrive. This makes them well-suited for a terrarium. If grown indoors in pots, baby’s tears will need daily misting with water, as well as constantly moist soil. Setting the pots on a tray of gravel that is kept wet also will help raise humidity. Creeping fig needs less water than baby’s tears. Water it when the top of the soil is dry and reduce watering in winter. Once established, creeping fig is drought tolerant, while baby’s tears is not.

Baby Tears Plant Fertilizer

Baby tears plant needs different fertilizers in different seasons. In the growth stage of baby tears plant, we need to apply nitrogen fertilizer every two weeks, which can make baby tears plant more robust. In autumn, we need to supplement phosphorus and potassium fertilizer to baby tears plant, which can make the stem of baby tears plant stronger and avoid plant lodging.
Fertilizing in autumn and spring will keep the plant in good shape and an all-purpose fertilizer will work just fine. Liquid fertilizers are the best choice, as they are easier to dilute. As it goes with most fertilizers, it is best if it does not touch the leaves, which can be tricky with a low-growing plant. You can always rinse the leaves after the fertilization.

Baby Tears Plant Pruning

Outdoors, both baby’s tears and creeping fig can spread farther than the gardener desires. Creeping fig needs regular pruning to keep it in check. Its adhesive aerial roots can damage walls and are hard to remove, so don’t let it climb on a house or other structure. Baby’s tears roots so easily in moist soil that once it is established, it is difficult to eradicate and will appear in moist areas of the garden other than where it was planted. While baby's tears isn't susceptible to many pests, creeping fig may attract aphids, mealy bugs and mites; wash them off with water at the first sign of trouble.

Baby Tears Plant Repotting

The tears of baby plants grow rapidly and need to be repotted frequently. Repot the plants ones they overgrow and crowd out their existing. Pot-bound plants are more vulnerable to drying out, and in plants which need to be repotted, there is an increased incidence of wilting. They can be quite invasive, particularly when grown outdoors. Prune periodically to ensur that their jar does not overgrow or leak outward into pathways when grown as ground cover.

Baby Tears Plant Pest & Disease Control

Baby Tears are not prone to many diseases, but watch for botrytis while the days are short. This grey rot is usually associated with wet or humid conditions. You can prevent botrytis by allowing the plant to dry out between waterings, allowing for good airflow in your greenhouse, and spacing to allow the sun to penetrate to the soil level. The most common chemicals used to treat botrytis are Medallion and Banrot. Use them as a drench according to each label’s instructions.

Baby Tears Plant Propagation

Baby Tears Plant Cutting Propagation

Baby tears plant is very clumpy. You can divide the whole pier column cluster into several parts and put them into the basin respectively in combination with turning over the basin and changing the soil. At the same time, the Baby Tears Plant Cutting Propagation need to cut the old stem of baby tears plant and keep 2 ~ 3 nodes at the base of the stem. After survival, the axillary buds of baby tears plant can germinate quickly and produce new lateral branches.

Baby Tears Plant Division Propagation

Seeds are rarely used in baby tears plant. We usually use branches to cut or change plants in pots. The cutting of baby tears plant is mostly carried out in spring and autumn. Insert the cut branches into vermiculite or plain sand. Wait for a week after watering, and baby tears plant will take root slowly. When changing pots, you can divide the plants into several clusters and plant them separately.
As most mat-forming herbs, Baby's Tears propagates easily, and once it catches roots, it spreads quite quickly and aggressively. The easiest method to propagate it is through division. Stem tip cuttings also work very well.
If you propagate it through stem tip Division, prepare your containers first and make sure that the medium is well dampened. Make the holes in the medium and start looking for the healthiest stems, with an average length of 5-6 cm. Remove all the base leaves and keep only the leaves at the top of the stem.

Baby Tears Plant Varieties

The green-leaf version of the baby tears plants is the most widespread and dominant variety.
However, there are two other varieties — one that produces golden leaves, called the 'Aurea', and a variegated variety that produces leaves dotted with white markings, called the 'Variegata'.
For both varieties, it's recommended to prune any leaves that are simply green, so as to prevent the plant from reverting back to the dominant green variety.
The baby tears plant is sometimes mistaken for other plants, and vice versa. It shows the most resemblance to Irish moss but also to the pilea plant.

Baby Tears Plant Benefits

Baby tears plant is placed in the porch to receive gas and purify air.

Baby Tears Plant Care FAQs

How to plant dwarf baby tears?

The most important step in raising dwarf baby horses is to find the right buyer. You will find that it is much more powerful than buying a small lump, and the purchase is generally small and less. It is not easy to buy less. If you buy more and invest too much, it will be very expensive. It will hurt.
Let's talk about how to grow dwarf baby teams. At first, it depends on others to divide them one by one. Theoretically, this can quickly become a scene. A small lump of dwarf baby teams can be distributed in a large area, but if it is a large lump of dwarf baby teams, it may not be a problem. For a small lump, many chances will not slow down and float slowly, Or dwarf baby tears takes a long time to react.
Therefore, I suggest novices who want to plant dwarf baby pearls. If they share or buy grass friends' large ground climbing short pearls, they can plant them one by one. Because they are relatively large, they can plant them deeper. If it's the kind of small dwarf baby tears purchased online, you can directly plant a small lump of dwarf baby tears. In this way, although the success rate of dwarf baby tears is slow, it has a high success rate and can be divided gradually when dwarf baby tears grows up in the later stage. Once the climbing short pearls slow down and start climbing, there will be more and more, so there is no need to worry about the dissatisfaction of dwarf baby tears in the later stage.

Baby tears plant toxic to cats

Whether you call it baby's tears, Paddy's wig, mind-your-own-business or any of the many other names it goes by, Soleirolia is a child- and pet-safe plant that produces lots of tiny white flowers.

Baby tears plant turning brown

Baby tears plant it seems that he is actually a special public position. Now many people like to plant such a plant. There are some white spots on the leaves of baby tears plant. These baby tears plant spots are not his disease state. In fact, they are very natural. Such spots are like water droplets icing on them, Or a layer of frost, especially good-looking. In this way, it also improves his whole ornamental value. Some people will have such problems during maintenance. These problems are that the leaves of baby tears plant suddenly turn yellow, and it is useless to teach more nutrition and more water. Why on earth? In fact, this is a very common phenomenon. We can solve it through the following points, which is also very convenient and simple.
The browning of baby tears plant leaves is a result of many things we have seen. Finally, it is analyzed that our baby tears plant maintenance method is wrong, which leads to its yellow leaves. This can be avoided only by some maintenance methods. At present, the role of baby tears plant in our home is only that it can purify the air. Moreover, the very unique leaves of baby tears plant are a good ornamental plant for us. Therefore, we all hope to plant it at home, because we are under great pressure, If we plant such green plants at home, we can water baby tears plant when we relax at work. This is not only very convenient, but also a process of releasing pressure for our life.
The reason why the leaves of baby tears plant turn brown is that many people don't have much fertilization skills in terms of fertilization. But baby horses plant pays more attention to fertilizer. Many people are busy now. They don't have much time for themselves. They often work for the boss. At this time, they don't take good care of some of their green plants. Many times, it may take a month, It will take two months to remember that I haven't fertilized baby tears plant for a long time. At this time, I fertilized him a lot. In fact, it's completely impossible. Because of the fertilization of green plants, baby tears plant fertilizes in a specific environment. If we suddenly set a time for the flight test or suddenly increase the amount of fertilization, the plants can't stand it at this time. When baby tears plant can't stand it, it may be a shoe wood on the root or a slope on the leaves. At this time, baby tears plant can easily cause the leaves to turn brown. In order to solve such a problem, we must pay attention to the fact that when fertilizing, the key is some thinner fertilizer, which can not be too high. Moreover, the fertilizing time must be selected in a period when our plants grow and develop vigorously. At that time, baby horses plant needs more fertilizer, Then we can apply some fertilizer to him.
This problem is a lighting problem, which will also cause the leaves of baby tears plant to turn brown. We must improve the lighting so that baby tears plant can perform better. When we are maintaining cold water flowers, some people may put them completely in a sunny place. In fact, this method is not very correct, because we found that baby tears plant is in a cold and gloomy environment in its birthplace. In such an environment, baby tears plant can grow very well. But now many people like to put it directly on the window near the South or on the balcony to let the sun shine directly. At this time, it leads to its poor growth, because for a long time, this baby tears plant has been growing in a relatively cold environment, which has been the case for thousands of years, If you plant him now and put him in a sunny environment, he may suddenly fail to adapt. If he fails to adapt, it is actually a kind of harm to her. Therefore, we must pay attention to such a problem. It is not that the better the sunshine, the more favorable it is for baby tears plant.
So we can put the baby tears plant in our bathroom or in a dark environment in the bedroom when we raise it. You have no problem. At this time, if we must pay attention, especially in summer, we can put the baby tears plant in a place with sunshine in winter, Because the sun is not so strong in winter. There are not so high requirements for some green plants, so we can give them sunshine especially when it is cold, because at this time, we can appropriately warm the soil or the whole plant. There is no problem, but we must pay attention not to frostbite him. If the leaves or roots of baby tears plant are frostbitten, it will be difficult to rise back in the next year. At this time, our baby tears plant may be destroyed.
When watering, because people may not have enough time, they pay taxes every day when they think of it, or they water too much money, or they water baby tears plant too little, which is a kind of harm to green plants, When we water it, we can see that its soil is dry. When we water it, we can give it some water. When we water it, we can directly pour it through, and then measure the soil water directly into its roots. In this way, the roots of baby tears plant can directly absorb water. It is good for one of his growth and development. However, you can't soak his whole plant in water all the time. If you soak it in water, the soil water will soak his lamp all the time. It doesn't inhibit the root of baby tears plant, because its root also needs to breathe. He can't breathe only when it is soaked in water, At this time, the root of baby tears plant may rot, which is very harmful to the growth and development of baby tears plant.