Peperomia Napoli Nights is a plant of the Peperomia family that has fantastic silver foliage. This is stylish, cute, and fits everywhere as it doesn’t reach enormous size. Peperomia Napoli Nights originated in South America from the Amazon basin.
This plant is a hybrid variety that grows slowly but produces brightly colored flowers spikes. Its flowers are insignificant. Peperomia Napoli Nights is non-toxic to dogs, cats, and humans.
Peperomia Napoli Nights Care tips
1. Soil
Peperomia Napoli Nights is undemanding to the soil composition but grows better in a mixture of soddy and leafy soil mixed with sand. Humus or peat can also be added.
A successful combination of turf and lush soil, humus, and sand can also be included. You can use the ready-made geranium substrate and 30% coarse sand to improve drainage.
2. Lighting
Peperomia Napoli Nights prefer bright diffused light and tolerate partial and complete shade. It must be remembered that this plant needs bright, intense light, as the variegated color of the leaves is lost in the shade.
Variegated forms can tolerate a certain amount of direct sunlight per day but should be shaded from midday rays.
Optimal for growing windows with east or west exposure. Shading will be required in the summer only during the hottest hours on a window with southern exposure. It can be grown on windows with a northern exposure.
The color of the leaves can become dark green, and the plant doesn’t bloom if the plant lacks light. Also, the variegated forms of plants will lose the variegated color of the leaves.
3. Temperature
Peperomia Napoli Nights is not very demanding in temperature conditions (it can grow in warm and cool rooms). The spring-summer period prefers moderate air temperature, within 18-24 ℃.
In the autumn-winter period, the temperature should not fall below 10 °C for a long time, in the event of a prolonged decrease in temperature, and the plant becomes ill.
4. Watering
Water moderately from spring to autumn, for the soil, should have time to dry out. In winter, watering is limited, depending on the content’s temperature.
When watering, especially in winter, water should not be allowed to enter the center of the outlet because this can cause decay. In addition, excessive watering is very dangerous. But it should also be known that the leaves become lethargic with a lack of watering.
5. Air humidity
Peperomia Napoli Nights is generally undemanding to air humidity, although it exists at a humidity of about 60% under natural conditions.
For most of the year, room humidity is sufficient for them, but it is advisable to spray the plants daily in winter and late autumn, as central heating dries the air very much. If a humidifier is running in the room, spraying is not required.
6. Fertilizer
Peperomia Napoli Nights is suitable for universal fertilizers. Essentially, it can be fed on a different schedule. You can also use fertilizers for cacti and succulents.
For this plant, it is most convenient to use liquid fertilizers applied along with irrigation. This is because the root system of Peperomia Napoli Nights is very sensitive, and dry fertilizers can burn the roots.
7. Top dressing
Peperomia Napoli Nights is fed two times a month during the active growing season (from about April to the end of September). It would be best not to provide it in winter because it is dormant. In winter, fertilizing is necessary but twice as rare, one time per month.
8. Transplant
Transplant Peperomia Napoli Nights only when the pot becomes cramped. This is after two years for young plants and three years for adult plants.
The presence of roots protruding from the pot can serve as a signal for transplanting plants. Since the roots of Peperomia Napoli Nights grow more in width, the pot for it should not be too deep but wide.
With close content, the powerful roots of Peperomia Napoli Nights can break the pot. However, if you want the plant to bloom, the new pot should not be too large since abundant flowering occurs if the earth ball is braided with roots.
At the bottom of the pot, there should be drainage from broken shards, small gravel, pieces of coal, or expanded clay.
Propagation Methods
a) Propagation by cuttings
Propagating Peperomia Napoli Nights by cuttings is convenient. Cut tops of shoots with 2-3 internodes are enough to put in water and keep at room temperature in a bright place. After a while, they will give roots, after which they can be planted in separate small containers.
b) Propagation by leaves
Propagation by leaves does not always give the desired results, but sometimes this is the only way to get a vending species or variety. The leaf is carefully cut off with a sharp instrument, and the petiole is shortened.
The lower part of the sheet can be powdered with Kornevin and buried up to half in a substrate of sand and peat. An easier option is to place the leaf in a glass of water and change the water at least two times a day. It may take 20 days or more before roots appear.
c) Propagation by bush
Propagation of a Peperomia Napoli Nights flower by dividing a bush is usually combined with a transplant. The mother plant is removed from the pot, and the roots are gently shaken off the ground so they are visible during work.
With a sharp disinfected knife, the bush is cut into pieces to have an approximately equal number of shoots. Sections are sprinkled with crushed activated charcoal and dried in the air. Then they are planted in the soil and fed with water. After sometimes, the roots begin to form.
Pests and Diseases
Root and collar rot is a common disease resulting from various fungal infections that manifest themselves with excessive soil compaction or excessive moisture.
You need to repot the plant in new soil and reduce watering to prevent this. A mealybug often settles on Peperomia Napoli Nights, and in cases of damage, the leaves are wiped with cotton wool soaked in alcohol.
Also, this plant is susceptible to a virus that causes dwarfism. You can remove such plants to avoid infecting healthy specimens with the virus.
Conclusion
Peperomia Napoli Nights is a unique plant that is relatively low in maintenance when comparing the care with other house plants. The propagation method is easy, and everyone can afford it if you control watering. Also, its humidity, temperature, and soil needs are not such difficult to consider.