When I brought back some stem cuttings of this plant, I stuck them into polystyrene cups filled with garden soil. I pinched off the lower leaves and made sure that the lowest node where the leaves joined the stem was buried in the soil for the roots to grow.
This plant is called Wandering Jew or Inch Plant. It is also known as Tradescantia.
The leaves have green, silver and purple stripes and the underside of the leaves is purple.
From the polystyrene cup, I transferred the plant into a hanging pot.
It grows well in soil with good water drainage. I watered it once a day in the morning
I feed the plant with fertilizer about once in every 2 weeks. Wandering Jew or Inch plant is easy to grow.
I do not have shaded place to hang this plant, so I had to hang it where it is exposed to a few hours of morning sun till midday.
Initially, the leaves started to dry up due to the sudden exposure to the sun.
When the branches grow too long, I trim them back for new and more branches to grow.
Take care to live in me, and let me live in you.
For a branch can't produce fruit when severed from the vine.
Nor can you be fruitful apart from me. "Yes, I am the Vine;
you are the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him
shall produce a large crop of fruit.
For apart from me you can't do a thing.
(John 15:4-5, The Living Bible-TLB)
