Comments on: Caring for Pilea (Chinese Money Plant) https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/ Crafts, Home Décor, Recipes Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Naomi https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1630650 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:55:49 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1630650 In reply to Janet.

You should be! You can propogate the top and the bottom could potentially grow well!

]]> By: Janet https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1629789 Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:12:29 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1629789 The main stem of my piles plant is very leggy, can I snip the top off and root it in water?

]]> By: A Beautiful Mess https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1617666 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:37:24 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1617666 In reply to Joan.

Both can work but staking would be what I would do if I wanted it to grow even larger.

]]> By: Maggie https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1617663 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:46:14 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1617663 In reply to Joan.

I really need the answer to this as well. To stake or hang?

]]> By: Sheryl https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1617444 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:18:20 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1617444 I bought a “pup” at a farmer’s market a couple years ago and have repotted it once, and now it’s quite large. It’s had pups of its own but I haven’t cut any. It’s not very easy to keep happy though. I live in the south and learned I can’t put it out in the sun. I’ve been keeping it on the coffee table where it gets a bit of sunlight from the skylight and indirect light the rest of the day. I had it outside for fresh air and it rained buckets on the poor thing…i was so afraid of root rot that I removed it from the pot and shook off the soaked soil and repotted it in fresh soil. It’s still trying to recover. NGL…I also praise it and love on it LOL. Worth the challenge!

]]> By: Electra https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1617076 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:04:54 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1617076 You said you put it in a window sill but what direction are you putting it in? I had it about a foot from the western side and there is a patio but it looked like it was getting too hot inside annd the leaves stopped flattening out as it had done when it was in the 70s outside. Now it’s nearing 85-95 outside. Another issue what temperature do they like in the house? I recently moved mine in west four feet from the window.

These aren’t easy to grow. Not in the summer when the heat hits. I finally got the coins to flatten now they’re back curling since summer time in desert like conditions. Thanks!

]]> By: Pauline https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1596603 Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:18:51 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1596603 Mine has flowered..

]]> By: Valerie https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1582431 Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:26:24 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1582431 In reply to MELANIE BAZIRGAN.

Me too. Can’t find any information on this problem

]]> By: Barbara https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1578918 Tue, 30 May 2023 01:58:43 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1578918 In reply to Angellica.

Mine has grown a lacy stem as it reminds me! Didn’t know they do this, like a lacy branch of tiny flowers it reminds me of

]]> By: Joan https://abeautifulmess.com/caring-for-pilea-plants/#comment-1577840 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:25:16 +0000 http://abeautifulmess.com/?p=35022#comment-1577840 My pilea has gotten huge. Is it better to let the stems droop to make a hanging plant, or should I stake them so they stand upright?

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