Care guide
Polka dot plant
Hypoestes phyllostachya
Bright indirect · Slightly damp
Pets: No problem
How to care for it
- Light
- Bright, but never direct
- Water
- Always slightly damp
- Humidity
- The more the better
- Soil
- Ordinary potting mix
- Feeding
- In spring and summer
- Making more
- From cuttings
- Pets
- No problemThe ASPCA’s plant list ↗
Its rhythm
Water every 4 days
Feed every 5 waterings, as its species asks.
That’s where Plantempo starts. Then it learns this plant’s real rhythm from your local weather and a touch of the soil.
A starting point. Every plant keeps its own rhythm, and that one is yours to set.
Making more
From cuttings
You cut something off. It has no roots yet, so it waits in the nursery until it grows them.