How to grow pennywort in water? A detailed guide to the cultivation method

You are surely already quite familiar with the pennywort plant. It is a very easy-to-grow green plant that can be kept as a small bonsai for display. Pennywort has long been regarded as a symbol of wealth, so many people place this "little fresh" plant in the living room. The way to make its ornamental value even higher is to grow it in water.

1. You do not need to change the water particularly often. If you change it too frequently, it is not good for the pennywort either. Basically, just make sure there is enough water in the basin, and change it once a week. In summer, you can change the water more often to prevent mosquitoes from laying eggs in it.

2. Pennywort likes sunlight. With sufficient sunlight it can grow quickly, and no fertilizing is needed. Just be careful to give it more than 4 hours of sunlight per day on average.

3. As for fertilizing, there is nothing too particular about it. You can appropriately add some nutrient solution, such as the quick-acting fertilizer Huabao No. 2, or the slow-release fertilizer Mofei, and so on. If you keep goldfish at home, pouring the water from changing the goldfish tank into the pennywort basin can make the pennywort grow better.

4. 16-24°C is the suitable temperature for pennywort. Too low a temperature inhibits growth. Too high a temperature makes it easy for small insects to hatch in the water.

5. When growing pennywort in water, yellowed leaves that fall into the water will slowly rot and spoil the water quality, so we should regularly check the water container and fish out any moldy, rotting leaves as soon as we find them.

6. Vigorously growing pennywort can spread across an entire water basin in a very short time. After the pennywort has spread to fill the basin, the overly dense pennywort should be divided and transplanted. The purpose of doing this is to prevent the mature leaves from shading the young leaves from light and affecting the normal metabolism of the plant.