You have to be kind of a hawkeye. They were getting a ton of PPP's at Home Depot a month or so ago and most were not at all impressive. You kind of have to search through them and see if you can find one stuck down in the mix. I found 2 that were highly variegated/marbled, one had 3 great plants in one container, the other had 2 plants one was great one mediocre. I bought them both so I could put multiple plants on one support and have a really full display. I separated them and potted them all up alone as soon as I got them home because Costa's soil is shit. I still have to make the new support LOL. These are the 4 good ones
Many people agree that these new TC 'marbled' plants look really different from the old school PPP's of the past. The leaf shape is different....more narrow, less round and less broad. And of course the variegation is pretty different. The old school plants had a really really high amount of large patch sectorial variegation compared to these new ones. They had such a high complete reversion rate to all pink that a lot of people just gave up and tossed them after they had tried cutting them back before the reversion a few times and gotten...more reversion. I tossed a few back in the day.
These new marbles did do through a couple iterations in TC before they got these. They started making what they called 'dark PPP' (breeding in more green and less pink) that tended to look brick red and have very little pink. Most people thought these were really ugly and would not buy them. It looks like they finally got it to a better state.
Don't give up, you will find a good one, and at $19.95 you won;t be able to beat it
If you see some that are labeled 'MARBLE PRINCESS' don;t be confused. This is just the regular PPP, that they are sticking a new name on and trying to get people to think that it's a different plant.
SOme non-box store places (and ETSY and INSTAGRAM sellers) have tried to capitalize on this. They are being the regular highly patterned PPP's and reselling Tham as 'MARBLE' for a lot more $$$. The other ploy is 'BLACK CHERRY' PPP. These are just regular ones that happen to have a very dark background for the pink to pop on
