Beginner Gardening: Winter rest periods: Do we need 'em?, 0 by Metrosideros

Metrosideros wrote:
Why not use a tree branch? If you live in the right area they're free!

Amazingly, stores still sell Epipremnums and other invasive vines in Hawai'i. Many folks will buy them only to find that when they put them in their gardens they become aggressive and go everywhere. Our lowland forests are heavily invaded by Epipremnums, Philodendrons, and Syngoniums.

Some folks do keep them as houseplants here. One of the more interesting plants I've seen is an Epipremnum growing out of a fish tank with live fish (guppies) and trained all around a living room. No soil and healthy.

For Epipremnum to get large (stems to a 4 in. diam / leaves to 3 ft.) it must be allowed to become a hemiepiphytic vine, crawling across forest floors full of organic materials and up trees. They will go 100 ft. up trees in a rainforest, and that is where their leaves will get mature and pinnately divided, and they will only produce flowers up in a tree.

For Epipremnum to get big as a houseplant, train it on something (tree branches or your "totem") that its' stem can throw roots into and regularly water the stem with a low analysis organic liquid fertilizer such as Liquid Seaweed ("Maxicrop"). Liquid Seaweed is almost a perfect food for the vine as it has more potassium than other nutrients and that will encourage stem growth. For the leaves to get large, the stem must get big.
When growing tropical vines such as Epipremnum, Philodendron, & Syngonium, think stem growth! For the foliage to be healthy & happy, the stem must be happy. The stem is the heart of the plant!

Aloha, Dave