Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A technical question., 1 by bwilliams

bwilliams wrote:
Yes you can cut this long stem and it should produce a new shoot and leaves. But with any philodendron you can run into the problem of rot. Gloriosum is usually very easy to work with but warm temps and a airy mosit soil should be used. Good air circulation will help prevent any rot as well. I usually cut my philos during the warmer parts of the year if it gets cool and wet they tend to decline easy. Gloriosum is a fairly easy plant. I noticed you said you plan to cut it to make it fit in a pot. Before you put it in its new pot you should know what Gloriosum really is and that is a crawling vine. Most philos climb up trees gloriosum crawls on the jungel floor. The best pot would be something wide and shallow. The perfect pot would be something 2 to 3 feet wide and 4 to 6 inches deep. This is a older photo and I found that these plants would crawl right out of the smaller pots and in a wider pot leave the soil a bit low so if the plant hits the edge it will then start running around the perimeter and fill up the pot. Here is a picture of some of my ground growing philos.