Hi all,
New to DG - have decent collection of housplants now, been growing for 6+ years in all.
I have had my arrowhead vine for a couple of years now and it has done well, but i am just wondering what is the best way to grow it ?
it was recently staked upright with bamboo sticks, thought i would let it trail down instead.
Was wondering if it would become bushier in time too ?
Any tips/suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards John.
Nice plant!
Dangling vs. growing up a stake - no right or wrong way, just depends on what you want. If you decide to let it dangle, you might want to go with a hanging pot so you can turn it and keep it from being lop-sided.
If by bushy you mean more leaves directly above the soil, that can be accomplished by removing some of the tips and sticking them back in the soil, but those will eventually creep away too. Each separate piece is trying to grow long by nature though, not bushy. As you know, they are vines.
Maybe you could plant a different plantin between the stems in thee pot.
Say--one that has the same light requirements but stays bushier.
Can't think of one off hand--maybe a pothos--and keep that one trimmed to bushy?
Then you will have a combo planter. Gita
Nice plant!
Dangling vs. growing up a stake - no right or wrong way, just depends on what you want. If you decide to let it dangle, you might want to go with a hanging pot so you can turn it and keep it from being lop-sided.
If by bushy you mean more leaves directly above the soil, that can be accomplished by removing some of the tips and sticking them back in the soil, but those will eventually creep away too. Each separate piece is trying to grow long by nature though, not bushy. As you know, they are vines.
Maybe you could plant a different plantin between the stems in thee pot.
Say--one that has the same light requirements but stays bushier.
Can't think of one off hand--maybe a pothos--and keep that one trimmed to bushy?
Then you will have a combo planter. Gita
My Syngonium is growing in an aquarium. Roots in the water, stems and leaves out. It is trailing to the floor and tall enough to almost reach the ceiling. It has no support.
New roots can grow at every node (Where a leaf is attached) so you can take cuttings wherever you want, but the new growth then continues to trail. It really is not an upright plant that would stay bushy in the pot.
The choices are: Support it on a trellis, hooks in the wall or similar, or else let it trail.
They are not really flexible, like ivy, so once they start trailing that is the direction they will grow. You could lift it up, but not redirect the growth back to root in the original pot without growing it out for a while. Such as up a trellis, then when it decides to grow downward you could aim it back to the pot to root and continue.
Pothos (Epipremnum) is a closely related plant that grows in the same way, but even more trailing.
An upright relative that might work is Spathiphyllum. This has many upright leaves growing from a central point.
More distinctly upright house plants are things like Dracaena or Dieffenbachia. These have trunks. This might be a better combination, in a large enough pot. The Dracaena or Dieffenbachia then becomes the focal point, and the Syngonium something of a ground cover. It could be tied to the upright trunk, if you wanted.
