A technical question.

It seems the only time I get to do my smaller projects in the garden is at night, except for the lack of light it's the perfect time for me and its cooler too. Tonight I uprooted another of my P.Gloriosum from the garden, to put in a pot so I can look after it better, snails are a bad thing. I surgically removed this limb with all its roots so I could fit the main plant into its new pot.
Now I have this single plant with an awquard trunk ,lots of roots and one big leaf with another coming up.
The question is
...........can I cut this long stem in half, so it will fit in a pot without adversly affecting the plant
......if so will I be able to plant the trimmed piece which has lots of roots but no leaf to get a new plant.

A close up of the trunk and root system

It looks as if there is enough of the root with its carbohydrate content to support the formation of new vegetative growth celt. I have had experience with other plants using this method, and they had much less roots and general size than the cutting you are using.

I have been growing my Gloriosum for about 6 months now and Love it.
I have mine in a window now that will be gettinng a lot more sun as the fall and winter months progress.

One thing that I realy love about the Gloriosum is the way the leaves follow the sun. In the evening when the sun goes down all of the leaves are facing the window. Now in the early morning they are almost all facing away from the window. It seems as though they are folowing the position of the sun from sunrise to sunset. I've noticed this behavior in other seedlings that I gave germinated in this spot, but this response has never been this pronounced in a robust mature plant such as my Gloriosum. Have you noticed this behavior in your plants?

What a beautiful leaf. Wish I had more room inside to over winter but it's going to be difficult to find a place for things that I already have.

Mangosteen
mine have to be kept in deep shade here, one look at the tropical sun and they're toast. Ive now had these for aver a yaer They were in the ground doing fine and then the sun shifted with the season and within two days they were fried. I replanted half in a pot and the other half into deep shade where the snails havae been having a banquet. Now there all in the shade in pots but as winter comes maybe I can allow them some sun and i'll check for moving heads.
Neil

BTW
thanks for the info. Im going to do surgery tonight after work.
Neil

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.

As usuall oh wise one
Thanks for the info . I do have them in wide pots although not so shallow but ive left a good 10" to the top so there's pleanty of room to spread and it also helps keep the leaves upright which suits the their location better. I'm hoping to get some growth out of the new stump so I can trade it for something else. These ones seem to be quite popular. And a little pricey too.

Their are some really unusual forms I have three forms of Gloriosum. The most common form may also be the most beautiful but has been Tissue cultured and is commonly found in Florida. The other two forms are almost impossible to find on those I only know one or two small sorces.

The most common form has very white veins round stems and a bit of red around the rim of the leaves.
The next form look almost identical but a bit more velvety the veins are off white looking and the stems are a bit flattened.

The last form has more velvety leaves fewer white veins and a bit longer leaf not near as round it is also much slower. This photo is of this plant

Celt, yes rotting is a problem sometimes on these kinds of cuttings. One thing I do to avoid that is to not put the
stem in the soil. Your piece of cut stem is ideal since it has good roots on one side of it. I would pot it with the
entire stem laying horizontally on top of the soil, with the roots down in the mix, of course. This keeps the cut ends of the stem out of the soil and dry, with much less chance of rot. With this method, I sometimes see many of the nodes breaking with new growth, where it may have only produced 1 or 2 new plants from the top if it'd been vertical.

Russ
central Fla

Thanks Russ
I had put in Horizontally put did cover the ends as I didn't think they should be left exposed, so now I have removed the soil from the ends and they're open to the air.

Thanks

Oh thats a nice looking plant.

Lavina

Just an update,

Here's the new leaf that developed from the end of the trunk.

Great job, that's a beauty.