Chalice Vine questions

My Chalice Vine has grown so large in the green house this winter. It must be 25 or 30 feet and is going to be a job to get outside. It hasn't bloomed this winter and I am wondering if it is because it is so humid in there and it stays too damp.
Now the real question. Can I cut it back and expect to get blooms this year on the original plant or will cutting it back eliminate or reduce the chances of flowers this year.
This was a new cutting for me last spring and it was only about 4 foot tall when I moved it in for the winter so all of this is new growth. Not too many new branches just this one long vine growing everywhere.

Betty

wow...I sooo have to get me a greenhouse.......good growin Betty!!!!!

It grew that much in a pot? I'll be interested to know the answer to that question. I have 3, and they all got nipped by a last minute freeze..they're all coming back now. They are late fall/winter bloomers aren't they? I think they bloom when in a dry season right?
If you do end up cutting it, let me be the first to get on the list for the cutting scraps...:)
Haven't talked to you for a while!
Rj

Hi Rj...Has been a while. From what I have read they grow like crazy when wet then bloom when dry. When I bought the plant the Mother plant was on the floor of a GH looked like it hadn't had water in forever but was covered with flowers. They broke this baby off and stuck it in a 4" pot for me. I put it in a 12" hanging basket and wasn't long before I moved it up a couple of pot sizes. Never has bloomed though.

I am afraid to move anything outside right now. We could still get a freeze for another month, even though it is 80 today. I am trying to find a way to let it dry out without moving it. I know that I will have to cut back soon. It is going to take three people to carry it out of the GH. Not weight just Loooooong. LOL Help me remember that you want cuttings. LOL

Betty

I was thinking of putting that vine and the jade vine as a permanent resident of the green house, and let it grow outside the doors or windows.

I don't have a varigated one, but imagine the blooms look pretty much the same.. A friend of mine down the street had one that was blooming late fall. Wonder if we'll ever see blooms with this cycle.

Rj

The blooms on the Mother plant looked like other pics I have seen, Large and cream to gold. The smell was like Banana Bread (I think, has been a while, LOL) I think the Chalice Vine would make a great permanent resident of the green house. Something for me to think about too.

I have a Chocolate Vine (5 leaf Akebia) in the garden. Last summer it went to ground and came up about 20 feet from the original inside my GH. It stayed green in there all winter. The Original is in full bloom the inside plant is growing but no blooms yet.

Betty

It might be good for the Chalice vine, but my GH probably doesn't have enough heigth for the jade. I put up special coconut bamboo ladders for it, but ...they don't tolerate cold too well. I was just wondering why I was even bothering with it.
Sounds like you like vines as much as I do.
Rj

Yes, I love the vines. My GH is so tiny I say every year I need a bigger GH or need to give all these plants away. Lot cheaper to give them away. LOL.
One of my Creepers has little sad flowers on it already. It spent the winter in the basement,and bloomed. lol The other was in prime location (I thought) in the GH... It lost all its leaves...Go figure. I am so ready for real summer blooms.

Betty

I know what you mean...it was a longer than usual winter, and it also missed the global warming memo, as it froze at my house for the first time in 8 years. I lost most of the Papaya trees, although 2 are sprouting tiney leaves. The Ti trees, Bird of Paradise and chalice vines are making a come back. Lost one jade vine, the other was in the green house..Both of my Grandifloras made it thought the Beaumontia in front and the Murtonni in back. I think the Beaumontia may forming buds. I noticed also that along with the chalice vine the Solanum wendlandii is making a come back...So more dammage than total losses.

That is why I put some in the basement and some in the GH. (OK the GH is toooo small for everything. LOL) I always put the current favorites in the basement, I KNOW they will not freeze if we lose electricity and I don't get propane running in the GH in time. (country life, LOL). I know that the basement plants will make it till spring, they will just usually be a little slower. I posted a pic of my first Brug bloom of the season today. It was from the basement. Maybe time to rethink this basement thing. LOL.