I was wondering if there is anyone with experience growing chalice cup vine. Specifically, I read that it needs a lot of support to grow. I want to train it onto a palm tree trunk, but so far the pictures I've seen on google show it on structures or fences. I purchased a rather large size that is already about 8 foot of woody vines but not very helathy (not many leaves, pot bound, has chili thrips.) Any advice would be greatly appreciated- I want to get it in the ground as soon as possible. Thank you! F4F
Chalice Cup Vine Experience
i grew it in the keys on a trellis. it broke the trellis down bit by bit. it's a very heavy vine and it seems like it wants to ramble, not go straight up. i wouldn't think a palm would be good.
This is the best advice I've gotten yet, and confirms what I researched. Since it is an aggressive vine, I think training it up a tree is really best. I don't see it getting aggressive in that capacity. All I need is one flower on one stem to enjoy having the plant. I've been experimenting with a lot of vines in untraditional ways, and I especially like to espalier twining vines up large diameter tree trunks. I think this way I will successfully have many different types of vines, some of which are considered "invasive" in a relatively controlled manner. I think invasive is a very relative term, all in all, and gardening in general relates to how hands on the gardener is. I hope this summer I will be able to post some pictures in the vines and climbers forum- when I have a few more finished visions.
Thanks MM. Was just checking out your home page in case you had any seeds to trade (I'm addicted to trading!!!) What type of gardening do you do?
Hi fauna4flora
This one vine is a rather common sight here, it indeed is a heavy one and usually people grow it on a strong fence which it would soon cover, it tends more to creep than really reaching the sky, I am not sure a palm would please it, it would do better on a low branched strong tree.
Jean-Jacques
Home page? I'll have to go look.
It's iffy mailing plant matter to the Mainland from here. Or getting stuff. Burpee just cancelled a strawberry order, boo. I do have a few strawberry plants that are blooming and fruiting, hooray! All my papayas are boys, more than twenty. What luck! Takes eight months for the buggars to bloom so you can see if male or female.
I grow what I can eat, or a few things that are fragrant. I have a Brugmansia that has intoxicating fragrance, and it's blooming like mad. I have two angel wing begonias with red blossoms, one in a hanging basket, and one tall guy, I eat the flowers. Lettuce, broccoli, celery, parsley, rainbow chard, asparagus in pots, hahaha! Corn that's almost ready to eat, the yellow crookneck squash failed, bugs brought a virus.
"Baby" trees of various sorts, I seem to make them bonsai without meaning to, no place to plant them yet. Key lime, poincianna, fiddlewood, mango, and a Stinking Toe, haha. The several coconuts need to go to a beach someplace.
I am renting, six months into a two year lease, a house with a big front yard. I have to pay for water, so I'm trying to not go overboard with digging up the lawn for veggies.
Oh, and I have one pet orchid, a blue Vanda. One. Period. No more! Just one!
Hmm, probably forgot some things. I want some roses, but the company that I would buy from is sold out of them that I want, the marvelous "Fragrant Cloud" and a few others. Heritage Roses. They have virus free roses.
Whew, is that enough?
That is sooooooo funny- all your papayas are males. Funny thing is, I want a male plant just because I love the way the flowers smell. A guy laughed at me last week because he digs the males up and throws them away...... Lots of veggies, cool! I had a big veggie garden in Orlando, but I have so far been focusing on ornamentals here because I haven't been ready for another major construction project to get the veggie garden going. I want a huge plot with irrigation and some sort of enclosed screen to keep bugs and squirrels out.....I'm kind of all or nothing although my husband has a few pet tomato plants in pots. I have Brufelsia americana. It supplanted night blooming jasmine as my favorite fragrant plant. I try to keep my gardening themed- fragrant plants, palms, species with red emergent leaves, and butterfly or bee attractants....but I never stick to just that! I understand what you mean about one vanda. I'm such a collecting fool that orchids would be VERY dangerous for me, too! Do roses do well in the Virgin Islands?
If you can get a rose plant that's virus free, yes, they do well here. They think it's spring all the time, so they try to bloom all the time! Not a lot of people have roses, tho'.
There was a nice Peace by the road by an empty store. I would stop and get blossoms occasionally, but then it disappeared, and there was a big hole in the ground! waaaaa!
You could train it up any palm with boots, like a cabbage palm. By the way, which Solandra do you have, the wide or thin mouth one? The wide one has the scent of coconut!
Selby gardens has my Solandra maxima variegata donation growing in a container with a few other plants.
It seems the maxima doesn't flower as readily as the S. longiflora. I love the purple coloration on the new growth of the variegata.
If you do train it up a palm, you might need to keep it trimmed; at least 2x/year.
I was thinking exactly of trimming it more often the way I am attempting to train it. Not sure if it is wide or thin as it is not in flower yet, but I collected seeds off 2 pods yesterday. I hope its the wide one- all I know is that the grower definitely said that it smells great. Thanks for your input!