A few months ago, I cut off four vines from one of my pubicalyx plants and put them in a vase of hydroton to see if they would send out leaves.
I was surprised to see little clusters of leaves. I really didn't think anything would happen. Now I am going to plant them into little pots and wait, and wait, and wait, for blooms. LOL
Here is a closeup picture. Do you think I can cut off each little cluster and put each one in it's own pot. The roots are on the bottom of the stems.
Great proof that some new vines when cut can root and grow... However, I think that what you have are clusters (whorls?) of leaves at nodes...effectively when they are rooted they will be plants!!! Some hoyas will do that (put out more than 2 leaves at a node)...and it might be just at the juvenile stage that happens and when they mature you will get only 2 opposite leaves. Are there any clusters, like that, on the mother plant?
It looks to me like the buds at the nodes have just sprouted and produced the start of new vines.
I would just plant each stem and you'll be set.
If you want to remove the whorls of leaves, you'll need to re-root the whorls/new vines so they can survive in a pot.
If you go the re-root route, I'd wait until the new vines are a little longer so the new vines are more mature and don't rot when put into the rooting medium or the Hydroton.
My .02
Mike
I've had success with the same plant - H. pubicalyx - it sends out such loooooong vines and
some seem like they'll never grow out their leaves and then the end dies back - so I chop them
off ! I have a 'community' pot outside that anything like that gets stuck into, just to 'see' if it'll
grow something. Almost every other vine dies, but H. pubicalyx and H. obscura, both with no leaves at all, have rooted and grown new leaves in no time...
I have done this with the variegated H. kerrii, also. A friend wanted H. kerrii 'Albomarginata' so I cut off one of the long leafless ends of vine and put it in a cup of rooting medium in a ziploc bag. Took about 4 months to root and produce leaves. I was surprised it worked.
Carol, there are no clusters on the mother plant.
treelover, you are probably right, about just planting each stem and not cutting off the whorls.
I'll pot them up tomorrow.
Imadigger....they would be new plants if there were roots forming under the sets of leaves...are there?
the roots are at end of the vine in the hydroton. The little whorls have no roots.
Ah, I would just plant the vines with the roots then. The 'whorls' of leaves are just leaves, not plants....
