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[l4nsky]

And those are growing on what light source?!?!?

South facing glass. All of this growth (and much, much, MUCH more) has come from 5 starter nodes in my first bioactive tank.

 

[TheraMygale]

South facing glass. All of this growth (and much, much, MUCH more) has come from 5 starter nodes in my first bioactive tank.

South is indeed the winner. They seem so far from the window though? Or is it just the photo perception.

i have that orientation, but space is limited. I am managing to refurbish the pothos that were way to far. They never got that big. And had much etiolement.

now they are in the window. The neons are getting very neon. The others, are starting to grow thick.

my brazil philos are really liking it. I love summer so much for indoor plants.

 

[l4nsky]

South is indeed the winner. They seem so far from the window though? Or is it just the photo perception.

The whole room is brightly lit as the southern facing glass is in reality a floor to ceiling set of glass sliding doors.

 

[l4nsky]

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The cuttings produced last year are on the two trays towards the bottom of the picture whereas the cuttings produced this year (so far) are in the 3 upper trays. All of these have been created from single node cuttings from my collection of mother plants (pictured below, purchased themselves as single node cuttings on the very first page of this thread).

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One more round of cuttings and I'll have enough growth for a pothos wall .

Here's six trays of growth in various stages, all fresh from a ~90 day de-bugging period after being outside for some fast growth at the end of summer. I'll be doing one more round of cuttings from the mother plants this winter and then it's finally time for a pothos wall. I should be able to get about 40 square feet of coverage which would completely fill out in under a year.

 

[TheraMygale]

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Here's six trays of growth in various stages, all fresh from a ~90 day de-bugging period after being outside for some fast growth at the end of summer. I'll be doing one more round of cuttings from the mother plants this winter and then it's finally time for a pothos wall. I should be able to get about 40 square feet of coverage which would completely fill out in under a year.

noooo stop it hahaha. Wheres the emoji where im happy but dieing at the same time.

So beautiful!

Loving that silver frosted plant.

 

[Kada]

Holy smokes, that's a lot not pothos!

Everything someone says they grow pothos because Monstera gets too big:

Pothos in the sun, 70+cm leaves hehe
Bottom are shade leaves, top are sunshine leaves

Interesting to see various ficus species also change their leaf when in full sun.


Never tried to grow them indoors, but a cute little plant that grows on trees here in the understory is Psychotria serpens. Grows in shade, seems to tolerate relativelittle water. Seems perfect to clinging to cork back. Might be a fun one to try with spider tanks

 

[Wolfram1]

Holy smokes, that's a lot not pothos!

Everything someone says they grow pothos because Monstera gets too big:

Pothos in the sun, 70+cm leaves hehe
Bottom are shade leaves, top are sunshine leaves

Interesting to see various ficus species also change their leaf when in full sun.


Never tried to grow them indoors, but a cute little plant that grows on trees here in the understory is Psychotria serpens. Grows in shade, seems to tolerate relativelittle water. Seems perfect to clinging to cork back. Might be a fun one to try with spider tanks

yea, they are crazy

i am still waiting for @l4nsky to start growing them like this

 

[l4nsky]

yea, they are crazy

i am still waiting for @l4nsky to start growing them like this

There's someone local to me that apparently grows some huge Pothos, just never met them. I walked into my LPS awhile back and this grower had given the shop a 1" thick vine that had about 4 nodes with leaves the size of my chest. They were trying to get it established as a marginal plant in an aquarium, but I don't think it ever did.

 

[Wolfram1]

There's someone local to me that apparently grows some huge Pothos, just never met them. I walked into my LPS awhile back and this grower had given the shop a 1" thick vine that had about 4 nodes with leaves the size of my chest. They were trying to get it established as a marginal plant in an aquarium, but I don't think it ever did.

it might have worked if they had managed to get it still attached to the board or moss pole, without the attachment they usually revert back to the crawling form.


i was surprised to learn that english ivy also has a mature form but unlike the Epipremnum aureum they dont usually revert back into the crawling form and can be grown as a free standing woody shrub.

without pruning they would grow pretty gangly though.

 

[TheraMygale]

without pruning they would grow pretty gangly though.

most people dont understand that they need to prune.

they will have a cool pothos, that has one long vine that goes around the room twice. But whats in the pot is struggling.

 

[l4nsky]

Well, the time to begin assembling the pothos wall is finally here.


These are 36" x 6" x 1' oak boards with some structural pipe used as holders for three plastic backed, felt planters with 7 pockets each.

Each of these three sections is 3' wide and 4' deep, which will give me 36 square feet of living wall with 63 individual planter pockets.


Here are some of the cuttings I've been collecting over the past year or so (there's a shelf underneath with more). They pretty much all need repotted and are ready to get growing this summer once planted in the wall.

 

[IntermittentSygnal]

Well, the time to begin assembling the pothos wall is finally here.

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These are 36" x 6" x 1' oak boards with some structural pipe used as holders for three plastic backed, felt planters with 7 pockets each.

Each of these three sections is 3' wide and 4' deep, which will give me 36 square feet of living wall with 63 individual planter pockets.

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Here are some of the cuttings I've been collecting over the past year or so (there's a shelf underneath with more). They pretty much all need repotted and are ready to get growing this summer once planted in the wall.

I’m really looking forward to seeing this when it’s done.

 

[l4nsky]

Here's two panels up with the plants placed in while still potted, just to get an idea of the arrangement. Will probably fully transfer them tomorrow. I don't quite have enough variety left for the third panel on another wall, so I'll start another round of cuttings on the mother plants as well.

 

[TheraMygale]

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Here's two panels up with the plants placed in while still potted, just to get an idea of the arrangement. Will probably fully transfer them tomorrow. I don't quite have enough variety left for the third panel on another wall, so I'll start another round of cuttings on the mother plants as well.

how many panels does one need when you have these…

 

[l4nsky]

how many panels does one need when you have these…

Lol I have the space for three currently and it's the ideal starting point. Each panel can essentially clone itself yearly if cuttings are taken instead of pruning, so I'd have the option in a year to take down the canvas and do the whole wall. Not quite sure on that next step, but it's nice to line up options.

 

[TheraMygale]

Lol I have the space for three currently and it's the ideal starting point. Each panel can essentially clone itself yearly if cuttings are taken instead of pruning, so I'd have the option in a year to take down the canvas and do the whole wall. Not quite sure on that next step, but it's nice to line up options.

we are obviously not graced by the same space privileges and time availibity. Im loving your growth. Keep doing you.

 

[Ultum4Spiderz]

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Here's two panels up with the plants placed in while still potted, just to get an idea of the arrangement. Will probably fully transfer them tomorrow. I don't quite have enough variety left for the third panel on another wall, so I'll start another round of cuttings on the mother plants as well.

Why do you need so much Pothos plants? Maybe you should get some cheap pots and start selling them haha. that’s amazing !! I’d award your post with a metal but I can only like right now. My mom has a plant room or two so I understand why you want so many! She started out with plants that got too big for my bedroom.

 

[l4nsky]

we are obviously not graced by the same space privileges and time availibity. Im loving your growth. Keep doing you.

Maybe not at present, but it can be planned for. Keep in mind each of these varieities started as one single node, unrooted cutting from Etsy a little over 4 years ago. This didn't happen overnight .

Why do you need so much Pothos plants? Maybe you should get some cheap pots and start selling them haha. that’s amazing !! I’d award your post with a metal but I can only like right now. My mom has a plant room or two so I understand why you want so many! She started out with plants that got too big for my bedroom.

Selling them in the future is also an option I've explored and put some thought into. The more growth points for each cultivar I can make now will only help that endeavor in the future should I decide it's worth my time .

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

I can't recall if I've told about this before, (I don't think I have) but I'll risk repeating it anyway. A long time ago, my dad went to a yard sale. He returned home with a single rooted cutting from a pothos in what I think was a Styrofoam cup, (my mom told me the story, I was not there to witness it.) and gave it to mom and proudly exclaimed Look what I got for a quarter!" Anyway, I think this was in 1978. Over the years, it flourished under mom's care and had to be repotted several times over the many years that passed after getting the original cutting.

Well, after my mom passed, -dad already had died-. I KIND of took care of it, at least by watering it semi regularly and nearly lost it a couple times over the span of years since mom passed. It is still in the last pot my mom had repotted it into and remains there to this day, and you can imagine - as well as I can- I how rootbound it has to be. It is still surviving to some degree, better than I would have expected
Last summer, I noticed that it was in need of help but chose instead to take cuttings from it. Which have done very well in several of the cases, with some doing "fairly" well. Which indicates that the original plant, and genetically speaking, the cuttings I made, are approximately 47 years old. I say approximately, because I am not absolutely sure of precise year dad brought the plant

So it will live on. I intend to give away some starts from it in order to increase the odds of it continuing to be grown. And I may work up the gumption to repot it, but I'm sort of hesitant for both sentimental reasons and not wanting to lose the original. I imagine there is more rootball in the container than soil. But I did top-dress it, at least Taking the cuttings caused the original to get a bit more robust, but it would not win any ribbons at a garden show.

 

[l4nsky]

I can't recall if I've told about this before, (I don't think I have) but I'll risk repeating it anyway.

You did a few years ago in this thread I believe, but a good story never gets old .