schmiggle
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I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this, mostly because I was thinking of trying to train some Nepenthes while they grow in a terrarium. Terrarium growers of nepenthes always run into the following problem, with the exception of a handful of non-vining species: as soon as a Nepenthes begins to grow as a vine, its growth rate explodes (my guess would be to take advantage of gaps in the wild as they appear) and it usually outgrows anything it's given. However, I also know that grapevines will cover entire trees if left to their own devices, but are pruned down to a manageable size by growers (3' tall and wide or so for compact prunings) and do well in those conditions. That's the thing with vines: they don't care how big they are very much as long as they can get light and a certain minimum size. So, does anyone have experience training vines to grow compactly? I was sort of thinking of getting a few plants to grow at angles on some sticks, or maybe along a kind of zig-zag or trellis, but I'm not sure what the minimum space is to get that sort of thing to work. I also know my uncle has a vine extending along a hanging diagonal string, but that vine is also eight feet long and unbranched, so it may not be the best model to go off of