PLANT CARE TIP: Give your Epipremnum some upright support
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- By Leau
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Epipremnums are quick and easy growers. They don’t require a lot of sunlight and you can let them dry out between waterings. In nature, they grow on other trees (without taking nutrition from the plant they grow on) so they are used to climbing upwards.
Most Epipremnums we have in store come in a small diameter pot and don’t have any upright support. Others come in hanging pots, which makes the Epipremnum look like the perfect hanging plant. And honestly: it IS great for hanging! But did you know that you can also help this plant grow into its natural form?
Epipremnums are quick and easy growers. They don’t require a lot of sunlight and you can let them dry out between waterings. In nature, they grow on other trees (without taking nutrition from the plant they grow on) so they are used to climbing upwards.
Did you know that the Epipremnum is closely related to the Monstera? They're both in the Araceae family. If you give your Epipremnum some upright support, its leaves will become HUGE and eventually get fenestrations as well, just like the Monstera.
Curious? Well, Robin has a HUGE Epipremnum at home. He got it from GRUUN in a hanging pot and decided to make it a climber, with a homemade spaghnum-moss-pole. Here are some of the amazing results in pictures, starting from the day he got it to today. It's pretty incredible... :-)
1. Robin bought his Epipremnum in a hanging pot at GRUUN, but decided to repot it. He didn't like it hanging and when you see the end result, you'll get why.
2. Here's the repotted plant with its new pole, in the beginning just after being repotted into this upright form.
3. The plant after a little while... they are really quick growers if they have lots of indirect sunlight and enough (but not too much) water.
4. Growing growing growing
5. Robin decided he wanted ALL leaves to be huge, not just the top ones. So what did he do? He cut it. Yes haha, he RESTARTED.
6. Now all leaves are big, and this Marble Queen has the perfect consistent proportions.
7. And just to show you even bigger leaves, this Epipremnum isn't Robin's but it is HUGE. Or does Leau just have a tiny head?
There are a lot of different varieties of the Epipremnum. Pass by in store and discover just a few of them!
*JUST NOTE that autumn is NOT the best time to repot your plants or to start doing these kind of experiments with your plants. Why? The roots recover more easily from a repotting session in summer or spring. You could try though, as we get that this is way too exciting and you want to try this as quickly as possible!
** If you try this with a sphagnum pole instead of a coco fibre pole, you have to use a pretty small and deep pot with a very gritty, well draining soil mixture. Because the sphagnum moss retains A LOT of water.
P.S. Not to trigger you even more, but you could also do this easily with any climbing Philodendron, Monstera, Syngonium, Epipremnum or Scindapsus or… Oh oooooow!