regnum-plantae:Ongoing Epipremnum aureum projectBack in July 2016 I went to an Italian restaurant he
regnum-plantae:Ongoing Epipremnum aureum projectBack in July 2016 I went to an Italian restaurant here in Glasgow and noticed a HUGE golden photos in a corner. It was one of the largest ones I had ever seen growing in a pot and trained over a fibre-wrapped stake, probably three times bigger than the one my mum had years ago. I really wanted to propagate that beautiful plant, so I spoke to a waiter playing the “oh, ya know, I’m Italian too!” card and they let me take a two-nodes-long cutting. I popped it in a glass of water and then potted it up as soon as it grew good roots and a couple more leaves, which didn’t take long, especially since it was summer. Fast-forward eighteen months later, I now had a 150 cm/5 ft vine trailing around my kitchen. In October 2016 I also added a few Tradescantia cuttings to the same pot and they got even longer, so I wonder if the golden photos could have grown more without a competitor. Anyway, I had decided I wanted to train it vertically too so I bought a coconut coir wrapped stake online (which incidentally arrived from Italy without my knowledge) and chopped up my plant into ten further cuttings. As soon as they will have rooted I will pot them up securing them to the stake. If all goes well -and it should, golden photos is fast growing and extremely resilient- in about a year and a half I will have a large and beautiful houseplant, and it all started with a small snippet. -- source link