Hello all. I recently repotted my Epipremnum pinnatum albo. [I may cross post because urgent] I bought it 3 years ago when it was a 2’ long stem. I never made a pole/plank for it, so it grew into a 14’ long and thin leggy vine. Now, since it has so many nodes, I decided to air layer about half of them (March 2).
A week later, I saw some of the upper leaves had died back, and I attributed to stress, since the lower leaves are doing great.
Then yesterday, I noticed 2 points on the stem that were dried, browned, and shrunken inward, but stem still in one piece. The points looked scarred. I now realize i may have bent and cracked the stems at these points, which I circled in red in the photos. I now notice that the stem distal to these points is wrinkled and thinner.
My question:
1) do you think there is enough viable tissue within these points to still allow water and nutrient flow to the higher stem, and therefore I should keep it as is since the stem is still in one piece?
Or
2) do i cut it at these two locations because unlikely getting any hydration and therefore needs a fresh cut to be placed in water?
Sorry such convoluted questions. It’s very hard to put into words.
Thank you so much for your recommendations!
by Potential_Market_596
3 Comments
This is a whole science experiment 😭😭😭
I have one of these, also. Sometimes the vines can get a little “woody” like this if the vine is mature/older. But on mine, I’ve slowly and over time have cut out the sections like this that are completely brown (it’s been a process, mine was a rehab plant that I knew was going to take a lot of work). These grow fairly fast. I would cut up to the sections that are solid brown like this and prop. Or just cut them off completely, as it will generate new growth.
I don’t know what happened with your plant, specifically, but mine was like, half dead when I got it, so I basically let some new growth push up the brown bits a little bit more before cutting them off with shears. While I do still get growth from vines, even with the brown bits, it’s slower and it seems to be holding the plant back a bit, which is why I’ve removed them. I know my plant is gonna look rough for a while, so I’m fine with this.
For it being leggy, the only thing you can really do is try to chop and prop. Or there is keiki cloning paste but I haven’t used it myself yet and the results, from my understanding, can be kind of unpredictable. But that might be an option, also.
I second the chop and prop. It’s infinitely easier than air layering imo, especially if you’re trying to do a bunch of pieces.