Help With My Split Leafed Philodendron
Hello everyone.
I am actually looking for help from my readers this time. My split leafed philodendron which you can see a picture from about 1 1/2 years ago is growing out of control. Caring for Split Leaf Philodendron. It is now about 6 feet wide in diameter and about 3 feet tall.
I have been reading posts on forums all over about split leafed philodendrons and what they are, what they aren't, etc. Some are saying it is a climbing plant, others say it is not. Some posts say you can trim it and take cuttings, some say not. So I am looking for my readers help. If you have any information about Split Leafed Philodendrons that can help me and getting mine back to manageable or just how I should be handling it's size, I would greatly appreciate it.
This is one of my favorite plants in terms of appearance, I just don't want to trim it or try training it up a stake and hurt it. I love it's hugeness, but I'm running out of room with all the other plants.
In advance thank you for all my houseplant readers.
Happy Growing!!!
posted by drayas @ 10:12 PM
8 Comments:
hah! i can relate to this space problem :)
I have taken several successful cuttings from my split leaf plant. I cut so I have several leaves on the cutting, I make sure there are some short nodes on the cutting. In water these nodes turn into roots. I just put it into regular hard water from the city tap. I wait a couple weeks to see growth and then let roots get substantially long before transplanting. The cut part of the plant starts to regrow where it had been cut. I have taken some cuttings half-way down and everything grew back fine.
I have also successfully split my spkit leave several times any way I want (knife, chainsaw if you have to) and hadve no problems. As long as there are leaves and roots on each part that you are transplanting you should be able to put it directly in soil, water, and watch it get out of control again in the next year or two!
I have had my split leaf for about a year. When I got it the main satlk was maybe 3 feet long. there were also 3 other shorter sprouts. My mum had had it for several years, and it hadn't grown much. Since I've had it I've taken several cuttings, and tried different light levels in the places I've put them. The first cutting was under a skylight, and took almost a month to grow a new leaf. It was getting a fairly large amount of light. The next few cutting I gave to my neighbours in the basement suite next door.. where they keep them fairly high off the ground like I do, and they took much faster. I case you're wondering my main stalk has gained a good 7 feet in length in the time i've had it. I would agree that yo don't need to grow roots in the water, and if you can plant a few air roots in the soil when you transplant it, as well as the cut stalk... they'll take one way or another. If anything taking cutting give them an excuse to grow more foliage, which they seem to love doing once established.
there is a lot of confusion about split-leaf philodendrons. the plant that most people refer to as a split-leaf philodendron is not actually part of the philodendron genus but is a plant monstera deliciosa. it is very similar to many philodendrons and other monsteras. if the "trunk" or stem or vine of your plant has a sort of scaly pattern like a pineapple then it is most likely a philodendron bipinnatifidum, and is NOT a climbing plant. if it is a monstera deliciosa then it is indeed a climber.
I have a split leaf philodendron that's 5yrs old.I had the same staking problem.I noticed the leaves turn to the light,so when
the stem gets too far out,I turn the plant.This has caused it to grow in a spiral and is self supporting.It has 9 leaves 24x24
inches and covers 6ftx6ftx5ft high.
This one I started by taking one leaf with about 2 inches of stem on each side of the base(no roots)and put it in a pot of potting soil and kept it wet for several days.The leaf didn't even wilt or show any loss.I do know that they are very poisonous.Several years ago I threw one out and found my saddle horse dead the next morning.
It causes congestive heart failure.
hello everyone. A good friend of mine had a split leaf P. and took many clipings to witch wonderful new plants were started and was also able have it flower. The flower produced a thing that looked like a cob of corn and tasted between a banana and a peach. It was a fairly old plant about 5' wide and spent it's intire life indoors... Schults liquid plant food for every watering is all that was used. It was in a very large pot on wheels and had no more than early morning sun. I hope this helps some.
i ALSO HAVE A "SPLIT lEAF" PLANT. i BOUGHT THIS LITTLE PLANT AT A $1.00 STORE FOR 99 CENTS THINKING IT WAS JUST A ORDINDARY PLANT. WELL, TO MY AMAZEMENT, THIS 'PLANT' KEPT GROWING..I IOULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHAT KIND OF PLANT THIS WAS, UNTIL THE LEAVES START 'SPLITTING'..THEN I WAS ABLE TO GOOGLE IT. I HAVE TO PUT STAKES IN THE SOIL TO HOLD IT UP. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS A TREE PLANT THE LEAVES ARE HUGE.BUT NOT MANY..HOW HIGH WILL THIS PLANT GET? AND WILL I HAVE TO ALWAYS USE THE STAKES? WHEN I TAKE THE STAKES OUT. IT FALLS LIMP..AS FOR THE LONG BROWN ROOT TYPE. THE FIRST ONE THAT APPEARED, I TOLD MYSELF..OH, THIS IS MY LITTLE MAN PLANT.LOL..I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS.NOW I KNOW..
THANKS
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