How to add supports to philodendron?
Hello! Need some advice for adding supports to my #Philodendron. Used chat gpt and it suggested either bendable moss poles or the extendable vertical support pictured. I’m leaning towards moss poles. I’ve never used them before so any advice or specific product recs are appreciated! It said 36-48” poles would be ideal. I’m thinking maybe 48”, possibly 2? It’s in a SW facing window, 8inch pot and has been thriving. I water about once a week right now. I didn’t realize it had grown up under my curtain and is poking out at the ceiling!! Would it get enough light if I had it sitting on the floor instead of up on the table? I have a poinsettia from Christmas that sits next to it that has also been thriving in that spot. @SuperbRaspfern
1ft to light, direct
8” pot with drainage
Last watered 4 days ago
9
Good morning Alison. I personally LOVE moss poles or coir. I NEVER water them like some people do. I simply attach the plant with twine and they climb up and around. I've used both the bendy kind and the solid pole kind. Here is a link to a past instagram video I posted in the past
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPANvCMAThu/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
so you can see what my house looked like before I had to cut them all down to move them to my new place.
The biggest benefit in my opinion is that then you can have them climb on poles and NOT ruin your house. Without pole those Ariel roots will grab onto whatever they can find and destroy walls, furniture and anything else they decide they want to climb. Their natural instinct is to climb, and they WILL find a way. You can easily guide them around for your indoor jungle this way and keep them from damaging things. Keep in mind during peak growing times in spring and summer you will want to check on their growth and tie them with twine every couple of weeks. They get ginormous and grow aggressively when you provide them with something to climb. And moss or coir poles replicate nature by providing a rough texture for them to grasp like they would a tree to clump up through the tree canopy for sun.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPANvCMAThu/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
so you can see what my house looked like before I had to cut them all down to move them to my new place.
The biggest benefit in my opinion is that then you can have them climb on poles and NOT ruin your house. Without pole those Ariel roots will grab onto whatever they can find and destroy walls, furniture and anything else they decide they want to climb. Their natural instinct is to climb, and they WILL find a way. You can easily guide them around for your indoor jungle this way and keep them from damaging things. Keep in mind during peak growing times in spring and summer you will want to check on their growth and tie them with twine every couple of weeks. They get ginormous and grow aggressively when you provide them with something to climb. And moss or coir poles replicate nature by providing a rough texture for them to grasp like they would a tree to clump up through the tree canopy for sun.
Also I have various sized poles it all depends on how you want to decorate with her. I like the kind you can build on but then for other I like the twists and turns of the bendy ones. Any will work it just depends on if you want it straight up or wild, crazy and jungly. For my wild crazy ones that I like to frame rings in with like windows I like the bendy ones so the sorta look like vines growing on vines and I just tie the poles together. 🩷
Beautiful plant
