TexasPlumeria87 said:

Hi ShadyGreenThumb, I have relatives that live in Houston. I visited Houston once and I couldn't believe how humid it was lol. My Pink Arrowhead vine starting taking off a couple of weeks ago. Its amazing that you can keep your croton outside, even with extra protection. I did have a Monstera plant that lasted 4 years in the ground. It went through snowstorms, and ice storms and bitterly cold temps, but it stayed small. I wish I had luck growing ficus trees. I have to bring in 50 plumerias, most are seedlings, so I have to make a lot of room for those lol. I had to keep my Peace Lily indoors because once the temps hit 90, it wilted, even in full shade and plenty of water. I had to bring in my dischidia plant because it started turning yellow. I think the heat was just too much for it

Hi Texas Pumeria. Oh, yeah it's HOT! We look at the heat index instead of the temperature. That is the "Feels Like" temperature. Today the Heat Index was 102*-108* Phew! -Well, yes, the Peace Lily is much happier indoors and out of the stifling heat. It even gave me a flower this year so I know it is happy. But it grew to the giant size it is by being outside so I know it loves it out there, too. As my name says, we are shady so I also know that helps. Our winters are so unpredictable. We can suffer hard freezes or be so mild, our tomatoes are producing all winter. But our deep freeze 2 years ago hit my Peace Lily and many others really hard, even while living in my garage. I cut the Peace Lily down to the ground and now it is bigger than is was in a 20" pot. My dream is to have a fully heated shed to house my babies in the winter---50 plumeria! I'm envious! I have one mature one-color unknown. I had two each a different color, one died in that freeze and this one hasn't bloomed yet to tell me who survived. I just adopted a little pink one and struggling with rotting red start. I am on the Plumeria Thread getting help for that.---Here is my Pink Arrowhead Vine. It is two years old. I need to trim it back but honestly? I don't know where to begin! LOL

Man, it only needs pruning if you say so (or won't fit in the house!) Thanks for jogging your memory and for the response. Sounds like the leaves just decide how pink to be at any given time on their own. Well, at least I can stop driving myself nuts trying to figure it out, I'll let the plant do that. Yes, I was thrilled to realize I had Syngonium, Caladiums are a lot easier to come by and are all over the yard at this point (which is why I started to move this guy, the real Caladiums were over top of it, couldn't see it anymore.

Took this the day after I potted them up a few weeks ago. Not doing much yet but so cute! I guess they were barely able to come back after winter each year, a clump of 7-8 tiny plants, this is as big as I've ever seen it. (That pot is about 8" across.)


I had a gangling, sprawling heart-leaf Philo at the base of a Dracaena tree, causing the pot to need WAY too much space on the front porch, draping over and flowing away from it in all directions. I decided to take it all out and put it in several pots of its' own, some hanging, some with supports. But it took about 2 hours to carefully untangle each vine without damaging the leaves, stretching them all straight out from the pot. Then I was able to chop each one off at the soil level so they were still as long as they were, minus the roots. (With creeping, vining plants, that's often so much easier than trying to repot tired old roots.) Potted them right away after stripping the bottom 2-3 nodes to bury in the soil. Kept in shade until they stopped wilting and growing again, a couple weeks.

Your plant would be more difficult to untangle, but the basic idea should work, find the longest pieces and cut them off, stick in another pot to have two (or more,) or to give away.

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Hi Texas Pumeria. Oh, yeah it's HOT! We look at the heat index instead of the temperature. That is the "Feels Like" temperature. Today the Heat Index was 102*-108* Phew! -Well, yes, the Peace Lily is much happier indoors and out of the stifling heat. It even gave me a flower this year so I know it is happy. But it grew to the giant size it is by being outside so I know it loves it out there, too. As my name says, we are shady so I also know that helps. Our winters are so unpredictable. We can suffer hard freezes or be so mild, our tomatoes are producing all winter. But our deep freeze 2 years ago hit my Peace Lily and many others really hard, even while living in my garage. I cut the Peace Lily down to the ground and now it is bigger than is was in a 20" pot. My dream is to have a fully heated shed to house my babies in the winter---50 plumeria! I'm envious! I have one mature one-color unknown. I had two each a different color, one died in that freeze and this one hasn't bloomed yet to tell me who survived. I just adopted a little pink one and struggling with rotting red start. I am on the Plumeria Thread getting help for that.---Here is my Pink Arrowhead Vine. It is two years old. I need to trim it back but honestly? I don't know where to begin! LOL


Yesterday after the rain the humidity was incredibly high, but I'm still glad it rained. I think the humidity has been 20-30% here with 50-60 dewpoints. Most of my flowerbeds are in shade, but I can't seem to get anything to grow in them. I've tried a lot of shade plants but most end up dying. The only plant doing well in dry shade are my cast iron plants. Its amazing you had tomatoes in winter. I had several sunflowers that survived. It was a very mild winter. I think in 2010 we had a major snowstorm in the Dallas area. Here we had 9 inches of snow. This past winter, I didn't even see a flurry lol. I wish I had a greenhouse or a heated garage, but all I can do is dream right now lol. A friend sent me some fresh seeds from her Celadine and Tillie Hughes plumeria, she lives in Houston. They sprouted in 2 days which was a record for me lol. The previous times I only got a couple to germinate. You are so lucky to be able to have plumerias in the ground all year long. Its terrible that you lost one in the freeze, plumerias are such beautiful trees. My friends loquat tree was able to produce fruit this year, unlike previous years. I hope your plumeria makes it. I think the reds are the hardest varieties to root. My 3 year old plumeria refuses to to bloom lol. Your pink arrowhead vine looks way healthier than mine. I really like how the leaves change shape as they grow older. If you trim it at least you will have more plants to start.

purpleinopp said:Man, it only needs pruning if you say so (or won't fit in the house!) Thanks for jogging your memory and for the response. Sounds like the leaves just decide how pink to be at any given time on their own. Well, at least I can stop driving myself nuts trying to figure it out, I'll let the plant do that. Yes, I was thrilled to realize I had Syngonium, Caladiums are a lot easier to come by and are all over the yard at this point (which is why I started to move this guy, the real Caladiums were over top of it, couldn't see it anymore.

Took this the day after I potted them up a few weeks ago. Not doing much yet but so cute! I guess they were barely able to come back after winter each year, a clump of 7-8 tiny plants, this is as big as I've ever seen it. (That pot is about 8" across.)


I had a gangling, sprawling heart-leaf Philo at the base of a Dracaena tree, causing the pot to need WAY too much space on the front porch, draping over and flowing away from it in all directions. I decided to take it all out and put it in several pots of its' own, some hanging, some with supports. But it took about 2 hours to carefully untangle each vine without damaging the leaves, stretching them all straight out from the pot. Then I was able to chop each one off at the soil level so they were still as long as they were, minus the roots. (With creeping, vining plants, that's often so much easier than trying to repot tired old roots.) Potted them right away after stripping the bottom 2-3 nodes to bury in the soil. Kept in shade until they stopped wilting and growing again, a couple weeks.

Your plant would be more difficult to untangle, but the basic idea should work, find the longest pieces and cut them off, stick in another pot to have two (or more,) or to give away.

Your arrowhead vines look great, hopefully it will reward you with lots of growth. Its a good thing you rescued it. I love caladiums. I had some in a planter I bought from Lowes. It had a Blood banana and a couple of banana pups. I removed the caladiums because they were covering the pups. I have them in my yard now.
I think my philo is 3 feet long. I had to untangle it twice this year and I think its getting tangled again from the wind. I would love to have several containers of philodendrons, so I may try trimming it.

Hi TXPlumeria, As my screen name suggests we are very shady in our part of the forest. The sunlight you see in the Pink Arrowhead Vine pic is dappled 6 pm sunlight. That is all it ever gets. We have high, high, HIGH humidity sometimes 70%-80% and higher. But the plants still get a shot of water every single day in this heat. And then I augment the watering with hand watering during the week. So water is key. But then we also have huuuuge oak trees that drink 165 gallons per day. I battle that and so do the plants. I know I don't have to water the trees, I water the plants.

The mosquitoes have been really bad since the rains but I am dying to get out there to do some starts. Then again 100* in the shade is hard to start anything in.

Speaking of Cast Iron plant, which I LOVE for the shady garden, my friend just gave me a start of a polka dotted variety. There are several so I am not sure which is it, Milky Way? Or Nagoya Stars? Or? There are many. They make great houseplants, but again here in out Tropical But Hot Paradise, mine is thriving outdoors.

I have 3 large cedar trees that shade one side of my yard, and a few large hackberries on the east side of my house. I love the shade and microclimate the cedars produce, but every year they have bagworms. I would love to have more trees in my yard to shade the house. I think I hand water my plants every 2 days, and I water my garden once or twice a week. I'm just going to focus on keeping my tropicals alive and everything else will have to fend for itself. I do have purple heart plants around the cedars and those seem to be the only plant that can survive under them. The mosquitoes have been bad here too, me and my mom are mosquito magnets. But if I'm outside with her, they go for her instead of me lol. There's been several cases of West Nile in the Dallas area. I hate putting on the mosquito sprays because I always miss a spot and they find it, or the mosquitoes bite my ears or my head lol.

I didn't know there were several varieties of Cast Iron plants, I just know about the plain green ones (which I have) and the variegated ones. I started out with 4 plants and after 9 years I have a clump of them growing in one spot, I don't have to water them as much, so maybe I will just buy cast iron plants to go in my shade garden lol. Even during the bad drought last year, they seemed unfazed.

Hello Cameron,nice to meet you and i enjoyed looking at your pictures.I have a couple o fquestions about a couple plants that i also have or at least a variety of.You'll find i tend to ask a lot of questions.

I also have have 2 Nephthytis,but my pink arrowhead plant isn't a vine.It was in a 6 inch pot and i had to put it in a 10inch this spring and now it is just packed in the pot.I guess i am going to have to separate it really soon.
Hears the plant excuse the out of focus pictures my grandson dropped it into water,i haven't bought another yet

you can see how badly it needs to be separated as i pull back the leaves look at what i find




i also have another one i will get a picture of when it's daylight,that is a vine but i will have to check my files i think it's a white emperor butterfly or something will get correct name & a picture of it.

HI Jojoe I'm glad you enjoyed looking at my pictures. It took my pink arrowhead vine a long time to start vining. It grew bushy first and then it started growing longer vines. I'll take an updated picture of it tomorrow. I also have a White Butterfly arrowhead vine that I bought a few months ago. Its growing much faster than my pink arrowhead vine. How long have you had your arrowhead vine?

My pink syngonium started out as a 6" pot from Lowe's last summer. I needed some color on a small table. Look at it today! The pictures above was just a few months ago. Now the table is barely seen and it is now vining to the ground. I have cut of 3-4 vines already. the things is a growing monster and I love it!! Jelinda, I am afraid to look in the middle of this plant. I think there are syngonium condos in there!! There are not enough pots!! LOL

Wow Cheryl, that's a very happy syngonium.

I made a mistake with my pink arrow head plant by leaving it in to much sun.The leaves on the top are bleached.You can see the only pink leaves are the ones that have been in the middle of the plant.
I have had this plant probably 3 or 4 years.My white butterfly this is the second summer i've had it.Here's a picture.This is the first time it has grown runners.All this growth is from this summer.



I noticed all your epi's i have 4 that are not IDed.They are rootings,i got them in January.Do you think you may be able to ID any of them since you are rooting some the same way i thought maybe you I may recognize 1 or 2 of mine.I want an ID on them so bad but i know i have to wait until they bloom.
I would like to post a picture of what my oxy is doing!! I also need to re-pot my epi's, they are falling over all the time!!


Is that long skinny thing going to be a leaf i know that is probably an odd question but i laugh every time i see it,it's growing at warp speed!!!

I've done that before with a few of my plants. Luckily they recovered. Your White Butterfly looks really healthy. Mine hasn't produced any vines yet, just large leaves. I wish I could help you with IDing your epis, but I wouldn't be sure until they bloom Some have certain ways of growing (upright or pendulous) but even then it would be hard to ID them without blooms. Your oxy looks great, they grow so fast. I'm hoping to see blooms on mine soon. The long skinny thing could be a stalk that will eventually develop leaves. I know some people pinch the tops so that they don't have a very long stalk. It will develop side leaves where you pinch it. Its mainly to control height.

I read some where if you cut or prune the leaves of an oxy,maybe it's true with all epi's to but it will make them develop even more leaves.I believe it,mine fell over and the top of a leaf broke off,now tht leaf has grow leaves out of every vein all the way down both sides.There are even leaves growing out of the bottom of that leaf.I don't think i will be trimming or cutting it back at all until it's been put into a bigger pot.They are always falling over now so i think i may need to look into re-potting some of them.

Have a nice day

I had the same thing happen to my oxys. The wind blew down one and several pieces broke off and now those have been replaced with even more leaves. My epi hybrids seem to grow much slower than my oxy. I lost one cutting and I had some die back on a few of them, but now they seem to be ok.

Thanks to this thread, my Syngonium is looking great! Finally settled on a spot that gets very early and very late sun with shade the rest of the day. The leaves are getting prettier and bigger. Thanks to everyone for taking a minute to share info!!


Cheryl, that's quite a plant! Wow! What a looker!

Thanks, purple. Obviously she likes her location. She will come in for the winter in a month or so. I am looking for a table in the house for her...and a dolly to bring her in with. The pot was heavy on it's own. I imagine I won't be able to carry her in on my own this year.

That's great purpleinopp I'm glad your syngonium is doing well. I'll probably bring my plants in a the end of this month, last year I was able to keep them outdoors through most of November.