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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.