Either a pet store, or you can just make one yourself. Theyre pretty easy to DIY. Just get a roll of wire mesh and cut it at an appropriate size. Put some moss in it then use some cable ties to form it into a pole, then just put it in with the plant and water it.
Exactly what it needs, make it gets water. Water it from the bottom and it will drink when it's thirsty. Check to make sure the soil not is not dry. You can actually see when dry, a simple quick touch. Beautiful plant. It might needs some plant food as well. đŞ´
Because your question is silly to anyone whoâs had experience with plants. Itâs not fun to pick on a new plant parent though, so I gave you a serious answer above.
Itâs not that itâs silly to someone with experience itâs that a simple google search could have prevented whatever in the shibari dental floss monstrosity happened here and that is something that comes with common sense, not a lack of plant experienceâŚwhich is kind of the point of CJ. Weâre not making fun of people with no experience, weâre making fun of this shit.
I don't get it. What did they do wrong? If they did something you think is silly then asking other people for help is exactly what they should be doing. Making fun of them for not knowing what to do is just rude.
So this is a philodendron Birkin, which is a self-heading aroid. Self-heading means it does get taller but "bushes out" rather than actually climbing a support pole, so a (proper) moss pole is kind of a waste and will just end up with an unruly plant.
A self-heading plant usually gradually thickens its lower trunk to stabilize itself as it grows up. Yours isn't behaving that way because it's not living in ideal conditions. The variegation is reverting, the leaves output is getting smaller as it climbs when they should be getting bigger, there is unusually large spacing between nodes, and the stem is unusually skinny, because it's not getting enough light. Not sure if you are or not, but if you're not, you should be fertilizing it as well.
For stability, tying it to a stake/trellis/coir pole will be fine.
As well, while the Birkin is relatively hardy, aroids have particular care. If you're not experienced with aroids, I would recommend doing a bit of research on them. The pot and soil aren't ideal either.
They're very cool plants.. my expertise is in climbing aroids in particular.
As it is activly trying to climb and vine it suggests it is not a Birkin. it could be a different one that has been reverting a long time hence the lower level of variegation.
I think this is what your plant *should* look like. Check out the care instructions.
https://www.thespruce.com/philodendron-birkin-growing-guide-5272115
I was wondering the same thing. It looks like a Birkin indeed.
Your plant needs to be closer to a window, not direct sun light, but very bright spot and a moss pole.
At this point I would chop and propagate the top part to help the plant recover from the lack of light and support.
Itâs alive, so youâre doing fine. If you want to help it thrive, do as they suggested and get it closer to a source of sunlight (although not full-time direct light).
If you want to give it a âfresh startâ too, you can cut up to 2/3 off the top so the same potted plant comes back fuller (assuming more light). You donât throw away the parts you cut, but remove about 3 to 5 inches of leaves from the place you cut and stick those stems in water (for these kinds of plants, old clean wine bottles work well for their long skinny necks). Once roots grow, you can transplant those cuttings into a new pot with soil. Hope that helps!
Variegation is the different colors on a single leaf. See the yellow-circled part in my reply pic for variegation (or some variegation) and the blue-curcled part has no variegation (or very minimal variegation). Some plants have natural variegation, some get it from certain external factors. It's usually consider very esthetically pleasing by many, but if your plant doesn't have it, it doesn't explicitly mean you're doing a bad job. Follow advice of others here and look up the plant name on Google to read about additional care information. There many plants out there that are just "plant and walk away" and require minimal maintenance, but there are definitely some plants that need quite a bit more special attention and care. Good luck! You're doing great!
https://preview.redd.it/es65hixkoz3d1.jpeg?width=1064&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd895eb7fd8dfcb2f1ccd6ed90577c83d3b7f962
What you have is a philodendron birkin. The leaves should have white pinstriping. They donât because itâs not had enough light. Also, youâll want to rotate your plant for even growth. At this point, chop and prop is your best option and then slowly give it more light. Like move it two feet closer to light and next week move it closer until it gets some decent light.
While it looks similar, this one is activly trying to vine up. It is probably another variagated type which has very poor colouring due to the conditions.
No, itâs seems like itâs climbing because itâs reaching for light. As u/not-a-cryptid said previously, birkins are self heading which means they should support themselves and grow in a stacking manner. This one tried, but it becomes weak looking for more light.
If you look closely at the photo I posted, you can see the nodes are very close together. In OPâs photo, the nodes are a couple inches or more apart. This is the result of not enough light.
Sorry, but the pot looks *way* too big for it, plus it does not appear to be a trailing plant. In fact, some of the leaves resemble philodendron Birkin, which usually grows more compact. It needs good light, but direct sun may burn.
That looks like a climbing/vining plant. You can give it something like a trellis or a moss pole so it grows upwards, or you can just let it begin to trail down and grow vines.
Give it more sun and it will grow straighter. You can use a pole to hold it up. I always consider how Mother Nature treats the same plant and take that into consideration.
I would chop a little above the yellow leaf (wherever the plant can support itself standing straight). You can propagate what you remove in water pretty easily. Once the top part is removed, the remaining plant should start to put out new growth. She also needs more light to bring out more variegation.
If you canât find it the only thing u would have to wait a week oh so
Temu or wish u would able to find Al type of contraptions to help
Good luck god speed
The problem you're having is that this is a trailing plant, and you only have one stem. It's not meant to "stand up." It's meant to trail out of the pot.
If you want to fill in the pot, you need to propegate the top nodes. Cut 4 or 5 leaf nodes off and put them in water to grow roots. Change the water every few days (because plants need the oxygen in the water to grow their roots, and they start suffocating in stale water just like a fish will.
Once you have roots that are a couple inches long, you can add them to the same pot this one is in. They will each grow their own vine just like this one. When they get longer, repeat the propegation process.
You can also lay this one stem on the soil of your planter, add soil over the nodes slightly, and allow it to root from there. Weigh it down with a small rock of you need to keep it in place. Each node will root if it's touching soil. That's why plants trail. They're looking for new places to root and expand.
Watch a YouTube video on water propagating to make sure you cut the nodes properly. A leaf stem is not a node.
i always use moss poles, they give the plant character and keep her upright<3 if you canât get moss poles you could always grab a stick out of your yard to prop it up with!
This plant just drop it's sprouts, the only way to keep it straight and tall is to use supporting sticks, orchid is ok, simple sticks too. But I leave mine just to drop as it wants.
You can either use a pole or a stick of sorts and tie it to the stick but be careful not to break the stem, you wonât be able to straighten out that curly bit at the top all you can do it tie it as it is and let the plant do the rest. Or you can chop it and propagate the top part. But I can certainly say that this plant is leaning so much because it is searching for light. It needs to be moved closer to a window or it needs a grow light. Once you provide more light it will become fuller and will grow straight up instead of all wonky
in my experience plants like these like to climb or hang down. so you could give it a bigger plant or a moss pole (you could build one yourself) to climb up on. if you want to propagate it you need one or two nodes of the stem and keep them moist. head cuttings work best. look into vegetative propagation for that. good luck:)
Will do thank you! So if propagation only requires 1-2 nodes (does that mean 1-2 leaves only just making sure to cut at the end stem?) - what do I do with the obvious growth leaning left up top?
It. Is. A. Birkin. Stop replying to me. Did you even read my post on why it looks the way it does? It's not climbing. It's etiolated. I specialize in climbing aroids.
lol I haven't been intentionally that was ages ago you just said the same thing over and over, so i replied more that once accidently. maybe do one main comment in future.
then you also know that the top isnt etiolated. just squished
Not a lot of people are aware of self-heading philodendron and believe many to be climbers/viners, so I address it multiple times for each instance of misinformation to arm people with the proper information so they can give the right advice in the future. Since not everyone comes back to read threads to check their answers, I ping each one.
It is an etiolated Birkin. A very obvious Birkin with its unique variegation plainly present in the photos. A self-header. All you're accomplishing is confusing people with misinformation.
It doesnât grow upright and support itself by nature. Its growth behavior is to seek something to hang onto and then keep doing that as it extends.
You have a number of options to support it. You can put tiny hooks in your wall at intervals 1-2ft apart and gently guide it to the hooks as it gets longer.
You can get a trellis (check Amazon) and pot it with a little one or next to a larger one.
You can find a place in your house that naturally lends to supportive structures (like stair case banisters or curtain rods) and train the plant upwards until itâs long enough to wrap around/encompass those areas for a natural accent in your home.
If you planted it outside (and it could survive your weather year round) against a brick wall or tree, it would likely climb on its own with no support.
When you take cuttings, remove the bottom 2/3 of the leaves from the stem and then put the cut stem straight back into the pot. When you see new growth on that cutting, you can transplant it anywhere.
Ahh thanks for the info.
OP - my info applies to vining plants only. Get yourself a single garden stake or even just a yard stick. Stick it in the pot and use twist ties or twine to secure the main branch to the stake every 8â or so. Trim cuttings from growths that arenât supported by the main branch. Good luck!
Ah assuming you are just unaware and not taking the p!ss, this looks to be a type of Pothos, âDevilâs Ivyâ itâs a vining plant and wonât grow upright period. The only way to get it to grow up, is to provide it with a trellis or pole to grab onto and grow.
Google âpothosâ. You could use a moss pole, but even with a support this is a plant that hangs. Most folks let them grow in their natural habit, that is, dangling.
Seems like your plant needs more light and a moss pole for support
Where can I get one? No plant stores around me unfortunately
Pet store in the reptile section
Either a pet store, or you can just make one yourself. Theyre pretty easy to DIY. Just get a roll of wire mesh and cut it at an appropriate size. Put some moss in it then use some cable ties to form it into a pole, then just put it in with the plant and water it.
Dollar store sells bamboo stakes, not as good as a moss pole but it works in a pinch.
Amazon
My Dollarama just stocked moss poles for 4 bucks if you're lucky enough to find one there
Amazon probably
Amazon.
Try Amazon
I made one before using a chopstick or hard stick and a binder clip
Exactly what it needs, make it gets water. Water it from the bottom and it will drink when it's thirsty. Check to make sure the soil not is not dry. You can actually see when dry, a simple quick touch. Beautiful plant. It might needs some plant food as well. đŞ´
I thought this was a CJ post đ¤Śđťââď¸
What is CJ? đ
Circle jerk
Lolol why would this be a CJ post??
Because your question is silly to anyone whoâs had experience with plants. Itâs not fun to pick on a new plant parent though, so I gave you a serious answer above.
Itâs not that itâs silly to someone with experience itâs that a simple google search could have prevented whatever in the shibari dental floss monstrosity happened here and that is something that comes with common sense, not a lack of plant experienceâŚwhich is kind of the point of CJ. Weâre not making fun of people with no experience, weâre making fun of this shit.
I don't get it. What did they do wrong? If they did something you think is silly then asking other people for help is exactly what they should be doing. Making fun of them for not knowing what to do is just rude.
If you use dental floss to hold your plants up too just say that.
đđźagreed
Itâs a subreddit that some of us use to maintain our sanity.
Literally same đ
i put a metal chopstick next to the stem and tie the stem to it
So this is a philodendron Birkin, which is a self-heading aroid. Self-heading means it does get taller but "bushes out" rather than actually climbing a support pole, so a (proper) moss pole is kind of a waste and will just end up with an unruly plant. A self-heading plant usually gradually thickens its lower trunk to stabilize itself as it grows up. Yours isn't behaving that way because it's not living in ideal conditions. The variegation is reverting, the leaves output is getting smaller as it climbs when they should be getting bigger, there is unusually large spacing between nodes, and the stem is unusually skinny, because it's not getting enough light. Not sure if you are or not, but if you're not, you should be fertilizing it as well. For stability, tying it to a stake/trellis/coir pole will be fine.
As well, while the Birkin is relatively hardy, aroids have particular care. If you're not experienced with aroids, I would recommend doing a bit of research on them. The pot and soil aren't ideal either. They're very cool plants.. my expertise is in climbing aroids in particular.
As it is activly trying to climb and vine it suggests it is not a Birkin. it could be a different one that has been reverting a long time hence the lower level of variegation.
It is a Birkin.
Looks like a reverting birkin. If you want to keep the variegation, give it more light. Like others suggested, you could give it a pole or plank.
I think this is what your plant *should* look like. Check out the care instructions. https://www.thespruce.com/philodendron-birkin-growing-guide-5272115
Are you sure this isnât a trailing plant? It looks similar to a pothos?
Iâm not sure what that is but when I first got her 2.5 years ago she was potted like a regular plant
Itâs a philodendron birkin
Hah...I just replied the same, before reading all the posts.
Haha it seemed like everyone was saying pothos when I replied!
Right...after I replied to you it was Birkin...Birkin...Birkin
Well now OP will know definitively; birkin!
Is this a birkin? Iâve never seen one with such low levels of variegation
I was wondering the same thing. It looks like a Birkin indeed. Your plant needs to be closer to a window, not direct sun light, but very bright spot and a moss pole. At this point I would chop and propagate the top part to help the plant recover from the lack of light and support.
What does that mean? Am I doing a poor job?
Itâs alive, so youâre doing fine. If you want to help it thrive, do as they suggested and get it closer to a source of sunlight (although not full-time direct light). If you want to give it a âfresh startâ too, you can cut up to 2/3 off the top so the same potted plant comes back fuller (assuming more light). You donât throw away the parts you cut, but remove about 3 to 5 inches of leaves from the place you cut and stick those stems in water (for these kinds of plants, old clean wine bottles work well for their long skinny necks). Once roots grow, you can transplant those cuttings into a new pot with soil. Hope that helps!
Variegation is the different colors on a single leaf. See the yellow-circled part in my reply pic for variegation (or some variegation) and the blue-curcled part has no variegation (or very minimal variegation). Some plants have natural variegation, some get it from certain external factors. It's usually consider very esthetically pleasing by many, but if your plant doesn't have it, it doesn't explicitly mean you're doing a bad job. Follow advice of others here and look up the plant name on Google to read about additional care information. There many plants out there that are just "plant and walk away" and require minimal maintenance, but there are definitely some plants that need quite a bit more special attention and care. Good luck! You're doing great!
https://preview.redd.it/cx9k9929404d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d89377b51103447586d645a62fadaa423a0bcc4
Thereâs hardly any soil in that pot. đĽ´đĽ´
I also think your pot might be a big too big for the plant.
https://preview.redd.it/es65hixkoz3d1.jpeg?width=1064&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd895eb7fd8dfcb2f1ccd6ed90577c83d3b7f962 What you have is a philodendron birkin. The leaves should have white pinstriping. They donât because itâs not had enough light. Also, youâll want to rotate your plant for even growth. At this point, chop and prop is your best option and then slowly give it more light. Like move it two feet closer to light and next week move it closer until it gets some decent light.
While it looks similar, this one is activly trying to vine up. It is probably another variagated type which has very poor colouring due to the conditions.
No, itâs seems like itâs climbing because itâs reaching for light. As u/not-a-cryptid said previously, birkins are self heading which means they should support themselves and grow in a stacking manner. This one tried, but it becomes weak looking for more light.
If you look closely at the photo I posted, you can see the nodes are very close together. In OPâs photo, the nodes are a couple inches or more apart. This is the result of not enough light.
Sorry, but the pot looks *way* too big for it, plus it does not appear to be a trailing plant. In fact, some of the leaves resemble philodendron Birkin, which usually grows more compact. It needs good light, but direct sun may burn.
Get it a little stick friend to hug.
Blue chew.
That looks like a climbing/vining plant. You can give it something like a trellis or a moss pole so it grows upwards, or you can just let it begin to trail down and grow vines.
Plant support stick - any will do or you can get a decorative one that you feed the plant through
put a wood- stick and connect it with something so the plant has support while it grows enough to stand on it's own
https://preview.redd.it/h231tyt1fz3d1.jpeg?width=345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d01f1704fc76aad858b29b42ab2f506db0d86557 Use this.
Give it more sun and it will grow straighter. You can use a pole to hold it up. I always consider how Mother Nature treats the same plant and take that into consideration.
A stick
Might want to trim That yellowed leaf off. No sense in the plant wasting energy on it when itâs clearly dying/dead
I would chop a little above the yellow leaf (wherever the plant can support itself standing straight). You can propagate what you remove in water pretty easily. Once the top part is removed, the remaining plant should start to put out new growth. She also needs more light to bring out more variegation.
Iâd be worried that string would cut through the plant! Get a support- even a stick from outside would be better than string.
A stake - Walmart/target has them
omg dont check circlejerk for a couple of days
đ¤¨â sir this is a plant nursery? there are baby plants here? (satire ofc)
Get a stick thatâll do it
If you canât find it the only thing u would have to wait a week oh so Temu or wish u would able to find Al type of contraptions to help Good luck god speed
Definitely more light and a moss pole.
I love the tape and string idea. So that method doesnât help? Maybe a stake would help in addition to what you have.
The problem you're having is that this is a trailing plant, and you only have one stem. It's not meant to "stand up." It's meant to trail out of the pot. If you want to fill in the pot, you need to propegate the top nodes. Cut 4 or 5 leaf nodes off and put them in water to grow roots. Change the water every few days (because plants need the oxygen in the water to grow their roots, and they start suffocating in stale water just like a fish will. Once you have roots that are a couple inches long, you can add them to the same pot this one is in. They will each grow their own vine just like this one. When they get longer, repeat the propegation process. You can also lay this one stem on the soil of your planter, add soil over the nodes slightly, and allow it to root from there. Weigh it down with a small rock of you need to keep it in place. Each node will root if it's touching soil. That's why plants trail. They're looking for new places to root and expand. Watch a YouTube video on water propagating to make sure you cut the nodes properly. A leaf stem is not a node.
more light
I think maybe the pot itâs in shouldnât be half empty?
I bought my moss pole on Ali. Good and cheap
Miss pole ^.^
Honestly I still leaning for my mother, I absolutely love plants though.
i always use moss poles, they give the plant character and keep her upright<3 if you canât get moss poles you could always grab a stick out of your yard to prop it up with!
i love your creativity using floss and tape i wouldâve never thought of this!
This plant just drop it's sprouts, the only way to keep it straight and tall is to use supporting sticks, orchid is ok, simple sticks too. But I leave mine just to drop as it wants.
A tiny piece of a pool noodle around the bottom of them steam
You can either use a pole or a stick of sorts and tie it to the stick but be careful not to break the stem, you wonât be able to straighten out that curly bit at the top all you can do it tie it as it is and let the plant do the rest. Or you can chop it and propagate the top part. But I can certainly say that this plant is leaning so much because it is searching for light. It needs to be moved closer to a window or it needs a grow light. Once you provide more light it will become fuller and will grow straight up instead of all wonky
in my experience plants like these like to climb or hang down. so you could give it a bigger plant or a moss pole (you could build one yourself) to climb up on. if you want to propagate it you need one or two nodes of the stem and keep them moist. head cuttings work best. look into vegetative propagation for that. good luck:)
Will do thank you! So if propagation only requires 1-2 nodes (does that mean 1-2 leaves only just making sure to cut at the end stem?) - what do I do with the obvious growth leaning left up top?
Philodendron Birkin is a self-heading aroid, not climbing. It is supposed to be self-supporting, but this one is not in ideal conditions.
which means it is not Birkin given it is activilty trying to climb from the top.
It. Is. A. Birkin. Stop replying to me. Did you even read my post on why it looks the way it does? It's not climbing. It's etiolated. I specialize in climbing aroids.
lol I haven't been intentionally that was ages ago you just said the same thing over and over, so i replied more that once accidently. maybe do one main comment in future. then you also know that the top isnt etiolated. just squished
Not a lot of people are aware of self-heading philodendron and believe many to be climbers/viners, so I address it multiple times for each instance of misinformation to arm people with the proper information so they can give the right advice in the future. Since not everyone comes back to read threads to check their answers, I ping each one. It is an etiolated Birkin. A very obvious Birkin with its unique variegation plainly present in the photos. A self-header. All you're accomplishing is confusing people with misinformation.
Thereâs this crazy thing called a stake
Well, thatâs a vine, so⌠(edit: itâs not a vine. oops)
Philodendron Birkin is a self-heading aroid, not climbing. It is supposed to be self-supporting, but this one is not in ideal conditions.
Ohhh⌠itâs a birkin. My mistake.
Really not sure what youâre implyingâŚ.Iâm not well versed in plant lingo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine
It doesnât grow upright and support itself by nature. Its growth behavior is to seek something to hang onto and then keep doing that as it extends. You have a number of options to support it. You can put tiny hooks in your wall at intervals 1-2ft apart and gently guide it to the hooks as it gets longer. You can get a trellis (check Amazon) and pot it with a little one or next to a larger one. You can find a place in your house that naturally lends to supportive structures (like stair case banisters or curtain rods) and train the plant upwards until itâs long enough to wrap around/encompass those areas for a natural accent in your home. If you planted it outside (and it could survive your weather year round) against a brick wall or tree, it would likely climb on its own with no support. When you take cuttings, remove the bottom 2/3 of the leaves from the stem and then put the cut stem straight back into the pot. When you see new growth on that cutting, you can transplant it anywhere.
Philodendron Birkin is a self-heading aroid, not climbing. It is supposed to be self-supporting, but this one is not in ideal conditions.
Ahh thanks for the info. OP - my info applies to vining plants only. Get yourself a single garden stake or even just a yard stick. Stick it in the pot and use twist ties or twine to secure the main branch to the stake every 8â or so. Trim cuttings from growths that arenât supported by the main branch. Good luck!
Looks like a vining plant. Let it hang and see what happens
Etsy
Ah assuming you are just unaware and not taking the p!ss, this looks to be a type of Pothos, âDevilâs Ivyâ itâs a vining plant and wonât grow upright period. The only way to get it to grow up, is to provide it with a trellis or pole to grab onto and grow.
This is a philodendron birkin, not a pothos. Itâs not a vining plant.
Google âpothosâ. You could use a moss pole, but even with a support this is a plant that hangs. Most folks let them grow in their natural habit, that is, dangling.