grow LARGER LEAVES with wood planks and moss poles 

Thank you for mentioning that it takes a long time to develop large leaves. I watch all these youtubers with huge plants and feel what am i doing wrong.....mine are so slow growing. But unlike you, not everyone mentions how old their plant is.....i thank you for this!!

Your videos have the best balance of "everyday people" vibe like you are one of us non-professional planty people, combined with the knowledge of a pro. They're always practical AND contain helpful info. Thank you!!

Suggestion: Next time you finish a bottle of vitamins, cut the top of the bottle off at about a 45° angle. It's a simple and free way to make a cup for scooping soil. The big advantage is that you can easily direct the soil where you want it, and the top edge of the cup doesn't get in the way by pushing into the plant.

When using a moss pole, don't stress too much about the aerial being in contact with the pole. As the pole is kept moist, the aerial roots will naturally seek out that moisture.

Thank you so so much for your honesty. Planty beginners sometimes are so anxious to see things grow. Giving us some idea how long is encouraging. I just started in April. I now have about 40 and slowing down due to space.

I watched many videos on this subject and I was about to give up on trying this method. Then I saw this video and you explained it so well . Now I understand and I am inspired to try it. Thanks.

Great video as usual! Been binging so many of your videos lately, your energy is great. Love the way the marble queen has grown. I just put mine on a moss pole a couple days ago, can't wait for her to grow. I'm a li'l jelly of that splendid, definitely on top of my wishlist, but I don't dare buying anything before I travel for christmas leaving my plant babies with a friend who's cat and plant sitting 😆 The cat will be fine, bit more worried about alocasias and calathea 🤣

Thank you for a great informative presentation.

Great satisfying video! 😊

It could be Thrips? On the Golden Pothos…I’m battling with them and sometimes they are not visible!!

Awesome. Thank you for the informative video. I learned valuable information. 🥰

Very informative video, Jeff!👏

I really enjoyed watching this video both as entertainment and as a source of knowledge. In my mind, this pleasant background music is filling your plant room with gentle vibes, and Not an overlay to the video. Just a pleasant imagining. Thanks Jeff, I feel like I'm on a journey with you.

Great Video!! I really enjoy watching all of your videos. I have learned a lot and your plants are beautiful! 🤗

Perfect timing, I’m in the process of putting several plants on poles and plan to use aroid mix in some, moss in other ones. I finally got me a monstera Thai constellation and a few other plants for my Christmas present 🎁

I have been using the same chicken wire for my moss poles for quite some time and it works perfectly, nice and stable 💜 Easy to extend the length too... I put my verrucosum on one a few months ago, two cuttings, and it's doing exceptionally well, shorter internodal space, and sizing up.

You’ll have to give updates on how your plants are doing on their new moss poles. The Splendid is my #1 wish list plant, but I’ll wait until next summer when it’s warmer out to get one.

I just purchased a philodendron dodsonii it has huge aerial roots. I'm looking forward to attaching to a wood plank. I've been binging on your knowledge. I heard when you said larger aerial roots do well. Im excited thanks for being a great teacher

Good morning Jeff! It was such a nice surprise to wake up to this. Thank you. A relaxing morning with coffee even before the sun was up.

My plank isn't wet at all but it is a rougher old barn board type of wood with live edge bark on both sides. My father has a plumber mill so that's where I got the board from. My cebu blue and golden poirot l pothos are attaching just fine using velcro and tape😊

Realy helpful. Thanks a lot👌👌👌🌹🌹🌹🌹

I use the green plastic coated 1 inch mesh wire that, ironically, I couldn’t find on Amazon and found at my local hardware store. I also leave room at the top so I can prop a water bottle in the pole for watering. I water about 2-3 times a week (I have very low humidity) so the moss doesn’t become hydrophobic and make a huge mess. If I let it dry out it makes a mess when I water it and I only water the pole and not the pot. My poles are 3 ft but eventually I will expand to 6 feet, then I will chop and prop. But that’s a long time coming.

Lord knows i struggle with this. Thanks for the insight

A bit of tropical plant bonsai’ing haha. I use moss poles myself. I like the aesthetics. I’ve definitely had to manipulate my plants a bit to get them to grow how I want. Just a little finesse. Also, have you ever used plastic canvas mesh to use at the bottom of your terra cotta pots instead of trying to find a piece of bark to cover the hole? Another good video bud 👊🏼

I currently have 2 pothos on planks. One was a but mature and the newest one was only 4 leaves, but the leaves were pretty big. It’s now up to 11 leaves and I THINK I have some roots just starting to attach to the rough cedar plank. I am holding them on with the Velcro straps. I’m too nervous to take them off and check. I don’t want to disturb anything. Fingers crossed it sticks. I believe I’m the one that asked you in your live if I should have kept the plank wet. I hope it really doesn’t matter that much. I spray the plank as much as I can.

Great review on the planking and wash pole , question why not try to put the plank and all the moss pole on the outside of the pot so that this way, the plant has more room to grow inside the pot and it won’t get root bound so fast just asking your opinionl

i pot my golden pothos Epipremnum inside a koi pond, it grew much faster inside the pond. 6 months it grew vertically 7m (23 ft). it a giant golden pothos now.

I have a P. Serpens on a plank. Maybe 8- 10 months now. Never attached. Think I may take your suggestion at put on a moss pole. Absolutely love and enjoy everyone of your videos! Would you ever consider Vlog style videos?

Awesome video...can you show a video of you putting a plant on a plank? I know many people use moss poles instead of other things. Are there some plants better than others that do well on planks and did you plank them early on or ones that was already a bit larger

As always, very informative - thank you! I’ll look forward to updates. 🪴

Great video, mate! What do you plan to do when they reach the top of the planks if you want to keep the growth going? I imagine airlayering?

Very nice content!!! 🙋🏼‍♀️💚🪴

So I have a beautiful wooden desk. Next to it is my young Monstera Siltepecana, and I recently got a Monstera Peru. which is now next to the Siltepecana… seriously considering fixing the Peru to the desk. The desk is already covered in many plants. I think it’d look so beautiful climbing up the desk, and I would take the desk with me if I moved (I have zero plans to move, I adore where I live). Kinda a crazy idea. But.

I apologize for double comment, but what type of wood plank are you using? I'm thinking of doing this to some of my pothos plants once I repot in spring. Also, would this be good for a Baltic blue pothos? I noticed my Baltic blue is branching outward I guess crawling instead of climbing upward...can it be planned?

Hey Jeff! Nice video. What size of propagation would you suggest to start a Pothos board or pole? Like a couple of leaves or a longer rooted vine? I have a monstera adonsonii on a moss pole and am thinking about starting some propagations from my Hawaiian Pothos for a moss pole or plank because yours is really great looking. Inspiration!

Awhh yeah my Green Pothos got like that from direct light from Grow Light! I had my Pothos cutting too close to grow light.

I've seen some put coco husk chips inside their support pole while some put chunky aroid mix, some leca. I wanted to try with coco chips because I have a block and it expands when soaked in water so I have too many left 😆 I like mixing coco chips on my potting mix but I don't have that many plants. Putting them into the pole would put them into good use. So basically it's a coco pole not a moss pole 😃 I don't want to buy sphagnum moss because I don't have many uses for them, even for propagation I prefer perlite, leca, or water.

How do you help minimize fungus gnats when using a moss pole? Do the gnats also get attracted to them to lay eggs?

Sorry to bother you as I’m sure you are busy. If you happen to see this, I wanted to ask you why I am struggling with some plants to get them to climb. Majority of mine are great (I have around 700 individual plants some ranging from 3-20yrs old) I have some that will refuse to climb on a pole (it seems no matter what I do). I only have one on a plank and that one is doing better than the ones on my poles. For me and my environment/setup/watering habits……maybe planks are the way to go. My struggle is that some epipremnum will not adhere to the pole, the leaves never get bigger. Though I have a philodendron right next to one of my stubborn climbers with head sized leaves that I started from a cutting. They are getting the same light, watering habits and environment, but I noticed some of my epipremnum (more so than any other species) stays stubborn. I’ve tried snuggly wrapping them around the entire pole, some trying to make them grow straight up the pole (not wrapping the vine around the pole), but I still struggle with some. Ones grow great and others do not. I just don’t know what I’m doing differently that will cause some to climb and others not to. Yours are absolutely beautiful. I saw how you made sure the node is touching the plank and you spray yours down more than I do. I’m wondering if it’s the tightness of getting them on the pole to start with and the spraying down that I might need to upgrade. Just curious of your opinion if you had ones that were hard to get to climb and if you noticed any differences of what you were doing to help me narrow down what I’m doing wrong. It would really be helpful, but I do understand if you can’t respond, especially not knowing my setups. I love your videos and seeing your beautiful plants. Thank you for providing your knowledge to the rest of the plant loving world. I know I can never know enough and I enjoy seeing and hearing other people’s experiences and helpful tips. I’ve had plants for a while, but I can never know enough and there is always plenty to learn in my case lol.

Your soil looked really dry when you repotted your plants. Having your mix less dry will make repotting easier. Also plastic coated chicken wire is what I use for my moss poles.

Thanks for the post. Informative and helpful like always. I have a question regarding your pothos on the planks: did you start out with just one rooted cutting? It is one vine/stem per plank, right?

You'll like the moss poles. My plants benefit very much from the moss

How do you keep the poles from tipping? My adansonii is near the top of a 48 inch pole. I’m going to have to chop and extend. I want to get the poles in the pots so the poles don’t lean.

what type of plastic pots do you use & where do you get them from?

I've a Glorious that went off course, and super tough to correct it because of how thick the stem is getting. Always have the fear I might break it XD Just waiting to transfer it onto a different pole but they're still not here.

Great video, next time try using Saran wrap instead of tape to prevent plant destruction. Good luck

Where did you say you purchased the moss poles? (Plastic)

Doesn't the tape keep it from growing up the plank? When do you take it off?

Why is the white part of my marble queen pothos slowly turning green white as the leaf ages?

New video! (No typos)

Told you that Verrucosum wouldnt attach to planks. Or Splend, Melano, and such.

Great content, as always -thanks for sharing and doing the experimenting for us! Looking forward to the update on these plants. They look very happy in their new homes! BTW, got my hoodie (after a long shipping snafu) and I love it! Great quality, your artwork is such fun - especially Pickles! - and the people at Spring were VERY quick to respond to my request for help. 💚🪴👏🏽🪴💚

To everybody thinking about using moss poles also take a look at Sydney Plant Guys Method for extending the poles to get mature leaves!