hi there my name is memo this is my channel how's planty goodness and essentially it's a place where
i like to geek out about my big passion you might be able to see some of it around me i talk about
tropical houseplants and today i want to focus on a very cool plant and there's a bit of a
story behind this so i'll kind of tell you that before we kind of do a bit of a show and tell
so this is a plant and i'll tell you which one it is it's the epipen pinatum so the
slightly longer leaf epic premium that you should be able to find in most plant stores
not the cebu blue but i think the cb blue would have a similar situation the slight difference
between the epipremnum penatum and the cb blue is that the sibu blue has got a slight glockus
leaf so a slightly blue tinge to the leaves whilst the upper premium pinata and the standard one
is just a regular green leaf now this is a plant that i have talked about on previous videos here
and i've also mentioned it on some of my instagram reels if you're not following me already on
instagram there's a link down below in the description if you want to follow me there because
i will do updates on some of my more mature larger plants and also do some informational
reels as well but anyway back to the topic of the epipremnum penatum a few months ago i would
say now i took a cutting from one of the epipen items that i had because it had fully matured
leaves are at least as mature as i've ever seen in a private collection which means that the leaves
are a lot larger and they've got fenestrations and the fenestrations again just to kind of touch on
that really quickly it's those splits that you might see on the leaves one of the plants and
most people are used to seeing those splits on is the monstera deliciosa or the swiss cheese plant
and because i saw that it had those fenestrations and also because that plant was getting
way too tall much taller than its support stick i'm looking at it now
it's not a support stick it's one of the rare plants that i've got on a moss pole
but it was growing so large it was going so much above its moss pole that it had
to get chopped back otherwise it was going to topple over essentially so
i took a cutting and i propagated it and the question that i had and a lot of other people
had as well is will the leaves stay mature or will they revert back to the unfenestrated smaller leaf
form after it's been cut and propagated and now let me pick up the propagation and i will show you
so so far and again this could change i've only had one new leaf so far but there is another one
coming in and i can see it on that as well but you might be able to see so this is obviously
what the mature form of the epipen and pinatum leaves look like so they're much much larger
so i can do a bit of a head test so you can see quite how large those leaves are
and you can see that the leaves are fenestrated so these are the two leaves that were on the original
cutting and you can now see the newest leaf that has grown in the new media so this is in lechuza
pond and that has also got fenestrations and i am very happy to report it's also got some
of the secondary fenestrations because there's secondary fenestrations on some of these leaves
which means that you're in the mid rib of the leaf and i'll see if i can bring it in a bit closer and
you might be able to notice just really discreetly there can you see that slight white dots in the
middle that isn't pest or anything that is very small secondary fenestrations which is
holes along the midrib and that's something that you will see as well with the monstera deliciosa
if it's quite a mature leaf you will get those secondary fenestrations and instead of them just
being the splits along the edge of the leaf you will get those holes that are happening
in the middle as well so that's quite good and even on the newest leaf there are some
secondary fenestrations i'm not going to handle it too much because this newest leaf is still
not fully hardened off so it could potentially get larger than this but what you will generally see
most of the times when you're propagating is the newest leaf that will emerge after you've cut it
rooted it and propagated it will generally be smaller in size than the original leaves as well
the other thing as well with the epipremnum is that the leads will get larger and more mature
generally if you give it something to climb up now i don't know if you can see how this is growing
here and this is a very very sturdy stem i don't know whether i'm going to be able to bend it up
without snapping the stem i'm going to try because if i don't then i know like most of the trailing
plants if you let it trail the leaves will get smaller and smaller whilst if you let it climb
it will get larger and larger but the thing i was trying to come to is that even the newest leaf so
the the second leaf after it's been propagated is showing signs already that it's fully fenestrated
like this so for now i would say that propagating a mature epipen pinatum with fenestrations
will produce future leaves with fenestrations obviously i'll come back to the point of giving
it a support stick or a pole or a moss pole or even better a plank and go and have a look at my
other video if you want to know about my opinion about plank versus moss pole versus support stick
you will then start you will be able to retain at least in my opinion based on what i've seen
from other plants you'll be able to retain the maturity of the leaves and probably the
fenestrations there's always going to be a risk that if i let this trail down now and it's got
nowhere to support itself that it might actually lose both the fenestrations and the the largeness
of the leaves so definitely try to get it onto something to climb as quickly as possible and
the question that some people might already have is yes i've already taken a lot more cuttings with
a lot more mature fenestrated epipen and pinatum leaves and i am now propagating those as well
and what will likely happen is because i want a slightly bushier plant is i'll put
a group some of those propagations those rooted propagations hopefully by that point together
to create a bushier plant that will have all fenestrated mature leaves growing up a plank so
yeah just a quick video for today because i know that some people have been asking because they
saw that this was the case and they saw the two original leaves and they just oh do let us know
if it does retain some of the maturity of the leaves because depending on whether or not you've
done some experimentation of this yourself with juvenile leaves and mature leaves and some plants
some plants will drop down entirely back to juvenile leaves for a bit until they go
back into mature leaves this one seems like it hasn't skipped a beat so that is something to
bear in mind essentially but i think that's everything i wanted to say about this is
probably just going to be a bit of a quick video but i know this is something that a lot of people
were asking about and hopefully this clears it up for some of you i will still caveat this slightly
and say i'm only basing this on two the two leaves the two new leaves that have come up since being
propagated so it might still revert if it does i will let you know but yeah if you've got any
questions comments do let me know in the comments down below love to have that conversation with you
we're building a nice little bit of a community and people are coming into the comments and having
discussions amongst themselves as well which is great but yeah hopefully you've enjoyed hopefully
i shall see you here soon and i truly truly hope you have a great rest of your day thanks bye
you