One of the most spectacular plants I have is the Cebu Blue Pothos (Epipremnum Pinnatum). The brilliant colours, the cute fenestrations on more mature leaves, the vibrant green young leaves, and the amazing growth rate, even in winter, make it an adorable plant.

I have mine with two vines, and by the time I cut them down, they reached over two meters. In autumn, when I brought her home, I had to organize the vines on a coir pole, the biggest I had at the time. This is how I discovered that I really don’t like coir poles, and my plant didn’t like it either. Not a single aerial root attached to the coir, although over winter she reached above the pole.

It took me quite a few days of thinking and reading about Cebu Blue before I mustered the courage to prune. She had no signs of distress but didn’t seem happy.

First, I cut the tops of the vines and placed them in a box with perlite. Some parts were missing leaves, and I turned those into wet sticks; I also got some leafed wet sticks that I placed in perlite as well.

Next, I took the roots out of the pot – they weren’t thriving, but they were okay and didn’t need trimming. I kept some of the old soil on, not to disturb the plant too much. Anyway, the pot was too big for her roots, but it needed to sustain the coir pole.

Furthermore, I placed the new moss pole in a slightly smaller pot, added the roots, and filled it with my aroid mix. I pressed a bit to fix it in place and kept it for a little while in a bowl with water to get as much as she needed.

The most difficult part was attaching the vines to the pole. Because the base part of the plant is mature, the vines are not very flexible. I had to be careful not to break the plant, but I wanted to be as close as possible to the pole, as I want the roots to attach themselves to the moss.

Although my Cebu Blue Pothos is half as tall as she used to be, she looks more compact and I could swear she’s glowing. Probably the light is bouncing differently from the leaves now.

In a month or two, after the two top cuttings are properly rooted, I’ll plant them in the same pot to get an abundance of leaves on the pole.

The rest of the clippings are going to be baby plants, and with patience, I will be able to build a new pot with a younger Cebu Blue.

Here, due to limited space, I uploaded only two photos. To see more photos and a time-lapse of the whole process, check my Instagram page @greenmonstera.clinic.

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