I have one of these which gets top heavy and floppy. Rather than repot does anyone have experience of simply chopping the top off? Will it re sprout or just die off It seems to just have the single stem and it's not really up to supporting the weight now so it may snap anyway
You probably have one of the climbing types that like to,........well, climb. You can probably cut it back if you want to
Hi @Loofah , if it is forming a bit of a trunk it should be easy to chop the top off and root the cutting. The mama stem should re-sprout. I have seen these in a botanical garden in Spain and their grow habit is (putting this nicely), "varied" and "relaxed" If they grow on a slope, they slop downhill. If there's something to climb, they'll climb. All apparently they hate their roots and grow as far from the starting point as possible, leaving the centre empty. They are not the easiest plants to keep in shape at home, but the easy care and wonderful foliage makes them worth having anyways.
I'd go along with that growing habit! Lovely foliage but definitely a floppy beast. Might try the chop and propagation
I passed a bed of these Philodendrons in Tenerife last week, they don't seem to branch out and I have never seen one cut back, I think it would spoil the look completely.
I have a smallish plant of P. bipinnatifidium I bought as a plug plant 18months ago, its similar, in type, to the big one in @strongylodon picture. I had a large one some years ago and it got too big for overwintering, its a bush type rather than a climber. I see the climbing types as more like Monstera in habit.
I have never been able to work out the difference between selloum and bipinnatifidium, at one time it was even suggested that selloum was the accepted American name for the same plant.
