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New tips on vines

If left to their own devices, most vines will continue as a single stem indefinitely. But if one snips the tip, it has no choice but to make a new one. Usually (if it has some age and vigor, acceptable conditions,) there will be more than one.

Here's an example with heart-leaf Philodendron. A couple weeks ago, I cut this vine to share and at the node closest to the cut, a new tip started to emerge right away, new leaf almost ready to uncurl to the right. Yesterday I noticed another one on the next node (which would be down and to the left, in the corner in this pic.) Can you see them?

Let's see your new tips!

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