You could make it out of EcoWeb substrate, I don't know if it could be bought premade.

An advantage to this material is that it will not decay ever and can be reused if your plants die. You can get it wet and sprinkle powered moss on it and grow the moss under your plants if you can keep it damp.

This post was edited by dellis326 on Fri, Nov 14, 14 at 0:09

I used to make moss poles by rolling some fine chicken wire into a tube and filling it with moss. You can add a small plant pot or container with a drainage hole to the top of the pole and fill it with water. This keeps the moss moist and increases humidity for the plant. It's best to add the moss stick when you are repotting the plant to avoid damaging the roots when you install it and to secure the pole well in the soil. If you don't want to use plain metal you can buy coated wire or try plastic mesh.

Elizabeth

The pole support that is in the pic is wood. You can also buy them like that on the pole from places like home depot or lowes for around $25 dollars.

I just brought a silver pothos and i am gonna train it up a bambook stick.

> ⦠rolling some fine chicken wire into a tube and filling it with moss...
I like that home-made construction idea; you could easily vary height and girth.

> You could make it out of EcoWeb substrate...
A most interesting product. I'd never heard of ecoweb. I'd been thinking PP but this type of PET fiber substrate comes across very close to what I was imagining.

> The pole supportâ¦is woodâ¦i am gonna train [a new pothos] up a bamboo stick.
Sure looks great in that photo. This example makes it seem like the pole need not be natural like moss, or looser/fibrous and holding some moisture like moss or polymer eco/epiweb or batting, for something like pothos air roots to hang onto.

I'd suppose a "real" epiphyte probably couldn't deal with that kind of hard/dry support though - guess pothos/philo just needs something to grip. (Kind of sounds like that carpet I half-jokingly mentioned might actually work too!)

Thanks to all.