Planting outside ivy indoors

vasile.cristi.animefGKcDcpG · May 2023

Hey there! Has anybody managed to get some ivy cuttings from outside and make a houseplant out of it? I recently tried my luck with a few cuttings bot most of them for some reason dryed up. I was just keeping them in water to get some roots but after about 3 weeks they started to dry even though they all had some grown roots. Does anybody have some tips?

Ceres · May 2023

I find it's best to grab a length of ivy that already has roots on it. It tends to wander across the ground and root wherever it fancies so there is usually a piece that can be pulled up and put in a pot.

Winston_The_Gravity_Man · May 2023

@vasile.cristi.animefGKcDcpG Yup, just what @Ceres wrote. It can take a fair while for some outside ivies to get established though (famous for it !), but once they do then whoosh!

Loxley · May 2023

I kept some in a hanging pot for a while, but ivy is not actually a very good houseplant. Epipremnum (Pothos, or Devils Ivy) is MUCH better, as is Philodendron hederaceum (yellow varieties sold as Neon Philodendron, dark leaved forms as Philodendron micans).

If you want a complete ivy doppelganger, Senecio macroglossus is a complete dead ringer - until it produces daisy-like flowers. But is a succulent so tolerates drying out better than ivy.

JennyJ · May 2023

I agree with @Loxley , I've found that it's not very good as a house plant. I had one of the small-leaved types (I think it was Glacier) bought from the houseplant section of a shop and it struggled. I planted it in the ground outside and it's so much better that it needs cutting back quite regularly.

vasile.cristi.animefGKcDcpG · May 2023

I've also noticed that ivy is a difficult houseplant. I've had 2 die from overwatering even though I made sure not to overwater them. I love them as an outside plant but I live in an apartment.

I already have all kinds of pothos, i wanted a variegated ivy tho, they look very nice in a hanging pot and I want a few more hanging plants.

I will look into the senecio, it looks so similar to ivy and I already have string of everything pretty much.

msqingxiao · May 2023

I have two ivy plants indoors, started from rooted cuttings from the monster ivy on my garden wall. I think I just rooted them in water, but kept the the length of the cutting and the leaves on it to the minimum. The success rate wasn't very high. I remember I only got 2-3 successfully rooted cuttings out of a batch of 10 or so. But once they root and start growing again there's nothing stopping them!

I found them quite easy-going indoors actually. Don't mind low light. Don't mind not being watered. Don't mind being kept in small pots.

bédé · May 2023

I'm an ivy geek. Apart from the joys of propagation, there are many varieties of cutivated ivies with interesting leaf shapes and variegations. Unless yo have spotted a wild one that is really worthwhile, it's not worth the trouble and the wait for inferior plants. They are quite cheap to buy.

I used to root them in Jiffy 7s (as did Fibrex, a specialist nursery). Now I just use a small pot with general purpse compost 50/50 with vermiculite. They will root in pure water. I pruned some doorstep "Eva" only this morning. I couldn't resist making them into 3 inch cuttings that are sitting in a glass off water waiting for some attention. But no hurry.

If they dry out too quickly, put a polythene bag over them.

Planting outside ivy indoors

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