WOW!!! ENORMOUS!

Hi Pep..how are you?
That is one big tree..nicely shaped, and huge leaves. Which direction is it facing? Toni

That is awesome looking! I love the stems. Biggest I've ever seen.

Jen

Nope, I think we have a winner here. Biggest freakin' dieff I've ever seen. Beautiful!

I can see why the man didn't take the plant. Just picture the guy in a little car trying to drive this huge plant home... he would look like dinner in the Little Car of Horrors! That's amazing, though!

Chandres

there is one at this Chinese restraunt i eat at sometimes,, ita ATLEAST 9-10 foot tall, but its so tall it grw right passed the window so the top leave dont get any sun...

I think it faces East, maybe northeast.

Biggest I've ever seen growing indoors, too!
Is that actually part of the stem winding around the top of the pot?

It's fabulous - I want it! LOL!!!

That's AMAZING! I did not realize that Dieffenbachia could get that large. Very Cool :o)

I'll have to look tomorrow when I get to work, for the pic I took of ours here in the library, before we pruned and divided it. We have probably 20 foot ceilings. It was pretty big.

TISHA!!(Ã)~~~(Wavin' Hi!)
Please do post that photo if you find it!

LMAO We do not have 20 foot ceilings. What was I thinking? We have more like 12 foot (maybe a little more) but I meant 12 foot yesterday, not 20.

Well, I've looked everyplace I can think of, and can't find the picture I was thinking of. So, here's the next best thing.

It's blurry, because it's cropped from a picture that was supposed to be of the rug in that area (it was a donation to the library) and I made the pic bigger. Anyway, as you can see, the plant was as tall (if not taller) than the bookstacks behind it. Those stacks are at least 9 feet tall.

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It has since been cut down and divided into two plants.

This one is the part that my department got to keep. It's doing SO wonderfully. And it was the scrawniest bits leftover from the chop. The "big healthy" bits were planted in a fancy planter (next pic after this one).

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As you can see, fancy pot does not always = better.

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And, just for you amusement... this is what happens to big beautiful plants when the University President decides that the library needs more "art" and then needs special black out blinds for the windows, to protect the "art" UGH!

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Yes, they are all still LIVING, but not THRIVING like they used to. Some of the plants are almost as old as me. They deserve better. :-(

Tisha, what's going to happen to the plants when they reach the ceiling??? LOL
What's the plant in pic 5? Is it a Ficus?
Perhaps before adding 'art' to the library, the president should have researched the needs of plants..Do you have any sayso in the matter? Toni

Oh, they've reached the ceiling before, and been cut back. The plants in pics 4, 5, and 6 all used to be beautiful wonderful specimens. The Dieff was too, but it was always unruly and spiraled out of control most of the time. lol But that's why it was my favorite. It would go every which way... it had personality. I know at least 2 of these plants have been in the library since 1976.

Anyway, David Boren does NOT care about plants, that's for sure. And, as far as my say so? LMAO Yeah right. I'm just a lowly library tech. Not even the library's Director had any sayso in this matter. And they were HIS plants!

Here is a link that might be useful: Boren's book... Oh, can I please have his autograph (barf!)

Well, Tisha...yours *would have* 'won', had it not been cut back! Wow!
Peperomia's friends' has a 'tidier' look to it, though.

Both FABULOUS!

Your 'keepers' look pretty good!

What's he talkin' 'bout....Plants *ARE* art!!

These plants look pretty scary! Like they are going to grab me! Lol. But I love it and have two different types of dies.....can't wait til it gets to this point!

Okay--we have one here at the store, came from my Grandma's funeral 16 years ago-"irene" as she is known is about 8 feet tall, after being "chopped" down 3 or 4 times, she got ot 12 feet tall like a Palm Tree and slowly bent her head over 1 day and came down on top of one of my employees head. He yelled ,Get that "weed" off of me and I thought he said get "irene" off of me--thus her name. Anyway, she all of a sudden has about 20 "spikes" (look the color of leopard spots) coming out of rolled up leaves all over the top of her. What the heck are they- in 16 years, she's never done that, Even her "babies" which were repotted during the chopping are about 3 ft now and don't have these things. What are they??? Help????

Here's a photo of my niece standing next to a dief we've had since 1972. Many, many cuttings have been taken of this plant. It has been almost 3 feet taller than in the photo in the past as well. It is heavily staked and there are large stones weighing the pot down to keep it from tipping over. I've seen huge diefs in the tropics that crawl along the ground, rarely do they form upright trunks they tend to want to sprawl.
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Beautiful specimen!

Billy Rae

I completely agree! Very nice...wish it were mine.
Good growing, chazparas!

I've noticed the 'dwarf' ones seem to want to sprawl...but the larger growing species & cultivars seem to easily grow 'tall' with very stout canes.

mine reach the ceiling, every year year1/2 i have to cut the stem and re-root it.

Do you realize you replied to a 10 year old thread?