This Super Easy TikTok Hack Will Help Your Vine Plants Grow Upward

Though vine plants like pothos look gorgeous in hanging pots that let the foliage tumble downward, what happens if and when you want your plants to grow upward? One TikTok user wanted to find a way to help her stems grow tall that didn’t require building a bulky trellis, and the result is actually really cool.

“I have this neon pothos. I want to get it to grow up,” TikTok user Liz Fox Roseberry (@foxcraftcustom) said in a July 14 video. “What if I just attach wires to the stem? Will they bend and do what I want them to do without a stake?”

The answer? Yes. And the gravity-defying outcome looks like a piece of sculptural art.

In a follow-up video, Roseberry said that the biggest challenge to overcome when installing the wire is to make it stable enough in the soil to support the weight of the vines.

To make sure your wire is securely in place, Roseberry recommends either making a corkscrew with one end of the wire and screwing it into the soil or folding a piece of wire in half, twisting those two halves together and creating two anchor points at one end.

You can also poke wires through plastic plant trays (or even use a coffee can lid) and put them at the bottom of your pot before adding your plant and soil.

Roseberry used the 12 gauge wire from BENECREAT on Amazon. This wire comes in a handful of different finishes like gold, brown, and rose gold. But she said that a thicker wire like 9 or 10 gauge would work better for longer or thicker vines. Though, twisting together two strands of 12 gauge will be strong enough for thicker vines, too.

Now all your plants can defy gravity and vines can travel to new places you never thought possible.