I'd like some plant parents ideas for staking and repotting this Philodendron Dark Lord, please. It's currently in its 4 inch nursery pot and soil mix. I got it two months ago and let it acclimate to my home. Now that it's out of quarantine, I want to repot and put some sort of support on it before moving to gen-pop. My biggest issue is what to do about the large spacing between nodes. It's about 36 inches tall and that space that is bare is greater than 12 inches. In the pics, you can see it had close spacing at the bottom, then grew a long amount of stem and aerial roots, and then another closer cluster of leaves on top. Should I 1) air layer it in moss and then cut the middle to separate and pot up in aroid mix in the same pot 2) leave in the length it is now and put in on a moss pole so that later I can "chop and prop" it or 3) repot it in aroid mix and just give it a pretty trellis or cedar stake? I'm also open to other ideas!


