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title: "Where should I cut the plant for propagation and what can I do to…"
description: "Where should I cut the plant for propagation and what can I do to stop it from growing like this? As much as I like the plant, it doesn’t look super great when…"
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community: "Philodendron Parents"
author: "Violette"
published: "2025-08-12T16:06:14.659487Z"
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# Where should I cut the plant for propagation and what can I do to…

_Posted by Violette on 2025-08-12_

Where should I cut the plant for propagation and what can I do to stop it from growing like this? As much as I like the plant, it doesn’t look super great when it’s leggy and I don’t want to end up with a million pots of the same plant like what happened with my spider plant and my heart leaf philodendron… 😅

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## 3 comments

### inkibees commented on 2025-08-13

I almost love how ridiculous she looks 😂

If, IF, I were to chop and prop this crazy gal I would probably just kinda.. go for it.. but I don’t know what that means because fate would be deciding, not I 😂

#### Violette replied on 2025-08-13

I’m kind of worried of what would happen to the rest of the plant if I were to chop it. I’m thinking somewhere around one of the many root nodes, but even after that it would look crazy 😅

#### inkibees replied on 2025-08-13

She’s got ✨ character ✨

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