Vanilla.. Um... HELP!

[Otterinaround]

The water is back! I've noticed it leaves a white residue down the stem of the plant that is white and chalky. I had put this up to TDS in the local water but now this almost looks like a champagne flute filling at the tip in the picture. There has been drop in the stem, no wrinkles, no bugs, no spots...just this water. :eek:

[lepetitmartien]

Never had this on mine in 30 years…

It can't be some sort of condensation occurring at night?

Btw, mine is on a bamboo tripod, it's ok until they reach about 20m… I've never been longer than 15m, but a friend had hers 20 meters long and the tripod broke.

The only way to keep it healthy with living aerial roots without making the loops in a good environment is to have the plant either in the tropics, or in a glasshouse. Anyway, the looping makes it manageable.

[Otterinaround]

I've built it into a schedule now. After sunset, I use a cone of kleenex to remove the water. I have avoided smelling or touching it directly because it may be sap as you stated before. I'm still quite confounded as to what this fluid is and why this fluid accumulates.

The plant has now been inside for over a month and doing wonderfully growing three more leaves since the picture. It may be long enough to send down to the bottom of that double wood trellis in preparation for the vine to loop up yet again.
It is my earnest hope that she flowers soon as having such a massive vine with so many wafter roots and a spaghetti tangle of aerial roots seems a bit of a waste. Maybe when she gets outside in the Florida SUN and HEAT something floral may occur.

The variegated panifolia is also growing larger leaves and has reached a height of 1 meter (if I straightened out all of its turns up the same trellis).

[ASP]

My variegated planifolia exudes a clear watery substance which also leaves a chalky looking residue. I thought it was hard water too.
It's called guttation - look it up as my brain is still too sleepy to explain clearly.

[Otterinaround]

Root pressure? BRILLIANT! That feeds right in to the height playing a role. I wonder why it's only the tip? Is there open vasculature that allows for this to leak? Does anyone feel that the looping, terrestrial roots, and pressures have some coefficient in the height the plant thinks it has reached and therefore whether or not to flower? The guttate idea got me thinking.

[lepetitmartien]

Well, my planifolia (or the others) have still not delighted me with this, but I only found today it had a 1 meter branch growing in hiding in the middle of my nearby Geranium rosat… Thinking I wouldn't see it. tsss )