How to Prune an Indoor Vine

Indoor vines are versatile houseplants you can grow in their own pot or as accents to fill out pots containing other plants. You can grow them upright on supports or allow them to tumble gracefully over the sides of the pot. Prune vines when they look sparse or leggy, sustain damage or grow out of scale to their surroundings. Pruning also helps encourage bushiness and helps create a full, bountiful-looking pot.

Sharp scissors or pruning shears

Instructions

- 1
  Remove the tips of new growth by pinching them between your thumb and finger. This encourages branching and bushy new growth.
- 2
  Use scissors to remove damaged sections of vines and sections with few leaves, distorted leaves or leaves spaced far apart. Make the cut in a healthy part of the vine, 1/8 to 1/4 inch above a point where a leaf attaches to the vine. Cut at a slight angle, with the highest part of the cut near the leaf.
- 3
  Thin out overcrowded parts of the vine, making the cuts as described above.
- 4
  Reduce watering until the pruned parts of the plant begin to show new growth.

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