Cheese plant help needed ?

[honeylou42]

I have adopted this plant and would like to take care of it but have no idea how to prune it, please can anyone offer any advice re all the brown bits. As you can probably tell I really am a novice but do love plants

The brown growths are aerial roots and are a natural habit of the plant. You can either get a moss pole and grow the plant up that, or direct the roots down into the soil in the pot.

I have a moss pole on mine so the roots can go down into the soil if that’s the direction they’re growing in, or up the pole if they want. I’ve grown mine from a single leafed root donated by a friend. They’re very rewarding plants.

Don’t chop the aerial roots off, they help the plant to breathe.
It looks to be a lovely healthy plant, don’t prune it! Be ready for all the excitement of a new leaf opening!

Oh no I chopped a few off that were dangling of the stems and seems to be tangled, though still lots left i hope it will be okay ?

I like to wind the roots around the pole, it keeps them tidy and helps me gently train the plant around the pole too.
Mine needs more water than I had anticipated. I'm terrible at remembering to water it so I bought one of those drip feeder things that it seems to like.

It'll be fine where you've chopped them off btw. My cleaner once gave mine a major haircut (she meant well!) and it was totally fine.