Tetrapanax Growth and Invasion in One Season

Tetrapanax Growth Rate| Check out how INVASIVE it is!!

[@GrowTropicalMK]

Thanks very educational for someone about to plant these out en mass!

[@1ilgrillo]

Very good info, thank you. I am getting runners now in its second spring. Just dug up one with 3" of runner. Good tip on the leaves and also that a length of runner will also push out roots and leaves eventually, I spose. Thanks again.

[@urbantropicaluk]

Hi, thanks. I am getting too many runners. It is a true monster plant!!

[@rajvirkaur4322]

👍🏻 nice video👍🏻

[@marianne9798]

Fabulous plant

[@theadventurousallotmenteer6582]

I think eventually you'll just cut them down or mow them out every time they appear, which is fine. Worth doing to keep the mother plant! Nice video!

[@urbantropicaluk]

I have decided to dig them up and propgate them. I hope to sell once established as I have bought so many new plants ,a good way to fund if I am successful:)

[@theadventurousallotmenteer6582]

@@urbantropicaluk That's a better idea than mowing them down. They are quite sought after too, and going for quite high prices.. I wonder at the end of the decade, if most gardens will have a Tetrapanax?

[@urbantropicaluk]

@@theadventurousallotmenteer6582 I think so, everyone is going for tropical look plants now.

[@saltlifess6226]

Wait until you see new growth then it's rooted!

[@pdouglas3866]

This plant is quite attractive to give a tropical feel to a temperate garden. Nevertheless, we cut ours down last autumn due to the incessant profusion of runners up to 30 feet away from the trunk, invading every bed, walkway and our paver patio. We're still digging them up as best we can, but every time one breaks off a piece of those nasty roots it appears to reroot and take off again. I truly regret ever planting Tetrapanax and urge anyone considering doing so to think long and hard before sticking one in the ground. You may come to regret it!

[@urbantropicaluk]

Agree! It is beautiful but has become a weed in my garden now. Still I don't have the courage to destroy it so will enjoy it for now:)

[@judyta7740]

Amazing plant I want one, but .. I have silly questions: did runners go to your neighbour garden ?

[@urbantropicaluk]

Hi I have road on the otherside . If I had neighbour with lawn garden I would be sure that it would have spread into their garden , sorry:(

[@davidbanner9001]

I would say it depends on were it's planted for location. Plants, especially like Tetrapanax will follow the light. If your plant gets enough light it does not to need to curve or branch out towards the light.

[@urbantropicaluk]

Hi David, thank you. I always thought it was because of the tight space. You are a pro!

[@pdouglas3866]

I have found these roots running in every direction, with the worst outbreaks in and around our redwood tree and shade garden. I just dug up an 18" sprout off a runner in the middle of a very shady area. So shady, I hadn't noticed it! I think they follow the water, as we tend to keep the shade garden moist in the summer. My new name for this plant is The Astrocytoma Plant because it is as nasty as a metastatic cancer and just as difficult to treat.

[@smdasd5277]

Very good video. What will you do about the runner problem?

[@urbantropicaluk]

Thanks! A very good question. I have not thought about that yet. I really hope that my plants calm down 😂. Seriously, I need to think of something . Right now best way is to either pot up runners and repair lawn or just kill off runner and have minimal damage to the lawn. Still worth having the parent plant! Let me know if you think of any ideas. Thanks again

[@smdhorat]

@@urbantropicaluk from what I read online it looks like once the runners start they go crazy. That would mean you will be digging and repairing your lawn forever. Have a look at George's jungle video on this. Very interesting

[@urbantropicaluk]

@@smdhorat I will look at the video . Thanks again. I really hope they stop bugging me!

[@urbantropicaluk]

Hi, I just watched a video from George's jungle on Tetrapanax and at 7:35, there is only mention of suckers but no more detail. Am I looking at the right video?. Thanks for your help.

[@smdasd5277]

@@urbantropicaluk Maybe it was another video on top of this video that I watched. If I find it I will let you know. For now at least you can sell the runners. haha.

[@mul500]

Have you had any runners/suckers pop up in your neighbours garden? I have one in a large planter and another in a raised bed I built, so I shouldn't have that problem. What I would say though, is don't just discard them. You can actually sell them for a lot of money on ebay. The first one I bought was just a tiny sucker from ebay for nearly £50. You couldn't find any in nurseries that specific year, but they still sell on there for quite a pretty penny.

[@urbantropicaluk]

Thank you:) Luckily next to my garden is road so neighbours garden is safe 😅

[@alfreda367]

The more you disturb or break the roots, the more you stimulate more growth.

[@urbantropicaluk]

That is happening already. I have removed so many since this video. Its just crazy!

[@thetropicaldream5933]

What part of the uk are you in?

[@urbantropicaluk]

Hi, I live in Middlesex.