I voted schefflera because they and pothos are the only plants i can keep alive indoors. I've been told the reason ficus drop their leaves and die indoors is because I (we) water them too much. The same amount of water, or more, outside and they do fine though. Go figure. Schefflera is strong and has good stems for perching. Outside, I would still go for ficus as my favorite though.

Home depot has some good prices on some nice bushy schefflera. 12-13 dollars. Buy one and [i][u]trade it[i][u] for the one you want. That's what I'm going to do at my neighborhood PG&E office.

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I have an outdoor cage but I have jasmine growing up the back of the cage

use guys r lucky to get so cheap plants.is so exspensive over here i paid 15 pound for my pothos and 11 for my ficus they both good i think bt as i aint got my cham yet i cnt really vote as the lights aint on em bt if had to i think the pothos at mo love the big leafs and looks good fun for the cham to climb round all day.am thinking of getting a 3 to 4 foot umbrealla for my room to put him on when cleaning his cage shud b cool

I voted for the potho because that's all I have in there at the moment.. I've been searching around for a large pot to plant the potho along with another plant.. I glad to see all the responses.. It looks like the ficus is the plant of choice... but what about bamboo plant??

So then the enclosure would have a potho, possible ficus, and a bamboo plant.. I think it would look really cool... but I'm not sure on the affects of the 3 plants combined into 1 pot... What are your thoughts??

I'm new to this forum, I've had my New Panther "Leo" for not even a month now... I'm still very excited to have him.. I call him my new dog from Madagascar!!

thanks for the responses,

Beau

Bamboo in other pots is fine, however unless in a significantly large pot, or away from the roots of another, I'd not suggest planting pothos. It thrives with moisture and could absorbe too much needed for the second plant.

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Yesterday I bought a varigated shuffelera at loews for 9.99 and its about 2.5ft tall they also had larger ones for same price.Besides pothos I buy most of my larger indoor plants/trees at end of season they are cheeper and need a little work but some good deals that time of year.I dont currently use them but have in the past. Hybiscus would be my favorite, alot of benifits to using them.They need bright hot conditions.Does anyone know if the relative of the tropical hybiscus, the rose of sharon is just as safe as hybiscus.Anyhow great topic!!!
Kevin
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I'm using Dwarf Bamboo, great for coverage and real strong vertical limbs. Schefflera seems to work really well with me, great for misting as the water seems to pool up nicely. And pothos of course, the one with the big leaves.

I just took out my hisbiscus because the leaves were falling at a fast rate (had it in for about 4 months)....not enough light in the cage, so it'll stay outdoors until the branches are full again. In the meantime, Im using a hanging pothos, and a schefflera...pretty dense in there and I might just leave it like that if all goes well

Jim

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I voted pothos, I originally had a ficus in my enclosure which they liked and climbed readily, however when i built new much bigger enclosure they got a new umbrella tree... they love it, and since then i added a golden pothos, which they are able to hide in and cant get along without now... I found a really kewl planter that laid flat against a wall in a half circle so it fit well into the enclosure without hanging from the ceiling on the cage but off the back wall.... they dig it a lot...

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