Does anyone grow this plant?

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I always fancied this houseplant, known as Rosary Vine or String of Hearts, but I never saw one for sale anywhere – then I visited a friend and found she had one, so I begged a bit. When I have seen them in pictures or in tropical glasshouses for example, these plants grow almost like a beaded curtain, with lots of stems trailing down to give a ‘waterfall’ sort of effect which I thought was pretty. Descriptions online say that the stems trail to about 1 m (about 3 feet 3 inches). The bit I begged from the friend took root and started to grow. I have it on a north-east facing windowsill and it seemed to do OK there. The stem grew and grew along the sill. The strange thing is that the plant has never grown more than one stem, so there is just one thin wiry stem emerging from the pot, as you can see. When it reached the end of the window I had to double it back on itself, and it carried on and on… eventually the one stem branched and then both branches carried on growing longer and longer. Now it has recently grown little purple tube-like flowers all along its length. I wanted to dust the windowsill so I took it down and laid it out on the floor – the one stem has grown to 2.2 m (just over 7 feet) and then it branches into two and each branch has grown another 2 metres (6 foot 6 inches) so altogether it is 13 feet 6 inches long. It’s a lovely plant and I’m glad it’s growing well but it isn’t really producing the multi-stemmed ‘waterfall’ effect I had hoped for! Does anyone else grow this and if so how is yours growing? The picture shows just the pot and the first half metre or so! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.