I was a little apprehensive about growing this plant as I have had a tricky time growing the regular mauve flowered vitiensis and the yellow flowered one in the past. I rooted it in coconut husk, and it was off to the races. This plant was far more vigorous than the ones I had grown before, and was difficult to keep it in check. It required several up-pottings, and constant work keeping its vines from covering and tangling other plants in the grow tent. It produced a peduncle and began to bud up for the first time nine months after starting it. Sadly all the buds but one blasted the first go around.