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I've never thought of freezing them, I guess that would work but my freezer is pretty full, and there would be me opening a new can and not finding the frozen ones until I put the new ones in the freezer. Also the real pain with frozen stuff is you have to plan hours ahead, to get it thawed...

It mostly grows in the previous years chippings.

I sometimes water my plants with nettle tea, admittedly not house plants. Now if a plant can survive a flourish on something that stinks like that, containing god knows what, I think they can probably put up with a bit of tap water.

I did a bit of research @Thevictorian and found that they can be ground up to produce a calcium rich powder which can be used in the garden, for example for calcium hungry crops like tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and cabbage. One video I looked at recommended soaking them in clean water then...

How about putting it somewhere that is very visible to them but not constantly in your line of site and planting a few fake vines over the edges of the thing to make it look like they are growing or some of form other camouflage you can think of?

I have taken cuttings from a Holly with particularly large orange berries. They are very slow to take! I would suggest strip off most of leaves, gritty soil mixture, and use loads of cuttings because I had quite a failure rate. As for sexing them, unless you do like @Adam I suggests, you have...