Leggy, bare, or just not doing much? Learn how to encourage fuller growth, when to use a moss pole, and how to train your pothos to go where you want it.
No. I mean, technically yes. Botanically, Epipremnum aureum is a flowering plant, and it does have flowers, in the sense that it has the equipment for them. But your Pothos will not flower. Not this year, not in ten years, not if you feed it, not if you buy it a moss pole, not if … Read more
The title of this article is a bit of a trick, because the honest version would be “how to prune Pothos, which you basically cannot do wrong.” I understand the hesitation. You’ve got one plant, it took a year to get that long, and taking scissors to it feels like an irreversible decision. So before … Read more
Your Pothos has one vine. It’s a nice vine. It is also, increasingly, just a vine, heading off across the room with a sort of quiet determination while you’d hoped for something a bit more… plant-shaped. Before you go looking for what you’ve done wrong, here’s the thing nobody tells you. The shop plant you’re … Read more
You’ve noticed the little brown nubs. They stick out of the stem opposite each leaf, they look slightly like something has gone wrong, and nobody warned you about them. They’re aerial roots, they’re completely normal, and on most Pothos they will sit there doing absolutely nothing for the entire life of the plant. Here’s what … Read more
“Best” is doing a lot of work in that title, so let’s define it before you spend anything. If best means best results, it’s a moss pole you pack yourself. Nothing else is close. The aerial roots grow into the damp moss, form a second root system partway up the plant, and your Pothos grows … Read more
Let’s get my hypocrisy out of the way first: I don’t use moss poles. I use Kratiste poles, because I have never once in my life managed to keep a moss pole damp for longer than about nine days. This is a me problem, not a moss pole problem. Because here’s the thing. A properly … Read more
At some point your Pothos stopped looking like a plant and started looking like a length of string with occasional leaves attached. It’s not dying. It’s not even unhealthy, necessarily. It’s doing exactly what a Pothos does when it isn’t getting what it wants, which is stretch off in search of it. Here’s what’s actually … Read more
Nobody searches this because their Pothos is dead. They search it because it’s alive, fine, and doing absolutely nothing about it. One new leaf since March. Still green, still upright, still refusing to commit. Here’s the good news: Pothos are fast growers. Properly fast, in the right conditions. Here’s the annoying news: “the right conditions” … Read more