If You’ll Read this, You’ll Never Need to Buy Another Pothos Again
21.02.2024 - 06:27
/ balconygardenweb.com
/ Raul Cornelius
We all want a houseplant that keeps on thriving and needs a little care – to add a cherry to this cake, how about having a one, which gives you so many plants that you can gift to all your friends and family members? Surely a lottery, right? Keep reading!
Yes, you are reading that right! What I’m about to tell you will equate to never having to buy this plant ever in your life – even for generations! This may sound too good to be true, but hear me out!
For this to work, all you have to do, is to find a beautiful and healthy specimen, either at your friend’s, or work place, a hotel, or a garden centre, or a park.
Now, just ask the owner or caretaker of that particular pothos, that you have spotted, for a 5-6 inches long cutting – see, if you have a thriving plant, you wouldn’t mind snipping a stem and giving it away for free, right? That’s the trick!
As pothos is really, and I mean REALLY easy to grow from cuttings, this makes this process work like a charm!
Now that you have got the cutting, you have got a treasure my friend!
Plant that cutting in a well draining potting mix, keep it at a spot where it basks in the morning sun for 3-4 hours, and after that, indirect light for the rest of the day – water when the topsoil feels a little dry to the touch and in 8-10 months, you will have a plant that’ll be big enough to take cuttings from.
See! You have cultivated a healthy plant of your own from a stem segment, and now you can take cuttings from it to grow more plants! You have got a jackpot! Keep on multiplying!
What I suggest is – instead of taking a single cutting from the plain or golden pothos, be in a look out for some attractive ones like marble queen, Manjula, pearls and jade, silver, N-Joy, or snow queen pothos – this