Alaiedon Grown

PROPOGATING POTHOS is one of the first things I learned to do, and its so easy! But in order to propagate pothos you need to know some things first. The long vines are called stems, and on these stems you have nodes. These nodes are where you will have both the petiole (2) (this is what is inbetween the leaf and the node) and the ariel root. The petiole is on top and the root is on the bottom. In the middle is somthing that is called a lateral shoot or runner (you wont be able to see it untill its activated, i. e. starts growing). When you go to cut your plant its VERY important that you use clean scissors. This is somthing that was ruining my propagation for so long and when I fixed this problem my succsess rate went way up. Clean them with dish soap and/or hydrogen peroxide before you take any cuttings. I recamend doing both.

The first way we can propagate pothos is by division. Its very simple. you take your pothos plant that you want to propagte out of its pot and you carfulling seperate the stems and roots of the plants in two and then separately pot them and youve got two plants. Clarification: you’re not cutting the plant with sicors or anything, just pulling two or more of the stems along with they’er roots apart and repoting them seperately.

You can also do water propigation. This is the method I started out with and I still think its great! First you take a stem and you locate a node. Cut twice inbetween two of those nodes (see 3). Then you take the cuttings (they should look like an up side down T) and you put it into a jar of water (see 4). Pour a tablespoon of Hydrogen peroxide in your water jar to keep it clean, this will help prevent rot. Be sure to place it in a sunny spot, and change the water weekly. In 3-4 weeks you should have two inch roots. At that point plant the stems into a pot of soil. Its very important not to bury the top of the cutting too deep into the soil becuase when the growth point gets activated it will need to come out of the soil, and the deeper it is the longer it will take for that to happen.

Lasty, you can propagate pothos with the method I like to call a greenhouse. I learnd how to do this recently and its definantly my new favorite way to propagate pothos. So you follow the same steps for the last one: locate the nodes, cut inbetween two of them, and take your cutting, but this time you won’t put it into water. Instead, gently peel off the petiole, then you make the greenhouse. You need some sort of plastic container. It just depends on how many cuttings you have. You can use a clear cup, a tupperwhere container, or if you have a lot of cuttings then you could get a clear storage bin (see 5-6). Fill the container with a small layer of soil: maybe and inch. Place your stick like cuttings on top the soil so that the brown node is touching the soil and the spot where the petiol was is one top (see 7). Then give it a light watering and cover it with plastic wrap. Put it in a sunny spot and in about 3-4 weeks they should be ready to pot up.