Propagating giant pothos from Florida
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In January, I attended the TPIE (Tropical Plant International Expo) in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and I decided to bring 2 large golden pothos cuttings from a friend. I brought the largest, most beautiful cuttings I could find 🙂 ⠀
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I decided to propagate one in water and the other one in soil. The water propagated one was in my south-west facing window, getting direct sun from 11:00 until 16:00.⠀
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The soil propagated pothos was under a grow light, on a 16-hour photoperiod, getting between 10,000-15,000 lux of light (1,000-1,500 foot candles). When soil propagating, you should keep the humidity around the plant high, ideally 70%-80%. Humidity levels influence transpiration. Optimizing moisture during propagation is a balancing act between water absorption and transpiration. When the humidity in the micro environment around the plant is low, transpiration increases, causing cuttings to wilt faster. Until roots form, and roots have the ability to replace lost water, it's important to minimize water loss⠀
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My humidity dome is too small to house such a large plant, so I used plastic bags. I could've probably thought of a much better way to do this, but hey, if you have any suggestions for the future, do let me know 🙂⠀
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After a little bit less than a month, you can see both plants rooted well.⠀
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Let me know how you feel about the music, and whether you prefer listening to music or the sounds of soil mixing and potting 🙂⠀
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PRODUCT THAT I USE AND LOVE THAT CAN SPEED UP PROPAGATION (affiliate links):
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FERTILIZER
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LIGHT METERS
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IF YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH NATURAL LIGHT, YOU CAN USE GROW LIGHTS TO SPEED UP PROPAGATION:
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Why did you put the leaves in a ziplock bag?
hi there, recently I found a huge body of pothos.. in the trash bag.. with those leave as big as your videos. but most of them is getting damage (maybe that's why they threw her away). so I decide to rescue her, it's so beautiful in fact. I will follow the instruction hope it goes well.
Good luck! Make sure to check thoroughly for pests, if a plant was discarded, often times they could have pests, so be careful. You don't want to infect the rest of your plants
Big leaves show the plant's prosperity, congrats for taking care of the plant well
Thank you :)
Do the new leaves stay large?
hehe they're all over florida man!
It's nice when you live there :)
Those are giant pathos!!! Mine have never gotten that big. Happy gardening
You have to get them to climb instead of hanging down. Plus lots of light 🙂
Propagate on the water, what about the first roots before, did u cut it?
Why did you put the leaves on plastic?
To keep the humidity high, because this helps reduce evaporation/water loss from the leaves :)
Where can we find these in Broward or Dade?
Nice
Whats the update on the plants? Are they both doing well? Did you also wrap the leaves of the plant in water?
I have potted the water propagated one in soil just recently. I posted the video last week :) The other one was attacked by mealy bugs, I had to get rid of it
What kind of fertilizer do you use for pothos?
I use fertilizer that I use for all foliage plants, with a 3:1:2 NPK ratio: www.mrhouseplant.com/recommends/dyna-gro/ (Amazon)
Hello! Awesome video!! I recently got a cutting and they told me to propagate it in sphagnum moss! Is that okay?
You can propagate in sphagnum moss. I am not a fan of that, as it's very difficult to get the cutting out of the moss later. The roots will get so entangled into moss :)
wtf? are you sure you don't have tiny hands and you didn't use tiny pots? :)
Good one! :) Pothos actually grows this big in nature :)
Your black and yellows signs are hard to read!!!!