2 of the leaves are almost completely buried and a long stem is midair? the reason i went to a shop was because i was struggling to pot it on my own because of these two reasons lol. i also told her that i was doing research and everything told me to use orchid bark & perlite and she said "nope, just regular well-draining soil" and just shoved it all in.
will the leaves just be naturally pushed out? will that stem grow roots or leaves? is this plant gonna die or is it ok?
by vampireweekendfan
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You need to repot this. I’m really sorry it happened but not really surprised. Plant retail shops sell plants, they don’t grow them. So they’ll use potting media for the trade that’s for keeping them temporarily easy to maintain but not good for longterm health. And as far as the leaves being under the soil? That’s just plain lazy. And no, they will not push out they will die & rot.
This was really poorly done, but your plant isn’t going to immediately die and you may be treated as crazy for complaining. They basically potted it the way a pothos would be sold from a retail store, and in their ignorance will be sure they’ve done nothing wrong at all. Pothos totally do prefer a chunky soil mix.
How much did they charge and what was included? That’s your pot and your cuttings?
No offense but you are way overthinking this. What you need to do is experiment and see what happens, and pothos is the perfect plant for that. They’re very resilient and will grow into whatever situation you put them in, many houseplants will. The experimentation is the fun part!
I usually gather 5 or 6 rooted cuttings together, and then do groups of 3 or 4 of those for a medium pot, and maybe 6 or 7 in a large pot and they all sort themselves out, into a nice healthy plant
I think yours will do well but as a couple of them will die off, you can add another batch of rooted cuttings to the bald spots%
Looks better then when I pot my own, and mine grow like weeds.
Pothos are *extremely* difficult to kill. So much so that they don’t even reproduce anymore, as far as botanists can tell. They don’t need to make seeds to continue existing. You have to actively try and kill a pothos, even running them over with a lawn mower will just make a hundred more pothos vines the next time it rains.
I’m not sure if you are in a super humid area but my pothos did horrible in terracotta. it’s very dry here and the terracotta was an extra layer of dry that the pothos could not thrive in. it survived, it just didn’t do anything for over a year.