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I inherited two golden pothos a few years ago and I decided to refresh their soil about a month ago. They seemed to be happy in their original soil/pots but the soil had started compacting and pulling away from the sides (and I was feeling adventurous). Admittedly I used potting soil I had purchased a number of years ago, but I added some fertilizer pellets and put them back in their original pots (concrete pots).

Since the soil refresh they seem rather perturbed – their leaves keep dying and there is a grey cast to the top of the soil (see photos). Did I just use bad soil? I did plant them a little more spread out to hope they would fill in the pots a little better and I’m heating pothos might prefer to be more root bound/closer together.

Any help would be appreciated! I’m a plant novice with a historic black thumb but have fallen in love with the greenery and joy they bring to my house and want them to make it!

by Grouchy_Elephant8150

6 Comments

  1. perfectdrug659

    Pot wayyyyy too big. Soil stays wet way too long when the soil/root ratio is off like this. Does the pot have drainage?

    Also a big pot won’t cause it to “fill out”, pothos are single vine plants and they only grow from the ends, they don’t grow like a bush. A big pot just makes the plants foliage growth seem stunted because then all the energy is focused on growing in roots to fill the pot.

  2. Nyannnko

    I believe this is a manjula pothos (or njoy? Someone else please chime in!) but the care is still the same as golden pothos. The pot needs a drainage hole if it does not already. If it does, it’s important to dump out any water in the drip tray to prevent it sitting in water! The soil seems to be too compacted. Compacted soil + no drainage = easily overwatered = root rot. I like to add perlite and orchid bark to aerate the soil but simply adding just perlite can help a lot already.

    It’s also not getting enough light. Move it next to the window if you can. Coil the stem in the pot for the instant bushy look and to courage the nodes to root into the soil. Once the nodes are well rooted you can cut between the nodes and new leaves will grow from there

  3. Grouchy_Elephant8150

    Thanks so much to you both! The pot does have drainage holes, and I’m only watering it once a month or so, but I’ll let it dry out and try winding the vines to hopefully take root.

  6. Margin_call_matthew

    You have toddlers in a mansion. You need to repot it in a smaller container. Also, these appears to be not golden pothos

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