Hello, I propagated these pothos cuttings a few weeks ago and the plant seemed to be doing find and has even grown a few new leaves. However, some of the leaves have started curling up:(( Now, yesterday I tried potting a few more cuttings into the same pot but decided to give up cause I was afraid of damaging the roots so my initial thought was that I might have stressed the plant by rummaging around in the earth. Could this be the case?
When I googled the leaves curling it told me that it could be due to too much sunlight or due to it being too hot. Now it has been pretty hot the last few days so I can't really do anything about that but I moved it to a spot with slightly less light to see it that would help.
When I propagated this plant a few weeks ago, people said to make sure the earth was moist for the first 3 weeks so I made sure to water it more frequently. It's been a little over that now and the earth is still pretty moist and seems to be drying pretty slowly. Is the pot maybe too big? Would it stress the plant even more to move it to a smaller pot? Is it ok?
Hope you can help and thanks in advance!
by SirFluffyBear
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I unfortunately know nothing about this plant except that it’s not a pothos. It’s commonly called a satin pothos but is actually a variety of scindapsus called Scindapsus pictus. My heart leaf philodendron does get like this when it needs water but from your post it doesn’t sound like a lack of water is the issue.
How did you prop it? Did it have roots when you put it in the current soil?
Curled leaves mean that water can’t get to them fast enough. This can happen for many reasons (underwatering, too hot, too dry, root rot or damage, etc.). It’s common to have leaf curl when propagating, since you’ve just cut off the roots serving the leaves. It’ll need to regrow roots or new leaves. In my experience, some existing leaves from props never really uncurl but the new growth comes in fine.
Mine looks like that when thirsty
This looks like thirst, did you water them fully, like soil completely saturated, when you planted the props?
.. not a pothos.