Looking for neon pothos & stumbled upon these. Their arrangements look beautiful but…can they be kept in the same pot? According to the snake plant sub these seem to have differing watering needs.
Yeah no. Snake plants prefer to dry out completely before watering and while pothos, in my experience, can handle neglect and underwatering, they don’t thrive
UndergroundQueen123
not sure, but sure hope so! that’s a stunning arrangement
Dive_dive
It “will” work. I would most certainly try it. Actually, pothos does like to dry before watering. Just maybe not as much as the snake plant. Now I may have to try it. I tend to mix plants for effect. I don’t have any to post pics of right now. My current one hasn’t taken off yet. I put ivy in the base of my banana tree. Just really sparce right now. Of course, I always mix my Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter cactus so I get much longer flowering
StayLuckyRen
If the price is right, grab one to then separate. But no, you shouldn’t keep a snake plant *or* an colocasia with a pothos. Snake plant needs less water, colocasia needs more water than pothos. And if by some miracle you manage to juggle that to keep the pothos alive, it will very quickly outcompete both of those slower growers
CaterpillarExtreme92
I would separate them
goldfishgirly
I keep both (I’m a plant hoarder)and I say a defiant no. Pothos are a tropical plant that normally grow under trees and need a fast draining tropical mix that retains some moisture and snake plants are a desert plant that need a fast draining cactus mix that does not retain water. Pothos like indirect light and snake plants thrive in full sun. Whoever planted those together is a loon. Basically, they have different needs. I’d buy it if you can’t find a neon and separate and pot in soil for their specific needs and now you have two plants and can start hoarding like me!
ayeyoualreadyknow
I only water my snake plants once a month so definitely not
Separate-Year-2142
Repot in a chunky mix, adding some sphagnum moss around (but not right on) the pothos’ roots and some lava rock around the snake plant’s roots.
Both of those plants are very adaptable as long as you don’t freeze or drown them.
The alocasia will throw a potentially terminal tantrum if anything is outside of it’s preferred narrow parameters for more than a few minutes. Skip that one.
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Yeah no. Snake plants prefer to dry out completely before watering and while pothos, in my experience, can handle neglect and underwatering, they don’t thrive
not sure, but sure hope so! that’s a stunning arrangement
It “will” work. I would most certainly try it. Actually, pothos does like to dry before watering. Just maybe not as much as the snake plant. Now I may have to try it. I tend to mix plants for effect. I don’t have any to post pics of right now. My current one hasn’t taken off yet. I put ivy in the base of my banana tree. Just really sparce right now. Of course, I always mix my Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter cactus so I get much longer flowering
If the price is right, grab one to then separate. But no, you shouldn’t keep a snake plant *or* an colocasia with a pothos. Snake plant needs less water, colocasia needs more water than pothos. And if by some miracle you manage to juggle that to keep the pothos alive, it will very quickly outcompete both of those slower growers
I would separate them
I keep both (I’m a plant hoarder)and I say a defiant no. Pothos are a tropical plant that normally grow under trees and need a fast draining tropical mix that retains some moisture and snake plants are a desert plant that need a fast draining cactus mix that does not retain water. Pothos like indirect light and snake plants thrive in full sun. Whoever planted those together is a loon. Basically, they have different needs. I’d buy it if you can’t find a neon and separate and pot in soil for their specific needs and now you have two plants and can start hoarding like me!
I only water my snake plants once a month so definitely not
Repot in a chunky mix, adding some sphagnum moss around (but not right on) the pothos’ roots and some lava rock around the snake plant’s roots.
Both of those plants are very adaptable as long as you don’t freeze or drown them.
The alocasia will throw a potentially terminal tantrum if anything is outside of it’s preferred narrow parameters for more than a few minutes. Skip that one.