Hi, I’ve this plant like for 5 years and was in my office which is more fresh and don’t have that much of direct sun. We water 2 in 2 week.
And pot I think is too small…
Any advice to improve health of the plant?
P.S.: not English native
by criptkiller16
16 Comments
Not enough water
Don’t water on a schedule. Only water as needed. The curled leaves can be caused by underwatering or overwatering.
When the leaves curls its telling you it is very thirsty. Water till the bottom of your tray is filled with water and by the end of day it should have sacked up the water like a sponge .
If the water remains after 25hrs then toss the rest of the water from the tray.
If you over water then these leaves will turn yellow… it will also turn yellow if the oldest leaf is dying.
If it dies do to neglect the usually turns brown and then dies.
It probably needs repotting. It’s entirely possible the soil is dried out and hydrophobic, meaning it repels water. I would repot it in a chunky aroid mix in a plastic nursery pot that you put inside a decorative pot. It’s possible too that the roots have experienced dry rot. I would take a cutting and start it over just to be on the safe side.
Also it likely needs more light than it’s getting.
I like your bookshelf 🙂
It’s thirsty
If you water it and the leaves don’t perk up after a day, it has root rot.
Its got the taco curl..
Usually its a sign of needing water.. but if youbare watering twice a week, it could be root rot…
And rhe distance between internodes is a sign it needs much better lighting
You can usually get a small grow light too, doesn’t look like it would get good lighting in the current location (plus either too little or too much water like other posts said)
It probably needs fresh soil – it’s out of nutrients. Use indoor potting soil; be careful of other mixes because too much fertilizer in some other soil formulations for outdoors too can burn the roots! And you can Google DIY cactus soil pothos mixes that you can amend to make even better for pothos plants (“aroid” amending). But a regular bagged indoor mix is a good place to start 🙂
Lighting and watering might be the issue. Agree, new pot and fresh soil should help to an extent.
If it looks like this despite having been watered recently then the roots are rotting.
Did you check for pests?
I absolutely love your shelf, please give it to me !!!
Off topic, but I love your bookshelf! Did you buy it or did you make/paint it yourself?
It would be good if you cut off those long hanging vines and make new plants from them.