I was gifted this pothos back in May and she appears to be thriving! But I just noticed these weird bumps on her stem. Are they scale bugs? Or growth nodes?
Pot has drainage, watering 1x/week (more if it's hot out) and she has a grown light from the aerogarden. The soil is the one she came with from the plant store, unsure on more details beyond that.
Help me keep my plant alive 🙏🏾
by goudacat
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Those looks like the start of some aerial roots.
Those are aerial roots
I agree with others, these look like aerial roots.
If you want to double check, try scratching one off. If it won’t budge, you know for sure that it’s aerial roots. I sometimes do that when things look suspicious on my schefflera.
No. They’re roots coming out
Roots or tiny snails.
It looks like beginnings of aerial roots!! I’ve read that in the wild, they will grow them when they are wanting to climb to get more support. The more support you give to your monstera (considering your light and watering are meeting requirements), the bigger it will get!
Those are xenomorphs, careful…
If you’re ever worried about something being scale, you can basically wipe them off with your finger or a paper towel and very light pressure. If you have to dig at it, it’s probably not scale:
Source: me having a sego palm and a bromeliad with varying levels of scale infestations
No, they’re new sprouts coming 😀
The top two look strange, the rest are arial roots. Can I get a close up of top two?
The very top one looks like soft scale to me, but it may just be a blurry root. Id scratch that one off.
Adventitious roots. Will root into the soil, a moss pole, or a wall if they find it, or will become roots if the plant were to break off at that point and land in soil or water.