Plz show us...with a scale...

One would expect a newly rooted plant in a new clean pot....with fresh media...to grow to specs...there would be no reason not to....

If it were sickly...it wouldn't have rooted and thrived...eh?

Here are some pictures of my original plant with several feet of plant hanging down. It was time for me to rejuvenate this plant and make it more attractive!

Popmama, I have read a bit about how pothos like to climb on something. I think I will try that with one of my pots and see what happens! But I found it easier just to let the plants trail and really didn't want to have to stake them!

Original plant here:

Propagated cuttings from same plant:

No other comments?

My Marble Queen has one piece with 3.5-4" leaves, but the rest has leaves of only 2-3".

Don't know what makes the difference but I think the new ones you propagated look great. Try the suggestion to give the main plant something to climb on or over. Or just wind it around on top of itself.

That's interesting about your pothos having different sized leaves, junco. I guess I hesitate to have pothos climb because it would be more work---tying it up and trying to keep it on the stake. I think just letting the vines grow freely is easier! But I am determined to do at least one pot with a stake in it and see what happens.

I also found this youtube video interesting. I love the Swedith Plantguys and their videos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqtb7_MAKHQ

The video is called "4 reasons for tiny leaves." But I didn't think any of the suggestions applied to me, except for the flushing out of the soil. I have now started to do that.

Climbing is what makes bigger leaves. Note the difference in size at the bottom vs. the top.

I see. Very interesting! Is the plant burrowing its roots into the trunk of the tree? Great that you can grow them outside---fantastic!

I couldn't say what the roots are doing. I saw that in New Orleans a few years ago. There are tons of pics "out there" of Pothos growing enormous leaves when growing up a tree. The closest that we tropical wannabes can get is to give them a board, pole, or trellis.

Well, I hope that not all pothos need to climb in order to look great. I just bought three new varieties this year!

They don't all need to climb to look great. If you want the leaves to size up and get huge, they will need to be in a climbing situation.

Agree. Dangling Pothos with small leaves are still lovely.

You made me feel better Tiffany and Popmama! I do think your dangling pothos is pretty Tiffany! You've done a good job with it!

I'm glad you found some value in the comments. Thank you for your kind reply. My boss brought that to the office about 6-7'ish years ago & it had about 6 leaves. I started watering it and it started growing. The first 3 or so years, I wound the stem around the soil surface so more roots could form, then snipped off the newest leaf that was forming and the 3 dangling stems you see started to grow and I decided it was time to let them leave the nest, so to speak.

I've also had pots of it with a tomato cage and wound the stems around, up, down, around again. That can be fun and looks like a solid column after a while, but the thin metal doesn't see to be enough for the plant to "feel" like it is climbing and make bigger leaves. The juvenile form that most people keep in a pot is said to be skototropic. The theory says that it is looking for something to climb, programmed to creep quickly into the darkness where there should be a trunk to climb, to get the foliage above the forest canopy and into the light. It make me wonder why plenty of light doesn't then make the leave get bigger. Possibly a security issue.

But all the theories in the world don't change the conditions one has available to offer. In that case, all we can do is bring plants home and see if they like it and what they actually do. Some of them manifest theories, some do something else, some don't make it. All part of the journey.

this is my favorite quote of the day " But all the theories in the world don't change the conditions one has available to offer. " ---isn't that the truth!

Tiffany, I never thought of winding a pothos stem on the soil (if it were a bit bare). Seems to me you were very patient and the plant rewarded you in time.

Now I have never heard of a pot being skototropic. It does appear that the plant has some need that is not being fulfilled (when the leaves are small for no apparent reason).

"All part of the journey." Yes. And the learning never ends!

I think I will keep my one pothos that is very variegated unstaked. I think it is kind of nice. Then I have another one I propagated (same pothos variety) and it is not as variegated and the leaves are bigger. Maybe variegated leaves stay smaller? Hmmm . . . But I will stake one of this variety which I believe is Marble Queen. That's going to be my experiment!

That's the spirit! Get in there and watch things happen for yourself. : ) I never run out of new plants things to do - then see what happens from it.

Thanks for the encouragement and the advice you have given me Tiffany!

My pleasure : )