What to Do If Your Pothos Gets Frostbitten? Here's the Correct Way to Handle It

When it comes to pothos, everyone is certainly familiar with it by now. As living standards improve, more and more people are growing green plants at home, and pothos is one of them. Pothos has strong vitality and can survive most of the time without any special care. But in fact, pothos originally grows in tropical regions, and in winter it is easily frostbitten if you are not careful. Watching a plant that has accompanied you for a whole year suffer frostbite is inevitably a little sad. Qinnong Web is here to introduce the ways to handle pothos after frostbite.

1. Factors That Cause Pothos Frostbite

When it comes to the factors that cause frostbite, the first one is certainly excessively low temperature, so during winter care we must pay attention to keeping it warm. In addition, some improper care details in winter can also become factors that lead to pothos frostbite. If we keep pothos in an indoor environment with too little light for a long time, this may not only cause the pothos stems to grow leggy and the nodes to lengthen, making the pothos look sparse and straggly, but the white and yellow variegated stripes on the pothos leaves will also become smaller in size and lighter in color, and may even cause the colored spots on the pothos to disappear completely, until it fades to dark green.

Because pothos likes a warm, humid, and rather hot environment, we should keep the temperature for pothos no lower than 15°C in winter. At the same time, we should also keep the potting soil of the pothos moist, frequently spray water mist on the pothos leaves to increase the surrounding air humidity, so as to benefit the growth of the pothos roots.

2. Ways to Handle Pothos After Frostbite

1. First, we should move the pothos to a warm indoor area. If conditions permit, we had best keep the indoor temperature between 20 and 30°C;

2. We can choose to move the pothos to an almost sealed balcony to receive sunlight at noon when there is sun. Remember that you must not place the pothos outdoors in the bitterly cold winter; if you do, the pothos will certainly freeze to death;

3. Then, if we have a humidifier, it will provide an environment suitable for the pothos to grow. If we do not have a humidifier, we can choose to frequently spray water on the pothos leaves;

4. Next, we had best cut off the leaves that have partly changed color. Note one thing: when cutting, be very careful not to damage the pothos aerial roots.

5. Then, we must remember not to pour cold water directly on the roots of the pothos, but instead pour clean water at about room temperature into the tray under the pothos flowerpot, so that the pothos can choose the amount of water to absorb by itself.

The above are the ways to handle pothos after frostbite brought to you by Qinnong Web. We hope that by reading this article, plus your own devoted care, you will certainly be able to bring your beloved pothos back to a vibrant state. Qinnong Web also reminds everyone here that pothos does not need much tending during its growing period, and especially do not fertilize it at will. Such an easy-to-grow plant, if you like it, get one quickly!