What shapes can pothos be trained into? A guide to the many forms of pothos

Many plant lovers keep pothos at home, and under their careful care it grows longer and longer, becoming quite the handsome fellow. However, letting them run wild is not really a solution. Below, the editor has put together a few shapes, so hurry up and dress them up!

1. Pillar style

Use a small dragon jar, a large flower saucer or a oil basin filled with soil. In the middle, stand a wooden stick or bamboo pole about 1 m tall and 5-6 cm in diameter. A pillar of the house can also be used. Tie palm bark or palm tree bark around the outside of the pole. Plant 4-5 pothos plants of similar size with sturdy stems and leaves around the pole, preferably plants that have already been propagated from cuttings, rooted, and are ready to be transplanted into the pot, so that they take shape more quickly. Besides paying attention to routine care, as it grows, promptly guide the new aerial roots on the stem nodes to cling to the pole, and at the same time make sure the pothos on the pole grows full and even, forming a green cylindrical shape.

2. Trailing style

Use pots of various sizes filled with soil, plant 1-3 pothos plants in the pot, and hang them or place them in a high spot indoors. As it grows, the stems and leaves trail down along the rim of the pot, swaying in the wind and bringing the whole room to life. If grown in a small pot, with a porcelain outer pot, it can be hung indoors or in a doorway; if grown in a wall-mounted pot, it can be hung on a wall or window door.

3. Waterfall style

Use a flower trough, planting one pothos every 15 cm. The trough is 80-100 cm long. Then hang it on the wall or place it on top of a wall, a balcony, or other such spots. Depending on the situation of the hanging or placement location, you can hang or place one to several flower troughs. As the pothos grows, the stems and leaves hang down, like a green waterfall falling from the sky, full of interest. You can also place the flower trough at the base of a wall, letting the pothos vines climb up along a rope pulled taut on the wall; set off by the pothos stems and leaves, a white or light-colored wall also looks like a waterfall falling from the sky. Or simply place it at a high spot and smooth the branches so they hang down from above, like the picture below; just add a few more pots and it can become a beautiful curtain of waterfall.

4. Training style

As the name suggests, this means using some object to guide its growth direction. Because pothos itself is not a climbing plant and has no ability to climb a wall on its own, we need to do the training work for it. This method is relatively simple: place the pothos in a high spot, for example on top of your refrigerator, then stretch a silk thread through the air and fix it to the wall at the other end, then wrap the pothos along the thread, and that is it. However, it is best to choose wire for the thread, because wire can be shaped into winding, curling forms, which is very graceful. Of course, training it from the ground is more difficult, but it is also possible.

5. Creative taping style

When the pothos vines grow to a certain extent, you can use tape or other tools to fix them, sticking them directly to the wall at the position of the pothos nodes, but be careful not to stick them too tightly, because the branches still need to grow, and too tight will affect their growth speed. After that, each time it grows a section, you fix a section, until it covers the wall.

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