Tie up your pothos with string and its leaves grow as big as A4 paper, covering a wall in 6 months

Everyone grows pothos, but the results vary enormously! Many people grow pothos with leaves as big as A4 paper, while some gardeners' leaves stay tiny. Besides normal fertilizing and watering, training your pothos to climb can help a great deal, but many gardeners don't know this. Let's take a look!

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Training pothos to climb

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Pothos is a vine, and there are many ways to grow it. For example, place it on a table or windowsill, and once it grows, let it hang down to become a pothos waterfall.

You can also put it on a balcony and let it cling to the balcony railing and twine around as it grows.

If you keep it indoors, you can make your own climbing supports and let the pothos climb into all kinds of shapes and forms just the way you want.

Of course, you can also make your own pole and let the pothos grow into a small column, which is also easy to move around.

If winter temperatures are high enough, you can even plant it right beside a tree and let it climb into a giant pothos column!

-Why train it to climb-

Once pothos is trained to climb, its leaves grow bigger and bigger, with the leaves higher up growing larger and the plant becoming more and more lush. This growth pattern is most obvious on a pothos coir pole. The gardener wolfdenest did an experiment for this: using an ordinary pothos, after adding a pothos coir pole, it turned into a large-leaf pothos with ever-growing leaves.

When it first grows, the stem is very thin, about 4mm, and the leaves are very small, around 4cm.

By the time it reaches halfway up the pole, it is already 10cm wide

By the time it reaches the top, the stem is a full 15mm thick, and the leaves reach 17cm

Isn't the conclusion obvious? So how should you train pothos to climb?

-Using string-

Using fine string is arguably one of the most common methods of training and securing it. You can choose cotton thread or plastic string; if you want durability and good looks, fishing line is an excellent choice, because it is made of nylon, very durable and strong, and also very thin and transparent, so it doesn't affect the appearance at all. Each time the pothos grows a new section of stem, you need to tie it in place once, so it doesn't grow crooked.

This gardener drove a few self-tapping screws into the feature wall on the left, right, top and bottom, hung fishing line from the screws, and the pothos easily covered the feature wall! Of course, if you're worried that it will grow so big the screws can't hold it, you can drive in a few small expansion screws to make sure it's secure.

(Pothos Bar, Peini's Dad)

-Using wire-

Iron wire looks fairly soft, but it is actually a great tool for making shapes! You can cut the wire into sections, then twist them into all kinds of shapes, hearts, diamonds and so on, then tie the pothos onto the wire, and the pothos vines will follow the wire and grow into all kinds of artistic shapes.

-Using thumbtacks-

Using thumbtacks is also a good way to train it, but after the pothos climbs over, you still need to secure it with string. It also works well in an office, and it's fairly simple and convenient to cover a wall.

If it's a smooth tiled wall, you can also use adhesive hooks, which are also fairly clean and neat.

-Using tape-

Of course you can also stick it with tape; the downside is that over time it will come loose and isn't secure.

-Pothos care tips-

Don't waste the water from your fish tank or the water you rinse rice with at home; pour it on the pothos and it will grow well even without fertilizer!

Once or twice a month, you can wipe the pothos leaves with beer, which makes the leaves even glossier and shinier.

You should often spray water on the leaf surface, which lets the aerial roots grow more and makes the plant fill out its pot faster.

Many gardeners have found through experience that using an opaque vase for water culture makes pothos grow more vigorously.

So tying up your pothos with string

works this well!

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