Put a little of this at the bottom of the pothos pot, a 30-year veteran flower grower's secret: no yellow leaves for ten years and it fills the pot fast

In summer, keeping plants is not so easy; no matter how you care for them they do not grow, and a moment's carelessness brings yellow leaves and root rot. Then you look and find the soil has caked solid, and caked soil keeps pothos roots from absorbing nutrients, the roots cannot breathe, so potted flowers end up growing poorly.

Potted pothos especially, since in summer the high temperatures make it more prone to yellow leaves. But because the soil has caked solid, no matter how you water it will not soak through, the roots cannot absorb nutrients, and the root system cannot grow. This first causes yellow leaves on the pothos, and then the roots dry up and die or simply rot.

To avoid soil caking, when growing pothos we cannot use garden soil directly, since garden soil cakes solid even more easily. You can mix leftover vegetable scraps and fruit peel with garden soil and let it decompose into compost soil; using this kind of soil for pothos works especially well. It does not cake easily and does not bring yellow leaves.

To make the soil's nutritional value better, we can put some charcoal at the bottom of the pot; this charcoal laid at the bottom not only improves the soil's air permeability and drainage and prevents the soil from caking solid. Charcoal itself also has good nutritional value and can supply the roots for absorption. With it, pothos goes 10 years without yellow leaves or root rot, and fills the pot especially fast.

There are many reasons soil cakes solid easily; some flower lovers use rice water directly to grow pothos, and using rice water without fermenting it leaves a thin film clinging to the soil surface that causes the soil to cake solid. So when using rice water or other homemade nutrient solutions, you must ferment them first. Another thing is that when watering pothos it is best to use cooled boiled water or aquarium water, and not to use tap water straight from the tap.

Flower lovers who like pothos can learn this little trick, and if you have any other plant-growing experience you can also share it with everyone in the comment box below!