Why won't pothos cuttings root in summer? Soak them in this, and they'll root fast and grow vigorously
The hot summer season is the most distressing time for plant lovers, who worry that their potted plants won't grow well and will develop yellow leaves and so on. Many friends who love growing pothos always complain that their pothos can't make it through the summer, either developing yellow leaves or suffering root rot, and in severe cases being burned to death by direct sun. What should be done about this?
In fact, summer is a great season for taking pothos cuttings, with a high survival rate, and it is also fairly simple, saving you a lot of money on buying pothos. One pot can produce many pots of cuttings. But some plant lovers feel that pothos cuttings root rather slowly, and that it would be better to just buy a pot. If you really do go and buy a pot, are you sure you can keep it alive right away?
Based on the editor's experience, today the editor wants to share a simple method: before taking pothos cuttings, use "it" to soak the pothos stems, and the pothos will root quickly and grow vigorously!
The "it" mentioned above is white sugar solution. This is a fairly common food in our daily lives. Using white sugar to grow plants sounds absurd, and some plant lovers find it unbelievable and will certainly retort: won't white sugar attract bugs?
Having that reaction is normal, but we also have a way to deal with it. Using white sugar for plant care is not only healthy and eco-friendly, it is also a purely natural plant care liquid, and quite a good rooting agent too, because the sugar solution is beneficial to microbial activity, so rooting water made with white sugar has a very good rooting effect on pothos cuttings.
How to use it: First we need to prepare a little white granulated sugar and clean warm water, then find a container for the water, put the white granulated sugar into the container, add warm water that has been cooled, and keep adding water until the sugar water still has a bit of sweetness, then place the selected pothos in the white sugar rooting water and soak for 24 hours, and finally rinse it with clean water. After that, you can take cuttings as normal, and after a period of time the pothos cuttings will grow thick, strong roots!
Using white sugar solution to water pothos can also prevent yellow leaves, and watering other flowers with it can make the stems and roots of the flowers thick and strong, and it also promotes flowering and speeds up plant growth!
The method is fairly simple, right? If you like it too, you can go home and give it a try, or if you have a better method, you can share it with everyone.