Everyone knows pothos. When it comes to growing pothos, some people are happy and some are worried. The happy ones find this plant just too easy to grow - before you know it, it has turned into a green waterfall! The worried ones find it just too hard to keep alive - every pot they grow dies. Even if they barely manage to keep one alive, it still refuses to grow vines! Isn't that a contradictory phenomenon? Indeed, for those who know how to grow it, pothos is a piece of cake. For those who don't, growing pothos is pure torture. Actually, among houseplants, pothos really is one of the easier ones to grow,If you want to grow pothos well and solve the problem of yellow leaves and no vines, you first need to do this one step: prune away the leaves that are too dense around the rim of the pot!

How do you prune the overly dense leaves around the rim of a pothos pot? Push the pothos leaves apart and check plant by plant. On each plant, keep at most two leaves on the stem below the pot rim, and cut off all the rest. This will greatly reduce the chance of yellowing and rotting leaves, and can even solve the problem of no vines. Don't doubt it - the benefits of cutting away the overly dense leaves around the pot rim are enormous. Let me explain them in detail.

Increases ventilation and air circulation

The pothos we first bring home always has very dense leaves around the pot rim, packed tightly together - you can't even see the soil surface without pushing them apart. This kind of pothos looks lush, but the air circulation between the leaves is poor, yellowing leaves happen easily, and it ruins the look. After cutting away some of them, ventilation and air circulation improve, everyone can breathe fresh air, and growth becomes vigorous naturally.

Increases light exposure

Pothos cannot grow without photosynthesis. When the leaves around the pot rim are too dense, the leaves below get weak light, photosynthesis is weak, and they grow thin and small - ruining the look, affecting the growth of other leaves, and being neither enjoyable to keep nor worth discarding. So cutting away the overly dense and overly small leaves can greatly increase the light intensity and duration for the other leaves.

Reduces disease and pest problems

When pothos leaves are too dense and the pot rim has poor air circulation, it provides an excellent breeding environment for pathogens and pests. Early-stage pathogens and pests go unnoticed by us, and by the time they show up on the leaves, the harm to the pothos is already fairly serious. Cutting away the overly dense leaves removes the place where pathogens and pests breed and multiply.

Makes watering easier to control

When pothos leaves are too dense, watering is difficult - after watering, the moisture does not evaporate easily, the potting soil stays wet for a long time, and besides breeding bacteria and pests, it can also smother and rot the roots, causing the pothos to die. After cutting away some leaves, light and ventilation at the pot rim improve, excess water evaporates quickly after watering, and the chance of root rot is greatly reduced.

Makes fertilizing easier

If you want your pothos to grow well, you can't do without fertilizing. In daily care, during the peak growing season it is best to fertilize once every half month. When the leaves around the pot rim are too dense, fertilizer easily lands on the leaves or leaf stems, causing them to rot. After cutting away some leaves, you can clearly see where the leaves are and where the stems are, and you no longer have to worry about fertilizing damaging the leaves and stems.

Promotes vine growth

When the leaves around the pot rim of a pothos are very dense, it often does not grow vines easily. On one hand, light and ventilation are poor; on the other hand, all the nutrients are absorbed by the leaves, leaving no extra nutrients to drive vine growth. After cutting away some leaves, light and ventilation improve, photosynthesis becomes stronger, the leaves consume fewer nutrients, and the plant naturally starts growing vines.

Besides the benefits above, cutting away the overly dense leaves around the pot rim of a pothos also increases its ornamental value - the leaves grow bigger, the leaf color turns emerald green, and so on. If your pothos always has yellow leaves and the leaves are packed tightly together, don't hesitate - pick up the scissors and snip away!If this was useful, give it a like and follow me to learn more about growing plants

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