Golden pothos cuttings have a clever trick: lay a bundle of bare stems on the soil and they will fill the pot in 3 weeks

Fellow plant lovers surely know that cuttings are a common way to propagate plants. Golden pothos, Chinese rose, snake plant, gardenia, camellia, ivy and others are generally propagated by cuttings. The cutting methods are much the same, and the results are roughly the same too; but today Shitou shares with everyone an expert cutting technique: the golden pothos cuttings have not a single leaf, and after three weeks, the pot is bursting with golden pothos.

Pruning and sterilizing:

Take a 1 m long golden pothos stem, cut off all the leaves, leaving only a "bare stem", then trim each node into a short cutting. Remember that each short cutting must have one node, to ensure it can take root and sprout later. Pruning this way, leaving no leaves, can reduce the energy consumption of each stem and direct all the energy into root and shoot growth at the node.

Soak the trimmed cuttings in a 1:500 carbendazim aqueous solution for 10 minutes to sterilize and disinfect, preventing rot later. After drying, they are ready for potting and cutting.

Potting and cutting:

Choose a wide-mouthed, relatively shallow flower pot, so that more cuttings can be inserted; choose a mixed soil: garden soil, coconut coir and sand mixed in equal proportions as the cutting medium, and make sure the soil is moist. Place the nodes of the cuttings close to the soil, with the whole stem laid flat on the soil surface.

Moisture retention:

It is now midsummer, and relatively dry, so wrap the potted cuttings in plastic film to increase the humidity inside the pot and promote rooting and sprouting. Some plant lovers may ask, can it be done without wrapping in plastic film? Actually it can, but the humidity is hard to control, and I fear some plant lovers may mistake the soil for being dry and keep watering, which in the end causes the cuttings to rot.

Ventilation and care:

After about a week you will see the nodes growing, with new shoots emerging; at this point remove the plastic film. Place the pot in a ventilated spot on the windowsill for care, with indirect light, avoiding strong light; spray water inside the pot once every two days to maintain humidity.

With this care, after about three weeks, the golden pothos will fill the pot, completely different from the situation when the cuttings were first planted, and you will get the case of 1 golden pothos cutting becoming 1 pot of golden pothos.

You can try this method yourself,

the cutting efficiency and success rate are both very high.