There's a little trick hidden in pothos - once you activate it, it grows like crazy and won't stop, reaching 10 m in half a year.

Pothos is a green plant that many gardening enthusiasts love to use to decorate their homes. It not only has good air-purifying ability, but is also very easy to keep alive. Whether moving into a new home or working in an office, you can always see pothos around. But have you ever noticed that although many people grow pothos, they always end up growing it into all sorts of shapes - either yellow leaves or very thin and small, with no visual appeal. Actually, pothos has a "little trick." As long as we activate it, the leaves will grow lush and green, shooting up rapidly.

What is this "little trick"? I believe many people have never noticed it or don't know about it - it's the aerial roots that grow on the pothos stems, called aerial roots for short. These "aerial roots" are very useful. You can observe the pothos in your home - don't the pothos that grow well have relatively robust aerial roots? If the pothos stays small and can't spread out, then you won't be able to find this "little trick" either.

Pothos is a foliage plant. The leaf surface evaporates a lot of water vapor every day, and to grow lush and green, it needs to absorb a large amount of moisture from the air every day. These aerial roots help pothos absorb moisture from the air and help the branches and leaves breathe. The more aerial roots there are, the more luxuriantly the pothos branches and leaves will grow. If the aerial roots touch the soil or are inserted into water, they will sprout a large number of extremely fine fibrous roots and further develop into the plant's anchoring roots. This helps the plant sprout new axillary buds and lateral buds, and further helps the branches become robust and the leaves healthy.

Isn't this "little trick" amazing? Some gardening enthusiasts say that they never knew these little rootlets were so useful and had cut them all off - no wonder the pothos at home wasn't growing well. What should be done now? No worries, we just need to find a way to make them grow back.

Pothos likes cool and humid places, and in such an environment it will grow especially fast. We can move the pothos to a relatively cool place, mist it in the morning and evening to keep the leaves moist, and also pay attention to ventilation - pothos will get yellow leaves if it's stuffy. After 2 weeks, once the pothos grows, aerial roots will emerge along with it.

Once it has these aerial roots, if we want the pothos to fill the pot, we still need to maintain sufficient nutrients so that the pothos has the strength to grow. When it comes to fertilizing pothos to supplement nutrients, gardening enthusiasts use all sorts of methods. The most commonly used is rice water, along with soybean water, fish tank water, tea water, milk water, and so on - after using these, the pothos all grew quite well.

With such homemade organic fertilizers, we also need to consider one issue. If the pothos is grown in the living room and there are elderly people and young children at home, using homemade organic fertilizers - due to incomplete fermentation - may contain bugs or bacteria. When gardening enthusiasts pour it into the pothos pot, children love to touch and feel the pothos here and there, which is not good for the children's health.

For fertilizing, use green and eco-friendly green fertilizer - an organic nutrient solution specially designed for pothos, made from sugarcane bagasse through microbial fermentation technology with complete fermentation, zero hormone additives, rich in organic matter, with fertilizer effectiveness as good as homemade organic fertilizer. During the pothos growing season, just give the pothos a feeding once every half a month - simple and convenient, and the pothos grows lush and green, shooting up rapidly.

When fertilizing, it's best to choose a time when the potting soil is relatively dry, so that once you pour it in, the roots can absorb it very well. If it's hydroponic, how should you fertilize? For hydroponic pothos, you can directly dilute the nutrient solution, pour it into the bottle for direct cultivation, and change the water once every 10-15 days.

When watering pothos normally, water only after the potting soil looks dry, and water thoroughly when you do. Occasionally prune the pothos leaves - if they grow too dense, cut some off. This helps with photosynthesis and makes it grow even greener.