Keep pothos for five years without yellow leaves and it grows longer and longer, all thanks to these expert tricks

As a very common foliage plant, pothos is grown in just about every household, right? It is easy to care for, a cutting stuck in water will live, and on top of that it can absorb indoor dust and has a certain air-purifying effect. So many flower lovers keep several pots at home. Although pothos is easy to grow, it still develops small problems, and few people can keep a pot of pothos going for three to five years.

Pothos Bar flower lover Anastasia Yueyue's pothos wall

I have told flower lovers before that the most ideal state of growing pothos is to have it grow longer and longer! Just like the pothos grown by the flower lover in the picture. Hanging it on an indoor wall not only looks beautiful, but also brings a touch of green.

Pothos Bar flower lover yxw123000's pothos wall

Using plants to decorate indoor environments is becoming more and more popular now. The main reason is also that all kinds of renovation materials contain harmful substances, and scientific data shows that people spend 80% of their lives indoors. So a clean, pollution-free indoor environment must be taken seriously. Plants can green the space and purify the air, so why not do it?

Pothos Bar flower lover Mengli Tanyue's pothos wall

So you will find that many flower lovers are keen on growing pothos. Another reason is that it is cheap, a pot of pothos costs only a few tens of yuan. In addition, pothos propagates super easily, just pinch off a stem and put it in a water bottle and it will fill a pot.

Pothos Bar flower lover Xia Mantian Lvluo's pothos wall

If you want pothos to grow quickly, there are actually many tricks.

1. The overwintering temperature for pothos must not be lower than 10-15°C, and a little trick for keeping it warm is to mix some charcoal powder into the soil in the pothos pot. Why add charcoal? Because it is loose in texture, and besides keeping warmth, the key point is that it can also retain water and moisture, which is more beneficial to the metabolism of pothos.

2. Some flower lovers may have tried this too, that is, wiping the leaves of pothos with beer diluted in water. The benefit of doing this is that it can make the leaves of pothos shiny and glossy. Because beer contains various substances such as sugar, protein, amino acids and phosphate. Remember, do not use brightening agents, as they will affect photosynthesis. Many of the pothos sold by vendors in some flower markets look shiny on the leaves because many have been sprayed with brightening agents.

3. If the leaves of your pothos have rotten holes, do not worry either, this is mostly caused by spraying water and poor ventilation. At this time, move the pothos to a position one meter away from the balcony, where it can get ventilation and also receive scattered light, and the pothos will quickly recover its vitality.

4. As for the potting soil for growing pothos, there is one thing that is most suitable for mixing with leaf mold, and that is pine needles. Pine needles, as plant material, themselves contain rich organic matter. In addition, they have high air permeability Strong water permeability, and are easy to collect in many places in the wild. Using pine needles can make pothos grow and develop better. Of course, wood shavings can also be used instead.

5. A few days ago I saw a flower lover share that taking the waste oil from a kitchen range hood and dripping it into the pothos pot also has a very magical effect. After the waste oil decomposes, it will provide rich nitrogen fertilizer, which is good for the growth of pothos.

6. The question many flower lovers care about most is what to do when the leaves of pothos have already turned yellow. There are several little tricks that have been verified by pothos-growing experts. For example, you can spray the yellow leaves of pothos with a 0.1%-0.2% concentration solution of monopotassium phosphate, once each morning and evening. This can make the leaves turn green again!

7. The fertilizer pothos needs most is nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, especially the potassium element, which is the activator of more than 60 kinds of enzymes in plants and can promote various metabolic activities, especially with an obvious effect on the photosynthesis of green leaves. In the process of growing flowers, everyone can buy more potassium fertilizer. In addition, eggshells also have many benefits for growing pothos, and can promote healthy growth of pothos and keep it evergreen all year round.

So many tricks for growing pothos have been shared with flower lovers. I wish everyone's pothos grows longer and longer! If grown well, never mind five years, ten years is no problem either. I guess by then the whole ceiling will be covered with pothos!

Pothos Bar flower lover Xinru zhishui's pothos

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