To grow strong, lush pothos, just follow a few tips, especially in watering.

Enriching your garden or the rooms of your home with flowers and plants is undoubtedly the best option to give color and luminosity to the environments we live in every day. Especially in this period where nature explodes in all its beauty, many fill their spaces with green friends again, leaving all those who are lucky enough to admire this spectacle speechless. Among the many plants that are usually found in the garden or at home is the pothos, an evergreen and climbing tree that is highly appreciated and often used to enhance rooms and terraces.

How to Grow Pothos: Top Tips

However, this plant, native to Thailand and the Solomon Islands, needs a lot of proper care and care if you want to see it grow strong and lush. To begin with, you should avoid exposing the pothos to direct sun. The advice is to place a curtain in front of the window or guarantee the sun rays in the early hours of the morning or in the late afternoon.

You should also pay close attention to the temperature inside the room where the pothos is located. It should never be too hot or too cold: ideally, you should keep it between 15 and 25 degrees. Another very important tip is to use a musk stake for the plants, so that the pothos can take advantage of a solid base for climbing.

Dicho esto, hay que tener en cuenta que el pothos necesita un sustrato para plantas tropicales, capaz de retener el agua sin crear problemas radiculares. El mejor sustrato es el compuesto por humus de lombriz, perlita, piedra pómez y corteza de pino.

This type of substrate allows water to be retained in the soil when we are going to water the plant. The roots always remain moist without puddles of water forming.

Earlier we also talked about the right room temperature to guarantee the pothos. That’s not all, because this plant also needs proper misting (it can be enough even once a week), to ensure the right level of humidity. Why Spray?

The Right Misting

This way the plant gets a mist and not the water droplets that could create some problems for the smaller leaves. With proper watering, the roots of the plant can breathe without suffocating, so you should always pay close attention to this aspect. The same happens with fertilization, another process that must be carried out with great criteria.

For proper watering it is necessary to ensure humidity especially on the edges of the pot, as the roots tend to develop outwards. In this way in a short time we will see the pothos grow exuberantly.

When we notice that the plant is growing correctly we can also roll it around the musk stake, to guarantee the solid base for it to grow strong. By following all these indications, the growth of your pothos will surprise you and you will be able to have a wonderful climbing plant in your house or garden.