Here is a pic.

Here is a link that might be useful:

I agree with Billy Rae. Cut all the back and watch it flourish. They plant is wasting energy on the long vines instead of producing new leaves.

Well,
I turned the pot upside down and fished out the black roots, then lightly massaged out the rest of the dead stuff. I stuck the rootball back in the same pot with more soil.
Then I cut ten or so feet off a dozen of the vines, leaving each about a foot long or shorter. There are still a dozen lonnngg vines left with a smattering of leaves on each vine.
I hope I haven't shocked her too badly... we'll see.
Thanks for the advice.
Do you think I should feed her?

And I have a dozen leafless ten-foot cuttings. Are they useful? Can I plant them with rooting hormone? From the base end? From the tip end? Does it matter if there aren't leaves?

That is long!

I don't think leaves will grow again on those VERY long vines, I think it will be just the ends and those you can take cuttings, plant the cut end if there is tip growth.

With all those roots you threw out, I have to wonder if you should down size on the pot? You really only want an inch of soil between the roots of the plant and inside of the pot.Also, make sure it has good drainage. I like to add a handful or more of "Perlite" to soil for better drainage.

I wouldn't fertilize it now, especially if you used new soil. Wait until spring or summer and you can fertilize it very lightly, but wait until you see lots of new growth first, feeding a plant when it's ailing can cause it to get worse. Feed VERY lightly, but please don't use those stick fertilizers, they can burn the roots, either use granules/ pellets, or liquid form, like maybe every other month or longer periods up until fall.

Also, let the soil dry out, or close to it between waterings

Billy Rae

Cut the cuttings into pieces with at least two or 3 nodes on each cutting, stick it water making sure some of the nodes are in the water, makes no difference which end, the roots will come from the nodes (you can also just put those ends in soil if you want) I find the water method easier for me, but I know they are suppose to root in soil.

When I want to root a long cutting, I sometimes fill the container with sand, then water. It helps keep the vines from falling out of the jar due to being top-heavy.

Hi all! I got this pothos from a friend who was propagating his. Initially it was in a different jar with soil, with 2 leaves above soil, for about 2-3 weeks. There was no growth but I decided to repot it to a new pot, upon removing from soil I found a buried 3rd leaf. I decided to move it to water instead for a bit, it started growing a tiny little leaf and my heart was glowing. But after repotting it (another 2 weeks later or so) I accidentally broke that growing bit. Now I am scared that was the only growth it will ever attempt to produce as there don’t seem to be any other leaf forming places at the bottom of the existing ones. Is there anything I can do to stimulate growth? Any suggestions are super welcomed! Thanks!

Give it time. it's probably putting energy towards growing roots. there are latent growth buds at each node so it will grow from there eventually.

Elena

I think it would be great to hear from people that have really tried to rescue those long vines without cutting them back so much. I personally have a couple lengths that are close to 15 feet and some lengths in the middle of the 15 foot vines have lost their leaves the ends of those vines have the biggest leaves and the vine itself is very thick and healthy looking.

I take the long vines and put them in water (about 3 nodes left-right side up) and they root and grow into more plants. I dont like pothos with no leaves on the stems. The more you cut them, the bushier they look and then let them grow long.

Sure, pics of leafless chunks of stem taking root, with emerging new stems, here:

https://garden.org/plants/photo/520489/

Another option is to propagate without or before cutting by winding the vines around so that one (or more) especially promising node is making contact with the soil surface, either in the existing pot or a neighboring pot. Laying a small rock on the vine can help it maintain contact with the soil surface. If you have a really long stem, you could propagate it across a bunch of pots, possibly curving in an arc or "S" shape to root several nodes per pot if there is significant distance between them. When new stems are growing at the newly rooted nodes, the connecting vine can be severed if desired.

A pic of the beginning of the result, the first step of roots forming. In the pic, the vine still had the leaves attached to the nodes that took root. So for those still leafy vines, the next step would be to remove the leaves at the rooted nodes, which should inspire those nodes to make new stems:

https://garden.org/plants/photo/697437/

I have a pothos that broke a VERY long vine that was only producing leaves at the end of the vine and had lost all it’s leaves in an 8-10 foot section. I kept the rooted end in the pot and didn’t change my care routine. Now I have new leaves (maybe a new branch?) emerging from the opposite side of the vine of the root node. I have a feeling that the only way to encourage new growth on old vine is to cut the end of the vine to stop it from putting energy towards getting any longer

That matches what I've seen. I happened to take these pics yesterday. 2 vines that had their tips removed about a month ago, maybe 6 weeks.

This one is making 2 new vines:

This one is making 3: