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Urgent Pothos advice please!

3 years ago

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Hi there! I am looking for some urgent advice on root rot. I have 2 pictures of my vines roots, which I cleaned from soil yesterday. I cant tell if they have root rot or not. They dont seem squishy to me but I could be being to delicate!Thanks for your help!

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Joanna Macg
Original Author
3 years ago
party_music50
3 years ago
They're fine -- but drying out! Get them wet/watered and into a pot.
Joanna Macg thanked party_music50
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Joanna Macg
Original Author
3 years ago
Thank you - i will re-pot this evening. Any other suggestions on why the leave on the vine might be yellowing and dropping off??
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
3 years ago
it looks like it was severely pot bound... and having been in the pot too long.. i suspect the media was not working properly as the water management system it should be ...

in other words.. it wasnt holding enough water for this water loving plant to use between waterings ...

repot these.. and start some new cuttings ... and then just get rid of this dinosaur ... rejuvenate your plant ...

i have a bunch that need this.. and i am being too lazy ... but i will do the same.. and then throw the old ones into a snow bank in mid winter ...

i will still have the same old plant which mom and dad had for 30 years... but a younger version ...

ken

these things root like rabbits .. to mix a metaphor ... so.. hop to it.. lol

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=propagating+pathos&iax=videos&ia=videos
popmama (Colorado, USDA z5)
3 years ago
Well that is a giant jumble of roots. But what I cannot see is which actual plants are attached to those roots. I see a couple of vines that have no roots. I would pull these out, assess them for life, then cut off the yellow and stick them in water to grow new roots. The red circles are just two that I highlighted. I see others as well.

You may have to sort through some of the other vines to ensure they actually still have roots in that root ball.

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