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Jayne

What’s wrong with this cutting? I took the cutting with the 3 circled leaves at the same time as the one directly to the right of it. When I added them back into the pot, the circled leaves immediately started getting floppy and curled up, no matter how much I watered my pothos (I was careful not to overwater, of course). It was like this for a while until I finally pulled it out to inspect the roots, which were brown. I cut off those roots and put the cutting back in some water to let new roots grow from other nodes. Once those roots got long enough, I put the cutting back into the pot, and the leaves became floppy again. This time, though, the roots looked perfectly healthy! What’s going on? Do some cuttings just not survive the transfer into soil? Obviously the two cuttings are getting the same care since they’re right next to each other, so I can’t figure out what the problem is! Do I need to stop trying to save this cutting and just try again with a new one?

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  1. send_nodes

    The main reason that “water roots” tend to have a hard time transitioning to soil is from lack of oxygen. Since water is just hydrogen and oxygen, roots in water have easy access to oxygen all the time in water. Once they’re transferred to soil, they get suffocated. An easy solution to this is to pot them up in a more aerated mix. I have a pothos growing in just orchid bark, perlite, and coco chips, so don’t worry about making the mix too chunky.

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    • Jayne

      Thanks for the advice!

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    • send_nodes

      No problem! :) Another option would be to propagate in sphagnum moss or perlite rather than water. Then the plant will grow more resilient roots so you don’t have to worry as much when transitioning to soil

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    • Amie206

      My recently repotted pothos (that I’ve had for 20 (?) years, is having a hard time transitioning to chunky soil. I refuse to give up on her! Thanks for confirming she’ll be FINE!

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    • send_nodes

      Haha no problem! Yeah it might take time for the plant to adjust

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    • Jayne

      Update: switching to a chunkier soil worked!! I made the switch 2 days ago, and those sad little leaves are already looking so much better. I never would’ve guessed that lack of oxygen was the problem, so thanks again!

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  2. LemmeSaveThePlant

    A few months ago I had a bunch of cuttings from four of my pothos, snow, golden, n joy, and globe, in perlite in plastic boxes. I had three containers full, soooo many cuttings (more than 50!? Less than 100!) and some of them never grew even in the same conditions and some didn’t make it in soil. But some did! I think not all cuttings are cut out to make it.

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    • LemmeSaveThePlant

      Not snow! Marble queen*

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    • Jayne

      Oh no, the poor little cuttings! In my case, though, it turned out that send_nodes was right— my cutting just needed a chunkier soil mix, because now it’s so much happier! Good luck with your future propagating endeavors!

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