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title: "Can anyone help me figure out what’s wrong with this pothos? It’s…"
description: "Can anyone help me figure out what’s wrong with this pothos? It’s been like this since I bought it in January."
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community: "Planet Pothos"
author: "Amanda"
published: "2026-03-31T18:32:31.840719Z"
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# Can anyone help me figure out what’s wrong with this pothos? It’s…

_Posted by Amanda on 2026-03-31_

Can anyone help me figure out what’s wrong with this pothos? It’s been like this since I bought it in January.

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## 7 comments

### Sara commented on 2026-03-31

I wonder if these are slower growing than normal pothos? I have one as well and it’s never grown very fast, but I do have it in a north facing window, so perhaps with better light it would grow more. It is normal for plants to grow slower in winter months, I would give it a little prune and fertilize now that spring is here and see if that encourages some new growth.

#### Amanda replied on 2026-04-01

I can’t figure out what the brown spots are… but it is in a west facing window but I close the blind when the sun starts coming through in the evenings.

#### Sara replied on 2026-04-01

I find the white spots on veregated plants just tend to brown a little easier than the rest. I think it can be from inconsistent watering or too much sun. I have a manjoula pothos as well and I just had to trim off a handful of leaves with brown spots today. It’s otherwise healthy. I would just cut them off.

### Cawajee commented on 2026-04-02

I’ve had two pothos N joys and two pothos pearls and jade. I’ve killed 3/4. They’re so finicky!

### 9s commented on 2026-04-02

IMO the more white the plant has, the more airy the medium it has to be because the plant isn’t as good as the more green varieties at drinking water and using sunlight. you have to shorten the amount of time it’s wet

### GreenJess commented on 2026-04-07

Do those leaves actually have roots? I bought one a few months back and it was several potted cuttings. The worst leaves never actually grew roots and were just slowly dieing off. I pulled them and the remaining cuttings are doing great.

#### Amanda replied on 2026-04-17

I did notice there are a few cuttings in the pot but off of them aren’t. The ones that aren’t are doing very well and getting new leaves

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