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title: "I need help does anyone know what is wrong with my Pothos n joy"
description: "I need help does anyone know what is wrong with my Pothos n joy"
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community: "Planet Pothos"
author: "Gavin"
published: "2025-08-31T16:53:00.220671Z"
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# I need help does anyone know what is wrong with my Pothos n joy

_Posted by Gavin on 2025-08-31_

I need help does anyone know what is wrong with my Pothos n joy

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## 10 comments

### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 commented on 2025-08-31

What symptoms is she having I honestly can't make it out from the picture although she looks hella dry but that just might be my bad eyesight LOL usually with pothos it's a matter of the right light which is bright indirect and not over-watering, also have you fertilized recently?

#### Gavin replied on 2025-08-31

What fertilizer should I buy ? I’m very new to this hobby I have no idea what I am doing 😅

### Kenz\_B commented on 2025-08-31

She does look a little dry. I personally don’t fertilize very often but that’s just cause mine is doing absolutely brilliant. I try to keep her humidity relatively up which is difficult cause I’m in the basement but I mist her when she starts looking peckish. Also, indirect bright sunlight and checking her soil for dryness before watering are important. If the first 1/1.5 inches are dry, she could use some water

#### Kenz\_B replied on 2025-08-31

Here’s my baby

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### Juice commented on 2025-08-31

Tbh I’d just water it \& rotate a little so it can fill out more on the other side.

### Gavin commented on 2025-08-31

The soil is moist . I will water it if you want me too but I just watered it yesterday . So just a little confused about how it’s dry and thirsty

#### Sunny replied on 2025-08-31

Only water when the soil dries out. Rotate it as recommended. Definitely, fertilize to add nutrients that are quickly used up in the soil. I don’t use any fancy fertilizers, but, there are a lot of boutique out there. Some plants like specialty fertilizer. Roses, conifers and azaleas like acidic fertilizers. I just use the ones in the my photo. I have over 200 plants. I have to keep it simple and fertilize twice a month at most.

Many plants come with fertilizer beads. The beads are slow release fertilizer that releases a little when the soil is wet. Low chance of fertilizer burns with releasing small amounts. I use Osmocote fertilizer beads. The beads last up to 8 months. I use Miracle Gro for almost all my plants. Works for me. My hoyas bloom and the foliage only plants respond well. It can burn like all lab created fertilizers if over used. I dilute it 50% and apply biweekly verses monthly. I add SuperThrive Plant Vitamins to it. I have used foliage spray on orchid fertilizers to try encouraging my hoyas to bloom. It didn’t work for me. But, one of my hoya seller swears by it. 🪴🍀

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### Sunny commented on 2025-08-31

My N’joy Pothos when it arrived and 2 weeks later after I put it outside facing morning light and bright covered shade in the afternoon. It was fertilized once that period.

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#### Sunny replied on 2025-08-31

N’joy Pothos 15 months after arrival. In the same 6 inch pot sitting on a succulent pot. Some dying older or dried leaves shown.

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### 🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵 commented on 2025-09-16

I use Fox farm grow big for my pothos and other leafy plants, and if they are warm and have a grow light and they are actively growing still in the winter I still fertilize every two weeks if I don't they're looking real sad come spring.. or you can use liquid seaweed for micronutrients and such I alternate the seaweed one week and the fox farm the next as directed 🤗 or you can heavily dilute the fertilizer and do a full year feeding where you're misting the plant especially the underside of the leaves ✨

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