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title: "how do I cut my pothos to stick in water to propagate? is there a…"
description: "how do I cut my pothos to stick in water to propagate? is there a special way to cut the plant?"
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# how do I cut my pothos to stick in water to propagate? is there a…

_Posted by greenchaos00 on 2024-01-02_

how do I cut my pothos to stick in water to propagate? is there a special way to cut the plant?

## 9 comments

### Molly 🪴 commented on 2024-01-02

Make sure you have at least one node and make sure it’s underwater. That’s the easiest way. But I prefer using a dish of perlite and water. I just lay my propagates on top

#### greenchaos00 replied on 2024-01-02

what is a node?

#### 🪴Lay🪴 replied on 2024-01-02

Nodes are places where the leaves are coming out of the main branch. When I propagated my Pothos I removed 1 or 2 leaves from the lower half of the branch (creating nodes) and this is where the roots began to grow

### Beaplant commented on 2024-01-02

You can cut in the middle of the stems in between leaves you will notice a small root coming out of the same place as the leaf, in the picture I circled a few ones so you can understand where the nodes are and in mine you can actually see some big aerial roots sticking out, but yours might not have it

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/FifR0qe8tTUgoarTgqiBHoCQJRSst1T6eV_EpLd3kLc/2b7475229c324684989bdffd38164d1d.webp?size=large)

#### Beaplant replied on 2024-01-02

I like to make sure when I cut it that I have at least 3 of those, remove the last leaf and put in water making sure that the roots are touching the water

### MissyPlantyMom commented on 2024-01-02

A node, also known as an aerial root is a place on the plants vines where the plant can produce roots to grab onto trees or if a pc breaks off it’ll root \& produce more of itself.

Pothos vine, so they attach to trees in the wild.. and grow bigger leaves when they’re growing upwards towards the bright light 😁

My toddler actually snapped off one of my long vines that I’ve been growing \& I nearly cried.. but it has some great looking nodes 😁

I trimmed off the end where there weren’t any nodes, let it callous for about an hr (I just like to do that, it helps it not rot in water) then stuck the vine in a vase of water..

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#### MissyPlantyMom replied on 2024-01-02

I actually need to give mine something to vine up 😅 it’s getting a little crazy.. 🤣

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/tQ7VoMEQ2rKbbg9h82Xtxz34KsBH0iAi_8vIqq8nzzA/71babcaebc9e4a2ca80e60547ce04a49.webp?size=large)

#### MissyPlantyMom replied on 2024-01-02

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/tQ7VoMEQ2rKbbg9h82Xtxz34KsBH0iAi_8vIqq8nzzA/a26ae6f415da42b38a21967214cb1ea5.webp?size=large)

### Hannah commented on 2024-01-03

I highly recommend letting the ends dry out and “callous” (harden off) before putting them in water. This usually takes a few hours for pothos. It feels scary but keeps them from rotting! Good luck!

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