Hi there. My mom gave me a cutting of her pothos plant that I had been growing in water for a few weeks. I finally potted it last week and within a few days, some of the leaves started to yellow. I panicked and put it back in just water. Pls help!
Roots look all rotted, if mushy cut them all off, what likely happened was that there wasn’t enough oxygen in the soil, leading to root rot/roots weren’t acclimated to soil got shocked and died. When moving to soil, make sure you keep it more wet than usual, as the roots in the water are different to soil roots, by keeping it more wet it allows them to acclimate.
2 likesThose roots actually look fine to me. They can turn darker as they get older. But you should feel them and cut off any mushy ones. My guess is that the yellow leaves are from the transplant shock.
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Also, I’ve heard, but not practiced it myself, that you can add soil to the water in increasing amounts to help your plant adjust slowly to less oxygen and more soil. Good luck! 😊💚🪴
1 likeSuper helpful. Thank you all! Would you recommend cutting off the yellow leaves?
0 likesYou also have the option to leave it in water permanently! You just have to add a very diluted fertilizer once it has a good root system (like yours does!). Water roots often go brown, but as others have said, if they are mushy/squishy then cut them off. If they are brown but still hard and feel healthy then they are totally fine.
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I would repot in soil and cut off all the yellow leaves and make sure the roots are not mushy and if they are cut them off, but it’ll be fine and so I just transplant 8 pothos from water to soil and yes, some leaves died. I just cut them off and they’ll grow new ones.
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