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title: "Hi, what is the best soil for a pothos? Tia"
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# Hi, what is the best soil for a pothos? Tia

_Posted by Wendy on 2025-05-08_

Hi, what is the best soil for a pothos? Tia

## 1 comment

### fuey commented on 2025-05-08

As long as you are allowing it to dry out, an all purpose soil will be fine.  
If you have it on hand, you can use all purpose with extra perlite or something to make it chunkier, like orchid bark or LECA. But I wouldn’t go out and buy stuff just for a pothos.

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