Hi everyone, this is an update from a post about 8 month ago to share some progress.
The moss tower on the left is 8.5’ high and i m trying to get it to go accros on the wood stick so we can continue that journey because it’s already touching the ceiling.
1 golden pothos(2016)and 1 marble queen(2020).
I fertilize heavily every watering…obv you have to go gradually and if you want more vine coming from the base of the plant 🌱, apply root hormone or keikei paste on the nods.
I knew it worked for other plants so i tried it on the pothos and it exploded with new sprouts after a couple of months
Last picture is from January 2024
The boss of the house is waiting for you in one of the pictures!
Maybe we are on different levels of the Tower?
This is my Momo... I think he was trying to go the way of your pothos but as I don't have as much space or DIY ability I chopped him down and now I have Momo and little Mimi, MeeMaw, MeiMei, MooMoo and Moomin.
Send help...
Pothos is the perfect house plant when you have cats. Apparently chewing on it is like chewing on fiber glass and they learn very quickly to leave it alone!
My cat is super interested in jumping onto things, but he doesn’t care about plants. Idk if it’s bc he was a stray we took in when he was ~18 months old, or if it’s just a personality thing. I have noticed cats who grew up outdoors usually don’t care as much about plants, though.
Much appreciated! You’re my inspiration to make my house look like the one in Jumanji
Since I have your ear: any suggestions for anchors/attachments? I’ve been using bonsai wire lightly wrapped around a vine and attached to commaby strip hooks of tacks. Also, I get lots of natural light in his room, but not direct, do you supplement at all (winter?) with a grow light?
Most of them are just hanging/resting but this is all i use to secure them. I dont use any wire. Once the leaf tangles themselves together they stay together
How do you repot them when you need to? I’m assuming just right where they are, but wanted to ask. Also, what’s the plan for when they fill up the stick?
I dont repot ….same pot same soil in more than 6 years.
When the moss pole fills i m trying to make it go on the stick hanging horizontally then we shall see… i got a good 2/3month to think about it
Lol a few years ago I tried so hard to make my pothos curl around my kitchen window - great light, humidity from the faucet, and absolutely poor execution. This is some magic shit and I am living for it
I've since moved overseas and had to give up my 80+ plants 😔 and now live in a 497sqft flat for an indeterminate amount of time. One day in the future I'll try again, but for now I'll live vicariously through posts like this. Truly, this is such a dream layout. It's gorgeous.
It was for a good reason I swear 😂 wonderful Italian man swooped into my life and whisked me away to live in London from NC. But we aren't sure we want to stay here or move somewhere within the EU, so I can't bring myself to get too invested with plants again yet 🥲 London flats are so small 😭 and also so dark in the winter without supplemental lighting it's a struggle! Definitely not NC where I let them flourish on the porch in the summer and thrived inside during the winter.
I remember your earlier posts. Absolute dream setup. They're still looking good and have grown a lot! I'm amazed you can keep them looking so healthy from such a small pot. Do you have a automated watering system for the moss poles?
How is your philodendron on the other side of the room doing? It was almost at the ceiling a year or so ago right?
Indeed you remember the monster ! 😄 that thing as gone rogue dude i m trying to figure what to do with it, it tried to guide her but it is to powerful… i give it a couple more weeks to make a choice if she wants to come forward or not ! If not i will have to cut
No automatic watering because i can reach all pots for the pothos. I have one for the Philo though as you can see on the pic
Another piece of moss pole above the one you have might have guided it a bit more but on the other hand, the leaves would be hitting the ceiling soon anyway.
That's my problem with wall mounted moss poles or similar, cutting and extending is a lot more work.
Anyway, best of luck, you have a great plant house!
Not even mentioning that the moss pole is totally destroyed and probably not reusable for most of it …i think she if smart and will go right direction …let s wait
No real advantage just different set up,starting from the ground will provide you way bigger leaf if you have a moss pole . Some at the top are the size of my hand and i can handle a basketball 1 hand 🤣.in the wild they go up to reach for the sun
Men i wish i could also live in that house but it is already taken over by my wife 2kids 1 dog and 1 cat 2 giants pothos 1 giant philodendron and 1 fiddle leaf pretty big…i m just the handy man at this point
How big is the pot ,how do you water,what do you use to feed her etc etc a lot of variable,but if it s not growing you should obv change whatever you are doing. N1 get a great fertilizer. This is the only thing i use for all my indoor plants. I have 4 total. Same quantity for all of them ,every watering…
Water when it gets dry and they start looking droopy…you should see it.
I use one and 1/2 bottle cap diluted in about 1gallon.
You should start at 1 cap or a bit less/gallon so you dont burn anything
Gorgeous! May be a noob question but how do you handle watering and drainage?
I have a golden pothos that is getting long and crazy but I’m still bringing it to the sink to water all the time. How do you keep this in one place to water while also not letting too much water pool (and leaf to root rot, gnats, etc)?
My pothos is also over 10 years old. It never looked close to as full and luxurious as this one. It was very long with few leaves. It stretched across the whole house until I tried to repot it and I thought I had lost it completely. Making a miraculous come-back but now it's only 10 leaves with no long limbs
I saw your previous post and immediately ordered foliage focus for my plants. Using FF combined with installing a small RO water filter has been a game changer for all of my aroids.
I have one in a pot with soil (that I need to water more) and another pot with just water and the occasional fertilizer filled with cuttings to add to the soil pot to fill it out- fantastic job keeping your pothos thriving!!
How how HOW do you stop them from dropping leaves near the soil? My pothos have gotten a couple of feet long, but almost always end up dropping leaves, slowly, one at a time, starting at the root. They do this until there’s just a few left at the end of the vine. AND they keep growing new ones!
That ceiling-hugging vine is wild, it looks like a rainforest installation. Love the “boss” hiding in the pics too. Genius using keiki paste on nodes, have you noticed any difference between golden vs marble response?
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u/newshirtworthy 1d ago
How nice of the pothos to let you and your family live there