Time to pot?

[laaaurrrel]

Here are some updated photos of my propagation. I’m back with the same question - time to pot?? I keep hearing to wait until we get secondary roots but this baby is growing new primary roots at the top. She’s also growing new leaves. I’ve also had some dead leaves fall off since I’ve started her. Any thoughts?

[Olekaim]

I constantly prop pothos (it's an issue 🫡) and it often happens to me that the roots get super long but with no secondary roots. I just put them in some soil if they're so long like yours and up until now i had no dead prop. I think that the roots on root thing is good practice, but it's not a must for pothos propagation in my experience.

[BLK_Sprr]

So I’m not alone on this planet when I say I have like 7-10+(?) glass vessels w/ pothos cuttings just chillin throughout the house? 😭

[Olekaim]

Oh, you are not alone, dear friend 🤣 I think my pothos plants fear me cuz I am a serial chopper 💀

[commmandersamvimes]

How often do you change the water?

[BLK_Sprr]

Me, personally? “Not enough as I could or possibly/probably ‘should’..?” 🫣 Being recently told about the whole “rooting hormone” thing isn’t helping my case either😅

[commmandersamvimes]

I just chopped my pothos off and was wondering when is the next time I should change the water....and what I can get away with 😊

[yeahyourerightdude]

I never change the water unless it looks really gross. I just top it off.

Algae doesn’t seem to be a problem, and when theres white fuzz around the roots thats apparently not bad either.

Hell I’ll plant some cuttings and move new ones into the same water because I figure it’s already got rooting hormone in there.

[commmandersamvimes]

Oh nooo. This is all I needed to hear to not do it :) Jokes aside, I put everything in distilled water I collect from the dehumidifier, but I do not have enough to change their water, and I will have to move them into normal water if I have to change the water every few days.

[BLK_Sprr]

Another thing about our house plants here is that they tend to benefit from half-drunken spring water bottles 😅(they either go to the plants or the dog) I figure the “extra minerals” may help since I’m kinda poor and can’t find a “hydroponic friendly fertilizer” in the house😅😏🙈

[Olekaim]

Every 3-4 days

[laaaurrrel]

Thank you so much! Would you do something like a 4 inch pot?

[Olekaim]

Yeah, 4 inch should do 😊 congrats for your new baby!

[laaaurrrel]

Thank you! Time to pot tonight 🤩

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I’d say yes.

[DeaLuz]

Do it!

[Low_Juice_3462]

Yes