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ive never done this before, but i think i read somewhere that if you cut a pothos vine a certain way, then there is a way you can get it to take root and form a new plant. can anyone give me some more detailed info about this?

im by far an expert on this but i used root hormone and just cut a leaf out with as much of the stalk as possible and put in window sill in a glass of water as soon as the roots reached 2 inches i put in my pygmy tank
ive only done this twice buy it worked each time for me

heres a pic of a cutting i did two months ago
it grew about 1 leaf a week after i planted

It's toxic...especially if you are intoxicated when you use it(as per warning label) As others have already said you really don't need it for pothos although sometimes it helps when propogating soil instead of water. However be careful with this stuff. Rinse your plants well before putting them in with your chameleons.

it is quite easy to propagate this plant by cuttings. You do not need rooting hormone as this plant readily roots without it. (note to mrcham...as soon as you put it in water you have washed off the hormone. Only when using soil is a hormone used and then you must not rub it off by sticking the stem directly into soil)

take a cut just below a leaf node,which is where the leaf stem (petiole) meets the main stem (this is where adventitious roots form. Cut no more than about 1/4" below it. You can take a piece with up to about 3 leaves but one or two will keep it from flopping. Placing it in water to root is fine; keep it in a bright place but best not to put it in direct sun as algae will build up and can cause rot. You can also place it directly into soil (with or without hormone) by just covering the node and firming the soil around it. Also, when you are ready to pot it up rub the roots gently to get off any "slime" that has built up from rooting in water.

hope this helps!

lele

here's a pic of leaf nodes (on lilac)

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that helps a great deal.

especially this part:

"You can take a piece with up to about 3 leaves..."

i had been trying to get a vine i cut to take root recently, its about 6 feet long, lots of leaves on it.

you're welcome. that's the nice thing about pothos. you can get a lot of plants from one older one. along with spider plants they are the very easiest to do.

When you take it from a vine just cut below a node each time and on the upper most leaf cut just sbove the leaf so you don't have stem sticking up above it (does that make sense?) Also, cut at an angle for more surface area and so that it cannot sit flat in the water against container.
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 house geckos - Gaia & Tia (both MIA
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog (for summer)
0.5 Mad. Hissers (for summer - all girls, no little ones, whew!)

thanx fer the correction