I've had success with Pothos in Leca, but only with plants that have propagated in water first. So far I have a Manjula, n-joy, Pearls and Jade, Neon Pothos, Marble Queen and Golden Pothos growing in Leca and they seem to love it.
Yeah normally people say you should propagate pothos in water and then to leca, but I’ve seen people who take them out of dirt and grow them in water for a few weeks and then transfer to leca. I’m going to transfer some cuttings soon
After multiple failures trying to transition pothos to leca, I was finally successful. It’s growing in leca and pushing up new leaves. I do the dry/wet method you suggested. The ONLY difference this time around was adding 1/8teas hydrogen peroxide to 3 cups of water. And that tip I got from you also. So I think it’s true that hydrogen peroxide inhibits root rot. Now I need to try another.
Yes with pothos it depends on whether they are large or small. My medium or smaller pothos plants have done very well being transferred to LECA and grew roots quickly. My enormous pothos with huge leaves that was on moss pole absolutely HATED the transfer to leca altogether and I almost lost it. My other large pothos on a moss pole loved and enjoyed the transfer I did from soil to a mix of *70% LECA & 30% soil* and it has been thriving :) Thanks for your video!
I have about 6-7 different varieties of pothos growing in leca and they have been WILDLY successful in leca. All but two were cuttings taken from a plant in soil, then propagated in water and transferred to leca once their roots were long enough. I've had 100% success propagating in water and then transferring to leca. The other two plants I transferred straight from soil into leca. One did miserably and died of root rot, the other took to leca amazingly so 50% success so far from soil to leca. I'd say if you want to grow pothos in leca, do so by propagating some cuttings in water first. I believe this gets them more adjusted to a soilless environment and I've never had a plant die in leca using this method.
A plant the big i dont think anyone would put it in leca because its been in soil for along rime the key is to put young plants and also well rooted cuttings into leca all my pothos were put in leca from small plants and they all thrive hope this helps
This is so interesting. My pothos i washed all the soil off and they have grown so much in LECA. But I totally think it varies for people. I have the worse luck with aglaonema and philodendron, while I know most people have an amazing experience!
Try using a mixture of lava rock, pumice and zeolite with your pothos. I had a manjula and and marble queen that weren't doing well in soil and perky and happy in this mix. I just knocked off dirt no hose or water but I did spray roots with diluted hydrogen peroxide and immediately put into dry rock mixture and put into cache pot with a little bit of distilled water. I honestly thought I'd end up having to take out and water prop but this actually worked!!!!!!
For some reason when I bought a two pots of pothos and had it in soil I kept having an issue with it drooping and yellow leaves, so I put it in Leca with water and they did fine.
Rachel, another great video! I propagated a ton of neon pothos cuttings this spring, and placed them into leca. They grew like crazy and it was one of my very favorite plants. Recently, I had to move the pothos to a larger pot since the roots were over 3" long coming out of the net pot. Well, now the once beautiful and large pothos is almost completely dead. Ugh! Have you up potted a pothos with good results? If yes, please share how you did it.
Yes! Mine-same-pitted n joy and emerald together and it’s stunning, but huge now-I like what another person did, they added 1/8 teaspoon h202 to the new water to prevent rot...did yours rot after transfer?
I have my pothos in pon soil and they are doing great. Was planning to put some cuttings in leca. I did notice or thought you put pumice with leca in the
Can you please make a video on how to put long vine plant (other than pothos) into leca? I just converted my Philodendron Brasíli into leca last night and those vines are driving crazy to put them in place 🤯..........
Tip I learned for plants with lots of vines is to fill net pot with leca then put that pot into a bigger pot and fill water to the top of leca. That way the leca floats and you can just place vines in easily where you want it. When your done lift net pot out of water and roots should be snug. Game changer.
What you’re saying is that you didn’t do it right and it failed? This is not intended as an insult. Seems like you didn’t remove enough soil and that killed your plant. You could try water proping pothos and sticking that in the leca. Hasn’t failed me yet.
If you've propagated, it already has water roots. So it shouldn't matter if you add a reservoir right away right? I always just add a reservoir immediately for propagations.
Many times, I take cuttings off the mama plant and propagate them in water. They take very well to LECA from there. I have had success with soil roots. I scrub them like any other root and they do fine. Definitely, don’t leave much water on the bottom of the pot if transferring from soil.
Maybe im stupid but what is the actual verdict? Pothos is absolutely impossible to make thrive in leca? or you have to start with new cuttings and never transfer mature plants? It was slightly unclear to me :c because then you started talking about cuttings and such.
I’m so sorry-I got distracted-My personal verdict is if I were to do a mature plant I would do the terraponics version where I would leave half the dirt on and just takeoff the bottom half of dirt
@@prettyinplants9580 Thanks haha weve all been there. and I might just not have heard it. Did the EasyGroHydro people think it works well if you start pothos from cuttings in leca? I wondered since they have pothos in some of their education leca videos im pretty sure.
Rachel I wonder if using the process The Swedish Plant Guys use on RU-vid would work with pothos. Where they surround the plant in dirt with pumice 🤷🏻♀️to wick up water to the soil area? Watching my 2 njoys to see if they will like leca.
My marble pothos are in leca they grow well but I have it from mail with bare roots dying then I put it in real hydroponic systems for 2 weeks since then I transfer it to semihydro and they are fine, so shall I put it to soil now?! What is your suggestion? I don't want to kill her....😭
It’s really good at stabilizing top heavy plants and getting between certain roots that LECA is too big to get between-also, volcanic pumice has tons of minerals that give extra nutrients naturally
