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Shoutout to the nursery guy in Fresno who told me my pot was killing my pothos
I had this pothos for almost two years and it kept dropping leaves. I figured I was underwatering, so I watered it more. Then I figured too much sun, so I moved it to a darker corner. Nothing worked, it just kept getting sadder. So I brought it into a little nursery on Blackstone in Fresno to ask what was wrong and the guy picked it up, looked at the bottom, and said 'this pot is way too big for this plant.' He explained that when the pot is way bigger than the root ball, the extra soil stays wet and the roots sit in it and rot. He told me to go down two sizes, like from a 10 inch pot to a 6 inch one, and to stop watering on a schedule and just check the soil with my finger. Three weeks later it pushed out four new leaves. Blew my mind that doing less got me more. So how do you all decide pot size when a plant outgrows its home, do you measure the roots or just eyeball it?
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milesrobinson29d ago
Two sizes down is wild to me. I always thought a bigger pot meant happier roots, more room to stretch out, that kind of thing. Hearing a 10 inch pot can drown a pothos that small makes me want to go check every plant on my shelf right now. Did the guy say anything about how long the roots should be before you size up?
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