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What is this little pp growing on my golden pothos and can I cut it off?

Anonymous 2w

That’s a root node that just got really long. They do that sometimes. Shouldn’t hurt it to cut it off but you could also just propagate it.

Anonymous 2w

They’re kinda like arial roots, if you’d like to propagate it cut between the two nodes, let it callus for a bit and pop it in water, it’ll grow longer roots and after those roots are longer than 2 inches you can put it in soil

Anonymous 2w

It’s just forming a root, I’d just leave it

Anonymous 1w

aerial root!! nothing harmful or weird about it. i would personally leave it because nature will do what nature does and i like to let my plants do what they want! you CAN cut it if u rly want to, but it’s not necessary and it could stress your plant out to have its root chopped like that.

Anonymous 2w

Science fr 🧬

Anonymous

#1 2w

You mean I can propagate just the brown node?

Anonymous

OP 2w

No you’d need at minimum some stem with it. Preferably a leaf as well. I’m not sure how close to the base of the plant that node is and depending on how much foliage comes after that point it may not be worth it. However if you want to cut that one off but still want to try propagation pothos should have nodes like that under every leaf.

Anonymous

#1 2w

Or then again just leave it alone entirely bc it’s probably going to keep happening every so often bc pothos is a climbing plant that likes to use root nodes like that as feelers for footholds.