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My pothos is only growing on one side, anyone have any suggestions to get even growing? The only extra thing I’m doing besides watering her is spraying her with plant food 2 times a week. Thanks!🤍🌿✨
26 upvotes, 5 comments. Yik Yak image post by lightblue_coconut in Plant Parenthood. "My pothos is only growing on one side, anyone have any suggestions to get even growing? The only extra thing I’m doing besides watering her is spraying her with plant food 2 times a week. Thanks!🤍🌿✨"
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Anonymous 50w

It’s a vining monocot so they tend to only grow from one place unless cut back or wounded. There are 2 plants in that pot. The best way to get it to grow more “evenly” would be to propagate some cuttings and plant them facing the other way and then make sure to rotate the pot.

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Anonymous 50w

I think this is just how they grow, they get “bushy” just from one or two stems. You could chop and prop aka chop and replant it into the pot to create a new “leg” of stem

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Anonymous 50w

you gotta prune it back like a basil plant basically yknow how when you cut a herb at the top when it gets leggy ? pothos have the same kind of thing since theyre vining plants and pruning it and turning it will force it to grow in more directions / be more bushy. most of the pothos that are bushy at stores have 10+ plants in the pot to look that way

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Anonymous 50w

Also, more light helps the leaves grow like closer together rather than there being a lot of stem between each leaf

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Anonymous 50w

Trim it back a little— it’ll promote growth else where

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