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.
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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....😭
Rachel I wonder if using the process The Swedish Plant Guys use on CZcams 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.
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
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.
Yes! They love it....this is for transferring large already rooted...
That is interesting. My pothos are doing really well in leca and they grown so much in the last 2 years...
Yay! It’s just they can rot quite easily when transferring-LOTS of newbies try to start with pothos
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.
Ooh! SUCH A GREAT TIP! yes, you are right, it’s just there is a bacteria that gets to the pothos roots so easily-and if you can combat that-you win
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!
Thanks for the comment❤️I totally agree with you
How did you save the big pothos plant that almost died?
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.
Yes!! I totally agree❤️
they do really well in perlite/leca mix OR pons!!
My pothos and other climbers are doing very very well in leca. 🤷♀️
I put silver satin pathos cuttings in Leca and it’s doing great! Lots of roots 🤩
Yessss💕
I take my pothos and vining philodendrons out of dirt, cut all those roots off and grow water roots. Then into Leca they go. Easy as apple pie.
I’m definitely going to do this during the winter months
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!
Lol!! That is so true! Philodendron are my best
THAT KID RIDDING WITH THE DOG IN A BOX...LOL
Tip - Try using Lechuza Pon for pothos semi hydro. The transition is a lot less stressful on them. I dont know why, but it works
Do you mean only lecuza pon or in combo with leca or soil? Iv never heard of it
I cannot find pon anywhere. It is sold out. Do you have a source?
No-same-been sold out for awhile
PrincessZeldaGirl 100% lechuza pon. no soil. No leca
sarimosher I usually just check Amazon and their website and hope for the best lol
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
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!!!!!!
I read this is the DIY Lechuza Pon mixture. Some people add Osmocote fertilizer to the mixture too. I would love to know if it works well.
Me too!
I have a marble queen pothos with great roots and growing like crazy!!
Yahoooo
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.
That has happened to me-sometimes the soil is not a great mix
Thank you for the link to Jerry!
Godsend! And thank you for the great videos!❤️
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?
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.
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 🤯..........
Lol!
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.
YES! I do this with hoyas-brilliant
Erin Pepper wow thank you for the tip 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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.
Yes! She says she keeps pothos cuttings going all the time❤️
Can you please make a winter care video 😊
Yes!
@@prettyinplants9580 Yay! Ok, thank you!! Winter prep mode has officially set in 😅
I couldn't get my neon pothos to live in leca ☠
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
Hello again. Where do you get larger net pots. The only larger ones I see are orchid pots with the raised lump in the bottom!
Thanks for this vid.
Happy 2021!!!! Yes! Hoping for better!
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.
I think it’s personal preference 💋
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.
Right! Great tips!
What is the non-pothos plant you show at the beginning? I can’t understand.
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....😭
No, if it’s doing well, it should continue to do well!!
Rachel I wonder if using the process The Swedish Plant Guys use on CZcams 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.
Yes! I’ve done kind of that with great success
I think my water propagated pothos is fine in leca... not doing much but not dying!
Yes! Water props should do well
Do you use pumice with Leca for many of your plants?
Yes!! It’s just part of my mix❤️
@@prettyinplants9580 anything else in the mix? What does the pumice do?
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
Came here for pothos and you barely talked about it.... really disappointing.
pothos is the easiest plant to grow in leca, this girl is noob...
The only pothos that survived the transition are my water propagations..
So that confirms what Arlene said
Me with all my pothos is leca looking at the title 👁️👄👁️
LOL😂😂😂😂😂😂
They live in jars for 15 years - LOL