Pothos: A Love/Hate Relationship
Pothos. A great beginner plant that grows fast and doesn’t need consistent watering. My pothos: seemingly fine but gives me a whole lot of tiny problems. I have a few pothos and my two jades each have one leaf with just a touch of yellow. Not enough to cause a plant-freak out, but enough to worry. It is a sunburn? Too much water? (Unlikely, I’ve been more skimpy with water than unusual). Or too little water? For drought tolerant plant that receive water regularly (if a bit sparse), also unlikely? What is wrong? #pothos #help
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@GrowMyPretties You are paying her good attention! If she were mine, I wouldn’t worry. Just keep an eye on it and see if it gets bigger, worse or spreads. You may have heard of gutation? No idea if I spelled that right. Excess water in a leaf breaks thru like a blister and creates a spot — natural, and you water a bit less. Just another possible reason. I’m not an expert! My jades sometimes drip water from tips of their leaves, although that doesn’t make a spot, but it does happen after I’ve watered generously.
A pic would help, but let’s start here. With my jades, a single yellowing leaf is just life. I’d just wait to see if more start yellowing. I wait until my jades are maybe 3/4 dry before I water. (I use clear pot liners so I can see how far down the soils is dry.) If the yellowing spreads, I’d move her out of any direct light and check for spots or pests. For the past 6 months my jades have had some fungal/bacterial thing like brown spot. I sprayed a lot, cut off some of the bad leaves, lost a lot of leaves, but they’re all coming back. First problem I’ve had with jades. Your plants yellowing a leaf are just asking for a little more of your attention, maybe needing some fine-tuning. Wish I could give you a definitive answer. You are asking the right questions. IF it continues, experiment with those and notice how your plants do. But rn, they are probably okay.
@PlantMania I also had a bit of bacterial fungi thing with her about a year ago. (Also, I did take a picture I just forgot to add it 🤦♀️). They’re both bottom leaves and I know one is at least two years old. My marble queen has some very white leaves going brown very slowly and I was assured it was normal. Perhaps my jades are doing that too? The yellow is spreading very, very slowly. Anyway, thank you so much for commenting, here is the pic of the two year old leaf:
@PlantMania Oh wow!! She is gorgeous!!! I’ve been encouraging mine to grow greener leaves and it’s working well. (Honestly I love them more than the mostly white ones).