The Haircut - January 7, 2020 @goldenoakfarm

in homesteading •  5 years ago 

Plant pot in sunlight3 pothos crop September 2019.jpg
September 2019

On Tuesday my helper friend was here and we got the lights box and the outside tree packed up and put away. Christmas is finished. Once we’d finished watering all but one of the 75+ house plants, we tackled the one not watered.

This one above is the pothos plant in September. I forgot to take photos of before and during. This plant has gotten very leggy due to poor care all summer. It was mostly vines, no leaves by January.

Pothos2 crop Jan. 2018.jpg
January 2018

This photo above is the one we tackled just after it was last done in January 2018. I’ve not messed with it in 2 years.

Pothos cuttings crop January 2019.jpg
Pothos cuttings in water, some for years

The process is to move it to an open central area and start untangling the vines. Many of them had reached 25’ – 30’ long. They all had lost leaves except on the last 3’ – 5’ of vine. I had a couple foundation stems I wanted to keep, but they broke in the process. So I took the sections with leaves and put them in a jar of water.

Pothos repotted crop January 2020.jpg
Finished

Once we’d gotten the vines tamed, we took it out of the hanger. My helper friend cleaned up the pots while I took out the drainage stones from the bottom of the root mass. Then with a large sharp knife, I root pruned the root ball. I refilled the bottom of the cleaned pot with the drainage stones, added new soil, and put the root ball back in. I watered it and hung it back up.

Pothos before crop January 2020.jpg

This is the second pothos. It is not in as bad shape as the first one. We will tackle it on Thursday.

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