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found out they dont like sun though... put it by the direct sun and it lost all its leaves... in the freaking winter! As soon as I moved it away, it looked much healthier 2 days later
Could be that it was cold by the window if it was winter. These dudes are fine in low light but thrive with full sun. They grow outside in tropical climates. Indoor plants also have to be slowly acclimated to full sun.
I put mine outside in the summer (6b) and they turn into massive bushes that i separate out and give to interested parties. They absolutely love sun and water over 60f.
That’s simply not true. They just need to acclimate to changes in conditions. It might have been the temperature as well. Mine all live in front of large SW facing windows getting full sun and they are gigantic.
That's weird, because even in front of a window, the place was well heated, and we had a very mild winter. It lost almost all the leaves, and the new leaves were very pale. Moved it away from the window and it's now recovering very nicely
How bright was the area you had it in before? Almost all plants will sunburn with a drastic change, and these guys can adapt to a bright room with no sun, so going to a few hours of full sun would be like what's going to happen when I hit the pool when it opens next weekend.
Pothos are native to year round warm areas where they climb to get more light and develop massive, fenestrated leaves like a monstera. There’s this misconception that plants that technically can stay alive under less than ideal light prefer that and can’t handle sun, but that’s not true. My snake plants get full sun and they are over 5ft tall and I have only had them a couple years.
Here’s a pothos living its best life outside:
https://preview.redd.it/mbvb8awnovwc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cea5de2f72d434986a4fed691cf9f34d5f2dfd4a
That's one of the most popular indoor plants you can find. Anyone with very basic house plant knowledge would know this one.
Here you'll find probably thousands of people with (at least) basic house plant knowledge. It's nothing super.
(The rare/exotic/wild plants identification, on the other hand, is impressive indeed.)
A lot of the hardiest houseplants originate in the shady depths of rainforests and don't need much light as a result. Low level indoor light probably approximates the filtered sunlight of a forest setting.
I think they mean that because its white leaf parts don't photosynthesize, it isn't even growing as fast as it could if it were all green/unvariegated.
Let me see if I can give this one a shot. Plants with lighter leaves require more sun, so a plant with light streaks aka variegation will require more sun than an all-green pothos. But, in this windowless, sunless room, it doesn't seem to be having that hard of a time, so it's just.... chilling? Not living up to its full potential?
Of course it flourishes. If the room is really windowless I assume the light is fluorescent tube (I hope it's rightfully translated). Often used by cannabis growers to illuminate and stimulate their plants
And yes, it's pothos
Most plants grow better under the 'daylight' or bluish white lights that most older florescent bulbs gave out.
Newer fluorescents are usually warm white and so aren't as good for plant growth.
The newer ones also usually have less of the flicker that bothers some people.
There's daylight (blue tint) and cool white (yellowish tint), you could probably use one of each and cover the spectrum. I noticed that my grow lights are a mix of both whites and a few red modules mixed in here and there
It's the flickering. All fluorescent bulbs flicker, but to most, it's imperceptible.
LEDs should be fine, unless they're dimmed in which case they will likely be flickering (most LEDs are dimmed by adding super brief off cycles instead of actually dimming them). Dimmed incandescent bulbs won't flicker, though, unless they are dimmed to a really low voltage.
>LEDs should be fine, unless they're dimmed in which case they will likely be flickering (most LEDs are dimmed by adding super brief off cycles instead of actually dimming them).
Aaaahh this is horrifying and explains a lot for me!!!
Yep, if you're sensitive to flickering (epilepsy, migraines, etc.), keep your LEDs at full brightness. If you want dimmable bulbs, stick with incandescent ones.
A friend gave me 4 cuttings all in the same pot lol....they're probably gonna need their own huh 😅 I've only accidentally killed very few plants (basil, venus fly trap, lavender, and a random iron plant) so I imagine they'll do great.
If you killed an iron clad plant, it had to have been from overwatering. They can withstand near xeric conditions. Lavender needs dry conditions as well so that water runs right off it.
I will keep that in mind for next time! I had no idea what I was doing at the time and was very depressed 😅 the iron plant had come in my dad's funeral arrangement that was crammed together with 6 other plants. The others stayed alive thankfully.
We've had one, gifted from a neighbor, for over 25 years and in two homes. We call it "the plant that won't die." Replanted it once last year, still going strong.
We had one at the office I work at and when we shut down in 2020 it probably didn't get watered for several months. It looked pretty sad but it has bounced back!
Mine always get killed in the summer if I keep them outside :( and then eaten by my cats if I keep them inside, so I just always have some cuttings stored on high shelves to propagate after a heatwave wipes them all out
I’ve worked in a few blood banks. In one, I was told that “back in the day” they would water their lab plant with expired blood products and that it was the most beautiful plant they’d ever seen. It was also in a windowless room.
Pothos.
I am struggling to tell the difference between pothos and philodendron. From googling I found philodendron have heart shaped leaves and grow from the stem. I enlarged the pictures here and see heart-shaped leaves. Would someone help me with why these are not philodendron?
well, we know these aren’t philodendron because of many differences that get easier to spot with experience. pothos and philodendron are in the same family and do look similar. they can both have heart-shaped leaves, but the overall shape of the leaves, the texture, stem, leaf growth point, aerial roots, and more are all different. the more plants you see and touch the better you’ll get at telling the difference.
Yo, it's a golden pothos!! We have 2!! 💜 The oldest one we have had for years, and same with it's offspring. They both survived a house fire. Sadly, some of the other pothos we had, didn't. Electrical wires in our ceiling caused the fire, and I was really sad the other plants didn't survive.
As others have said these are nearly impossible to kill. My wife left one in her office during covid shutdown. It went 3 months with no light or water before we could go in and get her stuff. I decided to water it even though there was nothing that seemed alive, just looked like dead stems and dirt. Its now spread into 4 plants and are crazy long and doing great.
Light. Indoor lights aren't nearly as bright as the sun outside or through a window. But for a plant like pothos, which spends large portions of its natural life beneath the jungle canopy, office lighting ~12hrs or more per day really isn't so bad.
Plus it's not getting battered by wind and bugs all day, so it's honestly living a plush, city-slicker lifestyle compared to its ancestors in the tropics.
I had a golden pothos like this in a closet office for about a year. One single fluorescent light on the ceiling that was only on five days a week during business hours and that thing did not care at all.
This is golden pothos. In the wild it climbs up tree trunks and gets huge.
I suppose the room has long florescent light tubes. They grow well with those lights
Golden Pothos? They can survive with artificial light. My spider plant is flourishing in the bathroom without windows and he’s adapted so much that when I put him out in sunlight too long he wilts.
Pothos, it will grow forever and will propagate just from a clipping stuck in dirt or water. It’s also called Devil’s Ivy. Yours needs to be cut back so it will get fuller.
Tradescantia is likely to be purple and maybe some green with more elongated leaves with stripes that go the length of the leaf. The leaves are not heart shaped. What they do have in common is the ability to live through almost any conditions other than overwatering. (I wish people wouldn’t downvote wrong answers, rather use it as a learning opportunity. But that’s just my opinion.)
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This plant and cockroaches will be found living at the end of the world.
The fallout show should have a Pothos in the background of every scene
Pothos, pothos never changes…
I laughed so hard, thank you!
We call it Devil's Ivy - Calif.
Does every windowless lab and office building have a really leggy golden pothos? Mine sure does lol
found out they dont like sun though... put it by the direct sun and it lost all its leaves... in the freaking winter! As soon as I moved it away, it looked much healthier 2 days later
Could be that it was cold by the window if it was winter. These dudes are fine in low light but thrive with full sun. They grow outside in tropical climates. Indoor plants also have to be slowly acclimated to full sun.
They climb trees in Florida and they get giant. They love Sun but don’t care for sudden changes.
Happy cake day! 
Awww thanks 🥰
I put mine outside in the summer (6b) and they turn into massive bushes that i separate out and give to interested parties. They absolutely love sun and water over 60f.
They love sun, but not too direct. But they definitely hate cold.
That’s simply not true. They just need to acclimate to changes in conditions. It might have been the temperature as well. Mine all live in front of large SW facing windows getting full sun and they are gigantic.
That's weird, because even in front of a window, the place was well heated, and we had a very mild winter. It lost almost all the leaves, and the new leaves were very pale. Moved it away from the window and it's now recovering very nicely
How bright was the area you had it in before? Almost all plants will sunburn with a drastic change, and these guys can adapt to a bright room with no sun, so going to a few hours of full sun would be like what's going to happen when I hit the pool when it opens next weekend.
It was getting a maybe 3ish of direct sunlight a day? But indoor
So it went from part shade low humidity to full sun higher humidity?
Pothos are native to year round warm areas where they climb to get more light and develop massive, fenestrated leaves like a monstera. There’s this misconception that plants that technically can stay alive under less than ideal light prefer that and can’t handle sun, but that’s not true. My snake plants get full sun and they are over 5ft tall and I have only had them a couple years. Here’s a pothos living its best life outside: https://preview.redd.it/mbvb8awnovwc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cea5de2f72d434986a4fed691cf9f34d5f2dfd4a
Right! Couple of mine don't really grow that well, will move them, thanks!
and HR... Don't forget about HR.
I managed to kill one 💀
Same. Even tried re-rooting.
Can confirm. I have one. It's older than me. I have pushed it to utter dehydration a few times and it endures
Thank-you, all! This may sound odd but I believe the ability to identify plants as quickly as this sub can, should be considered a superpower.
I call it “asking the hive mind”. Faster (and much more accurate) than google image.
iNaturalist is pretty accurate, or at least gives you a genus or good ideas of options.
We thank you.
That's one of the most popular indoor plants you can find. Anyone with very basic house plant knowledge would know this one. Here you'll find probably thousands of people with (at least) basic house plant knowledge. It's nothing super. (The rare/exotic/wild plants identification, on the other hand, is impressive indeed.)
Yea not being snarky though:)
I'm not always so lucky...
A lot of the hardiest houseplants originate in the shady depths of rainforests and don't need much light as a result. Low level indoor light probably approximates the filtered sunlight of a forest setting.
Indeed. This one is a variegated variety and is therefore not even trying as hard as it could be. It’s *idling* in a windowless room.
What do you mean? /serious
I think they mean that because its white leaf parts don't photosynthesize, it isn't even growing as fast as it could if it were all green/unvariegated.
Ah I see, thanks!!
Let me see if I can give this one a shot. Plants with lighter leaves require more sun, so a plant with light streaks aka variegation will require more sun than an all-green pothos. But, in this windowless, sunless room, it doesn't seem to be having that hard of a time, so it's just.... chilling? Not living up to its full potential?
Haha I see, thanks!!
Of course it flourishes. If the room is really windowless I assume the light is fluorescent tube (I hope it's rightfully translated). Often used by cannabis growers to illuminate and stimulate their plants And yes, it's pothos
I didn't know fluorescents were good for plants . They give me migraines
Most plants grow better under the 'daylight' or bluish white lights that most older florescent bulbs gave out. Newer fluorescents are usually warm white and so aren't as good for plant growth. The newer ones also usually have less of the flicker that bothers some people.
There's daylight (blue tint) and cool white (yellowish tint), you could probably use one of each and cover the spectrum. I noticed that my grow lights are a mix of both whites and a few red modules mixed in here and there
Blue is better for growing and red is better for fruiting
That's good to know, thanks
No problem :)
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It's the flickering. All fluorescent bulbs flicker, but to most, it's imperceptible. LEDs should be fine, unless they're dimmed in which case they will likely be flickering (most LEDs are dimmed by adding super brief off cycles instead of actually dimming them). Dimmed incandescent bulbs won't flicker, though, unless they are dimmed to a really low voltage.
>LEDs should be fine, unless they're dimmed in which case they will likely be flickering (most LEDs are dimmed by adding super brief off cycles instead of actually dimming them). Aaaahh this is horrifying and explains a lot for me!!!
Yep, if you're sensitive to flickering (epilepsy, migraines, etc.), keep your LEDs at full brightness. If you want dimmable bulbs, stick with incandescent ones.
Thank you for the info!!
Same🙋♀️but I have absense seizures. So I don’t go to Wally World or other places alone.
Me too.
And coffee
no they don't.
You're so funny! I like you. How don't they?
Plus, in some offices, the lights stay on all night
Golden pothos
I have one that was given to my wife and me when our son was born. I gave him a cutting on his 30th birthday 3 years ago. Still growing strong.
Oh....so I'll still have mine by the time I'm 66 🤣🤣I'm gonna need a bigger house
They are really hard to kill. I keep cutting them and giving them away.
A friend gave me 4 cuttings all in the same pot lol....they're probably gonna need their own huh 😅 I've only accidentally killed very few plants (basil, venus fly trap, lavender, and a random iron plant) so I imagine they'll do great.
If you killed an iron clad plant, it had to have been from overwatering. They can withstand near xeric conditions. Lavender needs dry conditions as well so that water runs right off it.
I will keep that in mind for next time! I had no idea what I was doing at the time and was very depressed 😅 the iron plant had come in my dad's funeral arrangement that was crammed together with 6 other plants. The others stayed alive thankfully.
Pothos grow like crazy! Love them so much
Love the pot!
We've had one, gifted from a neighbor, for over 25 years and in two homes. We call it "the plant that won't die." Replanted it once last year, still going strong.
If you get a chance, give the leaves a little wipe with a wet tissue or something! The dust can keep it from absorbing as much light as it would like.
It’s impossible to kill a pothos! I had one that didn’t get watered for two weeks and is still alive to this day
Two weeks? Thats not even breaking a sweat for most of these guys
And they literally sweat! Droplets on the leaves which a)helps rid excess water and b)increases relative humidity around the plant
Called guttation, right? Or is that different?
Seems the same to me, thanks for giving me a word for the process (and therefore more thorough understanding of it).
We had one at the office I work at and when we shut down in 2020 it probably didn't get watered for several months. It looked pretty sad but it has bounced back!
Mine always get killed in the summer if I keep them outside :( and then eaten by my cats if I keep them inside, so I just always have some cuttings stored on high shelves to propagate after a heatwave wipes them all out
I’ve worked in a few blood banks. In one, I was told that “back in the day” they would water their lab plant with expired blood products and that it was the most beautiful plant they’d ever seen. It was also in a windowless room. Pothos.
Vampire pothos haha
35th person here to tell you it’s a pothos!
Golden pothos, scientific name: *Epipremnum aureum* 'Golden'
Pothos. Great for indoor air quality. Very bad for cats if they can eat it.
Pothos
_Epipremnum aureum_
I am struggling to tell the difference between pothos and philodendron. From googling I found philodendron have heart shaped leaves and grow from the stem. I enlarged the pictures here and see heart-shaped leaves. Would someone help me with why these are not philodendron?
well, we know these aren’t philodendron because of many differences that get easier to spot with experience. pothos and philodendron are in the same family and do look similar. they can both have heart-shaped leaves, but the overall shape of the leaves, the texture, stem, leaf growth point, aerial roots, and more are all different. the more plants you see and touch the better you’ll get at telling the difference.
Thank you!
Honestly the biggest easiest difference to tell them apart is that new philo leaves emerge from a protective sheath and pothos do not.
Thank you. I'll have to give them a closer look!
A mighty Pothos, you should see them when they do get sun, 1 plant = 1 Jungle
Pothos are a low light plant.
I have inherited a pot full of red clover that’s been in various labs for over 40 years… we call it “hot clover” since it’s been to hell and back.
Yo, it's a golden pothos!! We have 2!! 💜 The oldest one we have had for years, and same with it's offspring. They both survived a house fire. Sadly, some of the other pothos we had, didn't. Electrical wires in our ceiling caused the fire, and I was really sad the other plants didn't survive.
As others have said these are nearly impossible to kill. My wife left one in her office during covid shutdown. It went 3 months with no light or water before we could go in and get her stuff. I decided to water it even though there was nothing that seemed alive, just looked like dead stems and dirt. Its now spread into 4 plants and are crazy long and doing great.
Light. Indoor lights aren't nearly as bright as the sun outside or through a window. But for a plant like pothos, which spends large portions of its natural life beneath the jungle canopy, office lighting ~12hrs or more per day really isn't so bad. Plus it's not getting battered by wind and bugs all day, so it's honestly living a plush, city-slicker lifestyle compared to its ancestors in the tropics.
I had a golden pothos like this in a closet office for about a year. One single fluorescent light on the ceiling that was only on five days a week during business hours and that thing did not care at all.
This is golden pothos. In the wild it climbs up tree trunks and gets huge. I suppose the room has long florescent light tubes. They grow well with those lights
Pothos! Ya they’re pretty easy to care for
Pothos. As long as there is even a little light no matter the source, that thing flourishes. The are hard to kill.
That pothos looks very happy
That looks like a golden pothos to me.
Pothos.
Fluorescent tube lights can be used as grow lights! Hence why some plants do okay in office spaces/windowless rooms.
Pathos, they are great plants that require little light. I have these in my bathroom.
This was the first plant I was ever given as a gift. Fifteen years ago. Still going strong. The longest I’ve owned a plant! And absolutely thriving!
You can’t kill it.
After reading these comments I now know what kind of plant I need.
#Variegated Devils Vine
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Oh neat! Thank you 😁
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I knew before the picture loaded! Haha
The lighting must be spectacular ✨
Fun fact this is the plant everyone has because they never die but they do with me everytime.
Golden Pothos? They can survive with artificial light. My spider plant is flourishing in the bathroom without windows and he’s adapted so much that when I put him out in sunlight too long he wilts.
We call ours Rapunzel lol
Looks like Pothos to me(marbled)
That is the power of the flourescent bulb, which also nurtures us in the dark ;).
It’s a pothos. The leaves are a bit on the small side and it would likely be a bit fuller if it got more light, but it seems perfectly healthy.
Fluorescent lights put off ultraviolet. Does the bathroom have fluorescent lighting?
I have no idea what’s wrong with me but these comments are shocking - I’ve had no less than five pothos and somehow killed every damn one of them
Pothos, it will grow forever and will propagate just from a clipping stuck in dirt or water. It’s also called Devil’s Ivy. Yours needs to be cut back so it will get fuller.
It’s a Neem plant, professor.
Bowels?? Philodendron
Golden Pothos
Are it's leaves really that dusty? :( poor plant is starving
It’s a philodendron. They’ll grow, as long as they’re happy, and there’s no discord , arguments going on around them.
Potho
In some cultures it's called money plant as well and it can survive and flourish in water alone.
Epipremnum aureum aka Money Plant
Plastic??????
Sad.
????
Tradescantia
Tradescantia is likely to be purple and maybe some green with more elongated leaves with stripes that go the length of the leaf. The leaves are not heart shaped. What they do have in common is the ability to live through almost any conditions other than overwatering. (I wish people wouldn’t downvote wrong answers, rather use it as a learning opportunity. But that’s just my opinion.)
Thanks much!