Pothos Cuttings - HELP!

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By SF, Farther Inland, NorCal
Hi so i have (or had, now...) about 10 pothos cuttings. They are all rooted and theyve been in water for month, 1 for 6 months. Anyway the area where i cut from the stem was rotting from being under water and their was no way to keep the roots underwater and the cut wound out of water so i decided to try sealing the wounder with brush on crazy glue. Well after i applied it directly to the wound it started dissolving the entire plant from the inside out. Like sulphuric acid it, within minutes the outer skin was gone and the roots which were never brushed with ANY glue started oozing glue. So the plant clearly transported the glue from the wound where the glue was applied all the wat through its water pipes, past the roots and leaves. Is it saveable? Also online this is what they said to do. Are the plants going to die?

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Yes, they will be fine - but the new roots will die - you'll have to re-root them.

Honestly, I would just start over.
 
Yup definitely not pothos. I would scrap the whole thing and start over with real pothos.

For future reference never glue a wound on a plant. Leave it be if the plant is dying snip off the dead part to were it is healthy. If it's on an end were there there is more vine to what you cut. trim off the dead parts and plant the clones in water.
 
fwprawn said:
That isn't Pothos anyway.
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You yourself told me that it was pothos about 4 months ago. Im totally out of time right now so i cant find the link but heres a pic of the mother plant from which the majority of the cuttings were taken. Their are 2 other mother pothos in the house. All three i took cuttings from. Also all 3 are from home depot and they came with pothos labels.

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Looks similar anyway, should work.. What you do is that uou find an outgrower that is pretty long, atlest long enough so you can get 3-4 cm under water. Then you take off the 5 first leaves, pull them off the same way as the leave is comming out. If you pull towards, you ruin it. Then put it inn water so that where you took of the leaves is under, then they will grow roots out of where the leaves were.


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My bad - I can see it is Pothos now , but it looks so crappy it didn't even look the same anymore.

Just buy a $3 Pothos pot at Home Depot - no need to re-invent the wheel.
 
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