Potting My Pothos Vine

Getting over my fear:

Today, after taking a look at the pothos vine clipping that I’ve had sitting in water over the last 2 and a half weeks, I decided that it’s time to get over my fear of planting my own plant, so I went for it. BUT,  I wasn’t planning on taking such a big leap without informing myself first of the basics of the pothos vine species, so I read up on a couple of websites. In the gardening section on About.com's website, I was pleased to read that pothos vines are incredibly easy to grow. As well, an article in the website; Plant Care.com said that;J

“The Pothos – Jade, Golden and Marble Queen leads the way in houseplants. In fact, it is one of the top houseplants.”

According to both websites, pothos vines generally are not too picky with how often they are watered. Not any more than other typical house plants anyway… A bonus for a forgetful person like me.

As well, before getting started, I watched a video that I found on youtube on the basics of pothos vines. It pretty much summed up in audio form what I read in the previous two websites. Here is the video:

So, here we go:

The basic planting care package

Before I could get started, I needed to arm myself with the supplies I would need to plant my clipping. I went out to the store and bought myself a bag of all-purpose potting soil, 3 types of fertilizers, a couple of pots, and a watering can. I sure do hope that I bought the right type of everything… It was the name “all-purpose” which sold me on buying this particular brand of soil. As well, for the fertilizers, I decided to purchase 3 diffferent types... you know, for the “just in case” type of situation… 

The end result:

I must say that although I am not sure of how well this plant clipping project will turn out (only time will tell from now on), I am pleased with myself for attempting to get over my fear of killing another plant. Never before have I ever attempted to propagate any type of plant through making my own clippings and replanting from scratch. So, now today, my windowsill looks fresh and happy with a newly planted pothos vine plant. I am proud to say that I have now planted my own clipping, and even though the websites above mentioned that these types of plants do not require much fertilization, I decided to fertilize its first feeding. It is a fertilizer that is added to directly to the water. I hope that this was a wise choice, but again, only time will tell...

One more thing:

Lemon Geranium clipping

I had spoken in previous posts about starting a new growth from my lemon geranium plant. I felt that I was allowing my fear to take over, and kept putting off taking a clipping. So yesterday, I went for it, and now my lemon geranium clipping is currently sitting in a glass of room temperature water, working on growing its roots. I even wrote down the date that I cut the plant on the glass so that I wont lose track and have the plant sitting there all year round (I'm sure I would end up forgetting the month I made the clipping... just kidding). You can see in the picture above, the glass next to my newly planted pothos vine. The other two plants on the left of it seem to be doing pretty well, so far.

Something funny:

I came across this article today called "Houseplants you can't kill: Easy care, minimal maintenance indoor plants". I laughed when I read the title because I thought that maybe I could have done a better job with keeping plants alive, had I come across an article such as this one years ago. Oh well, not better time to start then now right?