How To Propagate Leafless Pothos Vines ( DONT THROW THEM AWAY )
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2025
- How to propagate leafless pothos vines, its actually way simpler than you could imagine. Simply take the freshly cut nodes and place them into a small bag with moist sphagnum moss. Give it LOTS of BRIGHT light and warmth. In time they will sprout new vines!
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i've successfully propagated just by dumping these in a bowl of water! nodes are magical
Nice, Ill have to compare methods!
Same here! I didn't expect it to work but it's doing swell.
Did you cut them first? Or just put it in the water
@@AmberMarie48 i cut them up first
Did you submerge the entire cutting into water? Or just one end?
I just threw my long, leafless stems into a long rectangular planter out back in the dirt (originally meant for the trash) and watered it for a while. About a 3' length. It's now a beautiful long pothos 3 yrs old.
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Oh my gosh, I'm so grateful for this video. I had probably a combined 40 ft of leafless vines of golden pothos, arrowhead plant, and heart-shaped philodendron because of this plant that had been unmaintained in my mom's basement for probably the last 7 years. It just kept growing vines without leaves and the woman who helps clean her house just kept wrapping the vines around each other so I got them untangled and had so many leafless nodes to experiment with. With some of them I put them in jars with water and with others I just left them in a ziplock bag with a wet paper towel. The ones in the bag are literally rooting after 4 days
Correction. 3 days. 🤯
We'll see how they do as house plants when I transition them to soil, I'll try to update here, but I'm confident
@@ajooni6154 Hi I know its abeen a while but do you have any updates on the bag and water method?? I just threw my vines into a huge bowl of water and im clinging to any hope that it'll root!! thank you!!
@@Userhandle937 Hi! I am currently in the process of doing that! Did your vines root? Once they root do you just plant them and hope leaves will come out of those? How did your wetsticks do?
This should be the top Pothos propagation video!!
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you! Went to my dad's because he was in the hospital 3 hours away and sorta forgot about my plants for 4 months lol
Sorry to hear about your father, I hope hes doing well and you can get your plants sorted out!
@@TechplantChannel he is doing well and they're all making a come back! My snake plant and aloe looked better than when I left just the poor pothos in disrepair but its still growing slowly.
I had always wondered if I could propagate just the stem pieces without leaves thanks for showing the experiment and your results!
Great! I saved all of mine and said, well, let’s see how this experiment goes. And then minutes later I see this video! YAY
I was just cutting up a pothos that I have neglected for a long time. I have a long section where it went under the table the pot was sitting on, across the floor and up the other side of the table. That long section has no leaves. I searched to see if I could root the nodes and your video came up. Thanks! I'm going to try this.
Thank you so much for your video Techplant! :) I don't have sphagnum moss so I did not use the moss + ziplock bag method. Instead, I have dunked the root-only cuttings in water after reading in the comments that others have had success via this method.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!! only video I’ve found that shows propagating pothos without leaves!
Your vids are amazing. Interesting, knowledgeable, and blessedly short.
I appreciate that!
I’ve been looking for a video like this for so long!!! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the great how-to video. I had one cutting that was potted in a tiny cup of soil...but grew over two feet. So, I re-poted it in a large bowel. The Root ball in the center, then pinned the bare stem to the top of the soil in a spiral with the leaves ending up along the outer edge. Almost all the nodes rooted. Some leafed. The bare ones only leafed out when I sniped the stem. Giving them the most stem since the outer nodes already grew foliage. (Great to see Tom Hiddleston having a hobby to share !)
This is exactly the video I needed as I put my pothos vine on a moss pole and the leaves got soft and droopy! I took all the leaves off and left the nodes on the wet moss pole and I’m HOPING it’ll still grow and I have a good feeling it will 🤞🤞🤞
I followed your instructions exactly and now I wake up everyday excited to look at my takeout box full of nodes 🤩 they're rooted in the moss and growing little leaves now thank you I love TH-cam!!
Frickin awesome! I've been throwing away gold! Gold I tell ya!
yeah next time get em root'n
I remember being too scared to bring a scissor even near my plants. 🤧 Trimming was such a nightmare. But now I may even start trying to propagate? Maybe.
I can totally relate. I still feel really sad trimming plants. In my mind I give inanimate objects and things like plants a personality and I imagine them having emotion. I make a connection with them. Cutting things off of them makes me really sad. I just imagine them crying and saying "I worked so hard to grow that, don't take it away! I need it to be healthy! You're hurting me!" 😭 I try to propagate everything that I cut off them. My flapjack plant for example, leaves me with so many little babies that erupt all around the mother plant. I unpot the mom, cut the babies off with a clean knife, cover the cut with sulfur, let it dry for a few days, and then I coat the base with rooting powder and put it in a pot to grow another new plant. There was a long stalk type cactus arm that someone was throwing away at work. I don't know what it is. I saw it laying next to the trash and I couldn't walk away. I took it home, prepped it, potted it up, and waited to see if it would survive. It looks extremely ugly. 😸 It looks like it has been eaten by bugs and birds and it looks like a zombie or something. That was 2-3 years ago that I potted it up, and it now has a brand new gorgeous section of arm growing out of it that's about 1 foot long and it still flowers each season. I call it my ugly rescue cactus. I imagine it in my mind as being very thankful that I put it in nice soil and a beautiful pot and saved it from the garbage. I blame the whole "giving emotion and personality to objects" thing on the movie The Brave Little Toaster which I loved watching as a child. The junkyard scene hit me hard and shaped my own personality. I love fixing things.
just start small and with a few cuttings! You can do it!!
Yea me too. I am afraid I will go wrong and she will hate me for life, I don't want to ruin her life and also fail her hope and children 😣☹️
It’s super easy, like really easy. Just get either a pot of soil, or a glass/jar of water. Than cut the plant below the nodes about an inch, or underneath a single leaf which is easier, and they grow faster. So basically you just cut the leaf at the top above it if the leaf was part of the middle vine, and than below it above the next leaf, stick the stem in water or soil, change the water and or water the soil daily for the first week or so. It’s extremely easy, pothos is the easiest plant to propagate in the world almost literally
@@theprophet_-__cxvii__-_8693 Just like he showed in video.
Baaahhh I should have watched this yesterday!!! I had probably an army of new guys growing, I left the 30 foot + vine outside, I will try resurrect as I could sell this or at least have dozens of Mother’s Day gifts! Thank you!!!!!
good luck!
Super cool! I have about 30 feet of vines on my massive Golden Pothos
Thank you! I broke one of my Epi Albos I was water propping. I did what you showed here with the bag and it worked like a charm.
I actually did this as an experiment last time i propagated some pothos leaves, and was surprised the leafless node is producing a leaf shoot!
I just put it on the water with the rest of the propagating leaves
Amazing Ill have to try it!
Yes
I once watered my plants with fish tank water. It works nicely.
oh yeah its great!
I’ve been having trouble propagating monstera from leafless nodes and large pothos vines. Not a giant one like you propagated, but like 3/4inch. I tried it in a prop box but it just got squishy gross. Lol and I wasn’t ready for that level of responsibility, I guess. 🤣
Thank you. I love the challenge of keeping 'life' from a plant!
thanks for watching!
you are my favorite plant youtuber
Thank you!!!
I’ve done this with amazing results. Taking more cuttings soon.
Such an AWESOME video! So informative, I wish I hadn’t thrown out all those leafless stems. I’ll definitely try this. Thanks so much, happily subscribing to your channel - I’ve been searching for more plant friends!!
I threw out a lot in the passed too.... thanks for the sub!
Thanks for sharing. I received my monstera albo nodes today, and had no clue how to propagate them. I’ve only done so with with cuttings in the past.
Aaaah that's so cool!! Like actually pretty cool!!! I'm so excited now! Propogating is always exciting!!
Thanks for watching! I hope your attempts go well!
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing! I wish I had seen this like 3 days ago when I was trimming my jade pothos! Really enjoying your content and will be binging your videos today for sure!
Well you know now for the future!
I got 2 pothos cuttings and have made lots of cuttings..but the original leaves fell off leaving bare branches. Im glad I looked for this video before just snipping..thank you!!
Thanks so much for the video. Has a handful of Sebu Blue leafless nodes that I just didn't want to throw away.
root it! good luck!
Thank you! This is super helpful. As are all the comments where people describe additional ways they have done this. I don’t have the moss and I’ve already cut the stem, so I’m going to try doing the sandwich bag method, but with coconut coir, which I have on hand . I’ll also try some in water (maybe with some nutrients) and see how they compare. Thank you!
Thank you. I found some vines that some one threw away. I was hoping I did mine correct they are already rooting within a week. And found more pieces laying on the ground so I'm glad I'm rescuing them too. Just needed to make sure they grow leaves. Your video helped alot
Wow! I did find that interesting. I trim and shape mine but see pothos all the time with one long vine and few leaves. Can't wait to show people how to solve it and get a full looking plant! 😁
Wonderful!
Thanks for this video! I just cut up one of my vines yesterday and decided to throw the bare stems in the water with the cuttings to see what would happen. Now, I'm even more excited to see if they will root!
Did they ever root for you? I just did the same yesterday an now wondering if it works! Thank you
@@TracyL-66 I hadn't even looked at them for a while. Your reply prompted me to go pull them out from among the roots of the regular cuttings. Strange, they're producing small leaves underwater growing from the nodes! I guess I need to put those in soil and see what's next!
Oh yay! I just asked about leafless pothos propagation on your other video 😆
Thank you. My hoya I put in leca dropped leaves before getting roots, so I'll try moss and baggie!!
Did this about 2 weeks ago. I have about 11 marble stem cuttings in a clear glass that I will with water from the tap. I sat the glass outside in the shade of our porch and they started to form the green root nodes. Im expecting roots soon.
I never knew that pothos can be propgated this way. I thought i needed the leaf nodes only. I took those too and zip tied them together in the glass for extras.
Wow! If only i had seen this sooner. I attempted to do this with some leafless nodes in September (without doing any research!). I thought I could try water propagation. I kept them in a small glass and frequently changed the water. The lived for about a month, but there was no growth. After a month or so they became mushy and smelly, I had to throw them away. NOW I've been doing a lot more research on plant care, and getting advice from more experienced plant people. I never imagined I would find so many lovely plant enthusiasts to help me on my journey! Thanks.
You'd have had success if you replaced the water often, 1-2x/week. Ideally, let the water sit overnight first before using it, to allow the chlorine to evaporate.
Yes, I DO find this beneficial. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
v helpful resource for pothos lovers and owners!
For sure! Hope yours are doing well
I just got some cuttings but I didn't get the node unfortunately. Only one has a node, the other 2 are just leaves and stem. Next time I'll definitely get the nodes. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Life endures!!! Awesome video!!!
WOW that was amazing! Thank you so much for the info. Incredible!!
You are so welcome!
Hi. Can you use any kind of moss?
Hi! Thanks for the video! I have a quick question for you or for others to weigh in on...I wrapped my nodes using about approx 2 paper towels. Should I sit my sandwich bag in my window sill or in my basement office under my bright LED desk lamp?
As long as your window sill is not cold then id stick with that also make sure the sun doesn't boil the bag
Hmmm. Could this be a way to encourage a long leaf-less portion of pathos vine to grow some new leaves? Just by wrapping up the nodes and keeping them in a moist environment ? Of course without the whole cutting off thing...
Maybe, im not sure how easy it is to get a new vine to start, Ill experiment. that method is called air layering
Can I do this for other kind of pothos like manjula, n'joy and brasil?
yes
Can you use rejuvenate plant soil for my cuttings to grow roots
Wish I knew this earlier, glad I know this now!
Yeap they are salvageable its really nice!
i'm about to have so many pothos. have you tried rooting them in water with a fertilizer? that's my current experiment.
definitely doing this. ive had this pothos cutting forever and when i potted it up from water i put it into a pot that is way too big and in a space taht doesnt get much sun so most of the leaves fell off and i was scared to cut it but now im definitely going to
Can you do this in soil too? I had a Scindapsus treubii given to me that was all vines wrapped around some leaves. I cut it up and have some in water, some back in soil, but the little nodes I took like you did, put them in a container with holes and a lid and put them in soil. I'll see how it goes and if not I'll try the baggie!
I don't have moss. Can I use moist paper towel in the bag instead?
So I have a monstera stem with roots already attached, but no leaves. Can I just plant the stem in some soil because it already has roots? Will it die being in the soil without any leaves to catch the sun for photosynthesis?
It should be good but make sure the soil is very well draining
I’m totally gonna have to do this. I can’t sort out what’s wrong with my pothos and it may be time to just start it fresh!
What to use instead of the moss please? I don't have any fancy potting mix either
perlite will work well too
So how does it grow root and new vine, but wont when it’s attached to the plant in the soil?
I wonder if there’s a way to encourage it to vine or grow leaves without cutting it.
my leaveless stick has roots and new leaf come out too, very existing
nice job!
if we don't have moss what else can we use to help propagate the vine?
perlite mixed with vermiculite works great or just either one on its own
Could I use damp paper towel in place of moss?? Thanx✨
Did you try it?
so what happens to the stem that you cut still attached to the soil, will that also grow new leaves? please let me know!
Yes a new growth will form at the nearest node
Whta if I have leaves at the ends but none as you get closer to the pot? Any way to regrow those without having to cut the good ones off?
you could google "plant notching" and try it but there is no easy way to get new growth at the center of the pot. Once the leaves fall off there is no way to get a new leaf without an entirely new vine starting
I already tried that and it started growing :0
Thanks
Good to hear
@@TechplantChannel , it started producing new shoots and roots !
Wow! This sounds very interesting.
Thank you.
Half of my pathos is leafless. Will the side with the leaves grow its own roots if I cut it in half (and cut the leafless nodes to propagate) ? If that makes sense.
Oh thank you so much for that vid there is hope for my leafless stem :)
My Pothos vine has grown very long ( which was my goal, long enough to frame my window) however, a pretty large section has no leaves but the tip and the pot of the plant are thriving. Is there a way to make the leaves grow back where damaged leaves were removed without cutting the vine? Will leaves ever grow back in these bare spots?
Maybe wrap some moss in a ball around those nodes using saran wrap and rubber bands
This is so funny. About a week ago I cut a vine off and decided to try propagating 3 leaf-less vine sections anyway to see if they'll work. I used the bottle of water method and they are growing new buds and roots as we speak. One has a new leaf coming in underwater right now that is getting bigger every day. I may need to cut that particular one in half and make 2 to get that new leaf out of the water. Something in my gut tells me the new foliage won't like being submerged, but I don't know that for a fact. I also took the short bottom section of the vine I cut off with its already established roots, and I put it in a bottle of water as well. I rinsed off the soil from the roots and I added just a bit of liquid fertilizer to try and give the roots nutrients to absorb and start the growing process. It is also doing great at the moment. It has 2 new vine/leaf buds growing. :) I hope everything survives the propagation and transplant process so that the original pothos pot will look lush and full with a bunch of hanging vines.
Nice work, the new growth can handle being under water for a little bit but after too long it might get soggy and rot off. Good job and keep up the good work!
@@TechplantChannel Thanks!
so all you need is a water bottle & fertilizer to do this? :)
@@valmz6 Yep! You don't even need the fertilizer. I was just experimenting to see if it helped or hurt. You really just need a clean blade or scissors, a bottle or cup of clean water, and a place to put them with some filtered sunlight. Use drinking water, distilled water, or RO water if possible because tap water's chlorine can hurt some sensitive plants. In my city our tap water is super hard and chlorinated so I filter the water through a Pur faucet filter.
Letting tap water sit in a bowl overnight allows the chlorine to evaporate. Then use the water the next day. Cheaper than my RO or distilled.
should i be chucking the nodes that turn yellow in the bin or just leave them to see what happens?
Hi! I followed these steps using perlite instead of sphagnum moss. The pothos nodes are starting to grow leaves, but no roots. What should I do?
hi! did they grow roots after a while? I just choped my pothos plant and have meters of leaf-less vines that i would like to try to propagate in perlite (cause i don't have any sphagnum moss).
Hi I have a long stem from monstera with a lot of air roots, no roots or leaves, can I use this methode? And can I have the air roots in the stem? Please confirm
yeah it will work for them as well, you can leave the roots attached.
What if I put them with multiple nodes together? For example one leaf and 2-3 nodes? All under water and the leaf out of the water?
Hi dear
I have a vine 1m long. Should I cut it up into smaller parts or can I use the 1m vine
You can use the whole vine but if you cut it up you'll get mote vines
can you put them in water instead of moss/bag?
never tried but heard people have had success, i dont see why you couldnt.
May be a stupid question but when you say "bright light" do you mean the SUN or bright light like a lamp et which will encourage humidity while the leaves are in a bag?
hmm what a bout pothos that all the leaf die off (it was a baby pothos with 2 leaves and roots planted in a soil) how to retrive it back? put it back in a plastick bag too?
Could i put the stems in water as well to propagate?
I HAD ONE LIKE THAT I CUT THE STEMS OFF
PUT PLANT OUTSIDE FOR WASTE
IT BECAME MY BEST LOOKING PLANT
This was really helpful! I knew I could prop a node without a leaf but wasn't sure exactly how. I have tried rooting bare nodes in water and planting them in a Terra Cotta pot with other nodes that had leaves just to see what will happen since my nodes already had roots. I wonder if I could use Coco Peat (Coir) and Perlite to try it your way since I don't have any 100% Spagnum moss and my potting soil although it has a lot of moss in it would definitely get all fungusy/moldy in all that humidity! I love that you propagated them from a dying plant, if one of my plants starts to die, like really die for whatever reason it may be too much fertilizer, it doesn't like a certain brand of soil or it's pot or I over or under watered it. I always just prop it before it is completely dead and it works great but this bare node method is a game changer!
Can I use the traditional method? - paper towel & baggy?
I have roots but my last leaf died on a propagation project..
If you leave a vine to dry for weeks, will it still propogate?
I feel like I've left the vine on my desk unattended for so long that the cuttings I snipped off the long vine won't propogate.
Its always worth a shot! It might be much slower but try it!
Will this method work also with monstera deliciosa?
yes I have a video about it as well
Ooh I’m gonna try this with my scindapsus pictus! Fingers crossed 😁
good luck!
I wonder if you could wrap the Vines while they are still in the plant to get the leaves back without cutting them.
Ive heard of people doing half cuts into the vines to trigger that
Gonna try this on my leafless scindapsus cuttings 😳 wish me luck!
Good luck!
how did it go?!
@@michaelspltwrng It was a success! I had 3 leafless nodes and all of them rooted and grew new leaves. I forgot to document it but I think it took around 3 weeks. I put them in an airtight plastic container and only opened it briefly like, every other day or so. Thanks @Techplant for this video! :D
@@RosalineDjayasukmana Ohh okay, thanks for letting me know! My original scindapsus i got was so problematic (or im bad at watering too much) so its on its last legs but all the leaves are dead/half dying. Currently i've just cut nodes w half dead leaves and put them in a open plastic cup with water, shall i pluck off the dead leaves? Also the bit where ive cut the stem under the node and stuck it in water has gone brown, is this normal?
@@michaelspltwrng If you want to put in in sphagnum, I suggest pluck the dead leaves. If you want to keep it in water, it would need the at least 1 *functioning* leaf to grow roots. The brown stem happens sometimes with water propagation. From my experience it should be fine as long as the node and the part above the node looks healthy.
This was so helpful! Thanks :))
Hypothetically could you use paper towel if you don’t have moss?
yeah i dont see why not, perlite and coconut coir should work too
Can we do the same for aglaonema cuttings? They have no leaf and when I put them in soil/sand they tend to rot, so lastly water propagation is safe but never done water prop without a leaf on stem cuttings, will this work?
Can I just dumping the stem in water and no moss?
it might work
What about Spanish Moss, can I use this instead of Spaghnum moss?
I've never tried it maybe only test it with a few nodes
Hi,
where to place plastic bag with pothos cutting and spagnum .in dark place or in shady area?
Can you do the same thing with a monstera?
I will once i get some leafless nodes. so far they havent lost any leaves
Wow found this channel today, watching you second video. Wow, your techniques are rlly good, can't wait to try ♥
Have fun!
I am going to propogate it right away.. Thanks for sharing.. 🤩
Will this work with a tradescantia purple heart?? I have a looooooong stem and only two leaves
I had a pothos that died a slow death, I think it was slightly overwatered and then fully dried out and just didn't make it. I was able to save one little leaf that's finally starting to grow a root, but I wish I knew this! I would have tried it with a few of the other vines that "appeared" healthy!
welp, you know now so thats good! Good luck with your other cutting!