Not sure if houseplants are considered “leisure” or not, but here goes…
I have a pothos in my cube at work. It appears to be hell-bent on growing linearly along only one shoot, and has a tendancy to creep into cracks and crevaces. I keep wrapping it around the pot to try and maintain the upper hand, but what I’d really like to do is encourage it to branch out a bit and be more bushy instead of viney.
Can this be done?
Pothos is a vine. It’s going to want to grow one long stem no matter what you do to it. The best way to make it look bushy is to root multiple cuttings in the original pot so there are extra plants in the space.
Thanks. Are there some varieties that are more or less “viney” than others? I know my Mom’s looked very different than this one, with actual branching from a thicker base.
Was hers definitely a pothos? That whole philodendron-y group sort of looks alike. “Thicker base” sounds like it’s either a different plant or a much older pothos. They DO branch, occasionally, if you either pinch out a growing tip or it breaks (more likely in an older plant, just from being handled for a longer time). But in viney plants that’s not necessarily consistent or common. I know I’ve seen more pothos or philodendrons wrapped around their pot in a big old spiral than I’ve seen them actually bushy.