My long-suffering golden pothos has a new home

[cjsmith]

Shortly after I was hired four-plus years ago, I bought a golden pothos for my office. I wanted some green around the place and had heard those were unkillable.

I am happy to say it's absolutely true they're unkillable. When I was laid off in late November, I brought the plant home and left it on the floor of a junk-filled front bedroom. I think I may have watered it since then... once, maybe.

I pulled it out of there and repotted it today. It was severely dehydrated, with dusty soil fused into one dry lightweight lump. It was so root-bound that I almost couldn't get it out of the pot. It had lost quite a few leaves, mostly older ones closer to the soil surface. But it was vibrantly green at the end of its eight-plus-foot stalks, with numerous healthy sturdy leaves on every stem. When I snipped cuttings from the end of each stalk and put those cuttings into a new pot, the whole thing looked green and happy and ready to go.

I'm relieved to have it repotted. I'd been thinking about that for a while. I'm also relieved that my neglect of the past few months didn't kill it.

Comments

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear the things are so hardy. I have one in Indiana still. (NO, it's not sitting in my empty apartment! I left it with my friend Ali.) Not that I don't trust Ali to water it -- I'm just glad to hear it's probably doing well!

My pothos is named Porthos. What's yours named? :) Now that I think of it, that's a particularly apt name, as Porthos himself was almost indestructable. It took a mountain to kill Porthos (and to bury him).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

If I remember the story right, I have a friend who left one in a car all summer, wedged between a lot of other college detritus. That one is still alive too.

Name? I think mine is named "the pretty green plant that is getting way too long". Yesterday I called it Medusa, once, while I was giving it its haircut. ;-)

Will you get to visit yours when you come back in the summer?