Golden Pothos

gturmindright · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2006, 11:10 AM

Okay. So I hear it's virtually impossible to kill a pothos. What if I want it to be at the top of the tank closest to the light?

Frogtofall · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2006, 01:34 PM

It'll be fine. Like you said, you can't kill it! :lol:

defaced · #3 (**permalink**) 06-13-2006, 02:46 AM

There's a good chance it would spread to that area anyway.

KeroKero · #4 (**permalink**) 06-13-2006, 04:17 AM

The only variety of pothos that might object to being close to the lights is the 'Jade' form, 'Golden' and 'Marble Queen' just get more verigated with more light (and more green with less), and 'Neon' aka 'Lime' pothos needs the higher light to do well. 'Jade' burns with higher light as it can't adapt to the higher light by getting varigation like the original 'Golden' does... and 'Neon' has the opposite problem of needing high light because its a bright green (think of it as having the same amount of green as a 'Golden' grown under high light, but spread out over the leaf instead of patterned) and can't darken (more chromataphores in the leaf) to adapt to lower lighting... it might not completely die off, but it won't do well.

gturmindright · #5 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 04:07 PM

Can you grow them as epiphytes?

KeroKero · #6 (**permalink**) 06-21-2006, 11:39 PM

They are a climbing vine, and will grow over anything it can get its roots on. I usually recomend having the plant originally start in the substrate, it will wonder all over the tank from there - this is how it grows typically in the wild. The juvenile form (what we use in our tanks) rambles around on the ground, finds something like a tree and begins to climb it, developing maturing leaves (30"+) as it grows up the tree. I think it benefits from having one part of the plant still getting nutrients from the soil, but the froggies will fertilize it where ever it grows lol.

gturmindright · #7 (**permalink**) 06-22-2006, 03:28 AM

So there is a different type for tanks? Or do you mean we start ours from cuttings so they start small? I will plant mine in the substrate and sort of help it up the wall.

KeroKero · #8 (**permalink**) 06-22-2006, 07:41 PM

Many vines, pothos and philodendrons included, have different "life growth stages", and unless your tank is 30'+, you're only going to see the "juvenile" stage lol. This is why pothos and some philodendrons have larger leaves when grown on a totem pole... its the plant growing larger as it gets higher from the ground. In most of our tanks I believe the pothos would max out at about 8" leaves...

You only get "mature" pothos leaves at about, or over 30' up a tree, where the leaves can be 3 feet! Crazy... that's also the min size for the plant to bloom...

gturmindright · #9 (**permalink**) 06-22-2006, 07:49 PM

Wow! Thats really a pretty cool characteristic. I make deliveries to alot of office buildings and I always wondered why their pothos had such large leaves in the lobby of the building. I enjoy these parts of buildings because I can't say that I haven't taken any clippings. I have a lemon lime that I'm going to put in my viv. I think it's really cool. Lemon lime is a perfect name for it too.

Frogtofall · #10 (**permalink**) 06-22-2006, 08:41 PM

Sounds like you're talking about Philodendron "Brazil". It is indeed a neat plant...

http://www.wschowa.com/abrimaal/araceum ... brasil.htm