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How to Prune a Pothos
How to Prune a Pothos. Pothos, or devil's ivy, is an easily adaptable plant that tolerates a wide range of indoor growing conditions. Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) will grow in low light or direct sun, cool or warm rooms, in tabletop planters and hanging baskets, and twining up totem supports. Its large heart-shaped leaves range from a solid green...
Pothos, or devil's ivy, is an easily adaptable plant that tolerates a wide range of indoor growing conditions. Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) will grow in low light or direct sun, cool or warm rooms, in tabletop planters and hanging baskets, and twining up totem supports. Its large heart-shaped leaves range from a solid green color to green with white, yellow, or cream-colored streaks. If not trimmed regularly, pothos sends out vines that can span an entire room, attaching itself to whatever surface its root knobs come into contact with.
Things You'll Need
Pruning shears or scissors
Newspaper
Isopropyll alcohol
Cotton swab
Place the pothos plant on several thicknesses of newspaper. Select the vines you want to trim, and unravel them carefully from the main plant.
Trace the vines you are trimming down to the soil line, and carefully cut them at a point about 2 inches from the soil. Cut at a point just above a leaf so as not to create an unsightly leafless stem.
Continue trimming the vines until the plant starts to take on the desired shape, as pruning will promote more compact and bushier growth. Inspect the plant for mealy bugs, a common pest of pothos, which appear as a white fuzz under the leaves.
Treat mealy bugs, if necessary, on the leaves that remain on the plant by rubbing them off with an alcohol-soaked cotton swab. Trim off and dispose of any other discolored leaves or stems.
Cut the long healthy vines that you pruned off into sections containing one root knob, as they can easily be rooted in water or soil as new plants.
