hi everyone it's marianne
welcome to my wasteless life
in this video i'll be sharing with you my pothos collection
thank you so much for joining me today
and if you're new this is my wasteless life
where i take you along my plant and sustainable lifestyle journey
and share with you some of my tips and tricks along the way
and if you've been subscribed to me for a while then the videos that most likely got
you to subscribe to me
are my pothos videos especially my 22 pothos varieties and how to tell them a part video
and every summer i also share an update on my pothos collection
so for this summer i'll do a combination of both i will share with you the update to my
pothos collection
and also update my original pothos varieties video
since making that video i have acquired so many more varieties of pothos
have increased my knowledge on the pothos plants that i even wrote a book about it
the ultimate guide to pothos plants
which is available in paperback and kindle on amazon and in pdf version on etsy
and i'm currently having an ebook sale right now for my birthday so check the video description
for the link
but to prevent this from becoming a super long video this would be the first in a four
part series
and in this video i'll be talking about the epipremnum aureum pothos plants
the ones i currently have in my collection and then also talk about the varieties that
i don't have or no longer have
and i'll let you know if i plan on getting them or not and why and
why i have chosen to let some of the varieties go from my collection
and in the next videos i'll be talking about the epipremnum pinnatum pothos varieties,
the vining philodendron
and the scindapsus varieties that are considered to be pothos or pothos like in the houseplant
community
each video will be uploaded every thursday this august and to be sure that you won't
miss out on them
make sure to be subscribed to me and hit the notification bell so you'll be notified whenever
each video is uploaded
and if you're watching this from the future all the videos will be linked down in description
as well
so be sure to check that out after watching this
now that i got all of those housekeeping out of the way let's talk about pothos plants
especially pothos plants that are classified as epipremnum aureum
because of the history of classification and the evolution of naming of what is and is
it a pothos plant
there are many plants that are considered to be pothos or pothos like even though they're
not epiremnum aureum
but if you really want to be technical about it pothos plants are mostly epipremnum aureum
plants
at least right now it can very well change in the future like it has done so in the past
epipremnum aureum is also the largest group of pothos plants and in this video i'll be
mentioning about
16 variety sports cultivars of the epipremnum aureum and half of those i currently have
in my collection
so let's go ahead and start with those
and the first one is none other than the golden pothos
this is the most common or the most popular of all pothos plants
but it is the plant that i would recommend to anyone even if you're not a plant collector
or a plant parent
if you'd like to put a plant in your space then the golden pothos is the way to go
it's low maintenance very easy care easy to propagate
and i currently have my golden pothos staked up a moss pole and it's actually currently
already outgrowing its moss pole
so i don't really know what i'm going to do with it moving forward but right now i really
love it it's really stunning
climbing up the moss pole and the reason why i still have the golden pothos
even though i already have the more uncommon or rare varieties of pothos in my collection
when it comes to the return of investment nothing beats the golden pothos it gives so
much with very minimal effort
then there's the jade pothos
which is not a sport of the golden pothos but it's basically the golden pothos without
any variegation at all
and it's often mistaken for the golden pothos
but at least in my experience it's actually very hard to find jade pothos in any garden
centers or nursery
usually what you'll find is the golden pothos but since the golden pothos also produce leaves
that are completely green
i don't feel the need to also have the jade pothos in my plant collection
there are a couple of sports the golden pothos the first one is the hawaiian golden pothos
which has more of that yellow gold variegation on its leaf and the stem also tend to be more
yellow than green
and it also produces a lot larger leaves than the ordinary golden pothos
and i would love to have this in my collection but only if i could grow it outside which
i can't because i live in maryland
and we have a winter season and if i'm gonna have it indoors it's not really gonna grow
as large as it could
and it would just look like the golden pothos so i don't think it's something that i'm eager
to have in my plant collection
since i already have the golden pothos
and the next sport of the golden pothos is the jessenia pothos
which to me actually looks like a reverted marble queen pothos but instead of the albo
variegation
or the green and white variegation it has a green and green very mosaic blurred type
of variegation
and even though this is considered or currently considered as a rare or uncommon type of pothos
plant
i'm not very eager to have this in my plant collection as well because as mentioned
it does look like a reverted marble queen to me
next in my pothos collection is the snow queen pothos
and what differentiate the snow queen pothos from a marble queen pothos is that
the snow queen has mostly white leaves with green splashes on them while the marble queen
pothos
while it also has that albo variegation
the variegation pattern is a little bit more inconsistent while with the snow queen it's
more uniform
and the stems also tend to be whiter
the marble queen can also produce leaves that are green or half green while most of the
leaves on the plant is variegated
the marble queen pothos is actually the pothos plant that got me started into collecting
pothos plants
but it's also the plant that gave me the most trouble with root rot and not really growing
too fast
or as fast as my other pothos plants so when i started to have more variegated pothos plants
in my plant collection
i let go of my marble queen pothos plant i give it away to one of my neighbors
and it's a common enough plant that if i want it back in my collection i could easily purchase
it in a garden center
or in any nursery but right now i'm content with just having the snow queen pothos
which also give the same vibe as a marble green pothos
and next in my pothos epipremnum aureum collection is the neon pothos
and this is currently my favorite pothos in my collection at least among the epipremnum
aureum
because of the pop of charteuse or neon color it gives but it also has the same return of
investment as a golden pothos
when it needs water the leaves would wilt a little bit so i never have to guess and
it grows fast but not too fast
and it maintains its bushiness without me having to do really much except pruning it
every now and then
and i also never had any issues with it when it comes to root rot unlike with my other
pothos plants
the neon pothos also have a variegated version where it produces leaves that have a darker
green variegation on it
and what i have is a regular neon pothos but as you can see it would produce that variegated
leaf every now and then
but i believe an neon pothos that consistently produces regulated leaves
have popped up in the market in the last couple of years
the next one is the pearls and jade pothos
in my original pothos varieties video
i called it a hybrid between the n'joy and marble queen pothos and i quickly got corrected
because there's no such thing as a hybrid pothos
pothos plants lack the gene to produce flowers so it's impossible to have a hybrid of it
because it cannot cross pollinate and seriously pothos plants would have died out a long time
ago
if we don't propagate them so often and because they propagate so easily even the wild
they are considered invasive in many places but otherwise pothos plants would have died
out a long time ago
because they don't have the ability to reproduce like other plants
since they don't have the gene to produce flowers or fruits
so the pearls and jade pothos like with many varieties of the pothos plants especially
the variegated ones
are a result of a mutation whether it occurred naturally or in a lab
and there are two other forms that is very similar to the pearls and jade pothos
one is the n'joy pothos which only has the green and white variegation in it
and the white part is often just purely white without any speckles of green or any other
color on it
the third one is the glacier pothos which is exactly like the njoy pothos
except it does have that gray or silver molting in between the green and white parts of the
leaves
so to the untrained eye is very difficult to see the differences in each of this form
and it's also not that uncommon to find all three types of leaves in one plant
so how do i identify what type of plant that i have so like with this one i do see leaves
that looks like the pearls and jade
the n'joy and the glacier but since the type of leaf that i see the most is the glacier
pothos
therefore i id this as the glacier pothos
i do have the pearls and jade but it's actually my sister's it's in her room and i don't have
the n'joy pothos for me
the n'joy pothos is the hardest to find among three forms but right here is i have a propagation
from my glacier pothos
but this are mostly the leaves that only have the green and white variegation in them
so this is the closest that i have to an n'joy pothos
but as you can see there's still leaves that has the green speckles on the white
as well as the gray molting in between the green and white parts of the leaf
speaking of pothos plants that are created in the lab
the manjula pothos
this one was cultivated by university of florida so while most pothos varieties can trace their
origin in the pacific islands
this one is from right down in florida
this one is one of the newest cultivar of the pothos plant and what differentiated from
the marble queen pothos
or the pearls and jade pothos is the shape of the leaves and the size of the leaves
so it has a more spade-like form instead of a heart-shaped narrow form and the leaves
also tend to be a little bit wavy
and also grows a little bit larger than your average pothos the way the variegation forms
also follows the shape of the leaf
is quite different from either the pearls and jade or the marble queen pothos
the manjula pothos also has a couple of unofficial sports the first one is the harlequin pothos
hi it's marianne from a future video just popping in because i saw a video from jimmy
legends of monstera recently
where he toured someone else's collection that actually had harlequin pothos
and how they differentiate the harlequin from the manjula it's kind of like how i would
differentiate
the pearls and jade pothos from an n'joy pothos so with a pearls and jade pothos
there will be green speckles on the white variegation of the leaves while the n'joy
pothos
has a more sectoral green and white variegation meaning there is no green speckles at all
on the white parts of the leaf
so it will be the same for the harlequin versus the manjula pothos
with the manjula pothos as you can see in my plant right here on the white parts of
the leaves
you can still see some green speckles on it and for the harlequin pothos it was just purely
white
it wouldn't have any green speckles on it so that's how you differentiate a manjula
versus a harlequin pothos
and another unofficial sport of the manjula pothos is the one that i currently have
and i shamelessly gave the common name of marianne pothos is this one
so basically it is the manjula pothos but instead of the albo variegation it has a green
and green variegation
so if you look closely you can see the green and green variegation on it
and whenever i show this in one of my videos i always get a comment that it's actually
a global green pothos
or an emerald pathos but what differentiate this from either the global green or the emerald
pathos is
this does have the green and green variegation like those two varieties have
but this one still maintains the characteristics of a manjula pothos the shape of the leaf
the size of the leaves
and the way the variegation appears on the leaves even though it's just a green and green
variegation
and the last epipremnum auruem that i have in my pothos collection is also a new cultivar
newer than the manjula pothos is the emerald pothos
so this one i would describe basically as a reverted njoy pothos but has the green on
green variation in it
with the emerald pothos how you differentiate it from its counterpart the global green pothos
is that
the emerald pothos will have the darker green on the inside and the lighter green on the
outside
while the global green would be the opposite it would have the lighter green on the inside
and the darker green on the outside
or rim of the leaf so it's kind of like the difference between a hoya crimson queen and
a hoya crimson princess
so this is the emerald pothos and side by side with the marianne pothos
i don't really feel the need to also add the global green in my collection since i already
have this too
but again if i could get it in a trade or get it for free why not
but right now i'm satisfied with just having the emerald green pothos and the marianne
pothos in my pothos collection
how many times i've said pothos in this video if you can guess please write it down in the
comments
in my book the ultimate guide to pothos plants i talk about four more varieties of the pothos
plant
which i don't have in my collection and honestly i don't even have pictures of it because i
don't really know if they exist
or still exist outside of scientific journals or literature i just know that people have
researched them
or have documented them in those scientific journals and they are reputable journals
from reputable botanists and horticulturalists so i take their word and included them in
my book
but if you want to learn more about those and other varieties of the pothos plants
as well as learn how to properly take care of your potholes plants successfully propagate
them
and also troubleshoot some of the common issues like yellowing leaves
then go check out my book it is available in paperback and in kindle on amazon and in
pdf in etsy
and as mentioned earlier i do have a birthday sale going on so do check down the description
i'm not sure yet if it's going on on etsy or amazon or both but check down the description
to find out
it will be for 1.99 instead of the usual price of 2.99 and that would go on for the entire
month of august
and also during the first week of me uploading this video i might still have a couple of
giveaways going on
so do check the description as well to see how you can enter those giveaways
and also check the description if you're watching this from the future for the next part of
this videos on
the epipremnum pinnatum which is the next one after this and on vining philodendrons
and scindapsus plants
that are considered to be pothos or pothos like in the houseplant community
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