hi there my name is memo this is my channel house planty goodness and essentially it's a place where
i like to geek out about my big passion you might be able to see some of it around me and
in front of me and today i want to talk about the plant that's in front of me i want to talk about
a plant relatively common plant that most people can find in plant stores this is the epipremnum
mandula pothos and the reason why i wanted to talk about this today is because i've had a few
people on my instagram and if you're not following me on my instagram the link is down below in the
description that have seen some reels that i've done with this with this specific plan and they're
just like what have you done to keep happy mine is quite fussy and i thought i'd do a quick little
video and talk about the care that i have given this plant to get it to the kind of size that it
is and don't get me wrong i've seen some beautiful specimens of this especially on instagram there's
a couple of people that have got very very mature specimens of this because they've given it a moss
pole to climb up and they get very very large leaves i think some of them might even start
to fenestrate soon some of them might already be finished rating on some of those lovely instagram
accounts with the big big banju lapothos and i'll come back to the topic that i've covered in one
of my previous videos and feel free to go and have a look at that on my channel the difference
between growing a plant on a janky support stick you know i like my janky support sticks
or a moss pole or a cocoa pole which is what most people can find when they're buying ones in shops
rather than moss poles and the difference between growing things like an epipremnum or a pothos
plant or any kind of trailing or that is meant to be climbing aroid up a plank instead of a stick
or a mosfall and essentially long story short for that video is planks you'll get faster growth
bigger leaves and the leaves mature a lot lot faster so if you want to know a bit more about
that go check out that video and come back and we can talk about this lovely manjula performs
now let's talk a bit about the morphology about this plot
so you might be able to see if i show you one of the leaves and never bring it in a bit closer
you can see how the variegation presents itself in these leaves and generally speaking
at least in my experience and i can base it on the plant that i've got in my care
correct me if you've got different experiences down below in the comments but generally the
variegation or the white creaminess will be in the middle of the leaf and the margins of the leaves
will be green kind of obviously this you can see it's not always as straightforward as that
but that's generally what i have found the other thing that i will say about the manjula pothos is
light so light for this plant and i think i was lucky enough to have one that has got some really
good genetics interestingly enough i bought this as a tiny tiny plant from a local plant nursery
and it was a plug plant and it was actually originally sold to me as a pothos enjoy and
i do have apothos enjoy right here behind me and it was only at the beginning when i was
starting my collection and i didn't know the the difference with the enjoy you tend to have
the white that tends to be on the margins of the leaf and the middle part tends to be green
and this is the opposite of that and i did a bit of research and i realized that actually
what i had was mislabeled as an enjoy and it was actually a mandula profess
and i know this is one that a lot of people are trying to find it was a bit more readily
available previously i think it might be slightly more challenging you can still show it crop up
on occasion and plant stores it might be different in your location obviously i'm based in the uk and
europe so that's my experience of this but it is a very very cool pothos or epipremnum essentially
the leaves at least in my experience are slightly crinkly there's got a bit of a wave to it they're
not quite as smooth and you can see there kind of how some of these leaves are growing
and you can see that there's some ruffling that's happening on the leaves they're not entirely flat
like you might get with the epipremnum orium or the golden pothos which most people know
as the golden popcorns the pothos plant devil's iv is another one that i know is a common name for it
so that's the thing the other thing that i have found more so with this specific
epipremnum rather than others and i'm trying to see if you'll be able to pick up on it there if
i move this ever so slightly you might be able to see some of the aerial roots that are growing
off the stem and not just in the nodes so this is a plant that definitely wants to latch onto
something and that's why i say this might be one that you might want to attempt putting on a plank
because the moment that you put it on a plank it should start shooting up quite quickly
and again in that other video i'll talk about what i use to create my planks and the
way that i do it you could easily add more length to the planks as it gets larger but
in terms of care for this one light levels for me as bright of the light as i can give it
really you might get some bleaching on the leaves in the heat of the summer at least here in the uk
if you're in a very warm and sunny location maybe bring it in a bit closer from the window but at
least here that's the kind of conditions that this has loved and it kind of makes sense because you
might get some bleached out leaves for a while but what you will see a lot of the times a lot of
irrigated plants and i know this is not a popular opinion but this is based on what i've seen in
my own collection and what i've talked to other people but most variegated plants more light does
not mean more variegation and that is specifically true for chimeric variegation and i won't bore you
into too much of the scientific aspects of that do a quick google search and you will see what i mean
but with most variegated plants you won't get more variegation by giving it more light but
you will get brighter variegation so sometimes when this was in a slightly pulled back location
from the window the white didn't come out quite as white it was a slightly creamier yellowy color
the closer i got it to the window the lighter it got and that will be the case a lot of the
times for the newer leaves not the older leaves if the older leaves have set in a creamy color
there's not an awful lot that you can do for some of those older leaves sometimes you might get
a slight bit of lightening that might be more from some bleaching rather than anything else
but the newer growth if you give it enough light it will be a brighter white or a cream color and
trying to think what else for this one in terms of its watering more so than any other epipen
i will always let this go bone dry before watering it this is a plant that i have had root rot on
almost the entirety of the roots and it's still surviving you can see how big it's got
about six or seven times and that was when i had it in soil i have since moved it over to pond
and it is living its best life and i can water it and even if i water it a bit too much it's
less likely that it will get re-dropped so there's a high level of irrigation on this
this is still an epipen that generally like to go fully dry before watering
never more true than this specific epipremnum at least in my experience in my conditions i will
always say that it might be slightly different in yours but that's what i have found these plants
like to go fully bone dry before being watered obviously if you've got it in just regular soil
make sure that if it's fully dry and the soil is pulling away from the pot that maybe you sit it
in some water so it can kind of re-hydrate that media because sometimes when it pulls away from
the pot it kind of it creates a brick of soil which is very difficult when you're watering
for it to get water all the way in the middle it will run really quickly off the soil and
not actually be watering the soil if that makes sense so just make sure that you're doing that
but it's not a particularly difficult plant to take care of as long as you've got a good
airy mix as long as you're remembering to let it go fully dry before you water it
give it plenty of light and i probably left i left one of the more challenging bits for last
in my experience and it might be because i've got root rot on this plant so many times until i got
its care just right this is possibly one of my slowest growing epidemio i will say that since
moving it to lekker since giving it bright light since giving it something to attach to and i will
eventually get a plank on to this as well i just don't have space for any more big plants around
me you might be able to see that i'm running out of space or i really don't have any space
but this is a plant that definitely does appreciate something to climb up on but in
my experience it is a slow plant and it's mainly because you can see the sheer level of white and
variegation on this plant it has to work that much harder to get to be able to photosynthesize
because only the green parts remember is what is photosynthesizing but yeah i think i have
prattled on for enough in this video it's probably a bit longer than i would have liked it to be but
yeah hopefully you've enjoyed if you've got any questions comments if you've got this in your care
and you've got slightly different experiences to mine please do drop it down below my opinion isn't
the be all and end all your experiences are also valid what works for you might work for other
people as well what works for me might work for other people so do drop it down below let's have
that conversation and yeah hopefully you've enjoyed hopefully i shall see you here soon
and i truly truly truly hope that you have a wonderful rest of your day thanks bye