thinkchip

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Pothos phases

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Y'all might already know this, so I'm sorry if this is a silly post or if I have some of this wrong, but it was so cool and exciting to me when I learned about it I want to share with so many pothos fans here.

While trying to figure out how to care for a pothos (Devil's ivy!) my mom gave me, I learned that one reason they're so durable is that they don't need much sunlight.

If I understand correctly, the reason they don't need much sunlight is because they grow along to ground searching for the shade of a tree. This is the juvenile stage, what we all have at home, and why they send out such long shoots that can root all along the way.

They look for the shade of a tree because they want

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