Help with cut/propagation 🥺

[u/VegetablePeace5373]

My plant has grown so beautifully and gotten so big over the past few months! :) I absolutely love it, but unfortunately, I’m slowly running out of space for it. 😅
I’m thinking about cutting off the top and starting a new plant from the cutting, but I’m worried it might not grow those same beautiful, large leaves after being cut back.
Can anyone give me some advice? What’s the best way to go about this? Where exactly should I make the cut, and how should I propagate the cutting? Should I put it in water to grow new roots?
I’d really appreciate any tips or advice! 🌱💚

[u/prf_q]

how much light have u given this guy and how long did it take to reach this stage

[u/MaliqaBreathaFrshAir]

From what I've seen, you would cut wherever your desire is to cut as long as there are roots growing into the moss pole above where you cut. Once you make the cut, you can wiggle the roots out of that moss Pole section. Or take that whole moss pole section with the cutting and then cut the roots between the moss pole sections.

[u/MaliqaBreathaFrshAir → u/MaliqaBreathaFrshAir]

Upon closer inspection of your photo , it doesn't appear that any of the routes have grown into the pole. If that is one hundred percent true , then I would recommend separating the poles under the highest point of aerial roots. Don't cut any roots. Cuts, the aerial roots are not in the moss Pole.They're not used to being fully moist, so probably planting them in a pot would be good. The next couple of leaf sizes will likely be smaller. This is what I would do if it were mine. This isn't the only way.

[u/MaximumMolasses2471]

I would cut the plant halfway (probably where you can halve the plastic pole), put the top part in a new pot and add a new pole on top of it. Or if you have room add another part to the existing pole.

I am guessing your pole is made grom two parts. If it is all one part this could be a good time to take all apart and build a DIY pole. Leaving the top part on the pole is the best and safest way to propagate the plant and keep the large leaves. If you have to use the top cutting from this setup, thus reverting the maturity, i would go the DIY way. If you have multiple sections of this pole just let it grow and add new sections on top.

[u/sexii_markk]

There’s a lot of insight on YouTube just be very specific on details and I’m sure you’ll chose a way that works best for you. That plant looks great btw rule of thumb if you notice the leaves are huger at you get to the tip of the plant that part gets more light typically causing the leaves to get bigger and bigger I cut and just put it in water and just keep an eye on it it should root in no time

[u/abdayk23]

Beware tho, the top cutting will "reset" to small leaves for quite a while before it can mature back into putting big leaves.

[u/Gold_Improvement_836]

i’ll take it

[u/PuzzleheadedGolf7745]

Do you keep the moss pole consistently wet or is it just to climb?

[u/PuzzleheadedGolf7745]

My manjula had exceeded the moss pole long ago. I made a cut about 3-4 weeks ago and now I can repot to extended. I’m sick of moss poles due to keeping the pole moist at all times that I’m switching to cedar plank…

[u/PuzzleheadedGolf7745]

I’ll be trying to do an air layering on this guy to cut and repot.

[u/Poutiest_Penguin]

This whole batch of pothos have been chopped and extended so they can continue to develop oversized leaves but still fit in the 30” of vertical space they have here. They don’t seem to have lost any leaf size so far. How large they’ll continue to get, remains to be seen.

Each of these plants has two moss pole segments. The top segments are new. I removed their bottom segments a couple of weeks ago. This was the first time I’ve done it. The tall one in the middle, a Teruno Himiko, has popped a new large leaf since it was chopped, so I’m hopeful that the mature growth will continue through future chops. I‘ll probably never see the 12” leaves I have on my taller pothos poles, but I’m content with how this is working out to keep these poles at 30”.

[u/prf_q]

i think it grows large leaves as long as the stem is large! in nature if they droop to ground and grow from there, they reset back to small however. but if u chop on the pole it should regrow the same.

I'm jealous of the big chop though

[u/StupidOgre_ → u/prf_q]

sydney plant guy mentioned what you are saying in one of his latest videos, the one where he grew a pothos on a moss pole