Potted Pothos care?

[Sauzo]

Thank you Sauzo! I was hoping you’d chime in! I remember seeing photos of your plants and really liking the look of them! What kind of pothos are you using?

Have you ever had your pots knocked over? I’m debating about getting slightly shorter, rectangular pots/planter to use to put on top of Tapioca’s basking ledge. Unless you think that increased the chances of being uprooted? I’ve been reading they have a tolerance up to 85F?

As for pee, I hope you’re right! Lol Tappy has proven to go in very strange places so I honestly have no idea if the plant would be his next “hey I never peed on this before but here we are” location. Fingers crossed right? :p

I've used golden pothos, jade pothos, marbled pothos, and njoy pothos as well as other stuff like parlor palm and prayer plant. Out of the pothos, the quickest growing and easiest to maintain in low lighting has been jade pothos(the normal green variety). The stuff grows like crazy in AP LED cage lighting. The golden pothos does ok too. The njoy has been doing good in a T8 but is very slow growing. The marbled more or less lost all the white on it from being in low light and the parlor palm got killed by my dumerils who dug it up while i was sleeping lol. The prayer plant is doing ok after almost dying too. I have a black thumb with plants and so far, the jade or green pothos has been the best. Like i said, i learned that over watering them and planting them in big pots will kill them. Use small pots and water only when the soil has dried out and you see the leaves start to droop or not look perky.

As for temps, i keep all my snake cages the same temp as the room which is anywhere from 77-80F. I offer a hot spot of 88F with flexwatt. So the plants arent subjected to very high temps but they do get 80%+ humidity most of the time.

I have had Dottie tip her pot over but only a little bit of dried dirt spilled out. Nothing big, i just uprighted it again. The first few days are going to be the real test as that is when all my snakes were the most curious and would climb on them and flatten them. After a few days, they didnt really care too much.

You can try the rectangular pots. I just use the 6 inch round terra cotta pots as they breath well and are more natural. Plus they are a little rough so gives the snakes something to rub on to shed too if they need it. The reason i used single pots is it allows me to move plants in and out as needed and overall just easier to move a small 6 inch pot than to try and move a much longer rectangular pot.

Give it a shot. I mean worst case, small pothos are common and cost about $7 here so if it dies or the snake kills it, you arent out a whole lot of cash.