Indoor Gardening and Houseplants: Pothos on steroids., 0 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
If it is pothos and you root a cutting with big leaves, it will throw out small leaves again (juvenile stage) until it starts climbing vertically (it's usually in trees that you see the big leafed vines with thick stems but it could be a fence, a building, etc.). Just search for it on-line and read all about it. I've seen a bunch of them in the tropics and all the BIG leafed ones are in the tops of trees or a lot higher off the ground. When I lived in Puerto Rico as a kid, my dad planted a pothos in the corner of a small bed. Only when it reached the top of the house and started running across the arbor did the leaves start getting a lot bigger (not giant, but twice the size of normal pothos).

Here is a better example (still not great) of one in Belize. Note the small leaves at ground level (normally bought at the store) and the large leaves further up. The top of the tree had both small and large leaves but the small leafed vines were hanging down, NOT going up.