#aplantpixie

Hello and welcome to aplantpixie’s first post! My name is Sam and I decided to make this blog so I would have a place to talk about my adventures as a plant parent. I will be sharing some propagation success and fails, as well as some planting guides from my experience with a few flowering plants.

Though I am hesitant to talk about my experience with magick since I am also fairly new to it, I would like to have a place to be able to discuss it with likeminded people. I will be sharing some experiences with crystals, tarot, and spells that I have done before. Posts relating to these may not be as often as plant related posts, but I hope it will be useful to anyone who reads them.

This account will also serve as a place for me to enjoy plant and magickal content by other people, so there will also be reblogs (more than my actual posts lmao).

As this is my first post, I thought it would be fitting to share this photo of my very first love, my eldest zebra haworthia (Haworthia fasciata). I got this around August or September last year. It was only a tiny baby back then. Now, it’s a little less tiny hehe.

On Valentine’s Day this year, instead of chocolates, I got this cute little Manjula pothos (Epipremnum aureum ‘Manjula’). This was my first pothos and only my second non succulent plant. It was honestly one of the most beautiful plants I have seen. It has these amazing leaf patterns that are almost always different on each one.

My friend said she grew this one in an aquarium filter. I decided to take a peek under the hood and check the situation. This is what it looked like.

The roots were completely tangled in the filter. It took me a good ten minutes of careful cutting and easing out of the roots. I was a little concerned I might stress it with all the pulling and moving around as this was my first time doing this sort of thing. I had half a mind to just keep the filter in the new pot I was going to put it in, but decided to just finish what I started lmao. For a small cutting, it had a pretty good root system already in place.

I had this classy ceramic pot that I’ve been saving for a pretty plant and the manjula looked absolutely stunning in it!

After two weeks, I started to see some new leaves shooting out!

After a while, I cut about three leaves off to propagate and mix in with some other pothos varieties that I had acquired. I also moved the original plant to a bigger pot to accommodate its more extensive root system. This is what the it looks like today.

I saw a yellow leaf on it. Yellow leaves usually mean that your pothos is being over-watered. 

However, if you’re certain you haven’t over-watered your plant and one or two yellow leaves are near the base, it means that it’s just an old leaf that has lived out the last of its glory days.

I water my plants once a week, so I’m fairly confident I haven’t over-watered this one.  This is also located at the base of my plant, which means it’s just an old leaf.

Old yellow leaves such as this come off pretty easily. It’s also healthy for your plant to remove them so that the plant won’t have to allot energy for dying leaves. 

Manjula pothos, like many pothos variety will survive in low light. They do, however, thrive when given adequate lighting. I leave most of my pothos hanging outside my window. They get about two to three hours of direct morning light, and shade the rest of the day. They seem to be enjoying this arrangement as none of them have died on me [yet]. 

Watering them once a week is sufficient. This one was grown in an aquarium, but once it’s been transferred to a dry medium such as soil, it prefers to get a little dried out in between watering times.