Indoor
Money Plant (Pothos)
Not pet-safeEpipremnum aureum
- Category
- Indoor
- Light
- Low light
- Watering
- Every 6-8 days
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Mature size
- Trailing vine, 1-2m+ if given support
- Pet safety
- Toxic or irritant to cats and dogs if chewed. Keep out of reach.
Growing note
The default apartment plant for a reason: it grows in a bottle of water on a shelf with no soil at all. Keep it off low tables if you have a cat or dog that chews leaves; the sap irritates mouths.
Growing Money Plant (Pothos) in Indian apartments
Soil isn't even required, pothos famously grows indefinitely in a jar of plain water, but water-grown plants need the water refreshed every week or two rather than just topped up, since stagnant water grows algae and starves the roots of oxygen over time. In soil, the most common ongoing pest in Indian apartments is mealybugs, small white cottony clusters that hide in the leaf axils where stems meet the vine; wiping them off with a cotton swab dipped in diluted neem oil works better than a general spray, since the pests cluster in spots a spray often doesn't reach well. Variegated varieties like Marble Queen or Njoy need noticeably brighter light than the plain green form to hold their white patches, in a dim corner they gradually revert to solid green over a few months of new growth. Propagation is genuinely foolproof but only from the right cutting: a segment needs at least one node with a small aerial root nub already visible, a length of stem with only leaves and no node won't root no matter how long it sits in water.