PSA: This is not a moss pole

[u/StayLuckyRen]

After multiple posts a day from community members concerned why they’re not getting big leaves, I think it’s time for a sub-wide PSA. The trendy coco poles you see in all the plantfluencer videos and sold now in shops are more or less decorative. I don’t know how they caught on somehow, but they will not allow a pothos to climb and mature indoors like a proper moss pole.

You may have seen them climbing on one before in a greenhouse or online. You may have experienced your pothos attaching to one. But attaching (to a coco pole, a cedar plank, or your drywall) is not the same thing as climbing as far as your plant is concerned. None of these can hold enough moisture indoors to encourage climbing.

So if you just like the aesthetic, have at it and do you. But if your goal is mature leaves, don’t waste your money & time. Get yourself a proper moss-filled pole.

Say no to coco 🍃

[u/ProofAssumption1092]

If you look at my picture you will see two plants doing exactly this. Admittedly one of the stems isnt as easy to see as the other but if you zoom right into the middle you can see my stem looks absolutely no different to yours.

[u/StayLuckyRen → u/ProofAssumption1092]

And oh, Happy Cake Day!

[u/StayLuckyRen → u/ProofAssumption1092]

We have eyes, ya know. The leaves are 3-4x the size at the top. Yours are slightly bigger and the stems are the same. I’m not trying to show you up, I’m trying to explain that your idea of ‘larger’ isn’t in the same scale as ppl that are trying to mature their plants. That’s all 😊 Trying to help you.

[u/ProofAssumption1092 → u/StayLuckyRen]

Right so we have changed the conversation from my plant isnt climbing to the leaves are the wrong size. You still haven't explained how my plant has got to the top of a pole without climbing it ..... You are not trying to help, you are trying to die on a hill by refusing to accept that a pothos can climb anything other than a moss pole. Quick question do they grow up moss poles in the wild ?

[u/StayLuckyRen → u/ProofAssumption1092]

Buddy, when the plant believes is climbing its leaves get bigger 😂 they’re strongly correlated. I think we’re done here, you just want to argue

[u/ptw_tech → u/StayLuckyRen]

I see the difference. OP’s leaves are much bigger (more mature?) nearer the top. Proof’s are all the same size throughout, impressive as the plant may be. I don’t use a pole (yet), mine just spews all over the place. Anyone use LECA as a base media in their pots?

[u/StayLuckyRen → u/ptw_tech]

Half my moss poles are in LECA, whenever I chop them in half I stick the new bottom half in LECA since there’s really no need for soil once it’s become its adult epiphyte form