Epipremnum Aureum, Pothos - Type of Symptom

Study your Pothos - Understand the Symptom

Plants do not speak of their problem, they show it to you and only those understand it will grow a better plant. There is only a few basic symptom that plants will show.

Symptom of Fertilizer Burn

Brown burnt- looking tips or yellow and brown spots on leaf margins.
This happen when a plant is being given too much fertilizer this is call Fertilizer Burn,
To treat this, reduce the frequency of feeding. if the condition fertilizer burn is bad run the soil with water, this dilute the concentration level in the soil. if it was hydro culture planting, change the water with normal tap water.

Yellowing of leaves thats cause by Lack of Nitrogen

Yellowing of leaves. Generally this symptom start from older leaves.
this happen when the plants Lacks Nitrogen .

Healthy Pothos with a long inter node

Short inter node that cause by Lack of Phosphorus

New leaves are small, inter nodes are short. comparing the 2 pic above.
This happen when the plants Lacks Phosphorus .

Comparing the vertical vines/ leaves to the Horizontal vines/leaves, same family but at different time

New leaves and stems will get smaller.
This happen when the plants Lacks Pottasium .

Yellowing of leaves between the veins, normally this symptom start from older leaves.
This happen when the plants Lacks Magnesium .

To treat the specific symptom, get a fertilizer with higher number on that specific element. But in general, apply 1 or 2 application of the all purpose fertilizer (NPK15.15.15) should solve all the above issue.

*refer to my other posting on the ways to fertilizes your Pothos.