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title: Pothos in a terrarium | Glass Jar Garden
description: Pothos (Epipremnum aureum): Heart-shaped trailing leaves that climb and cover fast. Nearly unkillable. Needs light 800 to 15,000 lux, humidity 40 to 100 %...
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Plants

# Pothos
Epipremnum aureum

Beginner · Fine in a closed jar

Heart-shaped trailing leaves that climb and cover fast. Nearly unkillable.

## What the simulation uses

- Light: 800 to 15,000 lux (The brightness it grows well in.)

- Humidity: 40 to 100 % RH (Air moisture it is happy in; below the lower end it dries out.)

- Temperature: 16 to 30 °C (Comfortable range; outside it growth slows.)

- Dies at: below 10 or above 35 °C (Days beyond these temperatures kill it.)

- Soil pH: 5.5 to 7 pH (Soil acidity it prefers.)

- Grows up: 4 cm/month (How fast it gains height in good conditions.)

- Spreads: 6.5 cm/month (How fast its edge creeps outwards.)

- Copes with wet: fair (How well it stands soggy soil; poor means rot comes quickly.)

- Copes with still air: good (Sealed jars have still air; poor means grey mould finds it.)

- Copes with shade: excellent (How well it holds on in dim light.)

- Copes with drying: good (How well it survives the jar drying out.)

- Water use: 0.08 ml/cm²/day (Water drawn up from its roots per cm² of leaves in room air; a sealed jar cuts this to a fraction and returns it down the glass.)

- Leaf drop: 3 %/month (Share of its leaves it sheds each month as litter for the cleanup crew.)

- Soft leaves: yes (Soft new growth that hungry isopods will nibble.)

- Full size: 27.5 cm tall, 115 cm wide (Its size when grown, before the lid stops it.)

## Care

- Day length: 8 to 14 h

- Substrate: Moist

## What kills it

- prolonged waterlogging
- cold below 10 C

## Description
Few houseplants are tougher. Its vines climb wood and spread across the ground quickly. In a small closed jar it outgrows the space within months, so prune it regularly.

Also called golden pothos, devil's ivy.

Estimated, where sources were thin: no species-level lux or humidity study found; ranges from general houseplant guides.

## Sources

- [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipremnum_aureum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipremnum_aureum)

[Grow it in a jar](https://glassjar.garden/?guide=plants/epipremnum-aureum)

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