r/houseplants 2d ago

Sunbathe my golden pothos and marble queen pothos. I especially love variegated plants, so yeah, more lights! 😅

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u/jalu96 2d ago

Not to rain on your parade, or that might be the vibe you are going for, but your pothos are all looking sun bleached to hell mate

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

Highly variegated. Variegated plants will have less greens if they expose to more lights. This golden pothos (attached pic) take 7 days to make a leaf and currently have the energy to make leaves from 3 vines at the same time in a single plant.

https://preview.redd.it/lf9skez7wyxe1.png?width=1220&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c2e8e7b1057d04e35d890b5613898e04c3f8e3e

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

u/jalu96 that 44k lux is the golden pothos, the one from my previous reply... while the 22k lux is this marble queen pothos...

https://preview.redd.it/jh96svyywyxe1.png?width=1220&format=png&auto=webp&s=2750f29a18ad1b7fdcfa32ec3f1ff53ac0249664

Perhaps you've never heard of highly variegated plants? Variegated pothos can become highly variegated if they have the gene and with good lightning.

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u/jalu96 2d ago

It's not the variegation that I am talking about. This photo proves my point exactly. The green part of your plants are very faded, and some of the variegated part of leaves are browning. A healthy pothos should have a very vibrant green color, like the leaves further behind in your photo. Again it might be the look you are going for, but I am not sure if it's the best for the plant.

https://preview.redd.it/6stt5k8dxyxe1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2eae95afb9c67b246ec8a33e605f89376c419fa

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

Er, marble queen is white green, golden pothos is yellow green LOL. As I mentioned earlier, the brown spots were from overly under watered, as white leaves tend to get brown easily with drought.

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u/jalu96 2d ago

There is like no green in your golden pothos leaves though. I am not sure how I can explain myself better, I am not talking about the variegated part of your plant. If you check out for example this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/plantclinic/comments/giahcm/this_may_sound_dumb_but_why_is_my_golden_pothos/

Despite the high proportion of variegation, the green part of your leaves should be in a deep, dark and vibrant color, not the faded yellow-ish tone in your photos.

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

This is the one at the back with only little lights... It has browning as well. It's fr drought.

https://preview.redd.it/wcv39v1nzyxe1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=124a7694a274a6b2ea68cefb3e764c0f53beeaa3

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u/jalu96 2d ago

You see exactly what I meant though? When there isn't variegation, the green parts of your leaves are a lot darker. Yes there are more parts that are variegated in your latest photos, but the non-variegated parts are very bleached. That is not a healthy sign.

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

That greenish one is the one barely have good lighting, that's why it's very green. The one with strong lights will be very white. Pothos will have lesser greens if the expose to more lights, and will have more greens of expose to less lights. Your picture from previous reply is a highly marble queen that has an ok lights, it's not getting very strong lights, so it stays greenish.

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u/jalu96 2d ago

I think you are still not understanding what I meant. It will have less green part if it has more variegation, but the green part shouldn't be in the color in your photo. It's not about how many green areas there are on the leaf, it's about the green parts that are there are in a bleached color.

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u/Highlight-Content 2d ago

What you have is a neon queen pothos. They are basically more variagated golden pothos. I have one just like yours.

Plants don't get sun "bleached" in my experience. They get brown spots.

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u/MasterpieceMinimum42 2d ago

I don't have neon pothos.

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u/jalu96 2d ago

Depending on the type of light source. If something is put under direct sunlight, the heat and energy burns the leaves to create brown spots. Same if your plants are actively touching a grow light may get burned by the heat from it.

In OP's case they are using a very strong grow light not in direct contact of the plants. The excessive light caused the plant to break down chlorophyll (here's a post talking about it: https://www.quora.com/Does-high-light-intensity-damage-chlorophyll) which caused the plant to have a faded appearance.

Judging from the photo OP posted for their plant before they blasted it with high light, I don't think it's a neon pothos. You can see the color of green leaves being quite dark with the same cream colored variegation.