Pothos Rehab

I felt guilty for diligently tending my little herbs while my houseplants withered and died, so I bit the bullet and looked at the darn things. 

Let me say, I do love one of my plants.  It was a housewarming gift from my dear friends Robyn and Travis, and it used to live in our window seat at our old apartment.  It did super-well there, but I put it outside once we moved here, thinking that the sunshine would be good for it.  DUH, it's a houseplant.  So it got all yellowed and shriveled-looking, and sure enough, it said online that it can suffer from too much sun.  

Here it is on the floor of my studio (yuck, sorry about the terrible picture).  I looked at some similar plants at Home Depot and deduced that it is a pothos.  It is currently living happily indoors, producing lots of new leaves and runners.

"I used to be dark green!"

This poor specimen was a gift from a parent who spoke very harshly to me and made me cry.  Sweet gesture, but it brings up bad memories.  I hadn't watered this smaller pothos, and it behaved accordingly.

"So thirsty..."

 After really looking at it for the first time, I decided to take out all of those dead leaves and stems.  It's quite a bit smaller now.

No more dead leaves.

I thought that this one might be a goner, but I watered it anyway.  Doused it really, soaked the roots.  And about three hours later, this is what I got:

Much better!

A lot perkier, but still brownish.

It's growing new leaves everyday.

My two houseplants are recovering quite well, now.  Both are growing new leaves.  My mission now is to avoid over-watering them.  I'm also trying to propagate new plants from cuttings in water.  I'll let you know how that goes.