Philodendron & Pothos: Spot the differences!

[Music] good morning everybody my name is Amanda from Flint Arena and I have a little bit of an issue with my throat today because I played poker last night and I'm allergic to cats so I have a little bit of a reaction still but anyway today I'm just going to talk about the differences between philodendron like biting philodendron and pothos because as you probably have learned by now it's kind of hard to tell the difference between the two at first sight when you first see them and I get confused too because I'm always looking around like I call something a pothos when it's a philodendron and it just it happens a lot so we're just gonna briefly talk about the major differences and the minor differences because sometimes it's very very minor so let's just start with the leaf let's talk about the leaf the leaf on the the philodendron x' are heart-shaped they have little like just they look like hearts they're really Cupid's so do the pogos a little bit but the tips of the philodendron are pointy ER and you can tell the difference between the two I'll show you guys some footage as I'm talking you'll see the difference the tips of the pothos are slightly more blunt and the tips of the philodendron really come to a very exaggerated point and that is a big difference if you're looking at them a little more closely not just at a glance because I'm glad it's kind of hard the other thing that is a difference is that the pothos leaf I'm just gonna pick one off hmm because I am I'm sorry the popos leaf has more of a texture to it it has kind of a ribbing and it has a more defined midrib down the center than a philodendron and I'm going to take a lemon line philodendron leaf and this this is a neon post and show you the difference you know it doesn't look so different when you first look at it but you'll see that this is much smoother on the philodendron and on the pothos you can feel it you can see it and it's like I said before it's a really defined midrib and that's the line that goes down the middle of the leaf and this is just a little more subtle that's that's the difference with the leaves and also on the philodendron it's a little more exaggerated where that leaf meets the petiole and this is just a little more subdued on the pothos so that's the difference with the texture of the leaves and the next thing we'll talk about is the coloration of the the two so on pothos you know you can get a lot of very variation but generally you don't so much in the philodendron and the exception to the rule is the brazil philodendron i hate taking leaves off but I'm going to you should doesn't matter because they grow right back so this is a Brazil philodendron and it has very defined variation on it it doesn't have I do I do I have a green do I have a golden pothos in the house let me see well since I don't I'll just I do that is a marble quick I'll just I'll use a marble Queen as an example I'll take a leaf that's not so good so okay here's the difference so we have I'm gonna keep I'm going to keep the philodendron is on this side and the pothos on this side so you can kind of keep track so you'll see the variation of the marble Queen pothos it's scattered it's like splattered and it's much more defined on the philodendron as you'll see that you see it looks like it was painted on and this looks like Jackson Pollock painted it but just still super cool but it's a pretty telltale sign of the difference between the two so philodendron pothos heavy variegation like not modelled but very deliberate variation and this is just kind of a little bit more scattered so that's the difference between the two of those the other thing I want to talk about is the new growth on a philodendron like not always but often times and I have an example over here I think on this Brazil the new growth starts out like a little bit more maroon and and then it starts to turn to the color that it wants to be if it's like a lime cream this one still this is actually very interesting this is has like a red stripes on it and it hasn't changed I don't know why that happened but you'll see more on this example that this is definitely a deeper maroon green if that if that sorry if that's even a color but it is I've noticed that a lot on especially on the Brazil philodendron and you know us with the mic ins I mean there are already kind of maroon color what they do they start out like a light maroon I'm so sorry about my voice it's kind of scraggly but yeah so that's that that's with the kind of new growth color and also quite a few differences actually between the two the coloration of and it's also on the Brazil the coloration of the stems can be much darker and more maroon on on these guys too you see the new growth here it looks red and I'm going to show you close-up so not just this I know it's kind of far away so that's red and discolored and the okay since we're talking about Internode's I'm just gonna put it down because it's kind of early enough I haven't worked out yet I don't work out it's a lie I don't work out I have to start working out I really really do I sit down a lot okay so the Internode's of the philodendron are much longer right they're gonna have this is this is the so you'll see that this is a bad example I'm just gonna show you with b-roll they're just generally much longer than then the pose but the exception to the rule is that if you let your pothos grow in too low of a light area you're going to have a longer Internode's no matter what so here is one second there's a neon pogos is in the input with this and here we go there's a longer Internode's because this is growing into a darker area in in my garage and you know just have a long internets longer but generally they're shorter so let's also talk about their aerial roots right you probably have noticed that these guys develop aerial roots and sometimes they get really long when they're in a very humid area but if there are not they stay kind of small so when we have the philodendron sand I think I have a good example here I was looking at it um well that was in my garage so the yeah sorry here I'll show you again these are all gonna be close-ups because you can't see on the philodendron you tend to have like a little bit longer aerial roots and they also form and clusters and they're a little bit more pointy and that's a pretty good indication that you're looking at a philodendron as opposed to a pose and the pothos arrow roots aerial roots tend to be a little numb beer no be your in thicker you see that it's it's a pretty big difference when you look closely at a plant you can start seeing there are differences between these guys and so yeah that's the difference with their aerial roots which I love aerial roots oh I don't like to ever cut them off except unlike a zigzag cactus I don't like the way that looks there's a beautiful little new growth here growing on this Mike and I absolutely love Mike and I just picked up a couple more because I saw them and I needed to fill some spaces in here so it did buy some more plants that's crazy okay so let me think what else is the difference who keeps texting what keeps texting it's so early in the morning to be texting another really big difference when I I'm looking initially at pothos versus philodendron especially like the green varieties like this Jade pothos the thing I look for if whether or not they have the cata fills and cata fills are the sheaths that are surrounding the new growth and that often pretty much all the time stays on the philodendron and you'll see them because they start out green and then they turn brown and fall off over time so that is a very good indication and I can see them here on this lemon-lime philodendron and they're all over there all over the Brazil they just they just stay on there and occasionally I'll go through and I'll pick them off and it doesn't really bother me because they end up falling off they'll just they just fall off and that's just a part of nature so I don't really care if it doesn't look perfect all the time don't you prefer that it's just a good indication that nothing's perfect in this world so yeah I love these guys actually I absolutely love Brazil philodendron so look for those cattle fills and if you see them you're looking at a philodendron a vining philodendron this next one is not a visual description or anything but generally the philodendron will live better they'll tolerate low-light better than the Pozos and I've noticed that too that's why I'll often put my mic ins and Brazil's a little bit further away from the window than I do with the pothos because like with this Cebu blue closes over here the minute I pull it too far away from the window I'm not talking about direct light I'm talking about medium indirect light into low light if I put these guys into low light they do not do well they really do want to have I'm talking about this Cebu blue they want to have a little bit more direct but indirect sunlight but doesn't really matter like the Jade put those for some reason you can handle a lower light area and this guy's been all around my house and you know it is not super super dense but I do like the way you can actually see the stems and the vines because it has a really beautiful form so again it's all about kind of your preference how you like your post or your philodendron to look and it just depends on the application if I'm looking down at it like if I have it on a table or on a shelf I kind of that's lower than head level I like a push of your head so I'll put these guys in in those locations and then ones that kind of have a little bit more ball this on top I'll put them higher because I don't want to see that I really don't say that yet so those are the differences between philodendron x' and pothos it's kind of that's really it I'd say that there are probably other ones that I really just don't know about or actually don't care about because this is enough for me if I'm confused I just look in there and I look at the aerial roots and I look at the cat a fills and I first look at the leaves if the leaves look to be a little bit more textured and have more of it ribbing then I know you're opposed if you're smoother and you look a little bit more like a heart and you have and you have cata fills then I know it's a philodendron so that is it that is it it's a pretty quick video I just wanted to talk about those two differences because I know when I first started bringing pothos and philodendron in my house I was confused and I still get confused when I looked very very quickly especially with the lemon lime and the neon pothos sometimes it's really hard to tell the difference when you're swinging your back so get up in there look around and check it out and then pretty soon you'll be able to know you both telling your friends like hey that's a pose that's not a fill it under and like wow you're really smart you must have gone to botany school and you said it did look actually did I'm not great to you guys I got to stop talking and my throat is like completely done now and you might ought you guys soon have an amazing day both those philodendron and both those philodendron I mean both those philodendron

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Id: cb5RZ7XMC5Q

Length: 12min 28sec (748 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2019