Need advice on grow light for plant.....

[JlaPinska]

So i have a 4ft tall pothos in my chams reptibreeze. It was doing great and very robust just a few weeks ago, but now that the season has changed here there isnt enough light coming in the window and now the plant is drooping. Also the leaves are starting to yellow and ive been plucking them. I think i overwatered it thats why they are yellowing but im sure the drooping is from not enough light. I dont have the money to buy the jungle dawn i want, so can someone recommend something i can get from like a hardware store with a garden section. Like Lowes or home depot? I dont want the plant to die on me it was doing so good!!

 

[JacksJill]

Lowes has incandescent grow bulbs that will go in a dome fixture. I don't know how effective they are. Online you can buy all kinds of linear fluorescent 6500K bulbs.

 

[JlaPinska]

Lowes has incandescent grow bulbs that will go in a dome fixture. I don't know how effective they are. Online you can buy all kinds of linear fluorescent 6500K bulbs.

i cant wait for it to ship i need something like right now. i have a lowes 5min from me i will check it out

 

[timw1]

I had a big Pothos do the same thing. I think my problem was too much water thanks to my Mist King water system (not blaming the awesome water system). Not sure of the answer, I have T5 24" HO lights, 2 - 6.5K day lights and a Plant Pro, along with Arcadia 6% UVB, a Quad system from lightyourreptile.com. I just think it gets too much water. I water every 4 hrs for 4 minutes, 4 times a day, maybe too much for some plants?

 

[NickTide]

LED daylight bulbs. a 100 watt equivalent (in addition to the basking and UVB bulbs) should do the trick for a pothos. I grow a few vegetables indoors in the winter and this is what I started with. I now have a few things specifically for plant growth but I still use some day light bulbs. As close to 6000 k the better but I have used 4100 k and they did ok. You may also need to thin the plant out if light isnt penetrating.

I am picturing the pothos on the floor of the cage with the vines being tied u to the top... is that correct? If the plant is hung from the top with the vines hanging down, it may take two lights to get some light past the pot to the cage bottom.

 

[JacksJill]

If over watering is the real problem then you may want to replace the bottom inch of the potting soil with gravel or lava rock so the roots get better drainage.

 

[Angelwolf]

Following. I am currently having the exact same issue with my pothos plants.

 

[Twitchet]

Speaking from purely personal experience I have pothos directly under my mistking and I have it going for an hour twice a day and the plant is healthy and green and actually now has grown well out of the top of the 4ft high enclosure, I have jungle dawns and all my plants grow brilliantly and even the affordable 9w or 11w version placed above the enclosure still makes the pothos grow very well. Good luck.

 

[timw1]

Well, if it's directly under your mistking then it does not get the full mist. I think people, me included, have a problem with over watering when the plant is taking in the full spray of a nozzle. I have rocks in the bottom of my pot for drainage, so that's not an issue.

 

[Twitchet]

All the pothos are under or directly under the mistking, full spray, always drenched, and still no trouble with them, maybe I’m just lucky.

 

[Angelwolf]

Pothos LOVE water. It's not an over watering issue. I have mine in African violet pots. They have a reservoir of water that is soaked in through the ceramic inner pot, so they are constantly wet. I really believe that it's a light issue.