Also explains why my stem are thick like a pencil and my leafs are large like a plates compared to my neighbors potted Pothos which is thin and spindly by comparison. My oldest plant can could fill the entire aquarium, imagine the nitrates it takes to maintain the size of that plant with just bare naked roots? You have to have the entire content of the tanks nutrients delivered over the root system 24/7 to get it that kind of robust groth.
