Found a cheap trick for keeping my desk plant alive at work

I work in an office on the 4th floor where the AC runs all year and my poor pothos was turning brown at the edges. After 6 months of trial and error with watering schedules and different spots by the window, I finally tried putting a small bowl of water next to the pot. Turns out the dry air was the problem, not the light or water. The leaves went back to green in about 3 weeks. Has anyone else run into humidity issues with office plants?

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carter.gavin1mo ago

Doesn't the same principle apply to basically everything in these sealed-up office buildings? I swear my skin gets drier here than in the actual desert.

gibson.sarah1mo ago

My coworker actually keeps a hygrometer on her desk and it reads 20% humidity on a good day. That's drier than Death Valley, which averages around 23%. It makes me wonder why we put so much thought into the temperature but completely ignore the moisture part of comfort. Same thing with lighting too - nobody questions why we spend all day under harsh fluorescent tubes instead of something closer to natural sunlight. We've basically designed these buildings to slowly drain the life out of us and call it office policy.