Hi guys,
I hope you are having a great day.
I'm propagating some golden pothos, this cutting has been in water for 10 days now, but I noticed it is growing in the wrong direction, look at the pic. I am thinking about cutting off that new growing but keep that small root. what do you think? By the way, I plan to grow it in water in the future. Thanks
In the photo, i believe 3 is the new growth, but in wrong direction, 2 is some black stuff, i don't know what they are. 1 is the new root, i think.

You only have a single node there. That is the only place for new growth to emerge from on this tiny cutting. If you cut it off now, you might as well toss the cutting. The best thing you can do is put it in soil mix. It will naturally turn and start growing upward to get out of the soil. It may or may not do that in water

I think it will turn around eventually, even in water. Leaves grow up, roots grow down - its all about gravity.

Gina1960 said: You only have a single node there. That is the only place for new growth to emerge from on this tiny cutting. If you cut it off now, you might as well toss the cutting. The best thing you can do is put it in soil mix. It will naturally turn and start growing upward to get out of the soil. It may or may not do that in water

Thank you very much. I will leave it in water a bit longer to see what happens.

Lucy68 said: I think it will turn around eventually, even in water. Leaves grow up, roots grow down - its all about gravity.

Thank you very much for the input.

When you take a cutting (or buy a cutting) of any aroid, it should have at a minimum 2 nodes. The node is the only place on the meristem that can produce either a root, or a new shoot. Taking or buying a cutting with only a single node gives you no 'insurance' if anything happens to a node....mechanical damage, rot, whatever, that would disqualify that node from functionality.
This chart was developed by a friend of mine who is the Admin on another gardening site when the craze was going on for people buying unrooted single node cuttings of Monstera deliciosa albo-variegata. These folks were paying in some cases $300 for these single node cuttings and they had a failure rate of 75-80%. It might be helpful to someone who is in the same situation with any aroid, because it applies to all.