I followed your method and it worked for me after one month! I couldn't find sphagnum moss by itself so I used orchid moss. After a week no roots grew. I then mixed sphagnum peat moss with the orchid moss, and that combination did it. After one month there was a 4 inch root and I was able to cut it off to plant it. Thank you!
You could even make a kokedama (moss ball) using just the sphagnum and cotton string. When the "cutting" is ready you could properly cut it and you'd have an instant Monstera kokedama. Thanks for the great idea!
Great video! FYI, bonsai enthusiasts have been doing this for a long time by cutting a small plastic soda/water bottle so maybe you can try that instead of a bag
Air layering just occurred to me,I have a few new shoots growing from my monstera and loads of aerial roots... but no new roots so I'm going to try this. I'm thinking in the wild the plant would probably lie across the ground and in contact with mossy branches and rotten leaves and put down loads of roots. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this video. I am doing this with my albo but I have no clue what I'm doing. Just watching videos. The two spots I air layered grew roots!! So now I have to get brave enough to cut. Ahhhhh I'm scared lol!
Just incase you ever want to learn to play the piano .......please use a single edge blade. Those flimsy double edge blades are not friendly. I don't want to see you posting a video with your hand wrapped in a bag of sphagnum moss. ...I don't think that you can propagate your fingers.
Thank you so much I appreciate you showing us from start to finish! Super informative. Also the way you say bag is freaking adorable. My fiancé has an accent that's different from my own but I never tell him what words or he tries to fix it lol.
@@TechplantChannel I've got them wrapped with moss and clingwrap, and am going to wait patiently now. At least I'm not having to worry about taking cuttings of the more expensive varigated versions.
@@BlanchePennings Typically I just let it dry out if I'm worried about any rot contamination and all the bacteria from the rot dry out and die. Additionally you could soak it in hydrogen peroxide if you were really worried.
Hi there! Love this video, and my mom has a big monstera, that we'd like to divide and repot in a safe way like this ☺. Do you think you can airlayer with coco coir instead of sphagnum moss? (I dont have the latter at home, but i get it if it's needed). Thank you for this!
I guess I’m gonna have to abort my air-layering attempt and start over, because there are no secondary roots on the air roots that I covered with the moss. The stem? Is sending out two new leaves anyway. So it might be best I wait. The bottom is just so bulbous and heavy. I’ve attached it to a stake so it doesn’t break off of the entire plant.
Other air layering articles and videos instruct to cut the stem first (half to to 2/3rds through), insert something into the cut to keep it open, and then apply the moss wrap. Did you do this without cutting the stem? It seems you've seen success with rooting without that initial cut!
The cutting part is what initiates the new growth to start from the node. but it will root the same either method. I suppose this is a little slower because a new vine wont start growing until after you cut this node off from the plant.
Omgosh!! Driving home now with a 6’ tall by 4’ wide monsters deliciosa (sp?) and saw your video! I’m doing this! Thx! Question, I notice that when you planted this, you added soil well above the base of the stems. 2-3” of the bc stems were subterranean. This is ok? Won’t rot those buried stems?
Hi Techplant, I live in Dubai and it’s 40C (105F) right now outside. Can I put my Pothos and Monstera in my balcony? There’s no direct sun. Can they survive? Please advise. Thank you.
I know another guy who lives in Dubai and hes keeping plants on the balcony, I think he has some type of shade cloth or something so I think they can, but please dont trust me fully on this because i dont want your plants to die!
@Sukov what I do, when in doubt: look up the location of the plants, where do they originate from? Of the it's rainforests etc. Being fine with hotter temps, no sun, if humid enough etc... As long as the roots don't "boil", or the plants are in bad winds, you should be ok, and see lots of growth...
I have a large monstera that has just became too leggy. I am air layering many of the roots now for the first time because I plan on chopping them all and planting them all as one height in a new pot. My question is when I do this and I have all the cuttings replanted, will their new leaves come in juvenal or continue to grow the same size? I am going to save the base level stems too to reset that as well. I will have to fix my moss bags though because I was unaware that the stem has to be in there too. I just bagged the roots from the largest more mature stems. HELP!
usually top cuttings keep their maturity level. its the new growth from the base of the original plant that will revert back some stages. sometimes the first new leaf from a chopped top cutting can get a little wonky but usually its back to normal by the second leaf
Does this work on Monstera Adansonii too? (I guess it will). Also, could you just chuck a vine with air roots and all under the soil and see how/if that works?
Do you have a video about Keike paste for aroid plants? I haven’t seen anything like comparable keike paste or any kind to activate new off shoots near the node. If you’ll have that’s really a good topic
Hello. I tried a propagation like this but always end up on a stem rot. Lots of monstera died already. Disinfected everything. Should i wait for a few days inorder that it would callus?
@@TechplantChannel i actually also used distilled water for plants. Lots of my monstera are now dead. 😢😢😢 Thanks for the reply. More power to your channel.
@techplant Halo , it’s really nice to learn from you channel. And I have a question, the new root coming out from the moss, if I don’t want to cut it and propagate it, and just leave it in the air , it will dry out right? I mean how can I make the plant grow some new woody root and leave in the air like normal, without drying out. I just want more air root in my plant.
im not sure how to make it do that, usually it puts those out on its own once its really well established. The more woody roots will come when its in soil when it starts looking to climb something
Hey I was just thinking about trying this on my rubber tree. I have about a 6 foot tall rubber tree that I've wanted to cut to promote branching. But now I'm wondering if I could remove the leaves around the area I intend to cut, and apply the moss the same way you did. Any thoughts?
Hyy I need your help, I got monstera cutting and I was doing water propogation after some time I saw that all aerial roots got squishy so I cut them off , but still cutting was able to grow some other healthy roots then at the end stem was rotten all last part was squishy and dark . What should I do now because I really wanted this plant for long time and now i want to save it .
it wont hurt it at all, well if you keep the substrate soaking wet 24/7 you might have issues, but naturally these things climb up trees, so rooting it mid way wont harm it at all
I have a monstera that’s extremely leggy. It was in poor lighting and kept reaching for the sunZ The 8 main stems are very long (abt 2 feet long before you hit a leaf stem). They bend in awkward places, and there’s a lot of off growth from the stems with a lot of small leaves. I’ve cut 3 stems down and took cuttings from it to propagate. How would you address the remaining loooooooong 5 stems?
make sure its damp right away, it shoudnt be sopping wet with water pooling up but nice and damp to encourage root growth, you could see in this vid how parts of the roots were kinda brown/black from being too wet against the plastic. Good luck!
@Techplant oh no sorry I meant once you repot the "new plant" lol sorry if I confused you I just put mine into fresh soil with the new roots and I wasn't sure if I should water right away
@@MyLocsMyPlants I would water it so its not bone dry but deff don't flood the heck out of it since it might not uptake a lot of water since it just got shocked
Hello! I got sphagnum moss from Homedepot but it turned out to be the kind that looks like potting mix. Would it be okay to use that since I already bought and opened it?
like Peat moss? can you maybe link it to me on the website. It might work but that stuff is pretty acidic and i dont know if it would prohibit root growth
@@TechplantChannel here is the link: www.homedepot.com/p/Miracle-Gro-Sphagnum-Peat-Moss-85278430/204502292 That is interesting, I saw the words sphagnum and completely missed 'peat'. Thanks so much!
That's just splitting plants. You already had roots coming out of it. All you had to do is cut the stem and plant the piece in a pot and it will continue growing.
@@psychedelikchameleon No you don't. You already have roots and it's already healthy. Trust me, I have more Monsteras than you can shake a stick at. I'm a farmer and you probably live in an apartment.
Like ANY time you write a species anywhere. Monstera is a Genus and deliciosa is a species. Genera(plural for Genus) always get capitalized. Species don't. It's Monstera deliciosa. Hybrids or cultivars get capitalized. Example: Philodendron Dark Lord, Philodendron Pink Princess. This goes for all plants.
I really love how you say bag.
bheg.
its a midwest thing lol
imma go crazy propagating my monstera now that i know how to do it safely -thank you
nice! good luck and thanks for watching!
You saved me from cutting my expensive albo so I have room for trial and error, so big thanks to you.
awesome! Good luck
How did it go Basic John?!
That was so awesome! I srsly love this channel and how informative it is. Thanks for keeping things short and sweet and to the point!
Thanks for the kind words and for watching!
I followed your method and it worked for me after one month! I couldn't find sphagnum moss by itself so I used orchid moss. After a week no roots grew. I then mixed sphagnum peat moss with the orchid moss, and that combination did it. After one month there was a 4 inch root and I was able to cut it off to plant it. Thank you!
Great job, it does look like a safer method of propagating! Thanks
Yup, if you screw up you can just leave it rest and dry out for a week or two and try again!
You could even make a kokedama (moss ball) using just the sphagnum and cotton string. When the "cutting" is ready you could properly cut it and you'd have an instant Monstera kokedama. Thanks for the great idea!
could you imagine a giant one lmao like the size of a basketball
Great video! FYI, bonsai enthusiasts have been doing this for a long time by cutting a small plastic soda/water bottle so maybe you can try that instead of a bag
Thanks for the info!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that you go back to show the mother plant bc killing the mother plant is my fear. No other video shows this.
yup have no fear, it will put out new vines
Air layering just occurred to me,I have a few new shoots growing from my monstera and loads of aerial roots... but no new roots so I'm going to try this. I'm thinking in the wild the plant would probably lie across the ground and in contact with mossy branches and rotten leaves and put down loads of roots. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this video. I am doing this with my albo but I have no clue what I'm doing. Just watching videos. The two spots I air layered grew roots!! So now I have to get brave enough to cut. Ahhhhh I'm scared lol!
its always scary on the more expensive plants
Just incase you ever want to learn to play the piano .......please use a single edge blade. Those flimsy double edge blades are not friendly. I don't want to see you posting a video with your hand wrapped in a bag of sphagnum moss. ...I don't think that you can propagate your fingers.
lmao! i dont have any straight edge ones, ill pick some up! a finger propagation video could be interesting
I guess its possible, in Atlanta traffic someone is always giving someone else a "finger". ....The official "bird" of Atlanta.
I had to read this twice to fully comprehend this😅😂
Thank you so much I appreciate you showing us from start to finish! Super informative. Also the way you say bag is freaking adorable. My fiancé has an accent that's different from my own but I never tell him what words or he tries to fix it lol.
That is clever
Thanks!
I love learning and this is perfect for my syngoniums and monsters! I'll try it out tomorrow ☺️
New subscriber, thank you!
Thanks a lot! I hope your propagation is going well
@@TechplantChannel I've got them wrapped with moss and clingwrap, and am going to wait patiently now. At least I'm not having to worry about taking cuttings of the more expensive varigated versions.
Самое нормальное видео,информация! Коротко,ясно и по существу!Большое спасибо!
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The best video,information! Short,clear and and to the point! Thank you very much! @@TechplantChannel
Wow...this is freaking cool
plants never cease to amaze me too!
Great channel 😁
Your mother monstera is a beast of endless cuttings! Is it growing back faster each time? 😆
it grows back pretty quick!
Nice! Never even thought this was an option. Thanks!
Yup, its a safe one too because you dont have to commit to the cut until you know you have good roots!
Hey techplant, is it possible if you can show the progress of your lemon trees you planted 4 months ago, im really curious
i repotted and cut back the trees and they are doing horrible.....
omg i love your channel 😻🌿 binge watching all of them now lol
Awesome! Thanks, i hope you enjoy them!
Maybe a weird question but can you re-use the sphagnum moss or do you have to throw it out after using it once?
I reuse it until its gets pretty messed up then i just mix it into some potting soil
Great question! Can you reuse it even if you had some rotting in the roots that you air layered?
@@BlanchePennings Typically I just let it dry out if I'm worried about any rot contamination and all the bacteria from the rot dry out and die. Additionally you could soak it in hydrogen peroxide if you were really worried.
Thanks for being educational
You bet!
Hi there! Love this video, and my mom has a big monstera, that we'd like to divide and repot in a safe way like this ☺. Do you think you can airlayer with coco coir instead of sphagnum moss? (I dont have the latter at home, but i get it if it's needed). Thank you for this!
So informative. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
This video underrated
Thanks!
Waoooo really interesting to watch. The roots rotten bcz the bag must have had air tightly packed properly
yeap, not enough airflow and too much water
I guess I’m gonna have to abort my air-layering attempt and start over, because there are no secondary roots on the air roots that I covered with the moss. The stem? Is sending out two new leaves anyway. So it might be best I wait. The bottom is just so bulbous and heavy. I’ve attached it to a stake so it doesn’t break off of the entire plant.
I'm new in your channel, thank you so much for the tip.
Welcome! Thanks for watching I appreciate it
Hey, man! I was wondering if you could make a video about compost and the plant food you use for your garden (: awesome videos!!
Thanks for the idea!
This is so cool and ingenious!
Yup, I didnt invent this idea but whoever did was smart!
@@TechplantChannel How did you find out about this idea?
Great video! Thanks
Thanks for watching
This is an awesome video! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great video!
Thanks for watching
Other air layering articles and videos instruct to cut the stem first (half to to 2/3rds through), insert something into the cut to keep it open, and then apply the moss wrap. Did you do this without cutting the stem? It seems you've seen success with rooting without that initial cut!
The cutting part is what initiates the new growth to start from the node. but it will root the same either method. I suppose this is a little slower because a new vine wont start growing until after you cut this node off from the plant.
Love your channel ! Ty4Sharing Thumbs up !
Thanks for the visit
Omgosh!! Driving home now with a 6’ tall by 4’ wide monsters deliciosa (sp?) and saw your video! I’m doing this! Thx!
Question, I notice that when you planted this, you added soil well above the base of the stems. 2-3” of the bc stems were subterranean.
This is ok? Won’t rot those buried stems?
Muito bom
Hi Techplant, I live in Dubai and it’s 40C (105F) right now outside. Can I put my Pothos and Monstera in my balcony? There’s no direct sun. Can they survive? Please advise. Thank you.
I know another guy who lives in Dubai and hes keeping plants on the balcony, I think he has some type of shade cloth or something so I think they can, but please dont trust me fully on this because i dont want your plants to die!
Thank you so much for your time to answer 🙏🏽
@Sukov what I do, when in doubt: look up the location of the plants, where do they originate from? Of the it's rainforests etc. Being fine with hotter temps, no sun, if humid enough etc... As long as the roots don't "boil", or the plants are in bad winds, you should be ok, and see lots of growth...
So lucky to have found your channel, thank you! Btw are you in Australia?
No, im from wisconsin, usa
Wowww thank you for this information, gonna do it for my plants.
And one question, are we need to watering thw spagnum moss, or we can let them dry?
You want to keep it damp, not sopping wet like mine
@@TechplantChannel thank you for the answer
I like the video so subscribed!
Thanks!
This is really cool! Great video :)
Thank you so much!
I do the same with a piece of cloth so it gets air and you can mist it from outside when needed. Only issue is that you can't see the roots
Very smart. 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks!!
To make it easier, they have propagating balls for this specific propagating
I should 3d print some!
Do you have to use sphagnum moss, or will any medium that you can keep moist do? Like paper towel, gauze wrapped in string...
you can try those, but another popular one is perlite, even soil could work if you let it breathe a lot more!
You could of just put the Ariel root you cut off into a glass of water and roots would of grown, then once established cut from below and replant
Very informative. Is fresh moss better? I will prepare my Monstera Adansonii for air layering. Thank you🙏
You are great - keep it up. Do you know if you can get roots from a monstera leaf without nodes if placed in rooting powder?
Thank you 😁
It will root, but wont ever produce a new vine so it will jsut be a long living leaf
Oh ok thank you.
I have a large monstera that has just became too leggy. I am air layering many of the roots now for the first time because I plan on chopping them all and planting them all as one height in a new pot. My question is when I do this and I have all the cuttings replanted, will their new leaves come in juvenal or continue to grow the same size? I am going to save the base level stems too to reset that as well. I will have to fix my moss bags though because I was unaware that the stem has to be in there too. I just bagged the roots from the largest more mature stems. HELP!
usually top cuttings keep their maturity level. its the new growth from the base of the original plant that will revert back some stages. sometimes the first new leaf from a chopped top cutting can get a little wonky but usually its back to normal by the second leaf
Awesome informative video!
Thanks for watching!
The soil mix... you said you put some sphagnum moss? The same stuff that you used to root the stem? (Great video!)
That is correct no a lot but a little bit
Love your propagation videos! I'm curious, does airlayering work with soil or just spagnum moss?
i would stick to sphagnum, but you could with soil too
Awesome tip. Would the new plant produce leaves with split?
Does this work on Monstera Adansonii too? (I guess it will). Also, could you just chuck a vine with air roots and all under the soil and see how/if that works?
Do you have a video about Keike paste for aroid plants? I haven’t seen anything like comparable keike paste or any kind to activate new off shoots near the node. If you’ll have that’s really a good topic
ill look into it. I have seen people cut like almost half wayinto the stem to get the lower node to send off a shoot,
Hello. I tried a propagation like this but always end up on a stem rot. Lots of monstera died already. Disinfected everything. Should i wait for a few days inorder that it would callus?
I dont wait, but ive heard others do, I would try different water sources!
@@TechplantChannel i actually also used distilled water for plants. Lots of my monstera are now dead. 😢😢😢 Thanks for the reply. More power to your channel.
@techplant Halo , it’s really nice to learn from you channel.
And I have a question, the new root coming out from the moss, if I don’t want to cut it and propagate it, and just leave it in the air , it will dry out right? I mean how can I make the plant grow some new woody root and leave in the air like normal, without drying out. I just want more air root in my plant.
im not sure how to make it do that, usually it puts those out on its own once its really well established. The more woody roots will come when its in soil when it starts looking to climb something
@@TechplantChannel got it ! That’s exactly the answer I m looking for haha. Thx!
My pothos is dying. Over a meter of no leaves. I would try and take the stem out and the roots are nowhere to be found. I'm so upset!
I have videos about propagating leafless nodes. Don't be too upset a long vine can turn into 20 new plants
Hi! Do you have to cut off the aerial roots in order to do this? Could I leave the aerial root there & wrap around it?
You can leave them on if you want. Just watch them for rot, lots of people are successful both ways!
Hi! I am air layering one of my monsteras too! Did you have to dry the cut stem before planting it to soil? Im so worried of the stem rotting!
I didnt
Hey I was just thinking about trying this on my rubber tree. I have about a 6 foot tall rubber tree that I've wanted to cut to promote branching. But now I'm wondering if I could remove the leaves around the area I intend to cut, and apply the moss the same way you did. Any thoughts?
it should work, but i would search youtube or the internet for proof i dont want to be responsible for ruining your plant!
After one week I have these thick roots coming out, they look like aerial roots, but are whitish-yellow. Is this normal?
yeap
Hyy
I need your help, I got monstera cutting and I was doing water propogation after some time I saw that all aerial roots got squishy so I cut them off , but still cutting was able to grow some other healthy roots then at the end stem was rotten all last part was squishy and dark . What should I do now because I really wanted this plant for long time and now i want to save it .
Can I shorten a stem using this method ?
Why did you cut the big aerial root? If you put it in the bag does it turn to a regular root?
it can, but ive noticed they have like "flakes" on them that rot so i just chop so new ones form
Can I do this with Borsigiana?
yes
Can I do this with a MASSIVE, like 6+ foot tall monstera who's flowered and growing my two pieces of fruit or should I just leave it alone?
it wont hurt it at all, well if you keep the substrate soaking wet 24/7 you might have issues, but naturally these things climb up trees, so rooting it mid way wont harm it at all
@@TechplantChannel thank you!
I have a monstera that’s extremely leggy. It was in poor lighting and kept reaching for the sunZ The 8 main stems are very long (abt 2 feet long before you hit a leaf stem). They bend in awkward places, and there’s a lot of off growth from the stems with a lot of small leaves. I’ve cut 3 stems down and took cuttings from it to propagate. How would you address the remaining loooooooong 5 stems?
Maybe give them a moss pole to climb or take some more cuttings once the area you cut on the mother plant starts to grow back!
I dont have a node i have areal root. Its diffrent?
well areal roots can form anywhere, do you have any leaves? if you have leaves you have nodes! usually the node is right where the leaf is attached!
ahhh just tried this so do you water right after or give it a few days ?
make sure its damp right away, it shoudnt be sopping wet with water pooling up but nice and damp to encourage root growth, you could see in this vid how parts of the roots were kinda brown/black from being too wet against the plastic. Good luck!
@Techplant oh no sorry I meant once you repot the "new plant" lol sorry if I confused you I just put mine into fresh soil with the new roots and I wasn't sure if I should water right away
@@MyLocsMyPlants I would water it so its not bone dry but deff don't flood the heck out of it since it might not uptake a lot of water since it just got shocked
@@TechplantChannel k thanks so much !
Hello! I got sphagnum moss from Homedepot but it turned out to be the kind that looks like potting mix. Would it be okay to use that since I already bought and opened it?
like Peat moss? can you maybe link it to me on the website. It might work but that stuff is pretty acidic and i dont know if it would prohibit root growth
@@TechplantChannel here is the link: www.homedepot.com/p/Miracle-Gro-Sphagnum-Peat-Moss-85278430/204502292
That is interesting, I saw the words sphagnum and completely missed 'peat'. Thanks so much!
this place is your home or? looks like kind of arboretum?
my bedroom
Will this work with ROCK WOOL INSTEAD OF SPHAGNUM MOSS???
Can you use Spanish moss instead of sphagnum moss?
ive had a lot of people ask me that, but im not sure
Have you tried air layering Pothos?
no, but i should!
Does the new plant output new leaves?
yes
Older video but did you get many complaining that it rotted?
Like comments? Never really get much on this one. Most people that come tell me their stuff is rotting is water propagation
That's just splitting plants. You already had roots coming out of it. All you had to do is cut the stem and plant the piece in a pot and it will continue growing.
This way you get a healthy,strong cutting before chopping pieces off. It's a tried and tested method throughout the horticultural world
@@psychedelikchameleon No you don't. You already have roots and it's already healthy. Trust me, I have more Monsteras than you can shake a stick at. I'm a farmer and you probably live in an apartment.
your orchid looks really sad! :-(
yeah im having a heck of a time these days, the room keeps hitting like 85 degrees and they dry out soooo fast!!!
Planted way too deep.
Gotta give it something to grab the ground with
Stop capitalizing species.
like in the titles? like Monstera Deliciosa? or monstera deliciosa?
Like ANY time you write a species anywhere. Monstera is a Genus and deliciosa is a species. Genera(plural for Genus) always get capitalized. Species don't. It's Monstera deliciosa. Hybrids or cultivars get capitalized. Example: Philodendron Dark Lord, Philodendron Pink Princess. This goes for all plants.