I like to put pothose cuttings that have been in water for a bit and have some roots into whatever else im trying to propogate in water. They put off rooting hormones that will speed up other cuttings rooting. I got my monstera to start making new roots within a week.
i just looked it up and it is true. Thank you for this tip. I have some pothose cutting with roots in water. So I just combined them with the monstera cuttings!
My monstera was on his last legs, he was a gift from my sisters. I was down to two weak leaves. I’m about two weeks into propagating and we already have a new leaf! Haven’t had one in about 7 months!!!! One of the aerial roots is growing like a weed!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
I just purchased a struggling Monstera. I have 4 very overgrown stems and one cut with a baby leaf. Each stem has 1 leaf each. I'm wondering if it has the best chance if I try to propagate...hmm
Pro tip: I use any pothos cuttings and add them with my propogations to help root growth. It's helped with my peperomias and zz raven grow roots faster 🙂
@@StitchinTimeTB exactly right! So I let my cuttings callus for a few hours then I add either neon pothos, devils Ivy, or what ever I have propogate in a jar of water together. I read/saw a yt video that pothos release a hormone that increases root growth. I tried it and haven't looked back 🙂
I just commented the same thing before I started to read the other comments. Pothos cuttings (that have developed roots in water) really do help!! My monstera was starting to push out roots in a week!
I have a tall single-stem deliciosa I'd like to appear more bushy/full. I am thinking of taking a cutting off the top like you suggested, and then planting it in the pot after rooting it in water. What is your guidance for deciding if a pot is too small for a deliciosa? Mine seems pretty content in the pot it's in now (~8in?) but I worry I won't have enough room to get my fingers/tools into the soil to plant the propagated stem, without disturbing the original!!
Hi many thanks for the video ! I happened to just broke my 8 years old monstera that has been growing in a kokedama moss ball right at the bottom of the stem.. I’m wondering if it’s possible (less ideal I guess) to propagate a monstera from a stem with few leaves and nodes instead of 1 ?
Man, today was crazy. I was helping do some yard work at my folks place. They have a lot of Selloum and while pruning them I was dreaming of a Monstera, why don't we have one of those? Well, I was cutting back a bunch of Selloum on one side of the property. I cut back a few more and look up to see this big vined Monstera climbing up the tree!! 🤩😍 it is an amazing specimen but needed a lot of the other growth cut back to give some breathing room. It was totally hidden!! I'm literally ecstatic my parents have such a cool Monstera. 🤗
another way instead of changing water in cuttings is to use a water sprayer, set to solid stream not mist, to _inject_ fresh water and air bubbles into the water.. that way it stirs it up a little and fresh oxygen gets to the roots.. I only change it when it gets really dirty but by that time I take them out in the dirt anyway.. somehow I dont get algae in pure water, only when I use perlite though, funny enough 😄
My monstera is my favorite and best looking plant, despite having only a few fenestrated leaves. I’m scared, Mr Sheffield! So scared to prune it and make my hydro monstera. 😩 Please wish me Godspeed. 😉 Thanks for your great videos and advice!
When your first new Leaf emerges from your tip cutting you can remove the old one (which will never look as nice as the new ones) so your new plant will divert all of its resources to new leaves instead of trying to repair old damaged leaves. Also if your old existing leave from your tip cutting wilts and looks dehydrated you can remove half of the leaf until it can grow some new leaves and roots and mist the leaves (both sides) to take some stress off of it until it recovers from being cut (which is somewhat traumatic for a plant). With monstera as well as pretty much every other plant (that grows leaves) when taking cuttings it's always important to remember that until they grow some roots that can't take up water from wet dirt which doesn't benefit the plant so misting the leaves is the best way to keep it from drying out and always remember that plants only lose water from their leaves so reducing the leaf surface minimize the amount of water loss until it can grow roots and though it might look funny once it's got a healthy root system it will start replacing leaves very fast and you can remove the funny looking ones then. When I had a home Nursery selling plants on eBay I had misters that would come on 4 or 5 times a day but only for two or three minutes at a time and this is the way every professional Nursery operates so always follow the lead of the ones in the know (the professionals who are doing it for profit).
Informative video but maybe you should do a video on moss poles because the support you showed isn't a moss pole and definitely is not the best support if you want aerial root growth. Try watching The Sydney Plant Guy on UA-cam. So informative on climbers. 🙂
I don’t change mine. Unless like you said, it’s gross lol Also I prop in water as I use Leca ❤. I have a decent size Thai con from peat moss in water and Leca soon with GT CCS :)
This is the second time I'm watching this video but not fully. I already performed the cuttings and I understood you should keep them out to dry and heal for 24 hours to prevent the area from bacteria.
I have a monstera plant with more than one growth, not necessarily multiple plants in a pot, it's just simply having a busy one stem with more growths, so it looks like I have more individual plants in one pot.
Hello Mr Sheffield. I know I have hounded many times about pafcal chips as a growing medium, but give it a try. Once some roots are formed I pot it up in pafcal chips, use hydroponic nutrient solution to water it, and the f**ker just sprout inches of roots per week (I used a clear pot so I can see). Within a month the small pot is pot bound. I would love for you to try it out and do a video on it too. 🙏
Mine has 2 nodes, but where they are would cut off the whole entire plant.What do I do?Is there another way that I can propagate the plant or do I just have to wait until it makes another leaf?
Once I beheaded an Adansonii and she started new stems from 3-4 nodes below the cut, like from all of them at once, that was fun :) every time you cut monsteras they're like: challenge accepted :D thanks for the great video as always
I'm new to having a green thumb and was wondering if you could use forest moss over sphagnum or not at all? (clearly that's what's on hand at the moment 😂)
I am a disabled senior 60yo,my budget is very limited, and I cant afford the top of the line food,fertilizer, ect what is the best all around, soil/ hydroponic
Hi, I've done air layering with 100% success. I used plastic cups filled with spagnum moss. I cut the stem few days before I plant the cuttings. They are being held in place by velcro. I remove the spagnum moss from the roots but not completely. Just shake off the excess. That way I am not disturbing the roots. Than stick the new plants on some kind of pole and that's it.
Nice one again. Thanks. Do you reckon the adansonii will work in the same way? It would be the next one due. 3-4 weeks for root development is not that long. I just succeeded after several tries for the first time to have a Crassula (jade plan) leaf broken off to take roots in a shot glass half full of water with cling film over the glass and no changing of anything. It took three months! Tiny leaves and very fine roots are developing now from the little stem of the leaf. I do similar experiments with all of my plants now to see what is working.
I tried water propagation and totally murdered my plant last month. A reddit expert told me it happened because I didn't wait for the cut stem section to dry before placing into the water. Apparently you're supposed to wait half a day before putting the stem in the water. Is there any truth to this?
Want to keep the rooting water fresh? Put an aquarium air stone in there. Keeps it oxygenated, and prevents rot. In my experience, monstera is not bothered by algae on the roots. I have one that has a thick coat of blackbeard algae on its roots for a couple years now.
can you do one of these on dieffenbachia... I love my compacta and panther but I can't seem to keep them happy. I moved them to the windowsill and the panther seems to love it but the compacta is like naa. It doesn't matter where I move her she's just like no. I water only when dry, I feed them monthly, keep them under lights for 12h and 12 hours is almost total darkness, Just checked the roots last week and they're small but clean... huh How can I improve the root system?
@SheffieldMadePlants all winter, under grow lights. I moved them to the window when we started getting 10 hours of sun a day, and it wasn't so cold out. Oh well, I'll have to do a little more research about it.
Hi, thanks for this informative video. So if I get a top cutting with a huge leaf with inner fenestrations, will the next leaves come out as big? I've wondered about this for a while!
Ugh, every video I've seen on monstera propagation focuses on the new cutting. I also want to know what happens to my original plant if when I cut off its "head". I have several big beautiful monsteras that I would like to propagate, but I'm worried what will happen to the original plants. Anyone know the answer?
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank you so much for the reply. I really like your videos and I appreciate the effort you put in to them. When you say "juvenile", do you mean it will be a little baby leaf the first one out, progressively getting bigger with each new one?
Mr Sheffield please help me 🥲😩, my new monstera has suddenly started to go yellow around the leaf edges and now a whole leaf is yellow. I’ve just repotted it into monstera mix so maybe one leaf has gone into shock but I’m wondering if it’s too close to my grow light . Probably 3-4 feet away from it and I think it’s about 24watt . Never had a problem with monstera before but recently had a few thrips on one that’s close to the new one . Both been treated with neem oil a few times now , any advice please 🙏 ?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I can’t see any thrips now and don’t think the new plant gad any . The oldest leaf died on the new plant but another leaf is turning yellowish around the edges . My older plant is the same though it’s random leaves , definitely nit old growth. I can’t see any bugs on either plant though they were close to each other. The older plant has looked sickly for some time now . I’ve separated them and I’ll treat them with neem again. Both have new growth though so that’s a good sign I think . I can only think too much light , I don’t over water and use a moisture meter.
@@SheffieldMadePlants no the new one has just been repotted into monstera mix and the older one was potted last Autumn/ early winter as I brought it inside and changed soil to avoid bringing insects in
I have a big Monstera and hope you can help me with a question. Ok, it's four, actually, which were sold in one pot. I planted them into a bigger pot already, and they are thriving. Big, lush leaves, more and more fenestration, not a single brown tip. But they are most likely will outgrow the pot this summer, and I am planning ahead to repot them. I don't want to make cuttings, just separate the plants (maybe put two in one pot, so I have two pots in the end). I also want to make a moss pole for them. My question is: Can I put the long aerial roots that I have directed into the soil until now into the moss of a moss pole? Or will that cause the roots to rot because the part of them that's not in the soil is used to be dry in the air instead of being wrapped in moist moss?
The roots should be fine. You should check out SydneyPlantGuy, he specialises in mosspoles. As far as I know, these roots will develop stronger subroots, and your plants will grow even healthier :)
@@MoralistaDefinitivoAh, thanks! I didn't know there is a difference since my monstera(s) only produce one root at each node, which I always directed into the soil.
@@jaysarma00I found his videos; they are actually the reason why I do want to make a moss pole :) I will watch a few more videos of him now. Thanks! :)
I recently bought a MD from a person. It’s quite large and she mentioned it needed a bigger pot. When transplanting it, I expected some really large roots, but found there was not much of a root ball and it had new small white roots, no large ones. I figure this is just a transplant from her original. Now after a few days, one large leaf on the top is drooping and I worry it will happen to the other 5 large stems and leaves. The soil she had it in was quite moist. Is there anything I can now do to keep it from dying? Thank you. Thank you.
@@SheffieldMadePlants she said it needed larger pot. It was so heavy, I had to do it quick, but I didn’t look too closely at the roots in the wet ball, but just saw tiny new ones. Did add perlite to soil. She said she only gave it a tall glass of water every two weeks, but as I said, the soil was very moist. She named it Jeannie (after her mother) put corks in and on top of soil (too keep away gnats) and lighted incense in the soil! The plant was very well loved, it’s so big, like 5 x4, but only has about 5-6 huge leaves. I love it so much and hope it survives. The root ball with the small white roots was about 9 inches wide and long.
Hi Mr. Sheffield!!! Do you need to let the cutting callous before putting it in water? I had one that rotted. I was getting frustrated that it took so long to root I kept changing methods- water, to perlite, to leca- oyyy. I hear that’s a no no lol! I was so upset with myself after😂
I believe you don't have to let it callus over if you've cut it with a very sharp knife (I assume razor blade or hobby knife level of sharpness). That being said, I also think a cutting will be more prone to rot the Wetter the environment. So callousing might be more important if you plan on propagating in water
How do you prevent the cutting from getting slimey and rotting? Every cutting of mine didn’t like water but somehow thrived on hydropeals mixed with a little soil 🥲
My favorite plant ❤ what I find funny is that MD is one of the easiest plants to propagate but don't you dare to try on variegated 😂😂 that's where the 'real' fun begins with these guys🫣
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I don't even have a monstera, nor do I want one, and still I am watching this video 🤣
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Yup, that's me! @@abubakrpenfound406
You should totally grab one, they are super gorgeous and easy to care for and cheap as hell
I would like one, once I'm brave enough. 😅 This plant looks intimidating.
lol I've got one, and I dislike it. And it doesn't like me either
I like to put pothose cuttings that have been in water for a bit and have some roots into whatever else im trying to propogate in water. They put off rooting hormones that will speed up other cuttings rooting. I got my monstera to start making new roots within a week.
i just looked it up and it is true. Thank you for this tip. I have some pothose cutting with roots in water. So I just combined them with the monstera cuttings!
My monstera was on his last legs, he was a gift from my sisters. I was down to two weak leaves. I’m about two weeks into propagating and we already have a new leaf! Haven’t had one in about 7 months!!!! One of the aerial roots is growing like a weed!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
You bet!
This was super informative!! I’ve just chopped up my pathetic looking Monstera as I wasn’t happy with how it’s growing.
Thanks for everything, Mr. Sheffield.
Finally bought my moisture meter from your shop. Happier, healthier plants ahead!!!
Enjoy!
Forget the plant!! I’m liking the snowfall in the background!!!!!😜
😂
Love this! Could you do a similar video for the philodendron birkin? Pretty please? 😊
I really appreciate how clearly you explain and SHOW every step!
I got to keep it alive first before I start chopping it but good advice thanks
I just purchased a struggling Monstera. I have 4 very overgrown stems and one cut with a baby leaf. Each stem has 1 leaf each. I'm wondering if it has the best chance if I try to propagate...hmm
Pro tip: I use any pothos cuttings and add them with my propogations to help root growth. It's helped with my peperomias and zz raven grow roots faster 🙂
Could you explain further? Do you just grow them together in the same pot in water, etc? How does it help? Thank you so much for the tip!
@@StitchinTimeTB exactly right! So I let my cuttings callus for a few hours then I add either neon pothos, devils Ivy, or what ever I have propogate in a jar of water together. I read/saw a yt video that pothos release a hormone that increases root growth. I tried it and haven't looked back 🙂
I just commented the same thing before I started to read the other comments. Pothos cuttings (that have developed roots in water) really do help!! My monstera was starting to push out roots in a week!
Remember when Monstera was called the Fruit Salad plant, due to the fruit it produces?
I have a tall single-stem deliciosa I'd like to appear more bushy/full. I am thinking of taking a cutting off the top like you suggested, and then planting it in the pot after rooting it in water. What is your guidance for deciding if a pot is too small for a deliciosa? Mine seems pretty content in the pot it's in now (~8in?) but I worry I won't have enough room to get my fingers/tools into the soil to plant the propagated stem, without disturbing the original!!
They like it snug but you could always repot both so you’re not having to dig around
Today I learned Fairy liquid is the Dawn of the English world lol.
Indeed 😂
Pretty disturbing how dish soap is harvested from fairies.
English world?
Hi many thanks for the video !
I happened to just broke my 8 years old monstera that has been growing in a kokedama moss ball right at the bottom of the stem.. I’m wondering if it’s possible (less ideal I guess) to propagate a monstera from a stem with few leaves and nodes instead of 1 ?
Yeah it should be fine. Might take longer to root
Damn I wish this had been posted 2 days ago when I propagated my monstera 😅 but it looks like I did well, directly into soil, fingers crossed
The snow outside though 💗💗💗💗
😯 SNOW 😯 it's snowing ☃️ it's so beautiful ❄️ I've only ever seen snow fall once before - I was completely distracted 😅
😁
It wouldn't bother me now if it snowed because it's getting warmer by the day! ❤😊
My aerial root turned brown and is soft and squishy it's been 3 weeks in the water... anything I can or should do?
Cut it off to save the rest of the cutting
Man, today was crazy. I was helping do some yard work at my folks place. They have a lot of Selloum and while pruning them I was dreaming of a Monstera, why don't we have one of those?
Well, I was cutting back a bunch of Selloum on one side of the property. I cut back a few more and look up to see this big vined Monstera climbing up the tree!! 🤩😍 it is an amazing specimen but needed a lot of the other growth cut back to give some breathing room. It was totally hidden!! I'm literally ecstatic my parents have such a cool Monstera. 🤗
another way instead of changing water in cuttings is to use a water sprayer, set to solid stream not mist, to _inject_ fresh water and air bubbles into the water.. that way it stirs it up a little and fresh oxygen gets to the roots.. I only change it when it gets really dirty but by that time I take them out in the dirt anyway.. somehow I dont get algae in pure water, only when I use perlite though, funny enough 😄
Thanks for the tip
My monstera is my favorite and best looking plant, despite having only a few fenestrated leaves. I’m scared, Mr Sheffield! So scared to prune it and make my hydro monstera. 😩 Please wish me Godspeed. 😉 Thanks for your great videos and advice!
Good luck!
When your first new Leaf emerges from your tip cutting you can remove the old one (which will never look as nice as the new ones) so your new plant will divert all of its resources to new leaves instead of trying to repair old damaged leaves. Also if your old existing leave from your tip cutting wilts and looks dehydrated you can remove half of the leaf until it can grow some new leaves and roots and mist the leaves (both sides) to take some stress off of it until it recovers from being cut (which is somewhat traumatic for a plant). With monstera as well as pretty much every other plant (that grows leaves) when taking cuttings it's always important to remember that until they grow some roots that can't take up water from wet dirt which doesn't benefit the plant so misting the leaves is the best way to keep it from drying out and always remember that plants only lose water from their leaves so reducing the leaf surface minimize the amount of water loss until it can grow roots and though it might look funny once it's got a healthy root system it will start replacing leaves very fast and you can remove the funny looking ones then. When I had a home Nursery selling plants on eBay I had misters that would come on 4 or 5 times a day but only for two or three minutes at a time and this is the way every professional Nursery operates so always follow the lead of the ones in the know (the professionals who are doing it for profit).
Informative video but maybe you should do a video on moss poles because the support you showed isn't a moss pole and definitely is not the best support if you want aerial root growth. Try watching The Sydney Plant Guy on UA-cam. So informative on climbers. 🙂
I don’t change mine. Unless like you said, it’s gross lol
Also I prop in water as I use Leca ❤. I have a decent size Thai con from peat moss in water and Leca soon with GT CCS :)
Have you planted a monstera into leca? Anything different you'd recommend if so?
I’ve only one little one not doing much in leca
@@SheffieldMadePlants ah will think of something else to try leca with, ta!
Air laying is 100% successful and will only take a few weeks
What’s air laying?!!
@@lougus7076 layering* autocorrect is a bitch
This is the second time I'm watching this video but not fully. I already performed the cuttings and I understood you should keep them out to dry and heal for 24 hours to prevent the area from bacteria.
Thanks! I've been wanting to do this but wasn't exactly sure how. Great timing!
Glad I could help!
i recommend that you SHOULD NOT ADOPT A CAT because my cat is absolutely destroying my monstera by tearing off leaves while playing with it
Mine has never touched my monstera, but she's also a lazy chonky thing
Try putting some kind of undesirable deterrent on the leaves for a while to help them learn to stay away.
I have a monstera plant with more than one growth, not necessarily multiple plants in a pot, it's just simply having a busy one stem with more growths, so it looks like I have more individual plants in one pot.
Hello Mr Sheffield. I know I have hounded many times about pafcal chips as a growing medium, but give it a try. Once some roots are formed I pot it up in pafcal chips, use hydroponic nutrient solution to water it, and the f**ker just sprout inches of roots per week (I used a clear pot so I can see). Within a month the small pot is pot bound. I would love for you to try it out and do a video on it too. 🙏
Mine has 2 nodes, but where they are would cut off the whole entire plant.What do I do?Is there another way that I can propagate the plant or do I just have to wait until it makes another leaf?
Maybe let it grow a bit more
@@SheffieldMadePlants ok thanks
I have waited to pot my cutting in soil and it has a ton of roots now… Hope that won’t be a problem 🙃
A nice problem to have
Once I beheaded an Adansonii and she started new stems from 3-4 nodes below the cut, like from all of them at once, that was fun :) every time you cut monsteras they're like: challenge accepted :D thanks for the great video as always
Thanks for watching 😁
I chopped mine a week ago-- a bit late for this? 😂❤
Will this kill the mother plant?
No!
Which is best for potting plants water storing crystals, absorbent water beads, coals, brick, gravel, leca balls or just soil?
Soil is my favourite
I'm new to having a green thumb and was wondering if you could use forest moss over sphagnum or not at all? (clearly that's what's on hand at the moment 😂)
Not sure on that one
I am a disabled senior 60yo,my budget is very limited, and I cant afford the top of the line food,fertilizer, ect what is the best all around, soil/ hydroponic
Hard to say based on budget. I don't know the price of them all. Miracle Gro will probably be a decent shout
Hi, I've done air layering with 100% success. I used plastic cups filled with spagnum moss. I cut the stem few days before I plant the cuttings. They are being held in place by velcro. I remove the spagnum moss from the roots but not completely. Just shake off the excess. That way I am not disturbing the roots. Than stick the new plants on some kind of pole and that's it.
Sounds great!
Nice one again. Thanks. Do you reckon the adansonii will work in the same way? It would be the next one due.
3-4 weeks for root development is not that long. I just succeeded after several tries for the first time to have a Crassula (jade plan) leaf broken off to take roots in a shot glass half full of water with cling film over the glass and no changing of anything. It took three months! Tiny leaves and very fine roots are developing now from the little stem of the leaf. I do similar experiments with all of my plants now to see what is working.
Yes similar thing for Adansonii. Probably easier plant to propagate
I need some hydroponic fertiliser but I can’t find focus brand on Amazon and I don’t know which other to use
That's the only one i've used
I tried water propagation and totally murdered my plant last month. A reddit expert told me it happened because I didn't wait for the cut stem section to dry before placing into the water. Apparently you're supposed to wait half a day before putting the stem in the water. Is there any truth to this?
That’s good advice yes. I don’t tend to bother and luckily not had problems
will a monstera still grow if the stem i cut has no pre existing leaf but only a node and a bud?
Yeah it should do
Want to keep the rooting water fresh? Put an aquarium air stone in there. Keeps it oxygenated, and prevents rot. In my experience, monstera is not bothered by algae on the roots. I have one that has a thick coat of blackbeard algae on its roots for a couple years now.
Thanks for the tip
I really want one of these. Thanks for the tips!
Awesome and very informative. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Some of my leaves are wrinkly am I under watering?
Yea potentially
How many watts is the bulb that you keep on for 12 hours?
The big one is 36w
can you do one of these on dieffenbachia... I love my compacta and panther but I can't seem to keep them happy. I moved them to the windowsill and the panther seems to love it but the compacta is like naa. It doesn't matter where I move her she's just like no. I water only when dry, I feed them monthly, keep them under lights for 12h and 12 hours is almost total darkness, Just checked the roots last week and they're small but clean... huh How can I improve the root system?
Try it under a grow light if you have
@SheffieldMadePlants all winter, under grow lights. I moved them to the window when we started getting 10 hours of sun a day, and it wasn't so cold out. Oh well, I'll have to do a little more research about it.
How do you feel about propagating in pon?
Should be okay
Hi, thanks for this informative video. So if I get a top cutting with a huge leaf with inner fenestrations, will the next leaves come out as big? I've wondered about this for a while!
It should come out in a similar fashion
@@SheffieldMadePlants Thank you so much!
Ugh, every video I've seen on monstera propagation focuses on the new cutting. I also want to know what happens to my original plant if when I cut off its "head". I have several big beautiful monsteras that I would like to propagate, but I'm worried what will happen to the original plants.
Anyone know the answer?
A new stem will grow and it will be juvenile so that is the drawback
@@SheffieldMadePlants
Thank you so much for the reply. I really like your videos and I appreciate the effort you put in to them.
When you say "juvenile", do you mean it will be a little baby leaf the first one out, progressively getting bigger with each new one?
@@NubbersTV yes that's it. Maybe not baby but smaller
Thanks for making this video!
My pleasure 😊
Any thoughts on rooting monstera before chopping? Like with those plastic covers or cling wrap and media?
Not tried it but I’ve heard good things
Thank you so much for all your help!
You bet!
Mr Sheffield please help me 🥲😩, my new monstera has suddenly started to go yellow around the leaf edges and now a whole leaf is yellow. I’ve just repotted it into monstera mix so maybe one leaf has gone into shock but I’m wondering if it’s too close to my grow light . Probably 3-4 feet away from it and I think it’s about 24watt . Never had a problem with monstera before but recently had a few thrips on one that’s close to the new one . Both been treated with neem oil a few times now , any advice please 🙏 ?
Have the thrips definitely gone? 2 ft away from the light is plenty so won’t be that. Is it the oldest leaf?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I can’t see any thrips now and don’t think the new plant gad any . The oldest leaf died on the new plant but another leaf is turning yellowish around the edges . My older plant is the same though it’s random leaves , definitely nit old growth. I can’t see any bugs on either plant though they were close to each other. The older plant has looked sickly for some time now . I’ve separated them and I’ll treat them with neem again. Both have new growth though so that’s a good sign I think . I can only think too much light , I don’t over water and use a moisture meter.
@@animallover1297 is it rootbound?
@@SheffieldMadePlants no the new one has just been repotted into monstera mix and the older one was potted last Autumn/ early winter as I brought it inside and changed soil to avoid bringing insects in
I have a big Monstera and hope you can help me with a question.
Ok, it's four, actually, which were sold in one pot. I planted them into a bigger pot already, and they are thriving. Big, lush leaves, more and more fenestration, not a single brown tip. But they are most likely will outgrow the pot this summer, and I am planning ahead to repot them. I don't want to make cuttings, just separate the plants (maybe put two in one pot, so I have two pots in the end). I also want to make a moss pole for them.
My question is: Can I put the long aerial roots that I have directed into the soil until now into the moss of a moss pole? Or will that cause the roots to rot because the part of them that's not in the soil is used to be dry in the air instead of being wrapped in moist moss?
Putting aerial roots into the soil is better as it gives the plant more stability. There are smaller ones that will latch onto the support.
The roots should be fine. You should check out SydneyPlantGuy, he specialises in mosspoles. As far as I know, these roots will develop stronger subroots, and your plants will grow even healthier :)
@@MoralistaDefinitivoAh, thanks! I didn't know there is a difference since my monstera(s) only produce one root at each node, which I always directed into the soil.
@@jaysarma00I found his videos; they are actually the reason why I do want to make a moss pole :)
I will watch a few more videos of him now. Thanks! :)
wowo
what do you do after you take cuttings off your main plant? will it grow back???
Yea a new stem will grow
thank you!
❤❤❤thanks sweetie
You bet!
Why do my cuttings rot?
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I recently bought a MD from a person. It’s quite large and she mentioned it needed a bigger pot. When transplanting it, I expected some really large roots, but found there was not much of a root ball and it had new small white roots, no large ones. I figure this is just a transplant from her original. Now after a few days, one large leaf on the top is drooping and I worry it will happen to the other 5 large stems and leaves. The soil she had it in was quite moist. Is there anything I can now do to keep it from dying? Thank you. Thank you.
Might need a smaller pot to stop the soil remaining wet. Were the roots healthy?
@@SheffieldMadePlants she said it needed larger pot. It was so heavy, I had to do it quick, but I didn’t look too closely at the roots in the wet ball, but just saw tiny new ones. Did add perlite to soil. She said she only gave it a tall glass of water every two weeks, but as I said, the soil was very moist. She named it Jeannie (after her mother) put corks in and on top of soil (too keep away gnats) and lighted incense in the soil! The plant was very well loved, it’s so big, like 5 x4, but only has about 5-6 huge leaves. I love it so much and hope it survives. The root ball with the small white roots was about 9 inches wide and long.
Hi Mr. Sheffield!!! Do you need to let the cutting callous before putting it in water? I had one that rotted. I was getting frustrated that it took so long to root I kept changing methods- water, to perlite, to leca- oyyy. I hear that’s a no no lol! I was so upset with myself after😂
I believe you don't have to let it callus over if you've cut it with a very sharp knife (I assume razor blade or hobby knife level of sharpness). That being said, I also think a cutting will be more prone to rot the Wetter the environment. So callousing might be more important if you plan on propagating in water
I don’t bother to be honest
How do you prevent the cutting from getting slimey and rotting? Every cutting of mine didn’t like water but somehow thrived on hydropeals mixed with a little soil 🥲
bacteria is growing in the water. Replace it routinely
Not sure. It happens sometimes but not often. I change the water sometimes
My favorite plant ❤ what I find funny is that MD is one of the easiest plants to propagate but don't you dare to try on variegated 😂😂 that's where the 'real' fun begins with these guys🫣