I repotted my monstera when it started showing signs of root rot, but it’s been four months and the leaves just keep dying one by one. I’ve trimmed it down to barely nothing.
The 16” pot has drainage, and it gets watered every week. I’m in the northeast, so it gets cold. Currently it’s in my bedroom, where not much light has reached it, so I do plan on moving it back to where it was. I added Iron Tone and a few pumps of the tropical plant food liquid, but it needs serious help. Any suggestions would be great!
by sophieusual
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This is what it looked like four months ago ☹️
https://preview.redd.it/2q9ksiwos79e1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c9ce102f6b099d0f88d764e72bf057dbf2bc56a
You shouldn’t choose a pot size based on how big your plant is,you should first see how developed the root system is then base your pot size on that.
You’re still, overwatering it.
Looks completely over watered, check the soil finger deep before ever giving it more water.
That’s weird tho as I placed a cutting into water and it seems perfectly happy. Could you by chance be adding too many nutrients into it?
Your best chances of saving would be to change the soil and inspect the roots. If finding any root root anything that smells bad, and is mushy cut it out clean it, give it a 1% hydrogen peroxide bath for the roots, then wash them thermally with room temperature water, and report into best soil you can find. Water only when fully dried in winters when air is dry depending on where you are it could be once every two weeks or weekly, however if it’s not getting too much sun once every 3to4 weeks may be all it needs. If it gets lots of sun, it’s leaves would be smaller and would likely get perforated more…
I’d repot and downsize at least 1 pot size or maybe two. More soil than root structure is going to lead to root rot. An all purpose potting mix with pumice/perlite is perfect. Only water when the plant needs it. Check using your finger in soil down a few inches or buy/use a moisture meter.
A telling sign of overwatering is yellowing, mushy leaves and brown spots from the cells in the leaf bursting.
Overwatering — you’re going to cause the same problem you were trying to fix. Monstera in a temperate climate should be water once every two weeks max in well draining soil during the winter.
Overwatered for sure. Especially since it’s winter, the pot is fairly big and you’re giving it less light. I let my monsteras completely dry out by checking soil with a skewer pushed all the way to the bottom.