hello! thanks for all help in advance. so as we can see, my monstera is extremely top heavy. she’s doing amazing up there! but if you look at the middle & bottom of the plant she’s got almost nothing going on. there was a lot of leaves that i cut off on the lower half well over a year ago, but i did not expect them to just never grow back. and then i had to cut even more off bc they started dying. and i’m just not sure what i should/could do to help even it out? how is it that one half of a plant can do so well but the other can’t when they come from the same roots? am i doing something wrong? this plant is watered fully about once a week or maybe every two (i just go by the dryness of the soil), and it sits in a corner by an east facing window + a plant light that hangs above. any advice is extremely appreciated!
by bettysugars
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When was the last time it had fertilizer or had its soil changed?
Sometimes when they start off super tiny and leggy when they start to mature and the main stem starts to get thicker and the leaves bigger this can happen, I recomend you air layer(I can explain multiple methods if you’d like) the stems right below where the leaves up top are and then once that process is done you’ll cut the top part off right below where you air layered it and then you’ll put that in it’s own pot. The remaining original leaf less stems have a chance of pushing out new branches but that’s a separate process. Once the air layered top portion is planted into its own pot it should establish itself fairly quickly if you give it a pole and it’s normal light and it should grow a bit more balanced if it doesn’t get leggy again