This guy has got so out of control with aerial roots growing everywhere in my dining room so I assumed it was needing more support for how tall it was getting, beyond the sticks I was using to hold it up. So I ended up eyeballing it at Menards and bought way too big of a pot. I held off for months repotting because I was so scared to kill it. I finally just did it today and seeing the amount of soil I needed had me second guessing. I ended up smashing the original pot with a hammer around the plant bc I couldn’t get it out and didn’t want to pull the roots too hard.
Anyway my real question for the experts out there because I’m clearly not! Is this pot going to rot the roots? I’m expecting to water it way less, but I really don’t want to kill it. It’s so tall and is not very full at the bottom. Every few months I get new leaves and I just think without a strong root system it’s going to get too tall and adding in poles is just more of an eye sore than anything.
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you can get a nursery pot and then put it in the decorative pot. the pot should only be 1-2inches bigger than the root ball. also look into getting a better support, for monsteras that mature i would get a wood plank or there are some garden trellis that can work.
You can use a larger pot. However, you need to be very cautious as not to over water
You should gently guide those aerial roots back into the soil to provide additional way for the plant to get nutrients