This plant has been sitting next to my window for like a few months now and it have been actively pushing out new leaf. It is quite big and given it size, it should be fenestrating. I've seen many monstera that are smaller than mine fenestrate but idk why mine isn't.
I water it regularly when the top soil is dry, it get sunlight whole day through my frosted glass window(I rotated it to get some pictures) and it is in a peat moss and perlite mix with some slow release fertz. All these things checked out but idk why it is not fenestrating.
Please help me
by Thomas320Soo
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Combination of light and maturity
Bright direct light.
Give it time. The leaves put out fenestrations when it’s mature enough. It won’t start making adult chemicals until it makes enough teen chemicals. It’s on track!!
Are you attaching the stems of each leaf (petiole) to the poles? Only the main stem should be attached, not the petioles. Attaching the petioles will damage the leaves and prevent them from turning towards the light source. It will eventually get fenestrations as it grows, but if you want it to flourish and get much bigger, the usual advice is to attach it to a moss pole, and keep the pole damp. These climb on trees in the wild, so they want to have something to root into, not just be tied to.
Is the frosted window all the light that it gets, or is the purple tint in the pic from a grow light? Mine got fenestrations when it was smaller than this with no support, but it was directly in a large (and unfrosted) south-facing window