My friend had his gf move in and didn’t have room for this Monstera anymore. I told him I’d take it, but I really have no plant experience. I’m looking for any tips on getting it under control. I bought some more bamboo stakes and wrap so I can at least help lift it up a bit for now. Before I obviously buy a bigger, taller pot or pots for it, I wanna know how many smaller plants anyone thinks I can separate this into. I’d love to turn this into 2 or 3 separate plants to put around my house. Anyone have a good resource on how to do that properly? Really just looking for tips and advice to help this thing thrive. Thanks.
by Shit_Apple
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I wish I was gifted a Monstera 😔
Each stem is a plant. Just count the number of stems you have.
I would look up Sydney Plant Guy’s moss pole tutorials on YouTube, so you have a better understand of the nonsense going on in that pot. And I would look up Kill This Plant’s videos on Monstera.
Both of those should give you enough info to help this monster grow the size of a house.
I love that your dog has second-hand embarrassment for the monstera
https://preview.redd.it/8eosbtb2p9ef1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10fdf00fe569fcbe7fc50929462257fedbbf7a6e
“Who tf do you think we are?? What is this giant thing in my space?!?!”
I got a monstera for my birthday too😅
I’d love to hear any tips or advice on how to care for it!
I am rabbit holing HARD on my houseplants right now, I would be so excited to chop, prop, repot 🤩🥳
I would recommend doing a lil deep dive on monsteras on youtube and find a creator you like.
There is so so many out there.
Decide what you have the capacity for right now and just nike do it baby!
key points of care are going be insuring proper drainage as a plant care newbie and not over watering.
Good luck babes! You got this.
If you have the opportunity we’d love and update 🥰🙏🏻
Either way you will need a bigger pot and sturdier poles to hold up the plant. Aroids need to climb to be happy. In nature they use trees to climb. If you want a few plants from this, I would take some top cuts as they are easiest and you won’t loose the maturity of the leaves you have currently. It takes time for the leaves to get the “holes/splits” or “fenestrations” as they are known as in the plant world.
There are a million and one videos on YouTube on taking top cuts from monstera deliciosa. Take a clean razor and cut in between the 3-4th leaf from the top and that’s a top cut. Let the fresh cut dry for 24 hours and then you can plant in some spagnum moss or I now prefer coco chunks. I keep that warm and wet.and you should see new growth in a couple weeks.
Definitely youtube some tutorials for chop and prop and care for it. You could definitely get at least 2 more manageable plants out of this, if not more. Figure out where to cut, and have patience for it to root in water.
You’re gonna need a much bigger pot and some potting soil. A large bag of it. You will need some string, twine, or something to “shape” it. Before those two things, you must buy a lot of dog treats for your lovely model.
This pot has 4 plants? So you’re already on your way when wanting to have plants around the house. Will definitely need to repot and you can find more tips via YouTube than I. Btw, ask your friend where the plant was originally so you’d know if it needs to acclimate because you are planning to split and relocate.
First of all, those moss poles aren’t doing anything.
I would recommend putting the poles in the pot so they’re standing up. They’re supposed to go behind the plant. You (not too tightly) secure the segment that the aerial roots grow from.
If any leaf if too wonky you can cut it off.
Monsteras like sunlight. Put them near a window that gets a lot of sun. Rotate it once a month. I do a quarter turn.
Good luck.
I recognize that ‘moss pole’, it’s from temu. 😀 appropriate given the state of the plant. I would honestly cut and propagate from the best part of the plant
please repot it!! It’s begging for more space…also try a moss polse for it to climb. it’s pretty though!
Add a stake
Holy shit!
i love how worthless those moss poles are
It needs a stake of some sort fur stability to climb on that’s all. It’s got beautiful big leaves.
The scoliosis is hitting. You can take the plant out of its pot and try to detangle the roots trying to separate the plants and pot the upright with a sturdy pole/stake. But that might do more harm than good.
If you want bigger plants you can definitely cut them far down below and prop.
Afterwards you can try to separate the stumps and the roots as it doesn’t need to support the whole plant it might survive this disturbance of the roots. And you’ve got 8is plants afterwards. Definitely go for a sturdy stake that doesn’t bend over and secure it wit something like velcro strips that doesn’t harm the stem of the plant.
And get a chunky soil mix for repotting as it is an aroid.
Start by opening the window!
Those are three seperate plants in there. You can remove all the soil and try to detangle the roots or just chop the roots apart. I had five monsteras in one pot when i bought it, seperated them (rip a lot of roots), gave away three smaller ones and kept two
The pot blends with the wall so well I thought it was literally growing out the wall
You have 3 monsteras in one pot. I would split them out and see which one grows the most, this is likely the mother plant. Support them all, even just lean them against the wall, they’ll climb up. Make sure they have lots of light.
I thought monstera leaves are poisonous for dogs?
Wow 🫨!! It almost looks like an octopus 🐙. Good luck. I don’t have one of those plants.
girl you may have to do surgery on that thang
I’ve found a wooden trellis works best for my monstera. It kept knocking the moss poles over.
The best thing you can do for it is to repot it in ericacious soil. Add a bit of compost to give it a nutritional boost and plant outside in a much bigger pot in a part shady area..
My friend has a monstera and that’s what she’s told me.
Beautiful plant. First she definitely need to be repotted
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so first of all to answer your question this is three separate monsteras. however they seem to be well established so it might be a pain to separate those roots if you do decide to do that. that being said, it can be done and would probably make trellising those bad boys a little easier. general rule of thumb when repotting is to go two inches bigger than the root ball, but when splitting these up i might just get them each an 10 pot. there are some very helpful videos out there about potting and staking monsteras, and a quick google should bring them to you
You, the now plant person, must obsess over it.
You should probably just look up propogation, nodes, aerial roots. It wouldn’t be hard to tell you what to do, but if you don’t know anything, you might just want to research it. I’m not judging you if it is coming off that way. Trust me, I started at the same place you are starting. Welcome to the plant life, it’s very addicting!
Sell it to a plant person and retire early from the profit.