This is my poor Buttercup, she has root rot I think based on the leaves. I’m attempting to repot but I cannot release the roots anymore without breaking the healthy roots. I can feel the soil is moist but cannot get the soil out.
She’s just lying on my floor now! I have Molly’s Aroid Soil for the repotting but should I leave the moist soil? Is there anything I can do? (I got her off marketplace 4 months ago so I had no clue about the roots!)
by crinklecrankles
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The roots don’t look rotted to me. Does it smell funky?
Are you sure it’s not thrips or pests?
The roots look good to me. Did you leave it outside or something?
It looks sunburnt. Roots look healthy.
This seems more like she froze to me.
The only reliable way to identify root rot is by looking at the roots. They will be mushy almost like snot with an outer crust. Then there is the smell. If it is rotting there will be no question when the smell hits you! This looks like severe pot bound roots and likely a resulting nutrient deficiency
those roots look good to me! seems like maybe it could be a fungal or bacterial infection?
How many plants are in this rootball? Thinking more than ons, and the roots are choking each other out
Just root bound. Time for an upgrade
Have you changed anything lately? Fertilizer or foliar spray?
I hope the suggestions here help. It just looks root bound to me too, but I don’t know much. Good luck 😎
Once you repot it maybe it’ll start to grow healthy leaves again. Only time will tell. Since it’s not burnt or had a freeze and you mention no pests it could just be that it was struggling from being seriously root bound. Only thing I can think of.
Now that I look at it again, those roots look pretty dried out. I think that’s your issue. You’ve strangled your a monstera. It hasn’t been able to get oxygen and water to the plant because it was too root bound for too long.”
Whoever downvoted me, here’s the info to back what I said:
**** “When a monstera’s roots dry out, they are damaged and can no longer absorb water or nutrients, which ultimately starves the plant of oxygen. All plant cells, including those in the roots, require oxygen for cellular respiration to produce energy.”
I would soak the roots for a day and then dislodge all the remaining dirt. That the only way you can check the center of the rootball and remove any rotten roots.
When I started being better about feeding my monstera frequently, she became much happier with me and stopped doing this. Seconding a repot and get some monstera specific food 🙂
Over watering
Looks like some kind of nutrient deficiency. Up pot like others have suggested. I’d water with a 1/4 strength synthetic fertilizer, like 10-10-10, every time you water. And also, apply some kind of foliar spray fertilizer. Some minerals such as iron don’t travel from roots to leaves very readily.
It just looks way way too dry. Soak the roots, repot. Start removing the damaged leaves. These plants need pruned like any other plant.
as long as there is green and roots, there is hope