I change my Monstera to a new pot because it was literally put of soil. Made sure the pot was just 1 inch bigger than previous one. Put good appropriate soil from the hardware store, and now it's been 3 weeks and it is doing even worse than before 🙁 it's near a window and I live in northern Canada (short days and cold winter) although it's fairly warm in the house.
Watering it when soil is dry. And pot has drainage at the bottom + humidity detector.
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Root rot you put it in incorrect soil it shoukd be in a chunky Airoid mix not regular potting soil also they very solemnly need repotting they actually prefer to be potbound unless its affecting them negatively health wise.
what do you mean it was out of soil? this pot looks wayy too big
Monsteras tend to like tight spaces for their roots in my experience, this pot looks way too big for the size of your plant and looks like it could be root rot but without seeing the roots I can’t confirm!
I would take the plant out of the soil and inspect the roots and I would look to pot it back down into a smaller pot.
What substrate are you using?
It could be disgruntled due to the roots being disturbed or damaged during a repot. It could also be overwatering.
You need to check the moisture at quite a deep level with a large pot, especially when the soil type can more easily hold water. I use a moisture probe to check the full depth.
Regarding soil type, the main benefit is that chunky mixes hold less water and it’s easier to control moisture. It will forever do just fine in a regular potting mix provided it doesn’t stay wet.
The damage is pretty much done at this point, so if all of the leaves are looking awful, you’ll just need to cut back until you get healthy growth. One could argue it might be easier to start again, but if you have a lot of root then it should be quicker to grow than a new plant.