I’m not sure why my monstera isn’t pushing out new leaves — the roots are fine, I’ve checked. It might be where I cut for propagation? Or should I change the soil?
EDIT — I'm in the Philippines, we have no winter [just dry and wet seasons]
by chelsmmmm
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Have you seen any little white bugs on the plant that look like grain of rice ? They’re called thrips and it looks like there might be some on one of the leaves it could be dust I can’t tell from the camera. But when was the last repot done? Sometimes it just takes a while for the plant to figure out what just happened to the other half of it and regrow if that makes sense..
Did you fill the pole with Coco coir? That has very little moisture retention so the plant will struggle taking up nutrients and water.
That’s probably why you are struggling to get it to attach itself to the pole too
Can they grow leaves if the top is cut? I didn’t know that. Where would it grow them?
If you aren’t getting new leaves it’s either lack of light or lack or fertilizer or both
My monstera was standing in a sunny spot in my living room and I then put it into my bedroom and it has gotten so much bigger and has even grown 2 leafs since then in the span of a month or two. I had to cut one of as i have a mild thrips infestation on that plant but maybe that’s something you could keep in mind? The spot in my bedroom isn’t as hot now (i live in australia and the one in the living room was fully in the sun and it got quite warm) but it seems to love it. My monstera isn’t as pretty as yours yet though
Did you just go through winter? It could be hibernating…
The top was cut, so it has to activate a node and start a new leader stem. Or am I missing a piece of information?
You’ve chopped the actively growing stem, it’s normal you’re not getting new leaves. Now with some patience and good care, another growth point will pop up, but it can take time.
If it doesn’t have an active growth point you could try keiki paste. I had a mid cut of a monstera that was doomed to be a zombie leaf (never give me another leaf) and someone recommended that paste. It took a month or two to see any progress but it has pushed out three leaves since then.
I chopped my monstera thai constellation about a week ago and the nodes are swelling and getting ready to push new growth. Your monstera will bounce back. Just make sure the nodes are not tied up/blocked. 😊
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if you’re not feeding it, try something like growth technologies’ (more relevant to your area of the globe) ‘foliage focus’. and carefully apply some wettable sulfur spray on the UNDERside on a bottom leaf or two. sulfur is an essential micronutrient-used as a miticide. after i treated my plants for a longer term answer to mites than alcohol/soap, they boosted growth considerably. i attribute that in part to the sulfur.
generally, it shouldn’t take more than a few -3 weeks for a happy vigorous plant to resprout from the 1st node below the cut. my bet is either a fert/nute, or a light pest, issue. (mites/thrips etc). often a light infestation can remain subclinical as the plant fights it off continually, keeping it at low level, but this comes at the expense of growth progress. plant’s kinda ‘stuck at the front lines’ of a battle. so check, just in case-better safe than sorry.
but my gut sez it’s food. or light. or a combo.
fwiw.