I’m north facing and unfortunately dont get a lot of light coming into this apartment. It might get a little brighter, it’s only 8:30AM here currently so this isn’t full brightness. I want to get my first plant and I really like the monstera, i’m thinking I probably need to get a grow light? Also adding a mirror to this corner
by bvalbuena
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You’d probably need to get a light for it
You’ll definitely want a light for it.
Absolutely needs a grow light. If you want your monstera to grow full and face the room, get a stand light like the Barrina t1s with mechanical timer. Have it on 12 hours a day and pretty close to it. Like a foot in front of it. It will fill up that corner fast!
Monstera will survive in this little light but won’t be growing much or even 🤔 there is a monstera in my office & windows always covered and it’s alive however looks the same for a year.. while my house monsteras grows 1-2 new leaves every month.
Is the light in the room with us 😅
I’ve kept them in north facing windows without supplementary light and they’ve done fine but I see the tree outside the window and I think that will make it a lot harder.
And I have a monstera albo that has gotten very little outside light. She was little and I had all but forgotten about her. My son came by to ask if he could have a plant for his new place and she is HUGE (he doesnt get her)
It will do “fine” there, but it won’t be optimal especially winter time. You will probably not get a monstera with grandiose leaves and massive inner fenestrations; but you will definitely get a decent looking one that will adjust to those conditions ok.
I do agree with previous post that the tree outside could be an issue.
Absolutely add a grow light 🫶🏻
It will survive but not grow.
Yes. I only have one window in my living room. My monstara is growing.. leaves not as big but still growing
Face to the window and maybe run a lamp for a few hrs a day. I have a spot like this and mine do great. I’m in California. 4hrs lamp on air and humidity all good
A snake plant would be better for this amount of light and would work nicely in the empty vertical space into hat corner
Quick hypothetical: would this be enough light over the winter for an established Monstera? I know they dont go fully dormant, but they do need less light.
No
I would add a grow light above that corner
that looks like to north side windows with cloudy sky.
soo, no.
i’m in a north facing apartment with about this much sunlight (slightly more at full brightness) and my monstera is doing fine
This amount of light will make your plant leggy and produce smaller leaves (most likely). Target goal would be inbestween 250-750 ppfd, for at least 10 hours on the higher end of the ppfd. Invest in and cheap BT lightmeter if you can and some Sansi growlights. I personally think they’re better than anything Barrina puts out (even though I still do buy Bar. lights).
I slowly acclimated mine to full sun, and now I just leave it on my patio. I honestly don’t know a ton about these plants but it seems to love full sun once it’s used to it, so to speak. Mine is just a random monstera from Costco, probably like 5-6 actual plants, but I’m getting some pretty huge leaves with 6-10fenestrations each lately.
No.
No.
Yeah definitely need a grow light