Hello! Help! Got this monstera cutting and kept it in water until it developed the pictured root. Planted it and it grew a new leaf! It never unfurled. Now it’s yellow/brown/black?
I dug it up thinking maybe I should just put it back in water and the stem is black. Is it rotting? I’m assuming it’s not getting adequate airflow? Will it thrive in water for an amount of time?
Help me save my pretty bb
by TinyNinja1516
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I’m not sure if you can save this, but can you show a picture of the soil and pot it was in? Maybe it was the soil type or size of the pot.
If the pot in the 4th pic is where it lived, that looks way too dense.
Yea soil is way too dense. Either put it back in just water and let it grow 5x more roots or mix in at least half perlite/pumice, and orchid bark into that soil.
looks like root rot. its probably dead tbh. the core of the plant is rotted.
I would chop off the leaf that has the rot on it and as much black as possible without removing the node. The root itself looks okay. Rinse it off with 1 part peroxide and 3 parts water then rinse it off. After that put some cinnamon on it to help avoid more rot. Then plant it in the dirt so only the root is buried, I personally burry a small portion of stem as well for some support but never a lot. Your main support will come from a stick or mosspole or whatever you chose that will hold it up. Also plant it in a ary mix. They like to be a little root bound so put them in a pot around the same size as their root system. Only water when the soil is dry, if youre not sure if you should water, wait another day or 2. The leaf that died was more than likely bc of the rot. Just chop it off too.
Yeah you need to use a chunkier soil mix made for aroids. You can buy a pre-made one or make it yourself.
I’m sorry to say it’s rotted. If you had a node above the rotted part you could cut all the rot off and start over but you don’t have a node to start over.
Does it smell bad? It looks like root rot
Defs rot and probs won’t survive, you could try spraying/soaking the rotted part in hydrogen peroxide but prepare for the worst
Both root and stem rot to the point of no node left. It’s a goner. Sorry for your loss