Hey all,
I had a very healthy monstera but the pot became a little too small so I decided to split it and repot them. While 2/3 of them are doing fine, this one isn’t and I am afraid that I overwatered it. I haven’t given it water for almost 2 weeks now but the soil was still a bit soggy and more and more leaves started to turn yellow. So this morning, I put the monstera out of the soil to look at the roots and I think they are all rotted. Can someone confirm this? (They don’t stink which I read is a common issue with rotted roots).
And if yes, it seems like the only way to rescue it is to put it in a bowl of water and wait for new roots to grow.
Appreciate any thoughts and guidance here. Thank you!
by Top-Landscape-7945
4 Comments
I’d chop and prop that, not an expert tho
Totally salvagable!
Plants can make NEW roots. It happens in nature all the time when floods and disasters hit. All along your climbing monstera are aerial roots waiting to be activated and grow. This is why (some) people use moss moles.
You can of course chop the dead roots off at a point along the vine where a healthy node is and place in water to get this to grow new roots. Of course it is bulky to root this entire structure, so it may be best to chop it up so each leaf has a node and aerial root that can be placed in water to trigger roots to grow.
So this would mean you have lots of plants you are saving! Not just one anymore. Up to you. If you truly value the size of this plant, growing smaller one leaf monstera will eventually recover and get to this size one day, but if you can’t wait you could try to make a clean cut and root just the bottom node, but you risk losing everything if it fails to root. But it has a good chance to root, as these plants are meant to survive! You just would have an easier and higher success rate chopping it up and propagating multiple plants.
Chop at least as high as above all the rot for the first cut. No rot or yellowing can be in any of the rooting parts. The bottom leaf is a loss.
If rotted some hydrogen peroxide on roots to kill and sanitize
Yes