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Now what,lol


TL;DR:

•Do i put all three back together? Or 2 and 1 or each individual?

•Do I do the soilless aroid mic and add a bit extra coco coir because I'm not doing a pole?

•Is that pot too large for the 3 of them?
Any other pointers?

•Care tips to follow

I use a soiless mix (now), I think it was soil when I I itially got it. I do a weakly weekly with feeding at every water, I think I've watered it 3 times in the last 5 or 6 months, yikes. I use foliage pro(although looking to switch to the GT one). I use superthrive protekt silica, calmag, superthrive vitamin solutio, kelp at every watering. Bigfoot micorrhizae once a month or at transplant(Tanner the planter sold me), and i just got (will start with current watering schedule) HB 101, 2 drops per gallon with every watering.

Plants seem to be doing great with it all so far.

Transplanting my monstera because it needed it. 1 became 3 (maybe more chop and prop). I need to trim/clean up some roots. But now what….

My mix was too heavy, so i underwatered it, my pot was maybe too big? So I under watered it…I understand the aroid mix, but poles…I am no Jan (Sydney the plant guy). So Im planning for trellis (although I have not killed my philo camposportoanum, on a coco husk and large perlite pole).

I have taken smaller plants to pon, but I am not looking to do that with this one (maybe a cutting in the future.)

I tend to talk and explain too much, so I will put bullet points and the top for a TL;DR

If i got the pics correctly, 1small,2med,3large of them. Extra of the large for the nodes/roots

by Plant_Zaddy_COS

6 Comments

  5. charlypoods

    -up to you!

    -no soil means no nutrients, you’ll have to take on buying/making/balancing etc fertilizer whoch it sounds like you have a good handle on. so that’s up to you. you could just add high quality soil, making the mix about 50/50 grit to soil if you wanted to not go semihydro with this one.

    -i think you are referencing coco husk poles, which are a sturdy support w the exclusive purpose of being a support pole to which we attach the stem (not petioles!!) of the plant. coco husk has no nutrients (neither does coco coir!). a coco husk pole is not one we get moist/wet that then stays wet, so it is not the most effective support for the fastest growth nor if one wants the roots to readily grow into the pole. coco coir is really moisture retentive and adding it to a substrate mixture serves the purpose of retaining some extra moisture and also equally distributing the retained moisture throughout the substrate. so, as you have probably put together, there is no relation/logic behind adding coco coir to a substrate mix *because* you are not using a coco husk pole. they serve two completely separately purposes

    -pot should be 1-2” larger than the rootball(s). so if there’s three plants that you want to put in a pot, the width of the pot should be 1-2” wider than the width of all the root balls next to each other just as as they would be in a pot. same for 2 plants. same for 1 plant. (same for ten plant! lol)

    tips? hmmm

    -if you go with soil, water when the top 3” of the substrate is bone dry

    -if you want to prop and chop, i suggest air layering before chopping, can absolutely be done after you repot

    -as long as you choose something sturdy and attach it correctly, by the stem not petioles and with plant velcro (or something wide and soft like that), it will grow up the support. moss poles aid in faster growth and give the aerial roots somewhere ideal to dig into

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