It needs to be repotted in fresh soil in a pot with holes. Remove anything sick and dead. The roots are air roots meant to climb up trees with and are perfectly normal.
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I’m still learning so take whatever I say as additional perspective to what the actual professionals end up saying!
I’d start by removing the worst of the dead foliage, right at the base of the petiole. Leave the tippy top leaves for now, because new leaves come from the top ones. A damaged leaf is better than no leaves at all (usually, but monsteras are pretty good at bouncing back lol) so just get rid of the yuckiest ones for now.
Repot it into a nice chunky free draining mix. I’ve had success with pre-made indoor mixes but it’ll do best in a super chunky aroid mix that doesn’t retain too much moisture. Like at least half of the mix should be bark, perlite, coco chips, anything that leaves lots of air.
It looks like there’s a few main stems/plants in there so when you pot it, separate them if you have to and rearrange them to your liking. I like them all facing on the same plane so the leaves face away from the wall where I keep it, but you can plant them to have leaves facing every which way if you want! You can separate them into different pots if you want but 2 or 3 stems would make for a bushier, more lush plant in the long run. You can stake it now for extra support if you want or leave that for later.
Give it some time before fertilising but once it’s established (a month maybe) give it some tasty balanced fertiliser to send it on its way.
Monsteras are super duper hardy. Mine had a fungal infection that wouldn’t go away and I chopped it down to literally just a stump with no leaves, and I hacked back half of the roots! And it bounced back better than ever before. It’s very forgiving. Just don’t let it rot in too much mushy moisture, and give it lots of indirect light.
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It needs to be repotted in fresh soil in a pot with holes. Remove anything sick and dead. The roots are air roots meant to climb up trees with and are perfectly normal.
I’m still learning so take whatever I say as additional perspective to what the actual professionals end up saying!
I’d start by removing the worst of the dead foliage, right at the base of the petiole. Leave the tippy top leaves for now, because new leaves come from the top ones. A damaged leaf is better than no leaves at all (usually, but monsteras are pretty good at bouncing back lol) so just get rid of the yuckiest ones for now.
Repot it into a nice chunky free draining mix. I’ve had success with pre-made indoor mixes but it’ll do best in a super chunky aroid mix that doesn’t retain too much moisture. Like at least half of the mix should be bark, perlite, coco chips, anything that leaves lots of air.
It looks like there’s a few main stems/plants in there so when you pot it, separate them if you have to and rearrange them to your liking. I like them all facing on the same plane so the leaves face away from the wall where I keep it, but you can plant them to have leaves facing every which way if you want! You can separate them into different pots if you want but 2 or 3 stems would make for a bushier, more lush plant in the long run. You can stake it now for extra support if you want or leave that for later.
Give it some time before fertilising but once it’s established (a month maybe) give it some tasty balanced fertiliser to send it on its way.
Monsteras are super duper hardy. Mine had a fungal infection that wouldn’t go away and I chopped it down to literally just a stump with no leaves, and I hacked back half of the roots! And it bounced back better than ever before. It’s very forgiving. Just don’t let it rot in too much mushy moisture, and give it lots of indirect light.