Currently about 5' tall amd has been rooted into this moss pole since it was tall enough to do so. Leaves are roughly hand sized.
Pole is plastic D shaped one from the 'Zon, filled with spagham. I water it via a drip bottle and use aquarium water.
How does one get big ole leafs? Do you cut off the top of the vine and prop it and replant into the pot? Does one keep doing this until the leaves are huge but only 5' tall?
by BeerJedi-1269
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Adonsii doesn’t get massive leaves. It’s very cool but what you have is pretty much it.
Chop and prop to get a really full planter if ya wnat
once the growth reaches to the top of the max height you’re ok with it getting, then you just chop the pole, pot it and put a new pole on top. the bottom u can decide to keep it on its pole or i prefer to take it out and cut it up and then pot the cuttings. depends on your goals for the plant.
That is a very nice looking Monstera Adansonii.
It won’t produce large leaves like a Deliciosa, just lots the size you have already been seeing.
I wouldn’t change a thing you are doing, it looks perfectly happy.
Monstera adansonii ssp laniata. The leaves can get a bit bigger (maybe 2x max) if you keep it climbing. However, they won’t reach the size of deliciosa leaves
Once it outgrows the moss pole you’ll want to chop it with 3 leaves from the top. When you pot that cutting it will continue to mature on a moss pole. With each generation they get bigger and bigger. It just takes a lot of sunlight, love, and time! (And a ton of sphagnum moss)
Simple to get bigger leafs
Chop and prop the very top and it’ll produce bigger and bigger leaves.
Monsteras mature as they grow up, leaving the bottom at same maturity level since the start, that’s why bottom leaves will never be bigger than the newer ones will get.