If I Only Knew These Monstera Tips 5 Years Ago

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I got a monstera cutting (just one medium-sized leaf) from my grandparents and put it on the balcony for the first summer. Boy was that a mistake. It grew at record speeds, all summer AND winter and one year later didn't fit out the balcony door anymore. From then on I neglected her as much as possible to reduce her growth, with minor success. It's been 4 years. Two more leaves and she will touch the ceiling. Her biggest leaves are 75cm in diameter now, with almost 1m long stems. She takes up more space than my king size bed, blocking 3 doors. Send help

Okay you've earned my respect as a plant person. So many educated people will tell you you can't put full sun on so many plants when so many plants just need to get tempered to it

this is the energy i'm looking for. thank you for being real and sparing the world fake over-the-top youtuber enthusiasm when we just want some info on plants.

My mother in law has a monstera as a wedding gift when she was married 44 years ago. It was growing so big and crawling on the wall in the kitchen. But 10 years ago she cut a big part of it, so it just left a little. And now she gave it to me before she left.. I guess it will be monstera from generation to generation.. and I hope I will give it to my daughter oneday to look after.. And this monstera growing bigger again now.. 😊😊😊

So happy I found a monstera deliciosa for 5 dollars at Walmart on discount and it was big sized I was so happy

My grandma had monstera and wanted to throw her away, because she was in bad shape. I took her, put on sunny place, repoted her, give her coconut stick to how on (don’t know how they are called), and watered her regualy for a year. When grandma came visit, she tought I bought a new plant, she couldn’t believe it was her monstera. She is gorgeous now, twice as big with gorgeous leaves, and thanks to your tips will be even better now. Thank you.

I cut my air roots near my moss pole so that they split off into multiple ends, then train those around to pole to hold it well. It’s been working great, I also put orchids on the moss pole and it’s definitely the greatest piece of living art I have, one of the best I’ve ever seen. The monstera partly shades the orchids and creates a more humid environment.

We have a huge monstera in my parent's home. It sits all year under a huge window that act as a glass house, not only did it never burn once, but we had to cut it 10 years ago because she was toping at 5 meters high. Don't trust poeple who tells who monstera hates direct sun and prefer darker places

That's interesting because the deliciosa is EVERWHERE in the US and perhaps one of the cheapest. I'm pretty proud though because I found a Thai Constellation for $29 at the grocery store in Colorado and those are super rare!

I bought a teeny tiny plant, only an inch half tall. No tag, but had great shaped leafs... Imagine my surprise as thing turned ginormous, and happens to be a monastera! it's doing great,but I had no idea! LOL

i adopted a monstera about half a year ago now. really tall, but hardly any leaves and they weren’t fenestrated at all. i moved it from my room to the hallway to my front patio and i think i finally found a spot it likes. it gets bright indirect light and about an hour or so of direct sunlight. it’s putting out new growth for the first time since i got it. i can’t wait to get a fenestrated leaf!

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My son in law put the one I gave him in an east facing side door window. It's gotten alot bigger and looks good. Next time I'm at his house I will look and see if plant is getting those slits in leaf.. yours is looking really good. Have a blessed day.

Wow! You are the only one I've seen who's offered the tip about the stem spacing!! I'm so excited to put mine in sunnier spots. It's been a learning curve for me, moving from dark, humid, chilly New England to the high desert of southernmost New Mexico.

Actually i grabbed a small 12cm potted monstera deliciosa at ikea for 4.99€

My current landlady gifted me quite a few propagated plants (most of which I can't name because I forgot what they're called) but my "big leaves"-baby turned out to be a monstera! It became very wobbly as it got a lot of new leaves so when you mentioned the air roots, I went to it and bent the one (that was also growing where I had cut it off a few weeks prior to today) into the soil. It only cracked in one spot and not all the way through so I'm hoping it'll survive since they're much more useful in the soil than when they're growing way too high on the plant and in all directions.

Thank you for your information. I am about to buy monstera. I love your channel as you tell us the mistakes you have made. Also how you talk about your plants as they were people. A delightful attitude. Thank you 😁

I guess it’s a blessing to know that my living room and bedroom that I’m moving in soon is having a south facing window. I will get a monstera to take advantage of this.

the comment about the ugly air roots is so real and almost made choke on my muffin lol thanks for the tips and I hope to get my monsteras growing and looking lush and beautiful!!!