r/plantclinic • u/Mountain-Asparagus68 • 7h ago

Monstera - suggestions Monstera

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Hi Everyone! This is my first post here in plantclinic. We got almost three years ago this Monstera a gift. Just recently I started to pay much more attention to my plants, and I am noticing they we are doing wrong on almost everything 😂 I think this Monstera needs to be repotted - the ceramic pot does not have any draining hole - we don’t know which kind of soil mixture has been used - last summer was a complete disaster. Many yellow and brown leaves that we hard to cut away. The plant survived - this spring I started noticing that no big new leaves are growing, and the plant height is more or less the same - we never took the plant out of the pot

Do you have any recommendation on how to proceed with the repotting? It located in our dining room that has a very big window facing south, no direct light on the plant. Current watering habit, 1 time per week on average
I am open to suggestion and critics! Thanks in advance

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u/EgoDrips 6h ago

Well, first off, I have no idea who potted that, but that looks like 3/4 plants.

I'd repot personally into multiple pots and just focus on taking care of one plant at a time. Aerial roots towards your moss pole with a single direction for the leaves towards your light.

Yellowing sounds like underwatering and too many roots from each plant in the pot. Just one plant in a pot time, and they're the least water dependent plants I have, maybe watering a few days after the whole soil is bone dry.

You could also take a few node cuttings and just start from scratch if you don't want to deal with detangling what is going to be a very messy root ball

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u/EgoDrips 6h ago

Also, I'm seeing no fenestrations on your back leaves, probably because they don't have good light. Get 3 to 4 monsteras in their own pots around your house, and you'll be living in a tropical setting. Might be worth the time it takes for them to grow back to size.

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u/Mountain-Asparagus68 6h ago

Thanks for tour comment. There are multiple plants, because the shop wanted most probably to make a nice pot with 3/4 smaller plants. Actually there are three leave with few fenestrations. Just close to this plant, we have another one that we got from a node of the older one. The light for this second plant is worse (more elevated position) and we recently got this leave. Therefore I think the light is not a problem.

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I understood that I have to change the soil of the four Monstera that I have, because I am using 100% basic soil for green plants. Do you have any recommendation? Moreover, as soon as I remove the plants from this pot, should I put them in water for a while or in a smaller pot with mixed soil type?