If you're looking for more info on the differences between a top cutting and a mid cutting after you make some cuts to your plant, this video will explain it perfectly. ruclips.net/video/gbHrRW4xfW8/видео.html
Thank you!! idk if anyone else feels this way, but I wish I could go back and tell 15-year-old me bored in biology class to pay attention. I never would have thought in 10 years, I’d grow a collection of plants and actually find botany interesting
Like 7 years ago I regularly stated I would never own a house for fear of killing them. I was dating a girl at the time and when it came up she looked like she would break up with me on the spot. We're still together though and when we eventually moved in together fitting her and my collection in the same space was by far the hardest part. I have no idea what switched in me but I freaking love plants!
Wish I could shout this, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE!! I've only seen a few of your vids (but MANYYYY other plant parents vids) and so far honestly, you seem like one of the only plant people online that is actually teaching me a lotttt that i didnt know. I'm not sure if anyone else would agree but most plant people on YT all say the same things that most of us plant parents already know. Thank you for your work and distribution of it because I can tell that the info you give us is well-researched and must be very time-consuming to find, make sense of, then condense into short, bitesize videos for us. Again, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE! Thank you! :)
I just found your channel, so glad I did. you are so knowledgeable about plants. I've been a plant parent for years, and I'm always opened to learning as much as I can about my " babies" to make them happy and to thrive! thank you so much for your videos😊
Thank you so much for this information!! I've been removing yellow leaves from all my plants. I'm glad to learn that doesn't help them, and that as long as there is green they're photo senthizing!
Thank you for keeping a brief straight short to-the-point because all the other videos they seem to be talking about everything but the plant 😅 lifesaver thank you! 🙏🙏
The hardest thing about monsteras and-as I call them-“pile plants” (dragontail, deliciosa, fuzzy petiole etc) is that they don’t vine in the sense that a heart leaf or even an adonsonai does. They just pile up on top of themselves so trimming can be weird and u end up w a big stretch of thick stem w no leaves. Pruning is just different when u can’t bush it out. I just give ‘em something to climb and clip off any leaves I find unappealing. Let the energy focus on new growth.
After spending a couple hours watching random videos on monsteras I found your channel and got all my questions answered. Taking those first baby steps towards becoming a better plant parent.
Finally! A RUclipsr who suggests that you subscribe at the end of the video AFTER you've seen the content. What is it with those RUclipsrs who urge you to subscribe BEFORE you've even seen what they have to say?
Glad to hear my Monstera isn't crazy but growing as intended (got it as a cutling, it's just one stem, no branches). I've been continuously surprised with how each leave kept getting bigger and bigger - I think we reached max size now as the last two/three leaves seem quite similar. They're also freakin huge!
I was gifted a monstera 3 years ago, and it grew so much. I had to cut a lot of its vine last month because it was just looong vine with no leaves (or leaves that had fallen , because they got burnt or yellow) and now I see the difference, it really seems to have helped the plant get healthier ! Hope it will last :))
Truth be said, I had to trim back a leggy monstera with small leaves two years ago. The monstera was abandoned in my care, 🙄. I planted it’s cuttings into its pot, gave it some twiggy support and what I thought was bright, indirect lighting. After the first year, it and it’s cuttings lived but were not thriving indoors. So, I banished it to the north facing, front porch of our temperate but dry zone. Well, another year passes and the modest leaves are perkier and begin to fenestrate! After watching a few of your videos, I am planning on transplanting the multiple plants, I apparently made, to their own pots and giving them away as Christmas presents with directions to watch your helpful videos. I will keep one or two in separate pots for myself because your videos have inspired new interest in growing these monstera to their potential.
A mature plant does indeed grow more leaves after pruning. Mine has, and especially if you cut off to propagate the old plant adds new growth. I have seen it. Some leaves won't have the fenestrations however some grow in with the split leaves in place when it unfurls/ opens. I don't cut mine just to cut it only to propagate or some of the smaller new leaves coming in at the bottom.
I have noticed when you keep all the small leaves cut off , it's seems to encourage larger leaves and more fenestrated leaves nstead . Also when you air layer, it seems to not make the plant revert. I'm still playing with this
Thank you for a fantastic and informative video and info. I have a monstera deliciosa that was 9 ft tall and touching the ceiling. I cut the top 2 leaves/nodes off and rooted them which made 2 more plants. I have since cut another 5 leaves/nodes off and the New roots are just starting to form. My plant is now 5ft tall and after 1.5 months has just started forming a new stem. I look forward to sharing my plant with family and friends.
Thank you so much, very helpful! I own a Monstera Albo and was wondering what’s the best soil/proteins to use? I would like to repot her this upcoming spring.
Glad it was helpful. For soil I use a combination of potting soil, orchid bark, and perlite. I have made a video on it if you search my channel name and soil.
Thank you so much! This was very helpful. I'm not sure if this is true but someone recommended to remove the dying/damaged leaves because it attracts thrips.
I had a Monstera, that was producing incedbily long stems that went out of control pretty fast. The leafs stayed pretty small and only slightly fenestrated and it was very succeptable to pests like thrips and wooly aphids. One day I chopped it up and replanted the whole mess and got an uncontrollabe mess of a plant in the timeframe of a year. I mean growing in all directions, not being super healthy.... when it started to get thrips again after the second time of systemic pesticide.... I had to make the choice to let go of the thing. It was a bit sad, but a friend of mine grew a Monstera from seed and I got one. This one is not as much of a climber and produces the classic shapes and fenestrations and is pretty healthy. I'm looking forward to repot it with the info I got from your channel. Your content is awesome. Thanks!
Thank you for getting straight to the cut "no pun" I feel heart broken cutting anything, I say sorry every time. You've summed up all I need to know swiftly. By the way, I'm not one to leave a comment on RUclips. I just dip in and collect info,bill come back to you 🖤🖤
Have a monstera that got root rot, had to cut like 60% of it, put the stems that seem healthy on water and finally is putting new leaves but exactly as you described, like non fenestrated and small ones. But roots look healthy so I'm glad I could save it :)
I cut back the small leaves off my monstera and it's currently growing 4 new leaves 😄 they're larger than the ones I cut and I can see some fenestrations but they're not huge since my monstera is in a very low light place unfortunately. Still happy to see so much new growth 😊
Hi! This video was extremely helpful!! I recently saved a large form Monstera from Home Depot. It has 5 main stems in the pot. 3 stems are definitely juvenile and two were more mature. Unfortunately both leaves and petioles on those stems were so badly damaged (Home Depot ya know) I decided to “dead head” it (I guess that’s the term) so now two stems have no petioles or leaves. I was curious to know if the new growth would return to its juvenile state and this video answered the question. I’m hoping that similar to your plant by the 3rd or 4th leaf it will return back to its original mature leaf size. It’s currently in a 14 inch nursery pot with tons of healthy roots (root bound of course) so crossing my fingers.
Thanks for leaving the comments! Glad you found the vids helpful. It depends on which leaf you cut. If you 'dead headed' the top most leaf, it should continue producing same size/large sized leaves. As long as you didn't cut back too deeply into the petiole.
I did the same thing- a rescue from Suoerstore. I don’t know how many plants it has in there - but so root bound in the bottom we couldn’t separate even if we wanted to!! I just reported and hoping for the best. My last Monstera died after repotting - so I hope I don’t kill this one too!! I don’t know if I overwatered it or it got too much sun.?? It was sad. I have a difficult time getting any sunlight for this baby - as my home is North/south facing with very little sunlight as only indirect. Do you think a grow light would help??
Your vid is good. I'm ready to watch the TV show. I recently bought a Monstera deliciosa or Swiss cheese plant and I love it, so i will definitely refer to this video if or when I need to prune it.
This is an amazing video, it is very informative and helpful. I have a Monstera deliciosa which I bought for my mum as a birthday gift. I added it to my small plant collection and this video has helped me to understand these plants more.
I needed this video! Thank you so much! You have a new subscriber! I inherited my beautiful Monstera Deliciosa from my aunt. Its vines are 10+ feet long. Many leaves are small and not split, but theyre so healthy. I can't bring myself to cut it 'down to size' to make it behave. Lol Its been balled up on a pole in a back corner of her living room. and Im slowly acclimating it to spread out in my Southeast facing bay window. I accept it for the wild child it is. Thanks again. I love your videos.
I kind of gave up on my monstera and nearly left it for dead. Then I had a change of heart and pruned off the dead looking leaves, staked it up and gave it a generous watering. It had pretty much one juvenile and one fenestrated leaf left. To my surprise, it put out a big beautiful new leaf with just a little bit of attention. It also had one of those weird damaged looking baby leaves that looks exactly like yours in the video. I assumed it was from underwatering but maybe from pruning? Anyways, that stem has also put out a nice new juvenile leaf. Hopefully by the end of the summer I have a nice looking plant.
I love your videos particularly this one. I have a 3 yr old monstera and from time to time it will produce perfectly healthy leaves with no fenstrations and a couple of weeks later produce a larger leaf w triple fenstrations. so I have abt 15 leaves and 6 are small green leaves w no fenstrations..ppl always tell me to cut em off I said no way its a perfect leaf. thanks for this video... bc I will not be cutting off a perfectly perfect unfenestrated leaf
My large Monstera gets only indirect light, from a large East facing window, so I have 3 grow lights to the side of it. I did not know it had to have a steak or that there was a back side to it…now I have to steak it and first try to find the back side of it, which is going to be difficult as this plant is pretty big. I bought it at FOODLION for only $18.00! It has made at least 10 new leaves since I bought it in the spring of this year… thanks for your video and all of the great information…now, let’s try to repot this baby…
My one I’ve had since a baby it started dying but I repotted it and moved it to different area and it’s looking so healthy in just a few days it’s very precious as it was a gift to me from my son. I’ll never prune it it’s quite thick anyway and getting big
First, I want to say how much I’ve been enjoying your videos. You’ve got a great delivery snd style. And secondly, I want to share my tale of woe. I had been caring for two massive and neglected monstera deliciosas at work, and when we returned from our pandemic furlough, I asked if I could claim them officially. Neither plant had any support, and the larger plant was in a tragically tiny pot with weird hydrophobic dirt. Both plants were twisty tangles. I collected interesting convoluted branches when I pruned my fruit tree, and staked the smaller plant. This worked perfectly. I brought in a larger pot, all the ingredients for new potting medium and nice twisty boughs, and planned to repot after work. I carefully dug around the roots, and removed the old soil. As the plant was taller than me, I was careful to support the weight of the plant on my back. Everything was going well. And then the entire plant snapped off. I had a massive new pot filled with new potting medium, one little baby plant, and the broken remains of my beautiful plant. Since it had tons of aerial roots, and since I didn’t feel like I had a lot of options, I stuck the broken-off stalk back in the pot, and staked it as carefully as I could. I’m hoping there’s a chance that it will re-root. And if it doesn’t, I guess I’ll stick a smaller plant in my massive new pot. I wish I could have had a couple of helpers. But at least this way I only have myself to blame.
Wow. Tough break (pun intended). Sorry about your plant. Monstera breaking off is actually pretty common. I'm all for taking top cuttings periodically and re planting them in soil. If you're going to be growing these for long term eventually your 1" stem won't be able to support these giant 2 foot leaves. Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad you like the vids.
@@KillThisPlant These two plants were such I mess when I adopted them. I’m going to remain hopeful, but I may also buy a backup, just in case. Thanks again for the great videos.
Hey Lee! thank you so much for posting this video. It was very timely for me, as I just combined 2 of my monstera's into one large pot. Its looking a bit gangly and I've been contemplating cutting it back. Glad I came across your chanbel! I will follow you I'm looking forward to more videos. Be well.
From one plant parent to another....I loved this well thought out video. Although, I was surprised to hear that clipping the plant back will not help it's growth. Very interested, can't wait to find out why that they do it.
Glad you liked the video. Plants have different levels of Apical dominance. Strong Apical dominance will result in plants never branching when cut. Only one new growth point. Plants with weak Apical dominance will branch and give you that full bushy look.
Came here to check whether to prune a yellow leaf and was not disappointed. You hear both anecdotally! That the leaf is sapping resources and should be pruned and that the plant is reabsorbing resources from it and it should be left alone.
The leaf is loosing vigor due to age and the plant is cutting resources to the leaf, reabsorbing nutrients. This is why old leaves die off, And the plant has to make new ones.
So if I prune one of the older lower leaves that is sort of mangled and tiny and wonky-looking after I have two or three larger, more beautiful leaves above it, it will not cause my new leaf growth to revert back… Correct?
The hardest part about monstera is waiting for new leaves to grow. I got my single nodes to propogate in October. They did nothing all winter, then in March we finally got some growth and it's been 1 leaf every month since then. All 3 of my vines are synced too lol so its super fun when the leaves come in.
@@KillThisPlant, Lee, My Monsteras and I live in sunny Southern California. I've had these multiple-plants-in-one- pot for about 2-3 years, during which I had it repotted and a cedar plank support added. It routinely created a new leaf about every 2-3 weeks, each one bigger than the last. When this Fall of 2023 transitioned to Winter, I noticed the leaf production grind to a halt. At first I was concerned I'd done something wrong. I checked my watering technique, (no problems, no signs of root rot or anything.) Then I noticed the stems of many leaves shrinking a bit -- not in length, but diameter. My first thought was Dormancy: the leaves are all deep green. The light source is from windows. THAT'S what cue'd me into the idea the plants had become Dormant......or do my plants need additional light sources? I want to move the pot closer to the windows. Unfortunately that won't work because my 98 yr old mom doesn't like the look of it elsewhere in that room. (My room is small and dark). Mom thinks the plants are "too big for the house now." I suppose I might need to add grow lighting to my room and move her there. Have you any information about dormancy in Monstera? Am I off track considering this? The living room does get more hours of light in Spring & Summer. The light angle is such that it receives direct light during the morning hours. Mom keeps the household temps set between 77°F --- 82°F 24/7. She's cold all the time; I'm usually much too warm. I keep my window open and the Central Heat register closed in my space. 🌿🌿
@@OceanSwimmer Monsteras don't go dormant. They are either getting enough light to produce leaves quickly or not enough light (in some cases, not getting enough light to survive). IF you want your plant to continue producing leaves at the rate it was in the summer you'll have to supplement with growlights.
Thank you. I can't get enough monstera information as I am a new owner. I did radically cut back my philodendron bipinnatifidum as the trunk was getting too serpentine and the size was taking up a 1/4 of my room. I'd had it since I was 15 and I was well into my 30s by now. 😬 It had a ton of rooted aerials so I got a sharp knife and cut it mid trunk, removing the entire root ball. But it did great. I still own it at age 59. 💕
I realised my Monstera was not dropping any leaves and none of the leaves was going yellow like with my other plants so I said...I guess no pruning! Glad to hear that was a wise decision :)
Can you please make some videos on rubber plant care. I bought a rubber plant and a new leaf has unfurled with half the leaf missing and slightly black at the edges where the missing half was. Not sure what’s wrong with it?
That was very informative (and funny) - thank you! But I constantly had to watch the smoke on the bottom right of the video. What is happening there? Is there a humidifier?
If you're looking for more info on the differences between a top cutting and a mid cutting after you make some cuts to your plant, this video will explain it perfectly.
ruclips.net/video/gbHrRW4xfW8/видео.html
Thank you!! idk if anyone else feels this way, but I wish I could go back and tell 15-year-old me bored in biology class to pay attention. I never would have thought in 10 years, I’d grow a collection of plants and actually find botany interesting
Like 7 years ago I regularly stated I would never own a house for fear of killing them. I was dating a girl at the time and when it came up she looked like she would break up with me on the spot. We're still together though and when we eventually moved in together fitting her and my collection in the same space was by far the hardest part. I have no idea what switched in me but I freaking love plants!
They didn’t teach us any of this sht don’t worry
Thanks Molly 🙏🏼
@@hongkongboyfriend1051 😂
Same I should have gone into this field
Wish I could shout this, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE!! I've only seen a few of your vids (but MANYYYY other plant parents vids) and so far honestly, you seem like one of the only plant people online that is actually teaching me a lotttt that i didnt know. I'm not sure if anyone else would agree but most plant people on YT all say the same things that most of us plant parents already know.
Thank you for your work and distribution of it because I can tell that the info you give us is well-researched and must be very time-consuming to find, make sense of, then condense into short, bitesize videos for us. Again, YOU'RE INCREDIBLE! Thank you! :)
nodding along so aggressively after taking so many plant courses through my degree. thanks for such an informative and to the point video!!
You're a natural teacher and it's effortless to listen to you. Subscribed!
Wow, thank you!
I just found your channel, so glad I did. you are so knowledgeable about plants. I've been a plant parent for years, and I'm always opened to learning as much as I can about my " babies" to make them happy and to thrive! thank you so much for your videos😊
I'm glad you found me! Thanks for liking the video
Really appreciate the humor and delivery of this info
Found your channel on tik tok. You have such a nice energy. Very straight to the point video, but still entertaining! Thank you so much
Thanks for coming over to RUclips!
Thank you so much for this information!! I've been removing yellow leaves from all my plants. I'm glad to learn that doesn't help them, and that as long as there is green they're photo senthizing!
Thank you for keeping a brief straight short to-the-point because all the other videos they seem to be talking about everything but the plant 😅 lifesaver thank you! 🙏🙏
Not the “oh my glob” 😂 I felt it in my soul when you cut it 😢😅 This was so very helpful! Thank you ☺️
The hardest thing about monsteras and-as I call them-“pile plants” (dragontail, deliciosa, fuzzy petiole etc) is that they don’t vine in the sense that a heart leaf or even an adonsonai does. They just pile up on top of themselves so trimming can be weird and u end up w a big stretch of thick stem w no leaves. Pruning is just different when u can’t bush it out. I just give ‘em something to climb and clip off any leaves I find unappealing. Let the energy focus on new growth.
After spending a couple hours watching random videos on monsteras I found your channel and got all my questions answered. Taking those first baby steps towards becoming a better plant parent.
I was just about to trim mine, so glad this video popped up!
SERIOUSLY….. you have no idea how helpful you are! I’ve turned so many friends over to your channel 🎉 you’re SO knowledgeable ☺️thank you 😊
Thanks for shouting me out to your friends!
I just love you Lee. Thanks for everything.
Finally! A RUclipsr who suggests that you subscribe at the end of the video AFTER you've seen the content. What is it with those RUclipsrs who urge you to subscribe BEFORE you've even seen what they have to say?
Glad to hear my Monstera isn't crazy but growing as intended (got it as a cutling, it's just one stem, no branches). I've been continuously surprised with how each leave kept getting bigger and bigger - I think we reached max size now as the last two/three leaves seem quite similar. They're also freakin huge!
You are amazing and so, SO helpful for plant dummies (like me!). The information is so perfectly put together!
My monstera said thank you:)
I was gifted a monstera 3 years ago, and it grew so much. I had to cut a lot of its vine last month because it was just looong vine with no leaves (or leaves that had fallen , because they got burnt or yellow) and now I see the difference, it really seems to have helped the plant get healthier ! Hope it will last :))
Love your video style. Direct, to the point, well shot. Subscribed!
So happy to find your videos, I have a struggling monstera that I had no idea how to care for, this is all such helpful info!
Truth be said, I had to trim back a leggy monstera with small leaves two years ago.
The monstera was abandoned in my care, 🙄.
I planted it’s cuttings into its pot, gave it some twiggy support and what I thought was bright, indirect lighting.
After the first year, it and it’s cuttings lived but were not thriving indoors.
So, I banished it to the north facing, front porch of our temperate but dry zone.
Well, another year passes and the modest leaves are perkier and begin to fenestrate!
After watching a few of your videos, I am planning on transplanting the multiple plants, I apparently made, to their own pots and giving them away as Christmas presents with directions to watch your helpful videos.
I will keep one or two in separate pots for myself because your videos have inspired new interest in growing these monstera to their potential.
I'm sooo into you!!!! I'm gonna go binge all your vids! You are adorable, interesting and slightly funny! Thanks for teaching me plant stuff!!
'Slightly funny'?! 🥲 thanks.
Hahaha! Don’t cry! I mean, your humor is slight! Not like you’re going in hardcore for the laughs!@@KillThisPlant
You are absolutely lovely! I like the way you present the topic in depth while keeping it succinct. From an old plant lady...
Thank you so much 🌱
Your video just popped up on my homepage, and so happy to have discovered your channel! You've got such a lovely energy, and very informative 😊💚
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Awwww, love your energy! this video made me so happy!
Thank you so much!!
Bought a monstera recently - this is a good Vite of knowledge! Thanks !!!!
My 👀 got extremely large when you cut that beautiful leaf! 🍃 Great info once again, thank you!
A mature plant does indeed grow more leaves after pruning. Mine has, and especially if you cut off to propagate the old plant adds new growth. I have seen it. Some leaves won't have the fenestrations however some grow in with the split leaves in place when it unfurls/ opens. I don't cut mine just to cut it only to propagate or some of the smaller new leaves coming in at the bottom.
I have noticed when you keep all the small leaves cut off , it's seems to encourage larger leaves and more fenestrated leaves nstead . Also when you air layer, it seems to not make the plant revert. I'm still playing with this
Thank you for a fantastic and informative video and info. I have a monstera deliciosa that was 9 ft tall and touching the ceiling. I cut the top 2 leaves/nodes off and rooted them which made 2 more plants. I have since cut another 5 leaves/nodes off and the New roots are just starting to form. My plant is now 5ft tall and after 1.5 months has just started forming a new stem. I look forward to sharing my plant with family and friends.
very kind of you to share the cuttings!
This my new favorite channel now ❤
I am SO glad I found you!! So useful
Thank you so much, very helpful! I own a Monstera Albo and was wondering what’s the best soil/proteins to use? I would like to repot her this upcoming spring.
Glad it was helpful. For soil I use a combination of potting soil, orchid bark, and perlite. I have made a video on it if you search my channel name and soil.
@@KillThisPlant Thank you so much for your help, will definitely be checking that video out 😊
Thank you! I was about to go ham with my snippers. And thanks for the new (to me) word "fenestrations."
Just came across this channel. I subscribed just because of the channel name lol. It's glorious, I love it!
Thanks for being one of the top content creators of Monstera guides and tips! I have learnt a lot from your videos!
I am so happy I found ur page. I got one of these guys and feel so intimidated by it. 😂
U are so calming, i like ur vibe and thank u for ur helpful Tricks
Thank you so much! This was very helpful.
I'm not sure if this is true but someone recommended to remove the dying/damaged leaves because it attracts thrips.
Thrips, I'm not sure. Maybe not because they don't thrive on decay but removing leaves with an active infestation is a good idea
I had a Monstera, that was producing incedbily long stems that went out of control pretty fast. The leafs stayed pretty small and only slightly fenestrated and it was very succeptable to pests like thrips and wooly aphids. One day I chopped it up and replanted the whole mess and got an uncontrollabe mess of a plant in the timeframe of a year. I mean growing in all directions, not being super healthy.... when it started to get thrips again after the second time of systemic pesticide.... I had to make the choice to let go of the thing. It was a bit sad, but a friend of mine grew a Monstera from seed and I got one. This one is not as much of a climber and produces the classic shapes and fenestrations and is pretty healthy.
I'm looking forward to repot it with the info I got from your channel. Your content is awesome. Thanks!
As soon as you chopped that leaf and had me cracking with the oh my god I HAD to hit that subscribe button 😂❤
Thank you for getting straight to the cut "no pun" I feel heart broken cutting anything, I say sorry every time. You've summed up all I need to know swiftly. By the way, I'm not one to leave a comment on RUclips. I just dip in and collect info,bill come back to you 🖤🖤
I appreciate you leaving a comment!
literally advice on one of my favorite plants yes please!
Thank you so much! I feel you have knowledge that I don't find elsewhere, thanks 😘😘🌱🌱🌱
Thanks soo much! This video was very helpful and informative
Have a monstera that got root rot, had to cut like 60% of it, put the stems that seem healthy on water and finally is putting new leaves but exactly as you described, like non fenestrated and small ones. But roots look healthy so I'm glad I could save it :)
I cut back the small leaves off my monstera and it's currently growing 4 new leaves 😄 they're larger than the ones I cut and I can see some fenestrations but they're not huge since my monstera is in a very low light place unfortunately. Still happy to see so much new growth 😊
Somehow youtube knew i just got a monstera! Thanks for the tips
Hi! This video was extremely helpful!! I recently saved a large form Monstera from Home Depot. It has 5 main stems in the pot. 3 stems are definitely juvenile and two were more mature. Unfortunately both leaves and petioles on those stems were so badly damaged (Home Depot ya know) I decided to “dead head” it (I guess that’s the term) so now two stems have no petioles or leaves. I was curious to know if the new growth would return to its juvenile state and this video answered the question.
I’m hoping that similar to your plant by the 3rd or 4th leaf it will return back to its original mature leaf size.
It’s currently in a 14 inch nursery pot with tons of healthy roots (root bound of course) so crossing my fingers.
I just watched another video and you showed your monstera stump with two growth points so now I have even more hope lol
Thanks for leaving the comments! Glad you found the vids helpful.
It depends on which leaf you cut. If you 'dead headed' the top most leaf, it should continue producing same size/large sized leaves. As long as you didn't cut back too deeply into the petiole.
Home Depot never has good plants! They don’t take care of them. If you ask for discount for a shitty plant you have to bring back to life they refuse😡
I did the same thing- a rescue from Suoerstore. I don’t know how many plants it has in there - but so root bound in the bottom we couldn’t separate even if we wanted to!! I just reported and hoping for the best. My last Monstera died after repotting - so I hope I don’t kill this one too!! I don’t know if I overwatered it or it got too much sun.?? It was sad. I have a difficult time getting any sunlight for this baby - as my home is North/south facing with very little sunlight as only indirect. Do you think a grow light would help??
I feel like i've found the MKBHD of the plant world, I love it! Videos that are concise, and full of great information that is easy to consume.
Your vid is good. I'm ready to watch the TV show. I recently bought a Monstera deliciosa or Swiss cheese plant and I love it, so i will definitely refer to this video if or when I need to prune it.
This is an amazing video, it is very informative and helpful. I have a Monstera deliciosa which I bought for my mum as a birthday gift. I added it to my small plant collection and this video has helped me to understand these plants more.
So nice of you. Hope your mom likes it.
Thank you so much, very informative! Short and to the point
I needed this video! Thank you so much! You have a new subscriber!
I inherited my beautiful Monstera Deliciosa from my aunt. Its vines are 10+ feet long. Many leaves are small and not split, but theyre so healthy. I can't bring myself to cut it 'down to size' to make it behave. Lol Its been balled up on a pole in a back corner of her living room. and Im slowly acclimating it to spread out in my Southeast facing bay window. I accept it for the wild child it is. Thanks again. I love your videos.
Thanks for the sub! I hope your plant gets some new split leaves soon with its new light. 🌱
Mine grew to fit its name. I had to prune it back to get the pot back into the house for winter. Great tips!
wow, must be huge
Great info... thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this video!! I’ve been trying to figure out if I should prune some stems and this video had so much useful info
I kind of gave up on my monstera and nearly left it for dead. Then I had a change of heart and pruned off the dead looking leaves, staked it up and gave it a generous watering. It had pretty much one juvenile and one fenestrated leaf left. To my surprise, it put out a big beautiful new leaf with just a little bit of attention. It also had one of those weird damaged looking baby leaves that looks exactly like yours in the video. I assumed it was from underwatering but maybe from pruning? Anyways, that stem has also put out a nice new juvenile leaf. Hopefully by the end of the summer I have a nice looking plant.
That's great! I hope it grows well.
I love your videos particularly this one. I have a 3 yr old monstera and from time to time it will produce perfectly healthy leaves with no fenstrations and a couple of weeks later produce a larger leaf w triple fenstrations. so I have abt 15 leaves and 6 are small green leaves w no fenstrations..ppl always tell me to cut em off I said no way its a perfect leaf. thanks for this video... bc I will not be cutting off a perfectly perfect unfenestrated leaf
I love your videos. So informative & nice.
Thank you!
i just found your channel and omg love your videos so much
Yay! Thank you!
My large Monstera gets only indirect light, from a large East facing window, so I have 3 grow lights to the side of it. I did not know it had to have a steak or that there was a back side to it…now I have to steak it and first try to find the back side of it, which is going to be difficult as this plant is pretty big. I bought it at FOODLION for only $18.00! It has made at least 10 new leaves since I bought it in the spring of this year… thanks for your video and all of the great information…now, let’s try to repot this baby…
My one I’ve had since a baby it started dying but I repotted it and moved it to different area and it’s looking so healthy in just a few days it’s very precious as it was a gift to me from my son. I’ll never prune it it’s quite thick anyway and getting big
Excellent info! Thanks so much :)
Really useful to learn, thanks!!
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First, I want to say how much I’ve been enjoying your videos. You’ve got a great delivery snd style.
And secondly, I want to share my tale of woe. I had been caring for two massive and neglected monstera deliciosas at work, and when we returned from our pandemic furlough, I asked if I could claim them officially.
Neither plant had any support, and the larger plant was in a tragically tiny pot with weird hydrophobic dirt. Both plants were twisty tangles.
I collected interesting convoluted branches when I pruned my fruit tree, and staked the smaller plant. This worked perfectly.
I brought in a larger pot, all the ingredients for new potting medium and nice twisty boughs, and planned to repot after work. I carefully dug around the roots, and removed the old soil. As the plant was taller than me, I was careful to support the weight of the plant on my back. Everything was going well.
And then the entire plant snapped off.
I had a massive new pot filled with new potting medium, one little baby plant, and the broken remains of my beautiful plant.
Since it had tons of aerial roots, and since I didn’t feel like I had a lot of options, I stuck the broken-off stalk back in the pot, and staked it as carefully as I could. I’m hoping there’s a chance that it will re-root. And if it doesn’t, I guess I’ll stick a smaller plant in my massive new pot.
I wish I could have had a couple of helpers. But at least this way I only have myself to blame.
Wow. Tough break (pun intended).
Sorry about your plant. Monstera breaking off is actually pretty common. I'm all for taking top cuttings periodically and re planting them in soil. If you're going to be growing these for long term eventually your 1" stem won't be able to support these giant 2 foot leaves.
Thanks for leaving a comment! Glad you like the vids.
@@KillThisPlant These two plants were such I mess when I adopted them. I’m going to remain hopeful, but I may also buy a backup, just in case.
Thanks again for the great videos.
Hey Lee! thank you so much for posting this video. It was very timely for me, as I just combined 2 of my monstera's into one large pot. Its looking a bit gangly and I've been contemplating cutting it back. Glad I came across your chanbel! I will follow you I'm looking forward to more videos. Be well.
Thank you. 🌱
Thank you for this info!!! Wow you are extremely knowledgeable. New subscriber.
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I deleted my comment so I don’t misinform other people but thanks for informing me! Keep up the good work!
No worries.
Wow! Thank you…this explains all the little half dead new leaves on my otherwise beauty monstera.
From one plant parent to another....I loved this well thought out video.
Although, I was surprised to hear that clipping the plant back will not help it's growth. Very interested, can't wait to find out why that they do it.
Glad you liked the video.
Plants have different levels of Apical dominance. Strong Apical dominance will result in plants never branching when cut. Only one new growth point.
Plants with weak Apical dominance will branch and give you that full bushy look.
Came here to check whether to prune a yellow leaf and was not disappointed. You hear both anecdotally! That the leaf is sapping resources and should be pruned and that the plant is reabsorbing resources from it and it should be left alone.
The leaf is loosing vigor due to age and the plant is cutting resources to the leaf, reabsorbing nutrients. This is why old leaves die off, And the plant has to make new ones.
So if I prune one of the older lower leaves that is sort of mangled and tiny and wonky-looking after I have two or three larger, more beautiful leaves above it, it will not cause my new leaf growth to revert back… Correct?
correct.
@@KillThisPlant thought so. you da bomb.
Thank you so much!!
The hardest part about monstera is waiting for new leaves to grow.
I got my single nodes to propogate in October. They did nothing all winter, then in March we finally got some growth and it's been 1 leaf every month since then. All 3 of my vines are synced too lol so its super fun when the leaves come in.
I love when that happens.
@@KillThisPlant,
Lee, My Monsteras and I live in sunny Southern California.
I've had these multiple-plants-in-one-
pot for about 2-3 years, during which I had it repotted and a cedar plank support added. It routinely created a new leaf about every 2-3 weeks, each one bigger than the last.
When this Fall of 2023 transitioned to Winter, I noticed the leaf production grind to a halt. At first I was concerned I'd done something wrong. I checked my watering technique, (no problems, no signs of root rot or anything.)
Then I noticed the stems of many leaves shrinking a bit -- not in length, but diameter.
My first thought was Dormancy: the leaves are all deep green. The light source is from windows. THAT'S what cue'd me into the idea the plants had become Dormant......or do my plants need additional light sources?
I want to move the pot closer to the windows. Unfortunately that won't work because my 98 yr old mom doesn't like the look of it elsewhere in that room.
(My room is small and dark). Mom thinks the plants are "too big for the house now."
I suppose I might need to add grow lighting to my room and move her there.
Have you any information about dormancy in Monstera?
Am I off track considering this? The living room does get more hours of light in Spring & Summer. The light angle is such that it receives direct light during the morning hours.
Mom keeps the household temps set between 77°F --- 82°F 24/7. She's cold all the time; I'm usually much too warm. I keep my window open and the Central Heat register closed in my space. 🌿🌿
@@OceanSwimmer Monsteras don't go dormant. They are either getting enough light to produce leaves quickly or not enough light (in some cases, not getting enough light to survive). IF you want your plant to continue producing leaves at the rate it was in the summer you'll have to supplement with growlights.
Thank you. I can't get enough monstera information as I am a new owner. I did radically cut back my philodendron bipinnatifidum as the trunk was getting too serpentine and the size was taking up a 1/4 of my room. I'd had it since I was 15 and I was well into my 30s by now. 😬 It had a ton of rooted aerials so I got a sharp knife and cut it mid trunk, removing the entire root ball. But it did great. I still own it at age 59. 💕
Wow. That's very impressive!
Thank you 🥰
No problem!
Thank you! Really helpful
My heart broke when you cut that leaf! Monster!!! 😂
Oops 😆
Thanks for this video. I have had a monstera that keeps growing but will not split.
Great video, thank you for the info! I was wondering if the new leaf coming in looking like a chunk was missing was normal.
I realised my Monstera was not dropping any leaves and none of the leaves was going yellow like with my other plants so I said...I guess no pruning! Glad to hear that was a wise decision :)
I was listening so intently and then the snip and omg got me 😂 ✂️ 🪴
An easy sub! Great energies bro
Thanks for the sub. Appreciate it.
Can you please make some videos on rubber plant care. I bought a rubber plant and a new leaf has unfurled with half the leaf missing and slightly black at the edges where the missing half was. Not sure what’s wrong with it?
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2:28 he demonstrated what NOT to do,the reaction!😂😂😂
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Thank you for great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Hi, should I be cutting the leaves off that don’t have frustrations
If you remove leaves from your plant it will grow slower.
thank you so much!!
That was very informative (and funny) - thank you!
But I constantly had to watch the smoke on the bottom right of the video. What is happening there? Is there a humidifier?
Yes, that is my humidifier. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Super informative thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
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