5 Things Monsteras HATE That Might Surprise You 

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1. Don't Mist Monstera. 2. Stems should Not be buried in Soil, don't plant too deep 3. No Gravel at the bottom, Water should drain properly. Root Rot. 4. Remove dust regularl

There was a plant store near me that had fans blowing and the plants were amazing. Sometimes plants can drown in their own oxygen if the air isn't circulating. Try a small oscillating fan to blow a breeze in your plant room. You'll be amazed at how they respond. I have mine on until 6pm and turn it off to mimic when the wind naturally dies down.

I hope there are not already countless comments saying the same: Unless monsteras are really special plants, they should (as most other plants) have stomata only on the underside of the leaves. The upper side, where dust settles, usually is closed and protected by a waxy layer, so water/CO2/H2O transfer over the leave top-side should be minimal. I would assume the bigger issue is partial shading through dust (similar to dirty PV panels) and dust being a potential infestation breeding ground?

Hey, I do enjoy your videos immensely! Thank you for spending your time & energy making them. You are very informative, inspiring, & even funny. Keep up the great work!

With each video you post, I learn something new! Thank you for your time and informative videos!

Thank you for this. I just rescued a Monstera adansonii from Walmart (three leaves, and gangly looking stems. Poor baby got taken back by someone and neglected). I just repotted it and gave it water. So far it's starting to perk up. Hopefully it'll grow more than three leaves lol

Great video friend. Very well done, clear and concise, editing is done well, and the illustrations added are great.

Love Monstera. Have a replant planned this week for my giant girl. Great reminder about burying too deep. I believe the “new” verbiage- slits are “pinnations” and the holes are “fenestration”. Makes sense since we call epipremnum pinnatum that because the leaves split. Horticulture is always interesting but can drive ya crazy. 😂

i appreciate content like this as i see too much BS instagram reels of houseplant owners doing so many unnecessary things. KEEP IT SIMPLE. cheers!

I am lucky to have a monstera deliciosa, the one that gets big leaves, not the borsigiana. But the thing is back when i didn't know much about plants, I overwatered the plant and the leaves died. I chopped them off and waited for new leaves. Once new leaves appeared i was so excited. But then while i was moving another big plant, it broke the new leaves off. So its been 3 years since i first overwatered it and it only has a tiny sprout growing from the main stem. I noticed the monstera deliciosa has to get used to the condition it is in for a while before pushing out new leaves. Wish me luck.

I just purchased a Monstera Deliciosa, and these tips will come in handy. Cheers!👍🏼Coincidentally, I recently purchased the exact same ThermoPro device to check the humidity and temperature of my room where my plants are situated. 🤣

Love all your videos. You have been so helpful.

I have 2 monsteras in soil and 3 in water. All thriving! Love them. Thank you for valuable tips!

Thanks for the video. My monstera is growing in water and so far seems a very happy camper. Good to know about the fenestrations and perforations being related to light. I guess mine is getting enough as a brand new leaf just came out and it LOADED! Also good to know about not burying the stems. I have been careful to just have enough water to cover the very bottom of stem and for the roots. Growing a monstera in water allows me to use a tall, elegant vase which gives good support. The only problem is a glass vase that size is HEAVY😅.

Thanks for another great video. PS for those with the negativity: not everything thing works for every person. I don’t agree with everything every content maker says but really we can all be kind. Just scroll on by.

Sheffield: “Burying the stems of a Monstera too deep can be a problem because it can cause the stem to rot” Me: Stares nervously at all 3 plants with buried stems 😬. I’ll have to tackle that this weekend

Thank you for the information, I used to spray my Monstera with water in the summer and started putting the aerial roots in the soil, not anymore, I've taken your advice, all of my plants now get spring water or still water and not tap water because of the chlorine, my Monstera had to be separated when I bought it because I noticed it was going brown and soggy, luckily I did the right thing and I split it, now I'm getting bigger leaves with fenistrations in them, thank you for your advice. 🌱🌱.

Sitting here looking at my baby because I just got done misting it 😭

Thank-you, ❤ excellent post, very informative

What fantastic advice got to be the best channel on RU-vid about monstera

I just found your channel, thank you for the tips ♥ My Mother pass away almost 3 months ago and I'm taking care of her garden now, but I'm new in plants stuff. She had a monstera who was growing in a pot where I couldnt see the soil, it was all roots everywhere and the plant was all over the sides trying to survive. I give her some pots for the children and covered her a bit, because she was yellow for the sun. I think she needs another home soon but I'm kinda scared 😂 thank you for your vid ❤ ill check the others aswell (and sorry for my English, im still trying to improve writing it 😅)

It's good to know that not to bury the air roots. I'm thinking of doing that. Thank goodness I didn't do it yet.

I bought a replacement/recused a monstera 'swiss cheese' from a big box store after my sister's cat killed my first one but a few months later it dropped all of its leaves and thought it would grow new ones in a few days but a few days turn into several months but it was still green, I took your advice about resetting a plant to see if it would help it bounce back and I can confirm they can from a hard reset

I have a ginormous monstera now but I couldn’t understand why the leaves have yellowing. I think the gravel in the bottom of the pot caused it to get too much water. Thanks for your tips!

Thanks for your great video 😺 I love my monsteras❤

OMG!! I never knew that!! Thank you sooo much!!

Awesome info thank you! I feel spoiled. We grabbed one from Lowes before I was even a plant guy. Literally threw it in a big pot and water it. My wife grabbed it and I made sure to water it because she never did. Now it has huge leaves with perforations. I didn't even know those were moderately difficult to come by haha.

Fluctuations in temp and humidity causes too much stress, no need for a humidifier or misting just group lots of plants together and give them good light, they will soon get used to the conditions as long as they’re not constantly fluctuating

Another great video. Thank you! I have a baby Monstera and so far so good. I was going to mist it tomorrow. No more misting 😬🥴😂

Excellent video simple effective..

I think one of the trickiest things with plants is that we keep them in our houses and look for tips and tricks, but everyone's house is different (temperature, light etc etc). I started misting my monstera and quickly got a few brown spots, so i stopped and now it is happier than ever and chucking out new leaves left, right and centre! Its such a learning curve, but incredibly enjoyable! 🪴

IIRC the stomata closes when plants are misted which actually can contribute to slower stunted growth as well since the stomata opens and closes due to weather and ligh. I'm not sure if a foliar feed is actually doing anything either. I see it recommended on fertilizer bottles but I would be concerned about burning my plants if I was to soak them down for a foliar feed regularly. I personally only spray a plant with room temp water when I'm cleaning it. I try to not leave any moisture in the crevices BC I've seen how fast an orchid will die from rot caused by water stuck in the crown.

I took cutting and left in a vase with water. When it did grow another leaf. It had perforations (holes) where as the mother plant doesn’t. It’ll be interesting to see the next leaf.

Another great post. I have a beautiful monstera that needs a new pot and post. Now I know exactly how to do it. And how not to do it.

I have 22 M.Deliciosa seedlings(about 2 inches tall) and I really want to grow them into a big happy jungle. Thanks for all the great info...... Subbed.

😃Hi Shef Sir I just wanted to know that which is your favorite plant on the EARTH!!!! My fav is Spathiphyllum Wallisii And Amazing voice with a great video.😃

Excellent video and information. Really enjoy your channel. Thanks much!

Hey, can you let me know what you think of this: For humidity, I separate the pot from the water overflow tray by a couple inches so the water isn’t seeping back into the pot. I leave the water standing so that when it evaporates it rises into the plant. I am going to try experimenting with pebbles in the tray so I can just sit the pot directly on the tray. Thanks in advance!

Monstera (and other houseplants) actually appreciate a regular misting if you add some fertilizer. Some nutrients cannot be taken up with the roots and are only absorbed trough the leaves!

i agreed to him. i also experience it to my self. when your in hot place after you take a bath. you feel even more hot you feel not comfortable at all. that's gonna feel your plants if you mist them.

Good advice . Thankyou .

thanks for sharing, I am waiting for mine to fenestrate. It seems to be healthy but I got it in October but has been really gloomy in Michigan, hopefully by the spring time.

Thanks ❤

I thought the point of gravel in the bottom was to keep the SOIL from sitting in the water and staying all soppy

I'll admit I'm guilty of putting a piece of broken clay pot over the bottom holes before adding soil. I figured it kept dirt from just coming right back out the hole. I assume I should stop doing that. Love ya, man

So happy i found this channel, I am happy with my Monstera, it is 3 years old now.

My sister won a huge wandering Jew and I didn't notice anything on it. I took cuttings and put the under the lights with my kratky veggies when I added nutrients to the jars. Kratky is fill and ignore for days. By the time I checked the jars all were infested with aphids. I trashed the veggies and made a bucket of 50%/50% water and 70% alcohol as it kills on contact. The full plants went in and rinsed right away, yes some leaves burned. I also sprayed it in a weaker solution for a few days, I did the same for the cuttings. I finally made a soapy mix. I live on the 3rd floor and last year this happened too, it may might not have been the wandering Jew. The windows are shut and blocked. I took some melted coconut oil and put a thin layer over everything. I found out aphids hate catnip and mint. I have 9 going across the window sill, two in my bearded dragon tank as she got aphids too as I give her veggies as plants. I also started nine mint from seeds, in mason jars to also surround the veggies when I start again. I'm just happy that the aphids never went to my pothos. Sorry for the book but aphids scare me!

I bought two young monsteras (15 inches tall) two months ago and they've done nothing but sulk. Not dying but not growing. One had a slightly yellow leaf. One thing I've found is that plants bought on eBay, as these were, are often shipped in a heavy, wet soil, which means they're probably an exception to your advice not to repot right away. Yesterday I finally repotted these into separate pots with a light, airy potting mix and found that the one with the yellow leaf had some root rot (now trimmed off). I wiped off the leaves, moved them closer to a SE facing window, and turned on the ceiling fan. This morning the leaves are all curled backwards. :( This is the only plant I'm still having trouble with.

I am not sure my comment will be seen by the host as there are 250 of them here now. I loved this video and found it very valuable as I have never had Monsteras before and wanted to know how to propagate the ones I just got. I do have a large collection of thriving tropical plants at home. However, there are two statements ('things') that are mentioned here that I found incorrect from the point of view of the simple laws of physics. 1. I hate the pots with holes in them as they, on occasion, create a mess. The host here (I could not find his name, sorry) states that if the gravel is added to the bottom of a pot the water will "sit there" and make the roots rot. Unless the water is continuously added to the pot and the topsoil is not allowed to get dry, it will not stay at the bottom. Water has a VERY high surface tension, which makes it rise along any narrow channel it finds in its vicinity, like the ones in the soil and between the little pebbles. So when the pot is watered, it pours to the bottom and then in a few days, as the top of the soil gets dry from the surface evaporation while the roots absorb most of it , the leftover water from the bottom will gradually rise to the surface and eventually evaporate too. All this method needs is diligence and determination to make sure you don't overwater. 2. "Misting is very bad for the leaves" (maybe, I have no idea if this is true or not). However, what is wrong in this statement is that the water will evaporate from the leaves and not change the moisture content above the leaves. This is wrong. Unless, there is a strong wind constantly blowing in the room (I hope not), the water from the leaves will evaporate and its vapor will hover above the leaves for quite a while creating (or rather, adding to) the microclimate that these leaves themselves continually engender---that is, the temperature and humidity that are different from the rest of the room. This is analogous to the microclimate around our skin---all live organisms have this. Eventually, of course, this micro-humidity will also move upward (especially, if the room is cold) which will add to the overall humidity in a dry room (most of our indoor spaces are very dry due to either heating or A/C). I suspect that in the case when some parasitic organism settles on the leaves inside these water droplets, the cause will be overwatering---but MOST IMPOSTANTLY, the infection present in the room. If there are no infectious agents, there is no infection. Most of the yeasts and other microorganisms in the indoor air are friendly and not pathological. Naturally, if the plant is sickly and weak, its chance of catching the infection will increase. Just like with human diseases.

I was always scared of having Monsteras because we use an A/A heat pump and our humidity is around 25% almost year round. Turns out both my large form and my various small forms do just fine and are the least fussy plants I currently own (maybe except my ZZ collection). I struggle more keeping succulents happy.

Awesome video, but I do believe that most of the stomata are on the underside of leaves fyi. Obviously, dusting is still a must!

The misting point was quite revealing! I've been growing/tending houseplants for decades and Ive always misted them - certainly monsteras that I've had. But what you say does make sense. The problem I face now though, is that if I suddenly stop misting... won't this kick my plants out of their routine/expectency to be misted???

Absolutely about water not conducting from soil to gravel unless saturate. Scientific fact that can be verified by any soil scientist. Makes me so happy to hear someone who lays this fact out. Great job!!!

I agree with you 💯

But my monstera leaves were yellowing and dying until I started misting them daily. They have been thriving since.. growing more leaves, and they are not yellowing.

I really like this channel. I changed long time ago from earth to Seramis, when plants always died after done years. Now I understand why (and why Seramis solved this problem). The oven thing I'm baffled about is the "need" to gave perforation in Monsters leaves. I have many huge monsteras and of course you want fenestration, but otherwise a healthy plant is more important than having the "perfect" shape, isn't it?

I don't know but the day I started misting my monsteras, they have started growing very fast.

i used to live in a seaside town where the average humidity was around 70%, missed my chance to have tropical plants then... It is true, there was mold EVERYWHERE

I have my monstera in a washing machine tab in full sun the soil is hard as a rock never fertiliser and beautiful as any RU-vid video

ok, im commenting right now after ONLY the intro, coz my plant dude has got me absolutely scared that thie entiee list is just going to be me and my monsteras relationship! 🙈 ok, here we go! 😅😆

Can do tips for begonias as weel thanks in advance. Thanks for all the tips ❤❤

Hi Richard - thanks for this video - very helpful. I take my medium-size plants to the sink and usually water the leaves as well. EXCEPT for some of the plants that have velvety leaves, like some anthuriums. Is this correct? My plants really look very good, so I am assuming that this procedure is OK. For my large floor plants, like the fiddle-leaf fig, I wipe down the leaves with a damp microfiber cloth approximately once a month. How should I clean the velvety leaves when they get dusty. Is a showering once a week OK? or should I wet the leaves less often? Thank you for any help. Nancy - USA

1. Does misting your plants relate to basicly all other plants too? i do have a couple plants that like higher humidity but i m wondering what misting actually does or if i should just get a small indoor greenhouse later this year. 2. I agree on the drainage holes thing so far and find it funny because people often tend to go for solutions that dont even need fixing in the first place instead of going simple. I dont know if its true or not but somewhere online, i ve read that plant pots have a ground water level just like the earth outside has and by blocking the pot with an extra layer and decreasing the height of the pot your artificially increasing the ground water level, calling for root rot. ? is that true? I m just going about it simple and logical. I mix my own substrate. why? because i want my earth to be fluffy and airy without clumping and i want it to let water through easily. It makes no sense now to somewhat block the drainage holes, putting extra resistance on the water drainage because that would kind of defeat the purpose of my substrate to begin with... i want it to drain easily... so thats why i just put substrate in the pot and thats it.

Ha! My wife laughed at me when I was gently brushing my monsteras' leaves, turns out my intuition was right. 😊🌿

Have placed in balcony corner where no direct sunlight fall in the plant. But the tips of each leaf have been converting in dried brown. Soil is also moist. How do I take care of this?

Do not mist people! Such wealthy information. Peace.

correct me if im wrong, but arent the stomata primarily on the underside of a leaf?

I bought a monstera for m bathroom so I wouldn't have to look at the loo when taking a bath. It seems to like the humidity that comes with bathing, showering and hanging clothes to dry. And it's conveniently close to the bath tub to give the leaves a shower from time to time to wash off dust.

My monstera is showing some signs of not being happy, small leaves at the bottom are yellowing, and large leaves have some crisp tips and I also noticed small holes on the big leaves. I was thinking it might be thrips but I can't see them. Do you think neem oil would be enough of a treatment?

Hi have one what I want to know why do they drip water from the leaf mine does it all the time and how often do you water it cheers

Our monstera is thriving, it has both east and west windows and is a few feet from the ac unit blowing air on it.

@SheffieldMadePlants Hello, can you tell me why my Cheese Plant has a little drop of water at the tip of each leaf, and what can we do to if it is harmful please?

Best thing i have done for my monstera was putting all the air roots in a jar of water. She grows around 2-3 massive leaves a year. Massive i mean massive massive 😅

What about a humidifier?

Kindly advise what to do with my turning yellow then brown edge monstera leaves. Thanks.

Damn, did a few things wrong for my new first monstere ':D

Misting does raise humidity. For about 5 minutes. What you gonna do about the remaining 23 hours and 55 minutes? :-) Another point about gravel/rocks in the bottom of a pot: After a few waterings, the soil washes into it, and what you have is a bunch of dirt with rocks in it. Which we should all know if we ever transplanted an old plant potted up that way!

I bought a baby monstera and it's dying I only put it in the Earth last week I don't know what to do

You've about covered all the reasons why I dislike momstera plants and will not buy them. I do not like plants that get so so huge where there is no room for them anymore. I dislike the swiss cheese look as well. I don't find it attractive but a lot of people do. It is just a genus that I can easily pass up in a plant store!

I bought a baby monstera (just a little bigger than a cutting) a while ago, it is not growing and it is looking a bit sad living with me, I think the stem is indeed buried to deep in the soil. I will pull the stem up a bit , will let you know if this is making the little man happy again. thank you for the good advice.

I've just bought a Monstera and I'm a bit confused about placing it. My original plan was to put it on the windowsill facing South but then read about it not liking direct sunlight. So shall I or shall I not put it there? I guess your Western facing sill also has direct light and it seems to be liking it.

Have you done one on asparagus ferns ?

Hi! Hope you're well. I need help. I've acquired few monstera stem cuttings (no leaves). I've put them in a clear box with moss. I do not have grow light so keep it in the balcony where it gets the morning sun (at least 6 hrs). I kept them in the box 2 days back and opened the box today only to find out part of stem on all the cuttings had turned black. I cut the rotted part and put them in the box again. But I've kept the box in shaded part of the balcony where it doesn't get direct sunlight. Please advise if I need to do something different.

I spray my Philodendron Pink Princess and White Knight and wipe off the leaves immediately would that be okay for a Monstera? I have a new one coming through the mail this week if it isn’t frozen by the time it gets here. 😢It’s extremely dry in Ohio and I do not add humidity in my home. My Philodendron seems to be happy.

One of the biggest issues I have with all my plants is I just know how much water they need.. I don’t know if I’m giving them too much or too little

I'm chucking out my mister!

my monstera is small but now loads yellow leaves no idea why, should i repot in new better drainage soil with vermiculite and pearlite with potting compost?

Interesting about misting after reading my new ferns would like it i started misting them every other day my Boston fern hasnt t been doing well and im wondering if this has contributed 😕

And I put it in water can I wash the root and put it in water please advise me

Stomata (Στόματα) is plural for Stoma (Στόμα) and it literally means mouth (mouths)

My monster is just not thriving it's getting lots of sun and warmth in the porch but it's just not growing getting brown and yellow leaves

Hello Why are the new leaves on the monstrea brown?

I mist mine every o ty her day & it's fine 🙂.

Hey! My monstera leaves have been turning black on the edges, eventually becoming yellow and dying off. I’ve been watering it once a week. Definitely not overwatering because I check the soil before watering. Can you help me diagnose the problem?

i have 2 monstera Deliciosa I bought from Home Depot, and I recently found out there is a "large form" and "small form". This means I wont have those massive leaves if I have the small form? I thought I just had young plants.... My monstera look like the one behind you.

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If you're going through a rainy season (like the UK's summer is this year), is it healthy to be leaving your monstera outside somewhere shady?

Tell me how much water 💧 do it heed

Your videos made me revisit my love of house plants! Thank you! (my wallet does not thank you!)