Hi there, for your monstera (and majestic), from my experience, monstera get leggy like that when they are needing more light, you may want to increase the light they are getting. If not more light, then try longer exposure in the day. Like instead of 12 hours maybe 14 to even 16 hours. Keep up with fertilizing and watering. Mine are in semi-hydro(leca) for watering consistency and receiving light for 14 hours via grow light. If they get too big you can lower the light. Your videos are so fun. I hope this helps
same here with the light, in the uk, it now gets direct light in the morning for about 2 hours mine is growing in leca and if I see her producing leaves I will carry on feeding it
I always find it amazing when we as plant parents constantly adapt to the situation, the more you learn the better your collection while be. But basically my main goal is to keep them alive 😅 💚
I have found success with monstera by increasing light and fertilizer. Since they produce such huge leaves they are heavy feeders. I have my Albo and Esq. on moss poles. I water the moss pole every 2-3 days. The aerial roots taking in the nutrients have really helped the plant size up!
I’ve grown two huge monsteras at work. Bit have had big windows next to it and big pot with little support “stick”. The leaves have grown to 70+ cm long.
I would consider to run your grow lights all day long. Most plants need at least 10 hours of bright light a day. I have a low light corner under my tv and although my home gets plenty of natural light it is just too far away from the window for the plants to thrive. So with the grow light running for 10 hours a day my plants are doing fine. And luckily most of these grow lights are energy-saving led lights so it won’t cost you…
That's kinda weird your Majestic has such small leaves, mine sized up much faster just with a chopstick and I was about to get it on a real moss pole when the base of the stem snapped cuz I was clumsy and I've had to re root it in water.
Hey Emma! I just had to pop over here from watching “The Millennial Plant Dad” video tour of his Aglaonemas because he showed his Aglaonema Alumina and it made me think of you! I don’t know if you’re still into silvery plants but it looks beautiful! I haven’t seen an Aglaonema like that before.. kinda looks like a juvenile silver sword but with broader leaves and I’d imagine it’s easier to care for. Anyway have a great day! 🩶🩶🩶
Fenestrations/sizing up Monstera/Epipremnum: for me it works with Liquid Gold Leaf fertiliser and (Soltech) growlights (natural light in the spots where my plants are is so low it can be counted as none). So maybe more light and/or fertiliser would help? (I put the fertiliser in the water that I add to the mosspole) For Hoya blooms I’d advise the same. Fertilise often and plenty of light 🌸 Have you tried Alocasia in unmixed tree fern? The corms sprout innit for me while still attached to the plant and the leaves size up quicker. They do take a bit of time (read finickyness) until they are used to it. But different things work for different people/homes/environments 🤔 Plant goals: - keeping up with repotting 😂 - purging plants that don’t bring joy anymore and all the propagations (by finding new homes for them) - not getting new plants unless I have the perfect spot for them But most of all….. enjoying the growth! 🌱 About 75% completed
Rex begonias are definitely tricky I have a few they don’t like to dry out completely and hate city water so I use distilled and bottom water them cause I had a lady tell me they don’t like getting leaves wet that’s why they will usually get crispy or soggy 😅 hope that helps! ❤
Oh no, I also got 2 frydek corms from a planty friend and one was 100% white, finally died a few weeks ago after about 5 fully white tiny leaves in 6 month. the other one is about 80% white and struggling but still alive. She felt so bad that she gave me another corm that was so huge and produced such a big an beautiful first leaf, much bigger than the other had done so far. I will plant them together soo, maybe big boy can show struggle bus how to produce more green 😅
That monstera looks as if it needs way more light, weird. Looks a lil floppy like dehydrated too, sorry love! I have mine directly infront of a huge window or being blasted with a grow light if not. I pretty much only ever water the moss pole, putting enough water through there it gets down to the pot too, but I’ve gotta water it every couple days to keep the moss moist. My leaves quadrupled or more in size in only a foot of stem growth, internodes fairly close together. I do the squeeze test on the pole, top to bottom daily to ensure it’s not getting crunchy (dry) Before the big windowed home I live in now, the last place I had grow lights EVERYWHERE, it certainly helped IMMEIMMENSELY when you don’t have enough natural light. I want that tshirt! Where’d you get it? Def chop and prop that linearus!! Show us pleasase!!
Your plants need more light. For the entire video i've been thinking: those plants in the back are in such low light conditions.... I have my large form monstera outside, in full sun, in spain, and it loves it and it is huge (it even puts growth during winter) Also my cebu blue started fenestrating when I put it right in front of a south facing window with direct sun for several hours a day (in spain again, obviously) and it is climbing a bamboo stick, not a moss pole...so the key is light.
