How to propagate Monstera sp. Peru 

I did my Peru propagation in a Rubbermaid with Leca and it’s growing like an absolute weed.

I just got a montera peru two days ago. I had no idea what it was but I couldn’t walk away from those intense green and super cool leaves. I got a nice plant with three training legs already for only $16 at Home Depot in S. California, USA . The videos talk about the prices and I guess I got lucky. I can’t stop looking at it. - Thanks for the video.

Betsy!!! My goodness I've missed you! Welcome back, babe!

We all need loving and smart little sweet cats like yours! Good job Kitty Mama! AND excellent propagation advice!

Perlite!! I never even considered to prop it this way. Pulling it out of the water now. Thanks Betsy!

Your videos are always so informative and your personality makes you so much fun to watch! Welcome back, we missed you!

I’ve had 3 Peru cuttings in sphag for months. One of them rooted after about 2 months & now that it has established in soil it is growing rapidly in my grow tent. The other 2 have done nothing in almost 6 months...ugh. One of them lost its leaf in the first 2 months & is now a wet stick. Since the leaf died it has produced a tiny growth point. But is doing nothing since. The third cutting’s leaf is slowly dying. It has a short aerial root that it came with but hasn’t grown & no other roots have developed. They’re all in a warm & very humid environment. I was actually planning to move them to perlite today. After seeing this, I’m definitely going to try it out 👍🏻 Edit: for reference, I paid $50 for 3 unrooted cuttings midsummer 2020. If the 2 that are being naughty end up dying, I guess I paid $50 for 1 unrooted cutting 🤦🏻‍♂️ Update - Confirmation! The perlite bag made all the difference. After 6 months of doing nothing in sphag, I’ve got a couple inches of root growth and active growth points after just 2 weeks in perlite. Incredible difference

Omg I’m so glad ur back.. yayyyy ❤️

Good to see you back again!

Thank you. Finally an answer on the enigma of propagating this plant.

I have had my Peru sitting in water forever so thankful for this video. Into perlite it goes

Monsters Peru was my most expensive plant 🪴 but I have no regrets buying it. It is also my slowest growing plant. I just got a new leaf and I swoon over the shininess!!!!! Thank you for the video and instructions on propagation... hopefully this summer!

Soooo glad I found this video! Mine has been sitting in water for a week and exactly as you describe, no progress what.so.ever. I’m trying your perlite baggy trick!

I am greatly appreciative of your energy today lol very chaotic and bright 🌞

Thank you, Betsy!

So glad to see you in my notifications!!!

Thank you , I am going to do this ❤

thanks‼️ great method; seems easy enough for me👍🏾

Nice to see you back at it😊

One of my favourite "boring" plants ever and I've also been propagating most of my plants in a bag for a while, but I'm using soil with extra perlite, but I might try the only-perlite method!! Your meoooowr iz cuuuute!! 😍

Thanks for this, I tried the water method and it just sat there like yours. I will try the perlite method.

Yaaaasssss🥳 thank you for this!!!!

I do not think we have this plant in new Zealand. I love the texture of it xxx

More kitty endings please.. Maybe this could be a standart every video ending habit 😍😻

I got my monsters delisciosa to root in water. But I also think it depends on people’s growing conditions too. I’ve done a few hibiscus using your method. It’s a solid method and I don’t think you can go wrong with it.

Tyvm for this!!! I've had my Monstera Peru in water for 6 weeks now and nothing!!! Still alive but no roots... I'm going to do this now ;)

Thanks for sharing

*nervously glances over at m. Peru sitting in a tiny vase of water that hasn’t done anything in at least a month*

Hi. Wonderful video! When you are ready to plant, do you cut separate nodes and plant? Thanks

Great video, and kitty stole it all ❤️😍👍!

very informative.. & with a nice fur assistant:)

My cutting is in water for seven months and still without new roots! I might just try it with pumice and water. Thanks! : )

Love the kitty

I just changed my Monstera Sp. Peru to perlite and water. They've been in water for at least 3 weeks with no root growth. I'm very hopeful this method works for me as well as it did for you! Thanks for the video! Happy planting!

Ok the kitty ending was the best! 😻

Love your kitty she so so affectionate 🥰 tbh I stuck my m. Peru in soil with no plastic bag or anything and it grew a buncha roots! And a random aerial root that wasn’t even submerged in soil. I did let the cutting sit overnight and then it took 2 weeks to grow big roots.

I believe that humidity did the trick, not the perlite per se ;) Thats usually the case with propagating aroids

I was just thinking how precious cats are as your is trying to lick you, & my cat simultaneous knocks down a water prop I have on a shelf. What great timing 😂

Hi Betsy, i love you so much you are amazing and i send to you a lot of greetings from Serbia !

Ughhh I have a cutting which I’ve been trying to root for the past FRIGGIN FIVE MONTHS! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ I’ve tried everything, water, Leca, sphagnum, perlite (except that I kept the box open for fear of rot). Waited and waited and waited and he’s done nothing! Not only that..One of the two leaves is curling up and surely but steadily turning yellow around the edge. TBH I’m surprised it’s put up with me for this long 😖😫 I’m telling you, I’m giving it one more shot, exactly your way, and he better put out roots this time around or else...... I’m getting super frustrated over here. Any advice is more than welcome ❤️ Ps. I admire so much your talent to make everything green and root and bloom! Bless you!

I just cut my peru last week and put it in water, still no signs of roots so I'll definitely give this a try with half of the cuttings. Thanks for the info!

Hi, interesting propagation. Will this work to other plants like Fiddle led propagation as well?

Fancy French tap water is the secret. My rescue begonia got cut back and now lives in three pots.

Fairly exclusive in Vancouver, not too pricey but you never see them in stores

Mine has been sitting in water for more than two months... No roots!but a sign of leaf coming out is there... So time to do Betsy's bags 💚

What's a quick substitute for perlite?

mine is in sphag and it has nice roots but i think i might just put it into soil

Do a whole propagation video ❤️ I live for that ish lol

I had 3 cuttings in water for probably 4 months before it showed roots. I put a cutting in sphag moss in a bin and it rooted in 2 days. Was almost infuriating.

I'm definitely trying this! My Peru sustained damage when the pot broke🤦🏾‍♀️ so I'm trying to save it. Maybe I should try this with my hoya Macrophylla. It's been in Coco coir, spag for months & no roots.

Does it have to perlite? Can it be leca?

I do have issues with monstera peru cutting because is a bit hard to root even in soil... before that i try it on sphagnum moss in container and it fail miserably... i plan to have it dip of root stimulant and see how it goes

Mine was $50 and it came with four GORGEOUS leaves and two have sprouted since BUT yes.... I wanted to vomit when you said $9.99

Still have a few cutting left of my Peru. Unfortunately the mother plant struggled in my care. Then when I decided to cut them long vines which barely had leaves I've put them in water. Odd though some stems did get to have roots but rotted. Takes forever to get roots and now rot? What gives? I need answers. Some never took off though. So gonna try now to salvage these stems.

Wonder if sphagnum moss would work too

This method is no joke! My Peru is already rooting. It has been only a week. Thank you so much! One question, I put four nodes without cutting them to the ziplock bag. Would it be ok to cut them individually before potting those?

why are the ends of my nodes roting on top of the perialite?

The cat 😍

Bonjour ... Great video ... Love this method, great way to propagate ... Bonne journée ou, bonne soirée, selon l'heure à laquelle vous allez lire ce message ... À la prochaine ... ✌️🙂

Your so teasing us Americans now 😂😂❤️😘

Oh, I got it... mine did not make it in water, I wonder if leca would work? How about standleyana albo, or Pinnatipartita? Do you feel the same would work.. i have a one stem system going on, and want to make it look fuller... don't you just love those leaf patterns? My sister don't get it 😶 smh. She said it all looks the same.

You are hilarious! 😂

If only I could get my hands on one!😅

It’s not about the perlite but the humidity. You can also use sphagnum moss

Hi Betsy, I just subscribed! I don’t know where I heard that you were in France so I was hoping you would have a French accent but that is not the case. It’s okay I am not disappointed that you sound American lol, are you originally American? This is my first Betsy video and you made my mentally declining state a bit better so thank you! I was lucky enough to recently get a 10 dollar rooted cutting of a M Peru and I love it! I cannot believe you can easily get a full plant for the same price in France 😱! 💙

Betsy, do you have any videos on Begonia Luxurians?? I can't find much on Luxurians care out there . If you have this plant I would love to see a mention on it some day. Thanks, love your channel!

Can you just stick a cutting in aroid soil?

Thought you had your knee up on the table bc your sweater matched the pot!

Had a cutting in water since end of August... gonna try this instead :3

A lovely video as always! I will try to your method of propagating. When the world can slowly start meeting again would you ever host a plant swap? They were somewhat popular in Berlin (pre-pandemic).

Hello Begoners!!!!

Did the bag method with some damp perlite just like in the video and they rotted 😭

My cat is familiar with "don't you dare" "damn cat" and "stop it" >M> I call her "Mish" even thou that's not her name and I usually tell her not to "Mish-behave" >M> she KNOWS what I'm talking about, that damn cat

I'm shook. I had no idea this plant was so cheap elsewhere.

Yeah I tried watering rooting the peru. Months and no roots and it finally died. 🥺

I have both that cat hammock and the same brand of cat tree and about half the plants :D

Would spagnum moss work too? I need me a peru💚👍 thanks Betsy

Don't mind the price just can't find one

Would leca or pumice work?

It’s expensive?? I got my Peru for $18

Please tell us how you transplant it to soil

That discord sound made me jump! hahah

1:19 was my favorite part

i've always seen American plant people talk about how expensive this monstera is so I've never even checked how much it is in Europe. and wow, it's cheap 😅

Oh. My. Goodness. It’s not just me!! I have one that did NOTHING for months in water but slowly die.

🙏🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼ℹ️

Girl! if your almost 10 min video is a quickie, my videos are probably negative in time 🤭

It's on my plant 😁 list, you can send me a cutting

Yeah sp Peru can be over $100 here

But hooman shower is not good as Wormie shower!

Half a year! Half a year in perlite, with grow light and warm mat. And NOTHING!!! 3 cuttings still alive but doing absolutely NOTHING 😭 maybe it’s French air I need?😄