Monstera Deliciosa LARGE FORM: Repotting & Root Dividing 

I really like how real you were. Wanting to quit but coming through with that plant repotting. I have a big Monstera too like yours and I’m intimidated to start but I might just have to do so this weekend. Thanks for this video!

Excellent!!!! I love the way you included stopping your progress and psyched yourself back into doing it !! I have a much much smaller Monstera that was a gift and it looks like I have three separate growths and have been thinking about splitting them into several plants and you have massively increased my confidence and positivity about the process. You are natural in your process and come across really well and I cannot effectively express how much help you’ve been to me! I look forward to subscribing and checking out more of your videos. You deserve a comment and acknowledgment of a great video. All the best from the U.K and keep posting!!!!

That was great now I have no excuse not to repot my 45-year-old monstera 😎✌️👍

You're AMAZING! Love how real you are. So many times I get halfway through a project, and I'm like, what am I doing?! two beautiful monsteras for $70! Great job!

I often soak the root ball in lukewarm warm and then wash off the soil, you will lose a bit of roots still but usually that works really great for me in terms of detangling roots :)

You’re a big inspiration 🌱 I’ve been watching your videos in the morning to get myself amped for the day while learning about plant care!

This is LITERALLY what I came here for. Exact plant from Lowe's. Exact situation with it suffocating. I'm so intimidated so when I started yesterday I gave up and stopped. Thank you thank you for recording this

The shirt & socks really do it for me 🙃. Thanks for this video!

Thank you for this. I just rescued one from lowes as well 😆 and getting ready to repot it today. Thanks for being real

I love your indecisiveness and craziness over the plants. I watched your video because I’m looking for inspiration and It didn’t fail me. I have waaay bigger than that and I need my husband to help me later for repotting because it’s rooted bound and I don’t want to cause any harm to the plant later. Subbed!

I enjoyed your video. You seem fun and relatable. That plant is huge!

I needed this video. Been hesitating to split up my monstera for a month and this gave me the push to just do it!

I am sitting here taking a break from repotting my plants today when your video popped up in my feed. You're hilarious without really trying! I just up-potted my MD and I was going to divvy her up, but I still have a lot of baby leaves. I bought the plant in November and I, literally, only have 2 or 3 leaves that look like a true MD. I'm thinking because she was so rootbound that her leaves weren't splitting. We shall see! Your plant collection is so choice! Newly subbed, too. CHEERS! ☺✌🏼

Great job girl! I would have not thought about separating them like that. You make it look so easy. I'm so impressed! New subscriber!

This was so satisfying to watch! Now you have two plants that can reach their fullest potential !

Girl, you are amazing. Thanks for the video.

I did that also to my plants as well as trimmed the roots and it turned out ok!! I did it to the same plant may I add. The plant will be fine!! You go girl!!!

I appreciated your down to earth presence. Thanks for the video. I have four MD that look like they could be split into at least four more. Your video makes me what to try!

great job getting through it! 👏🏼 i am thinking of splitting my MD for the first time, so it was cool to see your process.

I love your video! You are so cute, smart, and fun! Thanks for these tips on Monsterra! I’m reporting mine today!

Great job... I'll check other vids for update. I'm about to repot a few of my Monsteras✌

timing the bite with the bit in the song. lol perfect. That monstera is a beast. Well, beasts now.

All I could think of was ur beautiful floor!! Hearing the little pebbles scrape around made me nervous it was scratching the wood 😭

i love your channel !!! just watched all your videos lol

I admire your patience; very nicely done!

Wow that’s a beauty!!!

haaaa you loook like a fun person

wow, you have very nice apartment and with all of beautiful plants. i love your MD and they are huge :)

Plants and Pomeranians, 2 of my favorite things...

ahahahah! i love you first video.

Hello! Just found your channel the other day and I'm binging all your videos. I can't believe you don't have more subscribers but I'm sure you will soon. I'm curious, you mentioned in a video that you were getting your botany certificate (I think). Can you tell us in a future video what your plant education is? Super curious since you are so knowledgeable about plants. Thanks! Hope to see lots more videos from you.

Love this video

Awesome lessons!

I'm going to give my old boy a go.He is called Robert 😄

I get the biggest boost when I hear that $35 is a good deal for my huge Monstera 😍

Wow yours is huge just repotted mine's actually I can't remember if I separated the roots or not however it has since developed 3 new leaves definitely keeping an eye on mine's daily great video

So weird, I have the exact same looking monstera on the same trellis I just bought up here in ONtario Canada. Must be the same distributor. Thanks for the video, I need to repot too!

this is super helpful, i picked up a similar if not quite as spectacular one from home depot for 25 bucks, i have to do this exact thing tmrw

ur plants are gorgeous thats what i want in my apartment i will keep watching thxs

I love how @Kaylee Ellen is playing in the background 😂💚

That’s so funny! I ALSO got a huge Monstera Deliciosa from Lowe’s for $70 around the same time you did! It came in the same exact pot and has the same wooden trellis. I think they were raised in San Diego, and distributed through the region (I’m in Los Angeles)

you are too funny but I am glad you got through this process these are some gorgeous plants

Its very very beautiful .

good Job!!!

70$ OMG that’s a real deal. Such a beautiful plant and you got the job done even if it was intimidating 😅

Watching this as I attempt to split and repot my monstera... I'm nervous! Your vid is helping me work up the nerve! LOL Where are your glasses from? They are so cute!

thanks for this video! your plants look so healthy, wow! do you feed them? I'm about to tackle my monstera right now :)

I know no one asked for my opinion but here I give it anyways lol. So just something that I do instead of using perlite that I find works amazing for all my plants is using small white or any color Aquarian gravel. make sure you rinse the gravel first a few times to get the gunk off then add to your regular soil mixture it works so so much better than perlite I find. Just thought I’d let you know from one plant parent to another.

Separated my big box monstera into 5 pots and it was so mentally exhausting but necessary

If you would dunk that root ball in a 5 gallon bucket of water and shake it a bit the dirt all falls out and you can pull it apart easier without breaking too much

Thanks for that

Thanks 👍🥰

Thanks!! I’ve got a gigantic monster of a monstera and I didn’t know about breaking up the rootball when I repotted it. It’s been growing a year and it’s going very wide. Now I know how to break it up and add a trellis. Thanks!!

Oh dear, can't imagine paying $70 for a plant that grows like weeds in my city (Medellín, Colombia). They're everywhere and bigger than the ones you're showing, you would be delighted picking them up from the streets and taking them home.

I think you did great! I get extremely nervous too when repotting my monsteras. I have a question for you. I need to repot my HUGE babies but am scared to death because they are growing every which way and are just insanely full of stems. I want to stake them but don't want to have to redo the process frequently. How much taller than the plant do you suggest the stake to be for say a 6 foot tall monstera?

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Hi what is the size of the black grower pot you used ? I have a big MD too , need to repot it but I don’t know which size to use. It’s currently in a 10 inches pot , is 15 inches one too big for the plant. I think mine is about the same size as the one you separated ( in black grower pot).

Potting mix should be pre mixed before adding to the pot. But in any case, well done. 👍

This is super helpful. I just repotted mine and I need to separate them. It’s just way too big!

Next time try using a garden hose to clear the sand from the roots without damaging any of them. If you have one ofcourse

It looks like you are mixing different indoor soils and either perlite or water crystals?? Do you do anything to prep your soil?

I had several pots without drainage holes on my daughter came we got her dad's drill and put four on each side around the edges and then she put a few in the bottom as well you can do it with porcelain also I have used a screwdriver

@ 5:24 Keylee Allen looking sooooooooooo disappointed xD

I have a huge monster planted in a 12 in With a huge root ball I am absolutely terrified to repot it seems so stiff. But the plant is growing and full of new growth but leaves seem on the smaller side should I swallow my fear and free the roots or leave it be

I have this idea of having a huge, sprawling Monstera in the corner of my room, and I'm considering getting 3 of the Monsteras from the store (about 65% smaller than yours, and then maybe using a 35 gallon hexagon aquarium with drainage holes drilled in the bottom and putting all three in there. I can't find videos of people consolidating Monsteras, but if the pot was big enough, is there any reason it's inherently inadvisable to put them all together? If it is possible, I'm also considering buying a cutting from a giant Monstera online and maybe putting it in the middle, so once it finally grows it'll start shooting off some giant leaves as well, would this step _also_ be possible? I know this is a really specific, speculative question but you seem like you have lots of experience with big pots and obvious Monsteras so I figured I'd try to get your opinion if I could. Thank you so much!

Can I ask what species of palm you have to your right? It is the one coming from thick stalks and reach up over your blinds

Hi! What kind of white stuff did you put into your pots? You mix soil with? Perlite? Love this video. I was actually very discouraged to start the repotting, Now I'm going to take my time doing it

Nice! What was the white powder you poured into the pot?

do they usually have basically three separate plants in each pot? I might have to pick one up and do that. I dont' like how they're so big and overgrown in the store, but if it's multiple plants in one pot I could just repot them

I was wondering why you didn't cut through the roots but you did. I usually saw off the bottom of my root balls like a pancake. Is that a humidifier in the back?

What kind of sole you put in the pot alongside perlite? And in Which proportion? I have a big baby but she is auffering of roots rot I think because some leaves are turning yellow. So I repot it yesterdsy... Was a hard damn work but hope she will be ok

How did you build your trellis? How long has it been in there and have you experienced wood rot? Also how many years does it take to grow a deliciosa to your size?

Omg I have never seen a large form in a store before!! Is this in CA?

What all do you add in your soil when you're repotting?

I did this :) but what do I do now when the thick stem is going the wrong direction? It is waaaay too hard to redirect to the pole :(

How has the plant done since being separated and reported? I have a 15 year old monster 😀 that I want to attempt separation on.

Plant tour, please! ;)

Is large form the same as a regular green monstera its just bigger and more mature? I want mine to get this big had it 3 years and the leaves are getting a bit bigger with more fenestrations. Lol, you're watching Kaylee Ellen, I'm subscribed to her.

I still don't understand how you separated them from each other. Mine are one big plant all together with one base and need to be separated. Don't see how I can unless I cut them apart they won't just come apart like yours!

How are they doing now?

I have been noticing that certain plants from certain big nurseries have has styrofoam in the soil instead of perlite too - is this harmful to the plant in any way? I like to reuse my soil in some sort of way but I’m afraid that it isn’t good to use if there is styrofoam in it especially if I want to use it for my outside plants and crops ☹️

I'd like to know how you find a large form at a big box store?? I wish I was that lucky!

Where are you buying your plants?

how is your plant doing now (4 months later)? i am considering doing the same to my big box store monstera but im scared lol

Styrofoam is used sometimes for succulents to help drainage. Just a repurposing tactic. As to the health of the plant from the toxins of styrofoam🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Nice hair

70 dollars 😱😱 I bought one almost that size for 4 dollars and not one blackening leaf on it 😆😆 It had 3 older small leaves with brown spots that I cut off and it's spit out 2 new huge fenestrated leaves already 😁

I have one too ! I'm nervous to seperate it. Im up in canada so its getting quite cold here. But it gets a grow light for 15 hours a day. Should I try to seperete ?

What’s the name of the soil you’re using?

You need more soil in both.

Im sure you know what you're doing but I never seen soil ,perlite and other soil product's just being poured into the pot no pre mixing..

I have babies. Paid $12 for5 sprouted seeds. All growing. On 3rd leaf

Drill a hole in you pot I do it all the time

Gg get ghost to me and my

Just have to say, remove the noisy sound !!! does not fit. Otherwise like your videos! Have them just the way they are! But no Music is needed 😖

Nicely done.. you spent $70 dollars and now you got 2 beautiful plants 🪴😍🙂.