FINALLY after 30 min of searching the internet I found your very clear and concise video! It’s insane how hard it is just to find actually clear instructions about where the growth nodes actually are and where exactly you should cut in relation to them. Thank you so so much!!
Thank you for your video! It was direct and specific to pruning. Some of these other videos were WAY too long and don't even get to the fine details of how to prune. This was very helpful.
THANK YOU!! I just rescued one with all burned leaves😮 wasn't sure where to cut! Difficult to find a video about this, they hurriedly snip without showing exactly where!
This video was exactly what I was trying to find out! Thank you so much for explaining how these leaves grow out of one another and exactly where to cut to prevent damaging future leaves. 🪴🪴plus the difference in what heat and cold damage look and feel like. All in under 5 minutes!! Thanks again!!
I think this is why my monstera has gotten so leggy, I’ve been cutting off future growth when pruning so it now has ALOT of gaps. It’s putting out new leaves weekly, usually 2-4 at a time & it’s color is good so hopefully if I just follow these tips going forward it will bush out! Thank you for sharing this! 🪴💚
Thank you so much for addressing the signs of heat and cold damage! I had some cold damage, on the edge of a new light green leaf, which I was trying to identify but there weren't many informative videos, which were relatively long in run time. You told me everything I need to know in less than 5 minutes! You're awesome! Thanks again, so very much!
THANK YOU! I honestly just needs to prune off the old leaves/broken leaves after a friend knocked the plant over. everyone else's videos discuss propagating and I was like "I dont need to propagate, just PRUNE" I thought I was killing my plant by cutting at the base of the leaves -- this video made me feel so much better!
This was perfect thank you! I just grabbed one of these on the discount cart in Costco. She was really banged up but my daughter and I figured we can save her!
No I didn’t know this and this is great advice thank you so much. A great explanation. I have a few of these plants and I have been cutting any damaged leaves off way too low! Yay thank you than you !
Thank you so much for a video that leaves no questions. I just purchased my first monstera. It was half price at Walmart and looking pretty rough. I've been putting off pruning for a week now out of fear of ruining it and now I can do it today. 😁
Thanks so much for doing this video. I've been trying to find something just like this for over a week! I've been on FB plant groups and RU-vid and found nothing helpful until your video. I am a new plant mom and didn't know exactly where to cut my deliciosa (my favorite plant that I own) without hurting her long term! Now I feel comfortable to snip off the area that needs it! Thanks, again!
I moved back in July and during the half hour my plants were in my car my monstera got burnt on a lot of its leaves. I was hoping it'd get better without me cutting off its beautiful large leaves that I've grown so proud of but I realized that though my plant wasn't "acting" sick her growth rate was reduced with the damaged leaves. I'm glad I found this video, I did cut off the leaves exactly as you showed and I'm confident she'll be her beautiful bushy self again in no time. She was a self bought mother's day gift from my at the time 8 month old daughter. I got a 8 pack of random live plants off Amazon with no labels and she was one of the ones that flourished. Out of the 8 I only have 2 of them left for to my lack of knowledge about the plants. They were all only about 4 inches in height and I had no idea I even had a monstera till the holes started assisting in her leaves. At first I thought I somehow messed up but upon closer inspection I realized they were naturally forming and was finally able to identify her. The other one is what I call my Arrowhead plant and then I had an asparagus fern that was amazing but she sadly did not make the car ride from Arizona up to Minnesota. It was just too dry in the car for her to last the 4 days of the trip. My other 2 pacts in that car ride were my spider plants (originaly came ss one plant but turned into twins) and I had my aunt look after them but she accidently over watered and they got root rot so my monstera and my Arrowhead mean a lot to me. Their the only plants I've kept alive over 3 years so far. My Arrowhead also Walmart came close to dying but mostly because my cats decided she made a comfortable bed and broke her stems to nubs. I just kept watering her even though I thought it was a lost cause and new stems and leaves are coming out of the old trunk and even the soil and they're growing pretty fast. Sorry for the long comment, I just really found a passion in my plants and I feel pride in how I've been able to grow them with basically no knowledge on their care from little 4 inch sprouts that was barely even recognizable from the beautys they grew into. I've had many plants in the past before and on average they lasted about a month before withering and dying
I love this! My favorite thing to tell plant parents is, don’t think of it as killing or losing a plant, think if it as a lesson. We all learn from our plant parent mistakes. I’m glad your monstera is doing well!
Thank you very much for this video. I'm late to indoor plants, and I purchased a sad Monstera with twisted - sad leaves. Your video will help me to cut her back to hopefully give her a fresh start🤞🪴
I am singing your praises!! Just as natalieayala1584, below said, NO ONE showed, in detail, how to prune a monstera. They would say 'You cut at the stem.' Where's the stem?!? Or they would say I'm going to cut here and they would be at the back of the plant with the camera in front back a ways. Really?! Still doesn't show me where to cut the plant. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions along with the camera close up so we can see what you're doing!! You know how to teach people. Thank you, thank you!!!
Thanks to you. I new to plants. Stuck swiss cheese plant in to sun while going away for weekend. If it weren't for ignorance I'd have no intelligence. Anyway, came back to poor burnt plant. Your video helped tremendously!! Thank you.
It’s personal preference. I leave my immature leaves to keep the plant looking full and to help with photosynthesis. The more green on a plant, the more natural food it creates. If you do choose to cut those off, make sure you’re not cutting off your next new leaf.
Is it okay to cut the littlest ones (probably the first leaves) all the way to the soil if the stems get broken from kids/husbands moving/running into it etc? 😬
Great video! I have a question I’ve been having trouble finding the answer to. When I propagated my monstera cutting a year ago, I was a newbie to the hobby. I unfortunately allowed the water to cover the petiole on 2 out of 3 stems on my cutting. This unfortunately permanently damaged it to the point it will not produce any new leaves. The one stem where the petiole was not submerged is growing beautifully. My question is, can I cut off the two leaves not producing below their damaged petiole, and will my plant grow a new stem that will produce leaves?
Question: (I’m very new to gardening and I had 2 monsteras that were delivered to me, but left in the sun for a couple of hours and were burnt before I could bring them in the house). Everything I read said you needed to prune the damaged leaves. Little did I know you could cut the wrong leaf and stop the growth of future leaves (now I know thanks to your video!) My question is: since some of the leaves WERE cut (that would have gone on to produce more leaves in the future), how can I save my monsteras and get them to grow more leaves? Thank yo u for your help!
A plants will to survive is amazing! Be patient, you will eventually see new baby growth coming from the soil level. (Providing the roots are healthy). They will be baby leaves for a while, but eventually will size up leaf by leaf. It sets the plant back a little, but there is so much satisfaction in growing a plant from immature leaves to mature :) One positive is that when growing from baby to big, especially with Monsteras, you can train it from the start into the shape you want with additional pruning, adding a pole or strap training stems into the direction you prefer.
Thank you for the video!! 💚 i just got a monstera about a month ago and some of the leaves got dark spots due to underwatering ( i was away for a while). If I don't prune the leaves that are damaged , will it affect the rest of the plant? xx
It will not… as long as those spots don’t continue to spread. That can be a root rot issue. Root rot can be from regular overwatering and dry rot root rot happens when very dehydrated roots are heavily watered.. the roots split when they quickly go from very dry & cracked to fully hydrated and they split. That allows Bacteria in and causes rot too. Keep a close eye on the dark spots.
Thank you so much for your video! I just realized what I did before was totally wrong! And as you instructed, I cut the damage leaf right before the new little nub. But it has been a month and it's still not growing. Am I going to lose it?
If you mistakenly cut off the next leaf that was hiding in the stem, the plant will generally regrow from the base. The new base growth will be juvenile.
Hi from the Philippines! I have my very first Monstera Deliciosa damaged as that with its leaves yellowing around the corners. May I ask once you prune it, how long does it take for the new leaf to develop? Btw thank you very much for the video! This truly helps!
Hi! It depends on conditions and if a new leaf is showing in the stem. But generally, within a few weeks a leaf should be showing as a ‘point’ on the stem.
Hello i am from india.... Can you make video in which you show...... From where cut the damage leaf (burn, black spot) so that new leaf could grow..... Please reply.....
Great video. I have a question. On my plant the newest leaf was damaged and fell off, so there are no new nodes for a new leaf to come out of. Is there a chance new leaves can grow from somewhere else?
Unfortunately new growth will only come from a node. Was it only a 1 leaf cutting? Or are there older leaves below? There are nodes where the petiole (what holds the leaf up) meets the stem. So if it had older leaves, new growth would come from the stem where the next leaf down is. Plants have a will to survive so if you lost the top growth, it will activate another growth point further down the stem. I hope that makes sense.
@@karenpast thanks Karen. The plant was dehydrated so the new leaf basically died. Unfortunately like the plant in the video some of the other plants were sunburnt but otherwise the rest of the plant is ok
The cut end will brown. It’s called callusing. Very similar to when we cut ourselves and a scab forms. As long as the brown/black does not travel down the stem, it will be fine.
What did you do about the smaller leaves growing from the soil? My monstera has a few that are damaged but I’m not sure whether to cut them or remove them from the soil completely.
My general rule of thumb is.. if the leaf is less than 50% damaged, I leave the leaf until there is new growth. Any healthy tissue is still creating food for the plant via photosynthesis. If you really can’t stand looking at them, cut them off at the soil level. Those small ones are the oldest on the plant. They were the starter, juvenile leaves that the larger leaf after came from.
Thanks, I bought a deliciosa on clearance that had some ripped damaged leaves. Not burnt or dried out or anything just not the prettiest leaves. Do you suggest cutting these off or leave them there? If I do cut the stems will the stems continue to grow or do they just become stubs?
Hi! It’s up to you whether to cut damaged leaves off. The leaves won’t heal. The newest leaf is the only one that will create a new leaf from it. In this video I show the point of a new leaf living inside the last leaf. If the leaf you’re cutting is older, it will be just a stalk.
@@karenpast Okay, I think I'll take it slow and cut high on the stem to see if there's another leaf that might pop out. If not I guess can cut it back further to the main stem. Be a good learning experience to try and see what happens. Thank you for the advice and help.
It’s all dependent on nodes. If you leave a node on the mother plant, it will regrow from that node. Make sure your prop has an aerial root when you take your cut.
👋🏼 Hi! I'm new to plants so please excuse my ignorance. I cut my leaf but it turned a dark color at the top where I cut it. Is that normal?? I cut an arrowhead plant and it did the same thing. I can't find anything to tell me if I messed up or not 😢
Hiya! It is normal for the cut ends to turn black or brown. Think of it as a scar. If it continues up or down the stem, that’s an indication of rot. Make sure you use a clean cutting device before you cut and wipe with alcohol between cuts to reduce bacteria from going into the open cells. Hope that helps! & we welcome newbies around here 🪴😀
It’s entirely up to you whether to prune it or not, that’s more of an aesthetic thing. If you prune correctly, it will continue to grow. Just be mindful of where the new leaves come from (the petiole of the last mature leaf)
First thing is Check for pests, although it’s very rare for common houseplant pests to make actual holes. Unless the plant was outdoors. If it was a new leaf and the holes are in a line, that is usually damage that happened when the leaf was tightly curled before unfurling. The other thing to watch for is pets… sometimes they will sink their teeth in just to test the texture. They don’t bite a portion of the leaf off.. just leave little imprints. :) If you still can’t figure it out, take some photos in your phone and stop into a reputable nursery and they might be able to help as well.
