Set Up Your Monstera For Success 

Hi, I bought a monstera Thai constellation not to long ago ( about 1-2 weeks ago ) and I watered it once with rain water ( 0.8 cups/ 190-200 ml ) and it looks like it got some root rot but not servere ( I only looked at the bottom of the pot it was in ), is there any tipes on what I can do? It started giving me a yellow leave but I think its ,caused though stress of the environment change it was in? 😳

@@ZannieLlama I’d cut out the rot and repot into fresh soil

@@SheffieldMadePlantsthank you very much sir. Great video as always! 🌿

Love it!!

Hey there fellow Hoosier!!! My dogs have woke me up both of my days off 🤣😂

Good job 😁

“The smartest guys in the room”

Thanks!

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There's not much on there but this was a good find

I haven’t found a dud on Amazon myself! All my plants have been perfect! I also have bought on Etsy!

The truth!

Haha so true! The amount of people who give up their chaotic bedroom monsteras [or any other plant they managed to keep alive until it grew to look fugly] for adoption and the plant parents who just can't pass on rehabilitating those poor leaf babies. 😅 Just this week I adopted two enormous 60x80cm and 90x90cm "agave plants" [spoiler: they are aloes]. The bigger one is pristine with two flower spikes and has lived in a conservatory, the other one in a corner of the living room and all her leaves are pointing to one side. Looks like such a little 70s punk. Love it! Owner was a wealthy lady who just found them "too big" so she offered them for free to whoever would pick them up. She thought little punk should be binned though for being "broken". As someone with a visible disability I took that personally.💔 They barely fit into my hatchback, properly scratched up my arms, are heavy af and suffered a couple of broken leaves and bruises along the way, but they'll heal and happily live out their days in my garden and winter sun room instead of being cut up and binned.

My chaotic bedroom monstera is my baby haha she’s doing pretty well for a plant that has moved from a north facing bedroom into a north facing bedroom set back from the garden 😂 she’s even just put off a new baby leaf right from the base

I just love the way Sheffield explains how to take care of your plants. I always watch you .

And I name most of my plants . but at my age I write it on tape and stick it on the pots

Excellent!

You too!

Thank you 😊

Glad you enjoyed it!

I will do 👍

great!

Hope you enjoy it!

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks!

I see them grown on moss poles all the time, and they grow perfectly. Their growth pattern isn’t any different than any other Monstera. They grow up trees 🤦🏼‍♀️

@@GreenWitch1 I don’t believe I’m spreading lies since apparently you’ve haven’t seen one crawl. Both works, I never said which was better. Plus, it can work in different ways for other people in different experience. 😴🤦🏻

@@uhm.islogihere I didn’t call you a liar. You’re correct. Ive never seen one crawl.

Can it be that there are two types of Monstera? My green one didn't want to climb, no matter what it got. I tried coco poles, moss poles, planks. It rooted straight through the moss pole and crawled around it. As soon as I tried to stack him up against the plank, the growth was stunted. And taking a cutting was impossible. The internodal space was tiny. That's why I believe that there are climbers and crawlers. The growth of both look completely different

@@silviap4478 yes! I totally agree with you, the crawlers and climbers are really optional there just to simulate how they are grown in the wild or to help benefit their growth, I’d also say that if you give more light to your monsters it could help the growth, (since light is key for monsteras, and also I’m not sure if your monsters is in an bright spot since it wasn’t specify) but not your fault 😃

Thanks!

Make a moss pole

Thank you 😊

Just keep an eye on it

Great stuff 👍

Great stuff 👍

Awesome! Thank you!

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Thanks. Getting them to fruit is a challenge I think

I did that. I tried to grow all 3, but it became rootbound more than was healthy. So, I separated them, and now they're thriving with dramatically better leaves. I'll be gifting a couple, as I don't care to have multiple.

Oh! This will be my first time separating monsteras and using a moss pole, do you have any tips? Is two weeks too soon to mess with things? I don’t want to shock the plant

Good. A new leaf has unfurled

I've got one on my Marco just unfurling we bought them around the same time so seems it's all going well 🙂

Cheers!

No not yet. Not got any air plants

@@SheffieldMadePlants maybe sometime soon. Although they need care difference from the houseplants you have.

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You are awesome just like your plants

Depends what your goals are i guess. If you want it growing lush and upright then a pole is a good shout. If you like the sprawling look then keeping more than one in the pot can work

It probably will

Is it growing on a pole?

@@SheffieldMadePlants Yes. Just a regular pole, not a moss pole.The original leaves were 13” long with fenestration. New ones are about 9” long, no fenestration.

@@caligal getting the aerial roots to grow into something and lots of light normally matures a plant

@@SheffieldMadePlants thank. Cannot do more light, it will burn due to large variegation. Will try the moss pole.

Keep an eye on it prob be okay

Not sure I recommend them to be honesy

Oh, why?

@@nancyalmeidacrocker7618 they don’t stack very well so there are probably others better

Okay thanks good to know!

The aerial roots need something to grow into just like they attached to a tree. They attach to a moss pole. You can put it on a stake, but you can’t keep the roots moist on a stake.

They stack up

@@SheffieldMadePlants brill thanks! please could you do a video on moss poles? I find them a right royal mystery as to how to keep them happy. Ive heard if they dry out too much they are a nightmare to get rehydrated? Im away for some of the time so Im a bit scared to go down that route just in case Im left with a crispy mess. Plus if they are kept moist am I going to end up with a fungus gnat infestation? Maybe worrying about nothing.

The poles take a lot of moss however I have a little hack ..I had quite a few thinner moss poles I don't use ..so I put them in the back of the plastic one it uses less moss and makes it a bit sturdier and when you need to add on just push the pole into the other one and fasten you plastic one to the other plastic one ..works for me ❤❤

The only reason you would put it in such a larger pot is to accommodate a moss pole. Plants grown on moss poles don’t need a large pot because the moss pole is an extension of the pot and that’s where their aerial roots grow.

It’s good to support as early as you can

Yep that’s a good idea

@@SheffieldMadePlants Cool. I have a little advantage in that I just have all the API stuff as I actually keep fish ...... so use the "waste" water for all my plants. Nitrates is what I take out of all of this. Using the API conditioners is what we all use to make it safe for fish. Then we bust it up massive through filters & always looking to reduce Nitrates. Room temp as well. Ty for your reply.

Not if the plant roots and the moss pole fit. Smaller pots are better. The aerial roots grow into the moss pole, so it becomes an extension of the pot so you don’t need large pots.

Not sure what you mean?

Normally not enough light

@@SheffieldMadePlants she’s in a south facing large window so I know there’s enough ligh

Don't see why not

​@@SheffieldMadePlantsi heard it's toxic, when I cut them off it made my skin so itchy. Actually I'm making compost tea from monstera leaf, is it ok?

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You can see his plant crawling horizontally, not vertically!

We’ll see I guess 😅

@@SheffieldMadePlants interesting project for a future video 😀

Oh, and…Blackadder & Mr Robot.

Congrats 🥳

@SheffieldMadePlants He shot my pigeon!

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Thanks!

Can do either. Never used silica