Stop picking the wrong pot size for your Monstera |  

Oh no lol I hope he watches it!! Lol

😱

Hey at least you know he’s trying, that’s what matters

Lmao, This it's my husband too 😵😂 He thinks they need room to breath & grow lol

That’s so cute 😭

That's great youre in a space with more light!

Your comment was an eye opener. I learned something from it.

@Yoly Rom cool, Yoly.....I know putting a Monstera in the direct light is new for me, we are in a neighborhood kind of hilly so with houses across the street, the side of our house shielding it's particular window from the south, I am gonna say it gets about 3 hours direct light before the sun sets behind the neighbors. The brand new leaves are unfolding without any die back or browning and I'm starting to realize a bit of direct sun was what they needed all along. I only ever had struggling Monstera when I was careful to give indirect light only. If you are going to try this with a Monstera, I'd say remember to harden it off to direct sun over a bit of time, (if it's acclimated to indirect light only), so the leaves don't get burned!

@Kill This Plant thanks, yeah, I'm THAT person, our house choice was basically made by how much light is coming in the windows, lols. Priorities!

oops!

The learning curb is real 😅

​@@lizchee8268 I think this is the best part, there's a reason for the obsession other than collecting them 😆 rip to all the martyrs lol

I hope your collection can leave you stress free! Have a great day.

@@KillThisPlant Thank you very much. You, too!

Going in a trip tomorrow and feeling the same way. 😬😬😬 May we find our babies thriving🌿🌱🪴

@@FosterGoodness 🤞🙏🤞🙏hoping for the best for yours and mine!

LOL I am the same way. I work for an AI company and set a camera on my plant to detect changes while I was away on a trip

It's the reason I rarely do succulents.

It’s called a wee stick?

another good technique!

That's genius and so simple.

Omg that’s so smart!!

they are innacurate in big pots atleast and most prob its cheapo oen too never see any expensive ones in action tho

@Not Herb I have had no problem with inaccuracy and I don't purchase the expensive ones. You have to put them in fairly deeply and check in more than one spot because we often don't water evenly. I have been using them for years and it seems to work for me. Perhaps it just reminds me to be mindful.

I find it's not necessarily the size of the pot that makes them inaccurate, but the soil type. If you're using pure miracle-gro, then they work as intended.

@Kill This Plant I customize my mix based on what I am growing. For example the citrus get one type of mix. The monsterra gets something different and so on. For what it's worth I check the readings and calibrate based on soil type. They are by no means perfect but they do help me stay on my toes and not overwater.

They are pretty hardy imo. The way I probably man handle all these plants I have. 🤣 Even when I had to pry some of my monstera's apart they come back nicely!

The leaves look good 👍 I'm just nervous about root rot from the small pots

Many of my plants need to submit to my schedule or get out too.

I have a whole playlist

Im here to learn i know a lot of fb groups for plants are toxic

Sorry about your root rot issues!

@@KillThisPlant i learn the old way 😂

Wow. You're too kind. Thank you!!

Whoopsie

That's quite strange. I wonder if it was coloured foam used to stabilize the plant at the growers end. Great job and repotting.

Main issue with a pot that's too big is it retains too much moisture so it will cause root ror

Any fertilizer as long as you're consistent. I have a playlist.

Thank you. It was labeled as such from the nursery and I guess that's the info they got from the grower. But yes I do see some sources saying it's an unnamed hybrid. I wonder what it was.

@@KillThisPlant I don't know, but I wish the hybridizer who made this would say lol

We can't get that in Canada 🥲

@@KillThisPlant oh no 😭

The pot still needs to be an appropriate size for the combined root ball of the 3 plants.

Only if you want to.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Glwrlf-Vhc.htmlsi=Jd7CkG8Z-1mL8IKA I made this entire video where I throw plants in the trash.

I willl try to do a video at some point. There are some look fors, like the frilled geniculum (small forms tend to develop these later), internodal spacing, but things only become more clear when you're observing two plants side by side under the same conditions with excellent lighting and proper fertilizing.

That certainly helps! But in my experience that's the last thing the average person wants to invest in. Miracle Gro potting soil is plenty good enough if you're conservative with your pot size.

@@KillThisPlant yea fair enough, every day planter is using store bought soil

I've found chunkier medias for me don't work as well. I can't tell when they need watering and the plant suffers. I can get a plant to be just as big, if not bigger then a lot of the guys using chunky media because I actually look after my plants lol. So the chunky media daft lecca BS is honestly expensive and pointless

😞 I hope you love them less so they can thrive in the future.

I think it probably has to do with the growing conditions. If it’s thriving in the wild, it probably has (close to) the ideal conditions for growing- especially water and sunlight. We try to replicate those conditions, but it’s not always the same. But a bigger factor is probably that things in nature rarely, if ever, exist in isolation. Houseplants typically get the whole pot to themselves, while monsteras in nature would typically compete for resources with grass, weeds, and _trees._ It’s less likely that excess water (which is usually the problem with big pots) would just pool around. TL;DR: there are other things in that big pot

@@dontnoticemesenpai6745 I appreciate the reply. I never hear explanations offered, and am left wondering why drainage wouldn’t be sufficient at scale.

Lol. If your plants aren't doing well they need to pick themselves up by their boot straps. 😫

​@@KillThisPlant But I prefer to believe that certain lessons have been learned from experience, that we are coming, slowly, painfully, to an autumn of understanding. And I hope that it will be followed by a winter of common sense. If it is not, we shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U-turn', I have only one thing to say: 'You turn if you want to.

🤷🏽‍♀️ not an abnormal amount considering how many plants he has

I can see how it might seem like that. I don't make many videos about my plants that are doing fine with no problems. I don't think they'd be as relatable or interesting.

All plant people deal with the same things, it's just whether or not they're transparent about it (most aren't).

I keep a calendar next to my plants to checkmark when I water/meds with them to minimize the extra lovin'. Do you keep the wooden skewers stabbed in the pot or bring them with you when you water?

@@ceem9924 I use my skewer to poke my plants every week to see how dry the soil is. I only water my succulents when the soil is bone dry, and my other plants when the soil is almost dry. This method has helped a ton, but I am planning to invest in a moisture metre to get more accurate readings.

i use a chainsaw to check moisture levels. it gives me a mechanical advantage.

@@darkshadowsx5949 and rust, I'd imagine.

I use a water meter.. complete game changer and it takes away the guessing game that is watering.

That's great!

what's your preferred mix?

Regarding size, bigger pots hold more moisture. So why take the risk? Small pots are cheaper and in my view rushing out to buy a larger pot your plant doesn't need is an expensive rookie error

Same, I just started using just straight bark (from landscape bags meant to be used as soil ammendments, lol) just like most tree and shrub nurseries use. Drains every drop of excess water out, but the bark stays moist for the plant. Its literally impossible to overwater.

@@tayh3645 That’s amazing! :) I’m not surprised you’d have success with that substrate. People often forget that plants don’t grow in small pots in the wild. They have the whole ground available to them and they can’t control how much rain they receive. The question is why can plants survive getting “overwatered” in nature, but they keel over in our home? It’s because the substrate they grow in natively is full of chunky organic material that provides the roots with plenty of oxygen.

@@KillThisPlant I use 1 part peat moss to 1 part perlite to 2 parts bark chips. I also add a bit of horticultural charcoal to be fancy. Haha

I was told by a relative that my neon pothos "looked root bound". I guess they have x-ray vision lol (spoiler no, I checked it a month prior, if anything it needed a smaller pot)

I think blogs would give you much more accurate information. Tons of information out there. blog.davey.com/winterizing-and-storing-potted-trees-over-winter/

I'll keep that in mind, a prop box might solve some of your issues though

Thanks for watching! I don't really do anything, my plants that are assisted with grow lights get the same timing all year round. Everyone else just deals with less light!

I also just use grow lights. I think they're a good way to maintain a consistency throughout the year. You can also kinda choose your own grow times for the plants based on how much light/water you're giving them.

Very welcome

So now the question is, should I report my monsterra into a smaller pot in the middle of summer in Arizona? ....I think imma do it. It's not happy and not growing. Been stuck at 2 nodes for months

You have good eyes! That was some kind of millipede, I saw it after I was done filming. 🐛

Glad it was helpful!

I'd say just keep it, the stress of multiple repots in such a short amount of time might just stress out your plants too much. Keep them in the big pots, be more cautious about how much you water them and just remember to put them into smaller pots in the future, take it as a learning experience :)

To add to what Alena said, It depends on how much pot size you went up and what soil type you used. More than 2 inches up with a basic potting soil, plus maybe your plant wasn't very close to being root bound? You could be entering dangerous territory. Monitor closely, use the stick to see if it's drying out properly.

@@KillThisPlant will do. It was a pretty drastic pot increase. It went from a 14 inch to a 20 inch pot. The plant was pretty root bound. I got such a large pot for room for stakes.

I'm glad your plants did well. I had mentioned this in the comments before but there are a couple of things happening here: Whether is was lighting conditions, temperature, soil choice, or your watering schedule. You had an environment where your plant's roots were not suffering from a lack of oxygen killing them off. Outdoor plants have a vastly different microbiology. Everything from bacteria, to insects and other bugs, are both aerating the soil as well as combating bacteria that would generally cause root rot. Even the wind is causing outdoor plants to dry out at such a significantly higher rate. There is also the underground water table. So water isn't really just pooling in outdoor plants.

@Kill This Plant The plant was in my living room that had a total of 4 double windows. Two were facing south, but on that side, the roof was overhanging and lots of large trees in front of it, so there wasn't much light coming in. The other 2 were facing west with afternoon sun. The plant was in the corner of that room, so it really had access to only two of the four windows, one of them with very little light coming in. I used regular potting soil, and I watered it usually once a week or when the upper 5 centimeters of soil were dry. I also made sure not to flood the pot. I always used only so much water that a bit of it ran out of the bottom, which then evaporated within a day. Of course, it's always best to give a plant what it needs, but momsteras from my experience were never giving me any trouble. My mother used to have one in the living room planted in regular potting soil in a massive glas jar with no holes in the bottom. We had that one for 2 decades. Eventually they redid the living room and one day it was gone. I think they gave it away. Monsteras occur naturally in tropical countries that usually have a rainy season where it does rain almost every day and the rains there are nothing like the rains I know from Europe. It poors down like hell, and the rainy season usually lasts about 4 months, at least in Thailand where I used to live. The ground will be soggy fairly quickly and there's not much time in between for it to really dry up.