Monstera Deliciosa | Repotting + Care | Plant Therapy Thursday Vlog

hey you welcome back to my channel for our plant therapy thursday session where we enter the plant kingdom and explore weird and beautiful plants from around the world from relaxing rainforest plants to sculptural desert cacti and succulents welcome back you guys for today's plant therapy thursday session we're going to be going over the monstera deliciosa i'll share basic care tips and then also we'll do a complete repotting so i'll share everything that i do when i repot one of these and this one is about five feet right now but it is still a juvenile plant so i want to get it into a lighter weight pot and so that's kind of my mission today and the first i just realized that um before i turned on the camera i realized oh wait um i don't have an extra steak to use for this so i'm gonna have to make one so let's just go and do that on camera too okay so to make our plant steak you're gonna need just a few items and there's all kinds of ways you can make a steak so you can find even just a stick you don't even have to use actually yeah you could just use one item to make a steak you could go find a branch outside and use that as your steak so there's all kinds of ways to do this but i like to make the cocoa core poles so i've got a piece of cocoa core here it's just the cocoa fiber and it's kind of matted and pressed together so you can buy this in rolls you can buy it in rolls or by the foot actually so i couldn't find any rolls in my area lately i've been looking all over the place and everywhere is sold out so all the nurseries and everything so i just found this last little piece at green things a plant nursery here in tucson so i bought the last of what they had and i'm going to cut this in half and really try to stretch it so i can get two poles or two stakes out of it and then for the steak itself i'm just using a two by two so let's get making this right now so the first thing i'm going to do is cut this piece of cocoa fiber in half so long ways because i want to get two pieces out of it to make two pulls because i got more plants that are waiting to get they're like on a waiting list for steaks right now and you can cut the cocoa fiber just with a regular pair of scissors okay so i've got one piece and i've got my pull or my steak and i'm just gonna wrap that around it so it's just going to wrap around once if you wanted a really thick pull then you can or a really thick steak you can wrap it around multiple times if you want but the cocoa fiber just gives extra kind of depth for any roots to kind of cling to and kind of if they want to get in there or hold on it just kind of helps them hold on okay so we've got our steak and the coco coir fiber and so normally i like to wrap the top too you don't have to though you could have the wood go or your steak go all the way to the top and just wrap it like that and have the top exposed but i like to wrap the top so normally i just pull extra few inches and then pull that over and then you just wrap it like a little burrito basically and normally i won't worry about the rest because that's kind of hard to try to do the whole thing at once normally i'll just do the top and i'll take my twine and then i'll start there and then work my way wrapping the twine down and around it so that's how i make these and for the twine i'm just using this this is um artificial sinew so it's just really strong and it's kind of a waxy uh waxy cord so it holds on really good and then also matches the cocoa core pretty well so i'm just going to pull off a bunch of the twine and i normally have to use several feet of this because i do a crisscross when i'm wrapping it and it kind of takes a lot of it and i fold my twine in half so i've got the center of it here let's just wrap that again and then i wrap that around the back and i do criss-crosses all the way down so just crisscross it wrap it around the back so hopefully you can see there i just criss-cross over the front wrap it around the back do a crisscross there also and as i'm crisscrossing and working my way down i just work a few inches at a time so i don't worry about all this down here i just closed it up a few inches at a time so normally when i'm wrapping a stake i find it's easiest to be sitting down in a chair and then have the stake in front of you just sitting on the floor and then you're wide open to be able to wrap you know around the back and the front really easily and you're able to work your your twine much easier than if it's laying down on a flat surface but i wanted to make sure you guys were able to see what i was doing so that's one way to make it easier sitting down and having the poles standing on the floor so you can work freely around it or another way is to have it kind of sitting off of a table so have it on a table and then you can kind of either brace it with your leg as you're wrapping around just so you have more free movement all the way around to do the back wraps and you can always brace it if you have to and so we're just finishing up here actually i'm gonna make that the last twist right there okay so we're all done wrapping so now i'm just gonna tie a knot at the bottom to secure it so monstera deliciosas are native to tropical areas so they originate from southern mexico in the tropical regions central america like honduras nicaragua costa rica also down into south america as well as they've also made their way into some of the islands like they're in hawaii and also seychelles these are actually really tough plants and what's interesting about them is that they are able to make it in a wide range of climates also even though they are originally native to the tropics but they do have a preferred type of climate where they can really thrive and do their best they love high humidity so if you think about the tropics these are epiphytic vines so they climb up trees just like the monster and sony eyes so they climb up and they use these aerial roots to kind of clutch around the trees as they're climbing and they are absolutely stunning when you see them in their mature state they actually get quite a bit more splits in the leaves and it's just gorgeous now this well actually actually all of these all of the plants that i have are not mature they're just juveniles but this one actually even though it's smaller it was a cutting from a larger plant a more mature plant and so every time it puts out leaves they're more formed like you can see this one has more splits or fenestrations and leaves compared to this one this plant is bigger this is about five feet maybe yeah about four and a half to five feet wide but this one is still putting out smaller leaves that have you know only a few you know a handful of fenestrations but as they mature they start getting even more fenestrations and they just create these beautiful designs in the leaves so these guys love to be warm they love high humidity and they love a lot of moisture they love contact with a lot of moisture and that can be you know like spray over the leaves like it you can actually mist these in fact i've got my mister around here somewhere so they absolutely love getting misted and we'll just give it a little mist right now because i'm sure it's probably hot and it's we're in the desert here so it's hot and dry okay we're gonna get mixing up our soil recipe and this is the same soil recipe that i used in the monstera and sony eye potting up um so it's the you know they're both airoids they both have the same epiphytic vining you know that they both they both do the same thing um and they're both from the tropics so they have very similar requirements so that's why i'm doing the same exact potting soil recipe um so the soil that i'm going to be using here this is happy frog it has humic acid it also has i think is it mycorrhizae mycorrhizae i think it's mycorrhizae soil microbes in it already it also has fertilizer okay so in the happy frog soil i'm going to read off the ingredients to you guys because i always like to let you know the ingredients and why i'm using that particular product and putting that into the soil recipe so ingredients in the happy frog potting mix is 50 to 60 age forest products sphagnum peat moss perlite and fertilizer so a lot of tropicals including monsters they do like a peat based potting soil and so that's why i'm using this one normally if i'm putting up anything else like cactus or succulents or something i i never use anything that has peed in it but because i know that these monsteras you know they're tropical they do like that extra rich uh based potting soil i will use it just for them so we've got our one part potting soil and that adds the moisture retentive part of our soil recipe in this bag i have a blend of three ingredients so i've got cocoa chips hummus and cocoa peat so it's just a little bit of cocopeat in there it's mostly the chips and the pumice so that's gonna serve as our aerated part of our soil recipe so we're doing one part of our cocoa based gritty mix to our one part of potting soil okay i've got this long fibre sphagnum moss i'm going to add to our soil recipe here and this holds 20 times its weight in water so this is also going to be one of our moisture retentive ingredients and i'm just going to put in maybe like maybe like three handfuls of it i'm also going to use this activated charcoal i got this at walmart in the aquarium section um if that's that's where it was the cheapest that i could find it so i'm just gonna add a little i'm not measuring this i'm just kind of like sprinkling in so maybe just like about two handfuls worth of the activated charcoal let me bring you guys in a little bit closer because i want to show you the textures before i start mixing it okay so i just want to show you guys some of the textures here that we have going on so you can see that this is definitely the moisture retentive part of our soil mix here and then here we have our activated charcoal that'll act as a filter and i forgot to mention activated charcoal will also hold on to nutrients and so that's another reason i'm adding it to the soil so it's a natural filter and it also holds onto nutrients and then we have our sphagnum peat moss long fibers fagnom peat moss so here's the sphagnum peat moss that i'm using and you can find this in the orchid section of garden centers so i got this at uh home depot so it's just about like five bucks for a bag so one tip about the sphagnum moss is it can kind of clump together so we want to break up those clumps and you can just break it up real quick you don't have to be like really meticulous or anything just kind of separate it because since it does hold 20 times its weight in water it is one of our moisture retaining ingredients so that's why we want to break it up the our plant roots will love finding little pockets of moisture within the soil but we just don't want to overwhelm it and have big uh globs of moisture happening in the soil so that's why we want to just break it up a little just the really big you know chunky bits and another option that you could do um if you want it even smaller you can just take some scissors and chop chop chop and chop it up even smaller and then we have our gritty mix which is mostly composed of cocoa chips and pumice and there's a little bit of cocoa peat mixed in there too so monstera delucioses want a nice rich soil but they also want it to be fast draining because they are epiphytic plants so they are climbing up trees and holding on to bark so they don't necessarily want to be like buried in really heavy soil and so far since using this combination i found it to be a really good balance of retaining enough moisture but still being very light do we have another another chunk of steiner moss there okay so it looks like we've got a good texture going here for our monster deliciosa we are ready to pot it up all right guys i'm back we had a little bit of an intermission there michael got home and i was moving some stuff around here so if you notice background's a little different it's going to be changing as i'm getting this set up more to be a regular filming area because it's going to be our regular plant therapy room here so um all right we're we're in our dining room by the way except our dining room has gotten pushed that our table is over on this side and this is going to be like our little filming area this thing has some very new aerial roots and i don't want to break any of them because i love the aerial roots that these put out and i want to keep them as intact as possible so i don't want to get any as we're getting this out of its pot all right so let's try to get this out so what i'm doing is just kind of scraping around the edges now it is so much easier when you repot these from a plastic pot because then you can you can roll it on its side and kind of like soften it up from the edges but when it's in a ceramic pot you kind of get a like you know wedge your tools down in there and kind of like dig it out of there and so right now i'm just starting with my hands just kind of scraping around the edges it's got such lovely new little starts it's got like all these new little ariel roots just starting they're only like a inch or two long but they're like all over so we're just working that root ball free and i'm just clearing away any of the soil that's around the outer edge of the root ball it's just about out but i'm just feeling for where the roots finally end and i think they go down all the way to the bottom of the pot because i feel like they're holding on at the very bottom and i'm trying to work it free like my hands are around the whole root ball right now but i just can't get around the very bottom of it to lift it out you know what i mean so we're getting there i'm just trying to be gentle on the roots and i don't want to break any like big old turnip roots you know down there at the very bottom so we're not going to rush it we're just going to take our time getting this out i'm just going to scoot some of that old potting soil away and put my new pot in the side of our tray here okay there we go i think we got it yes she is free okay wait okay first before we do any lifting or anything take note of where you're holding and where the aerial roots are let's get a grip on the top here most of the growth is leaning over this way so i'm just going to support that with my arm i don't want to snap any roots at the last minute here so not bad not bad you know what actually i am going to take out some of that soil it's not a massive root system but they have a lot of really good new white roots on there so lots of oops sorry guys lots of white roots it's looking really good and healthy they're just a little on the drier side than i want it i want it to have more moisture so that's why we're switching the mixes the soil recipe so we're going to get it into this new soil mix now we're ready for the steak so i've got a little bit of soil in there and i've got the spot where i'm going to put the steak i've got that kind of dug away so i'm just going to work that down to the bottom of the pot it's growing out but i want it growing up this way so what we're going to do is we're going to switch this around okay so let's add a little bit of soil around the stake so that can kind of stand upright okay i kinda i kind of need to flip it around oops sorry this way there we go get it out those roots are come on now get in there those roots are super grabby they grab onto everything i think we got it in the right at least the right position in the pot with the steak so now i will just lift up the plant a tiny bit as we're putting in the soil so normally what i do when i'm back filling putting the soil back into the pot i'm kind of holding the plant up i'm just supporting it so it's not just like smashing its roots i want the roots to kind of be you know able to face downwards and i'm just sort of like lifting it up so the roots are just sort of like dangling there and then as i drop in the soil i just look for an opening and i keep dropping the soil into that one opening and once it's in there then i spread it around and i do it kind of like that because and i'll shake a little too and that just helps the solo kind of settle down in between those roots and i just find that that's an easy way to get the roots kind of situated in there without getting you know kind of crushed or smashed under the plant okay so i just mixed up some more soil and we're just gonna finish back filling here get some more in the front so i'm just tamping the soil around the stake a little more because i really want that to be nice and sturdy to be able to support these these bigger branches that we're going to be or bigger vines we're going to be uh sticking those up in just a minute here so when we just potted this i kind of tilted the plant up so it wasn't like splayed out kind of flatter you know how it was before kind of reaching out to the sides i kind of turned it upwards so it's almost like a fan shape now and i just did that because i wanted to be able to get these bigger heavier vines attached to the steak so you just kind of got to play with your plants sometimes and you know if you have to reposition it you know how it's growing to get it up on a stake okay one more shake i'm sure we're straight with it so this is what i'm using it's kind of ribbon-like it's artificial sinews so that's what i use um that's what i used on my other adam sony eye these branches are going to be much heavier than the and sony eye so i'll just see how this works and if i need to get a wider ribbon to support the weight of them then i can always switch that out so i'm going to start with this because that's all i have for now okay so i'm going to start with this bigger middle one here and let me see how we want to do this one i think oh you know what oh that's it that's it right there yep that's it okay it fits perfectly because it has these ariel roots that wrap around that way so it leans actually on that on that post perfectly let's go ahead and tie this one up too this is kind of like the next larger one so we'll tie that one right about here so what i'm doing is i'm just training these slowly over time so i'm not going to make them i'm not going to try to like lift them real tight to the pole right now if they don't want to go that way because i wouldn't want to snap a vine i just like i want to i want to gently guide it towards the pole or guide it in the direction you want to grow if you want to start growing upwards so i'm just going to gently start to straighten it but if it doesn't want to go all the way then i'm not going to force it and you can always tighten your floral ribbons or your ties later on you know as it starts to want to move in that direction so we're just training training the vines and we can always adjust them a little tighter as they start to go more upright okay i've got a couple of vines on this side that are really leaning because we got this fan fan action here which actually i kind of like it's very it's very wild but i'm still gonna just help those just a little bit just guide them upwards maybe like something like that okay so we'll go and tie those just to guide them okay in case they decided they wanted to climb the stake we'll just give them a little help okay so that's all i'll do for that side and then over here i think we'll just do this one here is pretty much the main heavy one on this side the heaviest fine ah that should work okay i just realized the spine here we already tied it but we're gonna tie it up one once more a little bit higher so we want to catch this higher one and have that grown up right so we'll add one more tie up here just a little bit higher okay so we've got it repotted we've got some of the vines staked up and supported and now it's time to do some pruning on these yellowing and dying leaves and then any other leaves that look a little you know maybe they're a little shabby looking and you don't want those on there you can do any trimming you want also what you can do if you're repotting if you want to break up the root ball and like separate out or do some propagation when you're doing a repot that's a good time to do that too so like for example like some wonky pieces if if you have some awkward pieces on your plant you could just remove that entirely and propagate it and have a whole new plant that you can train up how you want it um so we could have done that on like this one here but i'm sorry just leaving this all wild right now and we can always you know propagate more off of this plant in the future but right now i'm just going to take my sterilized pruning shears and i'm just going to cut off some of these these yellowing leaves under here so we don't need those on there and we got one under here oh we'll go and trim that one back too okay so for dusting the leaves i just used a regular microfiber cloth so when we dust the leaves we're actually allowing the plant to be able to photosynthesize with that leaf if it had the layer of dust on it and we just left it on there it wouldn't be able to photosynthesize the way that it needs to so that's why we want to keep them clean and i try to do it on a regular basis usually about once a week i try to go around and dust all the house plants okay now our plant is ready for a drink of water so i'm going to feed it at the same time so i'm going to do a little bit of fertilizing with you guys here too and i'll show you what i use so i normally switch back and forth between a couple of different ways of fertilizing i will either use a liquid fertilizer like this eleanor's vf11 i really like this one it's been good for all kinds of house plants so they seem to really thrive with it and so i got that at ecogrow here in tucson um so i will add normally like one tablespoon to my little my little watering can here which is this is just a half gallon um so that's half strength of this normally you would add two tablespoons to one gallon and go ahead and water that way another option that sometimes i'll do when i first do a transplant like this or a repot is i'll just take a few handfuls of worm castings and those are highly nutrient dense for the plants and they love it so i will sprinkle that around the top of the soil and as you water it kind of works its way down into the soil into the roots and all those nutrients get soaked up by the roots and they love it they just go crazy um but since i already have my eleanor's vf11 mixed in here we're just gonna go ahead and water and i've already got my little saucer down there that the pot is in okay i'm actually gonna mix up another can of this because it's really thirsty so i'm gonna make sure i get the pot pretty evenly and really soak it all right so i'm gonna mix this one up with you guys so here's the eleanor's vf11 and so you can measure this if you want just one tablespoon for a half gallon or two tablespoons for one whole gallon but i just kind of eyeball it and just do a tiny a tiny splash like that and then i fill my watering can with water and this this product is just specifically for my plants so it's pretty old and beat up but i still use it for them just to try to filter out some of that chlorine but whenever possible i do use rain water but i just don't have any right now so we're just gonna do some filtered water for it we'll give it a drink of water and i'm really gonna soak the pot because i know how thirsty this plant has been so let's give this a good spray down so it got fed it got a good drink of water or a good water bath and we're gonna give it a nice spray of water just to refresh its leaves after being cleaned and they love water monsters just like really seem to perk up what is this brand delta sprayer so that's my metal hand spray this thing has been so handy for so many plant projects but these airoids the monsters they really love getting good spray it's just like they're at home in the rainforest again getting a nice misting from the rain they get all that humidity from it also spraying the stems is a good way to kind of wake up the roots and create more humidity underneath for the plant so instead of just spraying the leaves so for the airoids i spray them every day twice a day and i find that when i'm on that schedule uh because sometimes i'll slack a little or all for gage or something i'll miss a few days but when i'm on that schedule twice a day morning and night it seems like they really perk up and they really do well with that so right now this one you can see his leaves are kind of curved this one's this one's perkier but when they start to curve like that that's from uh dehydration or the humidity is not as high as they would like it to be so it causes them to dry out more and faster so its day at the spa is just about done but it's in its nursery pot and we need to fix that so we're gonna put that into something so it can feel pretty we're gonna give it a little outfit so i'm going to go look for a basket or something decorative to be able to set it in um i don't know if this pot will slide inside the pot it was already in i don't think so i think it might be too close to the same size but we'll see okay so i was looking at a couple different options and one of them was reusing the pot that it was in but just putting the nursery pot inside of that it almost looked like it would fit this is the same size nursery pot as we put it in but not quite so uh plan b was to use a basket so let me show you guys the basket that i have all right here it is it is a huge basket now the thing is whenever you're using a basket for your plants you have to cover the bottom of it with plastic or vinyl or something that is waterproof even if you have a saucer it can still kind of penetrate the saucer and not necessarily leak but it still has like moisture so it'll still create like a moist environment inside the basket so i always try to make sure i line it as best as i can so you can use any kind of plastic even like a trash bag or a vinyl you can you know anything that you can just line it with it's non-porous where the water is not going to get through or the moisture is not going to get through and mold your basket so i just have trash bags for right now so i'm just gonna use one of those and put that around the bottom and up around the edges a little um and i was gonna actually go to either like lowe's or home depot and grab one of those drop cloths they have plastic drop cloths that are pretty inexpensive and you can cut those apart and use those as liners too they're a nice thick sturdy plastic so now i'm going to put the saucer in here and that's going to sit on the bag i forgot to mention your saucer a good way to get the water out of your saucer so your plant will be in standing water is to use a turkey baster so you can just suck that right out i actually learned that tip from plantarina i love her on here she is awesome she has such great tips and that is one that came from her so i really appreciate that her name is amanda on plant arena definitely check her out if you don't know her already she's awesome all right here's the test let's see how it looks let's see if i can even get in here without disturbing the branches too much i i kind of i kind of love this but it's it's cracking me up at the same time because the basket is so huge and like it's so wide and the plant is so wide too so actually i think they're a good match i mean they look absurd but i think they fit well together okay so now i need to figure out exactly where this is gonna go because now it's it's like gigantic gigantosaurus and i don't know if i've got a place for it okay guys um hold on let me let me take a look around the house and see where i can fit this thing you know i just realized this leaf down here that's that's gonna have to go because it's just like hanging down there so weird so let's go ahead and trim that one back and let's just kind of fix those two okay so i looked around the house and the best place i can find for this plant because it is large and i do want it to have as bright of indirect light as i can give it i think right here is where it's gonna have to live right in our dining room area well actually our dining room got pushed to push that way this is now like my plant office um so right at our big dining room windows here this is the east facing side of our house so these are east facing windows and it gets bright light all day long um we have a patio out here and the light the sunlight bounces off that right through the window all day so it stays really bright um so i'm thinking because i want this plant to grow as big as possible i wanted to you know really mature and start putting out you know nice big leaves with beautiful intricate fenestrations i want that to get enough light so it can start producing those so i'm gonna have it here and see how that works if i need to kind of like shift you know shift directions or move it a little closer or on one side of the window or something i'll figure that out later but i think it's going to live right here by this window so i'm going to try on the east side of our house and it does get lots of bright light at the back part of our house which is the south facing side so that gets lots of sunlight coming in those windows though and the rooms themselves are hotter because of that so actually when i put i had this one back here before or back there before and it got um it got a little bit sunburned i'll bring you guys in closer and show you even though i had it pulled several feet away from the window the sun would just like peek in and i'll show you a really tinder spot where they tend to get sunburned and if you see this happening you'll know that it's either dehydrated or most likely it got too much sun even filtered sunlight coming in on there now these plants when it comes to watering they like consistent moisture they don't want to dry out all the way at least that's been my experience if i let them go even slightly dry they start getting very limp their their stems will start to curve downwards and so when it comes to your watering schedule my schedule might look different than your schedule um but i'll go ahead and share like how often i water during different times of the year just to give you an idea so during the summer time the hottest months of the year i will water at least twice a week sometimes three times a week if i'm noticing you know it looks a little limp or the leaves got a little too warm or something and they start to you know droop so i normally water by what it looks like now this plant i just watered it yesterday and so i can still feel it has plenty of moisture in there but it'll start getting lighter and lighter as it starts to dry and so normally i will i will kind of pay attention to how the leaves look and that's how i water so when i go to water i'll water the entire plant pot really well really saturate that soil all throughout and until it's running through the bottom of the pot so that's normally how i water just about every single time so i don't do like little little tiny sips of water you know i really just soak the pot and when it comes to watering during the rest of the year like winter time these plants are not in their growing season so there's not normally a need to water them a whole lot so i water them maybe once a month and during spring and fall if it's a little bit cooler then normally the soil is again not drying out very quickly so i'll water it maybe once every two weeks or so and then if it's hotter during those seasons then i end up watering maybe once a week so hopefully that makes sense but it basically all has to do with how fast your soil is drying out and that's going to be different for everyone it's going to depend on the soil you're using the type of pot you're using and also your humidity level and just your overall climate and i don't let them go bone dry because they get very upset if you let them go too dry at least that's what i found in my experience so i try to keep them a little bit moist and i just water when like the top couple inches of the soil has gone dry but i really tend to water by how the plant looks so if the leaves are not as glossy if they start to look a little more dull you know that they're starting to lose their hydration they're starting to get a little more dehydrated and so normally i will water them and then the next level of dehydration is when you see the leaves going limp or the stems are starting to really go limp then you know they're definitely dehydrated and could really use a good soaking and i normally try to repot when the plant is fully hydrated so i will water it and then during that week is when i repot it it just helps the plant go through that transition period of shock of being transplanted it helps it go through that period a little bit easier because they do take some time to get settled into their new pot and start taking up water so i had an idea to use my essential oil diffuser just temporarily until i get a humidifier and so i'm using my vitruvi essential oil diffuser down there and i didn't put any essential oils in there it's just plain water running right now so i'm hoping that will help them out a little bit with the dry air so when is the best time to repot these guys it's going to be their growing season so that's normally the warmer months where they're putting out new leaves so when you see them actively growing that's a good time of year to repot now how often to repot these usually the guideline is every couple years but there's no set rules if you want to repot it or if you feel like it's outgrowing its pot or you just want to change the pot or the soil it's in and you want to refresh it then you can repot it anytime during the growing season any year i like to repot mine if i notice them kind of outgrowing the pot or if they seem to be getting tight now these can grow root bound but they will grow bigger and faster if you give them a little extra space last year i did an experiment where i had two monsters that were the same age and the same size one i kept in its original nursery pot so it was a little bit root bound and then the other one i up potted into a much larger pot and it filled out that pot really quickly it also got a stronger thicker vines i like thicker stems on the the leaves everything was just growing a lot faster compared to the one that i kept in its original nursery pot but the one in the original smaller nursery pot it did still fill out the pot and it did still produce a lot of leaves but i noticed that the stems were just a little thinner and a little weaker so it just wasn't as big and thick as the one that i plotted into the larger pot so hopefully that makes sense but yeah if you up pot them into a pot that's a few inches larger or at least a couple inches larger they will fill out that pot and they'll get big and strong and they'll start putting out bigger leaves and more fenestrations and everything they just seem to have more growth overall now this was mostly just a casual repot video but i also wanted to include a couple of troubleshooting tips so things that you might notice that could be happening with your monstera one is yellowing leaves and yellowing leaves can be caused by dehydration so not being watered enough or the soil isn't retaining enough moisture or it could be caused by over watering so the the yellowing of the leaves it can look a little bit different though between being dehydrated versus being over hydrated or over watered and there is another reason that yellowing leaves can occur and that is smaller leaves that are down underneath its canopy where it's not getting enough light so sometimes the plant will just cut those off and you'll just see some small yellowing leaves that are just kind of tucked down under the rest of the foliage and that's totally normal if they were not receiving enough light the plant isn't using them for photosynthesis and they're just taking energy from the plant and so it will just cut those off basically and they will yellow and crispen up and fall off the plant so dehydration is very similar to that it will lose the lower leaves the the least important leaves or the the leaves that are not as much of a priority for the plant so that happens also with dehydration now if it's been over watered you're going to see yellowing leaves and possibly browning leaves higher up on the plant so it's not just going to be the little smallest leaves under the canopy it's going to be bigger leaves that are more of a priority for the plant but it just can't deal with the amount of water that it's received and it's over hydrated you might even see some really dark almost like leaf burn marks and that is from being over watered usually sometimes it can come from some light hitting the leaves too also something else that can happen with leaf burn is if they've been over fertilized they can get leaf burned that way also you may still have a chance to save the plant you just have to unpot it clean up the roots and we can always do a different video on that in the future if you want help with that okay i just want to show you down here this leaf sheath it's a very delicate part of the plant's tissue that's where the the new leaves come out of let me show you over here you might be able to see a better example here we go so here's a leaf sheath very delicate very thin plant tissue and then here is a leaf sheath that has sun damage on it and it's crispy it has yellowed and it's also brown and crispy there so that is from just a little bit of dappled sunlight or filtered sunlight coming in the window and it was not right next to the window either this plant was about seven feet away pulled back from any windows so it just took the tiniest bit of sun coming in and it was just early morning sun too and it still burned that part of the plant so i just wanted to show you that some mistakes that i've made and have learned from so just watch out even if you just have a little bit of filtered sunlight coming in and you think it's pretty gentle for these plants it can be too much and so you just want to watch out for that if you live in a place where you have strong sunlight and here's another one on this side you can see how that's yellow there and there's even a little bit of yellow there and how it's crispy poor little baby got too much sun and i want to show you guys the plant that we potted up let's get right in here can you guys see those ariel roots so there's one right here and then one right down there and they just happen to grab on perfectly up against the stake and so it's been a couple days since we repotted this i just want to do a little update here this top leaf of that line already started moving towards the stake where we had tied it and i already had to tighten up the the artificial sinew i was using my twine because it was super loose it wasn't even like holding it anymore it just had moved that much in just a couple days time uh browning of the leaf tips let me see if i can find uh one of my plants that has the browning tips hold on one sec does that one have any oh you know what let's go to the other one in my back room so hopefully you're able to see that so we've got a little bit of a brown kind of crispy tip there the heat back here is just too hot so i have to move it out of this room it's going to go in the front with the others i'm going to repot it but anyway i just wanted to show you the browning that is from dehydration where the leaves are losing too much moisture and they're not able like the moisture is not able to make it all the way to the tips if that makes sense so the moisture ends up evaporating before it can fill the entire leaf so sometimes those brown crispy tips can be caused by dehydration and other times it could be a deficiency of some kind it has different reasons and usually there's you know a variety of causes for any given you know symptom that your plant might be experiencing just like the yellowing leaves you know can have different causes but normally if you see one sign there will be other signs that kind of also kind of give you a hint to what's going on all right so i just want to show you guys that but yes this poor baby is next i'm actually going to do this one right now so i'm not going to film it though because you guys already had to watch one filming one potting and there's a big ol root there big old aerial route i gotta watch out for and also in their natural habitat when these plants are climbing up trees they can become disconnected to their main root system and then these aerial roots actually become their main primary root system so they're very important they're much more than just a support for the plant they actually take an oxygen and eventually they can take in nutrients and water they're just a very important part to the plants so i always try to leave those alone and protect them whenever i'm repotting and humidity really affects these plants quite a bit too so up here you can see these limp leaves these are the newest leaves on this plant and you can see how limp they are and how curved the leaves can become that's from lack of humidity so dry air can do that so if you want your leaves to be as perky as possible then we're gonna have to get a humidifier that's just how it's gonna go so i've got limp leaves i got dry air dry hot air and i'll get a humidifier for them as soon as i can and that should fix that problem and they will perk back up but otherwise yeah it's not something to worry about you know but if you can give them a little more moisture they will have perkier leaves for sure all right you guys thank you so much for watching i hope you found this video helpful and i love you have an awesome day and i wish you the best success in growing your plants bye guys

Channel: Christine Kobzeff

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Length: 41min 13sec (2473 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020