How to care for Monstera – how much light they need, how much to water them, how often you should feed them, how to encourage them to grow big, fenestrated leaves, and how to get the to grow quicker
Monstera naturally only have one stem. They’re vining plants, that usually only have one active growth point at once. A lot of people get confused when they see super bushy Monstera like this: One of two things is going on here: The first is that it was grown in nursery conditions, that we’d struggle to …
I’ve touched on this topic a couple of times in other aerial roots articles, but I thought the whole ‘aerial roots in water’ deserved its own moment in the spotlight. There’s a lot of misconceptions about what happens when you put aerial roots in water, and all the advice out there is pretty polarising. It’s …
House plant pests, like house plants themselves, seem to have a preference when it comes to the environments they like, so you may find that one type is harder to eradicate than others. I think I’ve had most of the house plant pests, but only the thrips were really clingers on (although if I keep …
I did a post on corking, which is when the stem of your Monstera (a lot of plants do it actually) gets brown calluses on it to help strengthen the stem. There is, however, another reason your stem might go brown and it’s way more of a big deal. By the way, it’s highly unlikely …
You can keep Monstera in a terrarium. They actually do very well in terrariums, but they do have a tendency to get a bit…big. For this reason I can’t really recommend keeping a Monstera deliciosa in a terrarium – the conditions would be great but it would get super cramped very quickly, which would likely …