Comments on: Corking: Here’s Why Your Monstera Stem’s Brown

By: Caroline Cocker

Caroline Cocker — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:53:18 +0000

In reply to Stephanie Garcia. Aerial roots! It wants to climb!

By: Stephanie Garcia

Stephanie Garcia — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:18:52 +0000

My plant has 2 long brown stems growing but not leave .. it looks like roots . What exactly are they?

By: Caroline Cocker

Caroline Cocker — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:46:16 +0000

In reply to C C.

If it’s mature enough to be corking it’ll most likely be able to bounce back quickly – they’re pretty tough!

By: C C

C C — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:42:06 +0000

Many thanks, Caroline. It’s super helpful. You are so knowledgeable – I couldn’t really find much on the internet that clearly explained the difference between corking and scale on Monstera Cheese plants. You saved my plant – I almost wanted to chop off those stems with corking. My plant has beautiful, big, lush leaves, which made me rethink whether that brown thing was a scale infestation. It’s hard to remove – I did hurt its stems trying to take it off. Clearly a mistake.

By: Caroline Cocker

Caroline Cocker — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:46:44 +0000

In reply to Iris. Yes, the corking won't do any damage so it should root fine

By: Iris

Iris — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:52:21 +0000

hello!
Can I still propagate if the stem of my monstera is like this (corked)?
I’ve just cut the top part off because the stem was too long and heavy. I’ve put the rest in a plastic box with sphagnum moss, but I’m not sure if it will sprout because it’s just corked. Can you help me? please

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:49:21 +0000

In reply to Claudia. I promise it isn’t! No armoured scale here!

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:38:00 +0000

ITS NOT CORKING. ITS AMORED SCALE DAMAGE!