How to plant monstera

Variations of the monster – multiple, from growing it from seed before receiving germs from the air roots. However, the most common method is the planting of plants from cuttings. Armed with some knowledge, you can easily grow a beautiful and healthy plant.

Instruction

Cuttings of monstera can be obtained in two ways.

Cut the top adult monstera with internode and three leaves (one of them must be fully ripe), put it in water and wait for roots.

Cut monstera kids, put them in water. The kids appear on the stem of adult plants (usually in the area, located close to the ground). For planting good for kids that already appeared in at least one internode and matured one sheet.

While the cuttings are in water and roots, prepare the ground for young plants. Monstera likes fertile, loose, but moisture-retaining soil. Make the following mixture: take one part peat, sand and humus and three parts sod land. All mix well.

At the bottom of the pot arrange good drainage (water should not stagnate in the tank). For these purposes, suitable expanded clay, gravel or pebbles.

On top of the drainage layer, pour the prepared soil. Slightly push it with your hand. Make a small indentation in the center and pour warm water.

Put a cutting of monstera into the ground to the internode, which has already formed roots while the cutting is in water, was slightly buried in the soil. Lightly push the soil around the stem of the plant. Pour.

Note

Cuttings from the beginnings of aerial roots (they look like warts on the stem) root faster.

Useful advice

You can put a cutting of monstera after cutting from an adult plant is not in water but in a mixture of peat and sand (in equal proportions), and even directly into the prepared soil. In this case the plant needs to be sprayed with warm water 2 times a day and make sure that the substrate was kept moist. When cutting the first piece, you can have it prepared for a permanent "residence" pot and reduce watering.

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