There are several options for planting a monstera, from growing it from seeds to obtaining sprouts from aerial roots. However, the most common way is planting a plant from a cuttings. Armed with some knowledge, you can easily grow a beautiful and healthy plant.
Instruction manual
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Monstera cuttings can be obtained in two ways.
Cut off the top of the adult monstera with an internode and with three leaves (one of them must be completely ripe), put it in the water and wait for the roots to appear.
Cut the kids monsters, put them in the water. Children appear on the stem of an adult plant (usually on a site located close to the ground). Children are suitable for planting, on which at least one internode has already appeared and one leaf has matured.
2
While the cuttings are in the water and take root, prepare the ground for young plants. Monstera loves fertile, loose, but moisture-retaining soil. Make the following mixture: take one part of peat, sand and humus and three parts of turf land. Mix everything well.
3
At the bottom of the pot, arrange for good drainage (water should not stagnate in the tank). For these purposes, expanded clay, fine pebbles or pebbles is suitable.
4
Sprinkle prepared soil over the drainage layer. Wash it lightly with your hands. Make a small depression in the center and pour warm water.
5
Plant the monstera stalk in the ground so that the internode on which the roots have already formed while the stalk is in the water is slightly buried in the soil. Squeeze lightly around the stem of the plant. Pour.
note
Cuttings with the beginnings of aerial roots (they look like warts on the stem) take root faster.
Useful advice
You can put the monstera stalk after cutting from an adult plant not in water, but in a mixture of peat and sand (in equal proportions), or even immediately in the prepared soil. In this case, the plant should be sprayed with warm water 2 times a day and make sure that the substrate is moist all the time. When the stalk gives the first leaf, you can transplant it into a pot prepared for permanent "residence" and reduce watering.
