Monstera Albo Review | 4 Years Later | Update | White variegated Monstera | Borsigiana
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I review the stunning White Variegated Monstera, also known as the Monstera Albo. I show you the unique features of this plant, including its beautiful variegation pattern and large, glossy leaves. I share some tips on how to care for this plant, including the best growing conditions, watering and fertilizing, and how to propagate it. You'll also learn about some common issues that can affect this plant, and how to prevent and treat them. Whether you're a seasoned plant collector or a beginner, this video is sure to inspire you to add the White Variegated Monstera to your collection.
The format is the usual format for these videos:
Some background on my experiences with the Monstera Albo
Speed of Growth that I have experienced with Monstera Albo
Ease of Propagation of Monstera Albo
Common Pests for Monstera Albo
Availability
Accessories and Growing tips for the Monstera Albo
My final thoughts and score on the Monstera Albo
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:46 Background
08:51 Speed of Growth
16:19 Ease of Propagation
20:23 Availability
23:46 Pests
25:49 Accessories
34:30 Final Thoughts
38:02 B-Roll
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I got my first albo monstera 9 months ago with literally 4 leafs and now it has 6 more leafs. She's a fast grower and I love it
I just saw your first review of the plant this morning and my feed recommended this second one. I noticed that your featured Albo has very lengthy internodes. My Albo’s nodes are very close together, I think it is because I gave it a wide stake on the second day after it came home. I also put clumps of sphagnum moss around the stem. Since then, the nodes grew very close together as the plant started to grow. You are right, it is a slow grower. It pushes out a leaf every 3 weeks or once a month. The genetics of my plant give green leaves with little white of the left and white leaves and a little green on the right. I didn’t it could grow like this.
Thank you for your informative and authentic videos Memo! I thoroughly enjoy your side stories and tangents… 😂 I always have a giggle at your alter ego moments- it’s like hearing my thoughts spoken out loud 😅🤪 I have two M albos which I have found to be easy keepers and very rewarding. Don’t think I would ever part with them…
Hey Ellis, awwww I am glad I am not the only one, I think my tangents are because I have very little filter that happens in my brain so everything I think of comes out 😅😂 Same I dont think I could part with mine either. 💚🌿
I just love your channel. Your videos are so very helpful. Thank you💖🌿
I would be very pleased with the variegation rate of your albo, infact yours looks ideal to me! 😍 Mine ( only two lieves for now 🤭) has more of a marbled variegation and I'm fine with that, at least she has enough of chlorophyl to maintain herself. If/ when the prices drop I will get my self a half moon producing looker! 😄
Thank you for all the helpfull content, I often look to see if you have any tips avalable when getting a new plant!❤️
The holes are perforations and the splits are fenestrations
I believe the first splits we like to call fenestrations are actually called pinnations, and the actual fenestrations are the holes. That's why monstera pinnatipartita and epipremnum pinnatum are named as such
Ohhhhhh very interesting and that does make sense 👍🙌🤓💚🌿
I have over 200 plants and my albo is still one of my favourite
Awww same here over 500 i think at the moment and my Albo is still one of my favourites too 😊🙌💚🌿
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They're coming to the garden centres here in the Netherlands now (apparently I chose the right country to move to just as I got into houseplants 😂) with several leaves for like 50 euros last time i checked just before christmas. Thais are dropping quite rapidly in price too. And the splendids, gloriouses, gloriosums, melanos and verrucosums you can find for around 30 euros sometimes (euros are somewhere inbetween dollars and pounds atm, so fairly similar for those who don't know). I don't have either of them yet, so I'm excited for my next shopping trip! 😁
And yes, we do enjoy the tangents! 💚
Awww thanks Mette, I think I enjoy the tangents too. I had heard some of what you mention about the Netherlands before but I hadn't realised quite that it was at that level. Its a shame I cant bring back plants on a flight, it is literally 25 minute flight from where I am to the Netherlands, it would be so easy to come over for a shopping trip. I bet your trips to garden centres are so much fun right now, especially with those prices !!! 😍💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness Ohh, is it not allowed to bring anything in to the UK? But yeah might not be worth the flight costs for the small amount you have space for in the cabin either way. We can bring 5 houseplants into Norway when we travel there. Have you seen the plnts website? I think they're based in the NL or Germany or something, but ship to the UK as well, they are getting more and more stuff like that. Although tbh I think it's a matter of time before the same thing happens in the UK judging by how fast the prices have dropped here the last half to one year.
I'm very very excited for my next garden centre trip! 🤩🤩🥰
I recently bought mine as a 3 leaf unrooted, highly variegated cutting for £45, which was reduced from £70, and it was advertised as a Monstera variegated. It came with a single aerial root. I initially tried water propping it but the aerial root started to rot, so I chopped the rot off, did the usual Hydrogen Peroxide treatment, slathered the remaining aerial root with Clonex gel then potted it straight into very chunky soil and it rooted fairly quickly. Now I'm just waiting for it to grow new leaves. I have learnt that it doesn't like a strong-blowing fan anywhere near it.
Hey Carey that is really interesting you say that, the one I have in the video is right next to my huge fan and it gets battered by the wind coming from it and it seems to love it, it might very well be as it is established and I would think if yours is still rooting then that will likely be it. You raise a good point, I know a lot of people that have just propagated their Monstera, either variegated or not straight into an aroid mix and they have had great results. Thanks for sharing your experiences💚🌿
I love my Thai’s and Albo. They all handle South West afternoon sun with no browning. They live as houseplants in regular 35-45 humidity, drier in Summer. Both grow quite vigorously. My Thai prefers fluffy soil and the Albo is in a moss, cocoa coir, pon mixture. I also have a young Thai crème brûlée. It’s very pretty and is starting to grow well in Pon. The crème brûlée is too young to see what it likes or what light it will tolerate. Love all your videos. Fern is a no go for me too.
Hey Erin, Amazing thanks for your review and so jealous on the crème brûlée, they look so awesome 😍💚🌿
Hi!
I got gold leaf last year based on your mention of it. Hard to say just yet how my plants are reacting to it because I am in New York and it’s winter so they are slower but all still growing but I don’t use often in winter. Anyway, I just purchased rhinoskin based on a few recommendations in a plant group I’m in after seeing the most picture perfect insta quality albo leaves grown in regular living room conditions in New York. I guess it’s just silica that helps the plants grow stronger and therefore keep the white without crisping 🤷🏻♀️
Hey Olivia, aw cool yeah I have been testing out silica supplementation too I think the one I use is from Grow Genius and I have to say I didn't think it was doing much for my other plants, but I did have very white sections on my albos and now I have stopped using it, it does seem I get more browning, definitely worth investigating 🤓🙌💚🌿
There 2 types delicious and borgi
Hi Memo when you said you kept going off an a tangent it popped in my head that you might be called the ‘tangent king’ and not Trojan king. 😂. Sorry just my sense of humour 🤭please do not take offence as non was meant. 💚
Awwwwww love it Kathy, kinda apt too 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂😂💚🌿
thank you, another enjoyable video! This is one I have ummed about getting so many times, but there have been so many things I wanted more...I have 3 aurea var deliciosas instead lol ... that it hasn't happened. Here in Australia they're still a bit expensive, but there's a LOT around.
My understanding is that 'borsigiana' was never a correct name, and there's 'small form' or 'large form', borsigiana being an incorrect name for the small form...so we don't use it any more...
Awww thank you that is so nice to hear that you are enjoying the videos 😊💚🌿 interesting, yes I had heard something similar about the large form and small form.
Hopefully the prices will come down soon in Australia too especially if there are more of them coming into the market. To be fair here the Aurea val Deliciosa is much harder to find and the price is higher for that one too.
In the States the Albo is going for, anywhere from 80$ to 250$. Thai’s have came way down because of TC 80$ for nice starter plant. 💚 Love the Albo although I’ve stunted mine keeping in small pot for fear of rotting it. Lol
Yep I feel ya on this one, I have kept mine in too small of a pot for sure, but so far so good. Thanks for sharing the info Sherry, good to know the prices have started to go down in the USA 🇺🇸 💚🌿
Here in germany Albo is way cheaper than the Thai. You can buy Albo in the gardening store or from others from around 20€ whilst a Thai small unrooted cutting still will not sell for under 60€
I just bought one rooted cutting with a nicely mottled variegation all over the leaf and stem and a node emerging from a striped part. I live in the Netherlands and it was 30 euro. I would prefer it staying variegated on all leaves and not growing to fast, since, by accident, I have 4 big form green ones and not tons of space . I get scale insects on monstera (and other plants) but they dont suffer from it as some other plants do
Ohhhh had not thought of it that way, yes it makes perfect sense that you are happy to keep more variegation and less of the all green, if that is your situation
O. van de Veer, I think I would be the same, slightly mind blowing that you have 4 big form green ones, your space must look amazing! 😍💚🌿
@@Houseplantygoodness I thought my older green monstera was a borsegiana so I bought 2 cuttings of a large form. I could divide 1 cutting into 2 plants. They are growing but dont have splits yet. But the old one grew a lot last summer and the last leaf has secondary fenestrations and ruffles at the top of the petiole so should be the large form. If the small ones take of and grow much bigger as well I will have to sell them
I recently bought a Monstera Albo... but 2 weeks after receiving it, it got root rot and I tried to to save it by putting it in a prop box which made things worse 😪 I then tried to encourage new roots in water. Now I'm left with 2 leaves and no nodes 🙃. Oh well it happens 🥲
That’s terrible sorry you lost it. ☹️
oh no I am so sorry to hear that Shmuel, did it have root rot when it came to you? or did it develop it later do you think?
PS I kept having root rot issues when I got my Thai, I tried everything even putting it on a heating pad which made it worse. Finally I cut the rot off an let it lay out in the room air for maybe 3,4 hours to dry, stuck it back in water an never had another issue. I hope your can get another one an don’t give up. 😍
Ahh that's why I'm scared to buy one, I need to have a successful green one first I think. I killed one already a while ago.