Top 3 tips for a healthy plant: Light, water, well draining soil! 💡Light: Filtering Natural Light If your monstera is receiving too much direct sunlight, you can filter the light using sheer curtains or blinds. Monstera LOVE light but too bright can burn those leaves. Having it under a bright grow light works well too! 🫧Leaf clean ingredients: I’n using 2 drops of Castile soap, 2 cups water, 1/2 cup of insecticide spray 🍂My well draining soil mix: if I’m making my own soil mix I’ll use, an indoor potting mix, orchid bark, and perlite. If it’s a premade bag, I’m using @solsoils mix (use code PlantsKrystal10 for 10 percent off). 💦Water: when the soil is dry 3/4 way from the bottom to the top is dry, I’ll water throughly. If it’s constantly drying out completely, I find the leaves will curl and I’ll start to get crispier tips and yellowing leaves.
Hi Krystal, I need your help. Leaves are curling so I know I'm not watering like I should but what fertilizer do you use on your plants? I get so confused on which I need for which plant so honestly, I don't end up fertilizing any of them. Do you have a suggestion for an all purpose fertilizer? Or one in particular for the monstera?
I live on a tropical island and was having issues keeping my indoor monstera as beautiful as yours. Out of frustration I decided to put it outside and forget about it and now it's suddenly doing great. Who would've thought that my tropical plant would prefer a tropical environment? 🤪
Central Florida here ... I bought a small one and set it out in my backyard undecided 'where' I was going to plant it. Forgot about it and it decided for me. My monstera is now a monster. I surgically removed the pot yesterday by cutting it to pieces, took a couple of cuttings to propagate elsewhere in the yard. Aside from a little water now and then, I've done absolutely nothing for this beast and she is huge, shiny and gorgeous. 🥰
I FINALLY got my first monstera today!!! I'm so proud, I wanted to carry it around like a trophy and show it to everyone!!! I'm soooo in love! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration! You're the absolute best!
You have perfect timing! My husband went to the store and they had just put out the new plants. He sent a pic and I replied MONSTERA! He brought home the biggest one 😅
Omg this is amazinggggg thank you so much for this tips vid!!! I’m so excited to keep caring for my monstera with these great tips!! I’m new to caring for plants and I’m so excited every time I see a new leaf!! My monstera is growing another new leaf right now and it’s wonderful! It’s still young and it’s last leaf that grew started to have the beginning of a mature leaf❤ it has 6 leaves now!
Beautiful Monstera! Mine are thriving I only have 3, two young ones a medium-large! Still amazed at how you pack that much information in a video short! Phenomenal!!!!
I accidentally left a baby monstera (and I mean BABY the plant was about 12 inches tall, the base was no bigger than a pencil, and the leaves were about 3 inches wide) in front of my bedroom fan for 2 weeks and the next lil leaf that emerged had a big fenestration! When I moved it back to where it goes the next leaf after that had reverted 😅 Poor thing was doing it's best to survive the storm!
The best windows for them are east facing and they can handle 1 to 2 sometimes 3 hours of direct MORNING sun but DO NOT let Noon or Afternoon sun hit their leaves because it can cause burns my monstera adansonii 'swiss cheese' is currently on my east facing window and growth is booming
So mine is in a west facing room but away from the window. She is nowhere near this size with only a few finestrated leaves. Is there anything i can do to encourage bigger growth? I do have a moss pole as well. Fertilizer?? Thanks!!😊
I worked in this place where they had this gorgeous gigantic monstera, it was 20feet tall, it was planted there when they first opened 35 years a go, I admired that monstera every single day I went to work, so one day I’ve decided to steal some leafs, I mean who would have noticed? Now after 5 years I have the biggest most gorgeous monstera ever, with leafs as big as my own body. Everyone is so jealous of my monstera and I get compliments all the time, they all want leafs to propagate, but I am so scared it’s gonna hurt my plant. By the way I live in Switzerland 🫶🏾❤️
The combination of your accent and your mic is such asmr to me. 😂 Like no one wants to hear "I started nodding off during your video!" but in this case it's a compliment? LOL. I know, people think asmr is weird, but in my case it's just about certain sounds making me feel more relaxed. Anyway. Now that I look like a weirdo, I'll be off.
I've honestly given up on monstera bc while I LOVE how they look, I keep having problems with them and currently just can't seem get rid of a thrips infestation. I cut off a stem and put it in water to propagate but it died in less than a week lol. The mother plant is still going, kinda, but if I'm honest, if she dies I won't get a new one. I can't house a mature plant anyways they're way too wide to fit anywhere and my new apartment has unfortunate window placing and lighting anyways. Too bad but you can't always have what you want. I'm really enjoying my dieffenbachias and syngoniums though.
You’re so beautiful. I can watch you talk about plants all day!! Even though I haven’t watched anything I haven’t known already- I pretend I don’t know just to watch ❤
Theres a difference between pinnation and fenestration. Monstera leaves pinnate first. The large, slits that reach to the edge of the leaf, that textbook monstera feature, is pinnation not fenestration. Fenestrations are the next stage, they're the smaller holes in the leave. Momsteras do both. Epipremnum aurem and Epipremnum pinnatum only pinnate. Monstera adansonii only fenestrates. People in some comments seem confused about what fenestrations are. Hope this helps.
The monstera I have in water has grown beautiful roots but it hasn't grown a single leaf in months, does that mean I'm not giving it enough fertilizer/sunlight or is it just taking its time? (It was a rescue that I had to chop and rooted in water)
Mam I loved your thoughts...i don't know how to explain in this short comment... Recently,, about a week.. I watched your short videos and also subscribed and almost watched all the shorts. The way you care about your plant,, I'm in love ,,such a short period.. Sincerely,, I have a request to you...I want to see your whole house with the plant, for the plant. I know it's kind a personal..but i can't resist.❤ I'm a plant lover and my home is fully cover with plant-tree-flowers-fruits-also wild plant. Thank you for share your thoughts,skills ..❤😊
My 11 year old wanted one of those for Christmas and I had already wanted one so we picked one up a few weeks ago. I'm wanting to repot it because I think there are two in one pot.
This is my favorite plant I own by far!! This is so helpful though. I didn't realize my baby didn't have a lot of fenestrations due to it being a little young still.
Where do you get monsteras that will grow this big ? I have been working on learning indoor plants but my monstera just grew so many small leaves and i had to propagate thanks to your help and gave some away but i have no idea where i can get something that will grow this big! Pls help.
I was gifted a 2' tall monstera delicioso...🎉 I removed from the original pot because it had bugs in the soil. I have it in water now, but I want to pot it. What soil should I use?
I like them on the smaller, fuller side in doors, and some of my leaves are ripped from when they were shipped to me so as the newer leaves fill in, I’m gonna cut off the outside leaves keep it fuller
Hi Krystal, Could u talk more about the monsteras you have growing in water ! The care , what to expect with it growing in water and how long will it last .I’m growing two large cuttings in water because buoy put some in water and I just don’t know what to expect growing it that way
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Top 3 tips for a healthy plant: Light, water, well draining soil!
💡Light: Filtering Natural Light If your monstera is receiving too much direct sunlight, you can filter the light using sheer curtains or blinds. Monstera LOVE light but too bright can burn those leaves. Having it under a bright grow light works well too!
🫧Leaf clean ingredients: I’n using 2 drops of
Castile soap, 2 cups water, 1/2 cup of
insecticide spray
🍂My well draining soil mix: if I’m making my own soil mix I’ll use, an indoor potting mix, orchid bark, and perlite. If it’s a premade bag, I’m using @solsoils mix (use code PlantsKrystal10 for 10 percent off).
💦Water: when the soil is dry 3/4 way from the bottom to the top is dry, I’ll water throughly. If it’s constantly drying out completely, I find the leaves will curl and I’ll start to get crispier tips and yellowing leaves.
Your plant is beautiful, the leaves are huge ,💚🌱🌵🌿
Should my monstera leaves be facing the window or does it matter? I don’t want to have to keep looking at the back of it.
I use baby wipes they seem to like that too
Do you have tips for transitioning a big monstera grown in water into soil?
Hi Krystal, I need your help. Leaves are curling so I know I'm not watering like I should but what fertilizer do you use on your plants? I get so confused on which I need for which plant so honestly, I don't end up fertilizing any of them. Do you have a suggestion for an all purpose fertilizer? Or one in particular for the monstera?
I live on a tropical island and was having issues keeping my indoor monstera as beautiful as yours. Out of frustration I decided to put it outside and forget about it and now it's suddenly doing great. Who would've thought that my tropical plant would prefer a tropical environment? 🤪
😂 that’s the best place that baby can be
Central Florida here ... I bought a small one and set it out in my backyard undecided 'where' I was going to plant it. Forgot about it and it decided for me. My monstera is now a monster. I surgically removed the pot yesterday by cutting it to pieces, took a couple of cuttings to propagate elsewhere in the yard. Aside from a little water now and then, I've done absolutely nothing for this beast and she is huge, shiny and gorgeous. 🥰
@spearageddon how long did you forget it outside for?
@@queenmajeeda at least 3 months. 😆
@C0C0PR wow! No wonder it's called Monster-a. 🤣
Misread the title and thought it said "How to keep your Monstera delicious" 😂
Same rules still apply
EVERYONE wants bright indirect light!
This is so helpful !! Especially showing the different leaves and what they could mean
We had one in my backyard growing up and that thing was MASSIVE
I FINALLY got my first monstera today!!! I'm so proud, I wanted to carry it around like a trophy and show it to everyone!!!
I'm soooo in love! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration! You're the absolute best!
You have perfect timing! My husband went to the store and they had just put out the new plants. He sent a pic and I replied MONSTERA! He brought home the biggest one 😅
He’s a keeper! Mine side eyes me when I buy a new plant.
@@kalenaglory2483 wow time for divorce sweetie, that man don’t value you! Get ya a man that don’t put down your hobbies.
Oh wow, that's a nice plant. That first leaf you showed is like a textbook example of monstera and fenestrations
She is my favorite as well 😍
Krystal been looking sooo pretty!!!!
And I love this giant beauty!!!! I’m so excited for my own baby monstera’s progress 🪴
Dang, those are the biggest leaves I’ve seen growing indoors. Last time I’ve seen bigger is in Oahu, outdoors growing kinda wild. Beautiful!
That color breakdown really needs more credit. Straight to the point with examples! 🤌🏾🤌🏾
This is the plant I struggle with the most. I finally put it in water and it is actually happy 😅 for now 😅😅
Love your content !
Oh goddess thank you. I’m so grateful I found your channel, it’s really made me fall in love and out of fear with houseplant husbandry 💚
Tropical plants? Me crying in Norwegian with 4-5 hrs of daylight in winter. Can't even get an avocado plant to bloom
Your monstera is amazing! ❤
I got mine from a grocery store and now it’s taller than my head I don’t know what happened 😂
Muy bonita tu Monstera, Saludos desde Venezuela
Omg this is amazinggggg thank you so much for this tips vid!!! I’m so excited to keep caring for my monstera with these great tips!! I’m new to caring for plants and I’m so excited every time I see a new leaf!! My monstera is growing another new leaf right now and it’s wonderful! It’s still young and it’s last leaf that grew started to have the beginning of a mature leaf❤ it has 6 leaves now!
Getting a monstera is the 1st new plant on my list! I'm waiting to find the perfect one and keep checking out local nurseries.
Oh lord. Sounds like butter on a biscuit
OMG!! Such a big Monstera 😱😱😱😊😊
Beautiful Monstera! Mine are thriving I only have 3, two young ones a medium-large! Still amazed at how you pack that much information in a video short! Phenomenal!!!!
I accidentally left a baby monstera (and I mean BABY the plant was about 12 inches tall, the base was no bigger than a pencil, and the leaves were about 3 inches wide) in front of my bedroom fan for 2 weeks and the next lil leaf that emerged had a big fenestration! When I moved it back to where it goes the next leaf after that had reverted 😅 Poor thing was doing it's best to survive the storm!
Do you have any tips or recommendations for grow lights?
Beautiful ❤️
Question for plant people, can you use just regular water to clean the plant leaves?
Yes, you can. I do, and mine are fine.
Most beautiful monstera I’ve seen on YT!
Can you do some videos on the Croton, Snake plant, Fottonia, and Alocasia please!!!
My dream plant!❤
They grow outside here in New Orleans.
The best windows for them are east facing and they can handle 1 to 2 sometimes 3 hours of direct MORNING sun but DO NOT let Noon or Afternoon sun hit their leaves because it can cause burns my monstera adansonii 'swiss cheese' is currently on my east facing window and growth is booming
So mine is in a west facing room but away from the window. She is nowhere near this size with only a few finestrated leaves. Is there anything i can do to encourage bigger growth? I do have a moss pole as well. Fertilizer?? Thanks!!😊
Your content is appreciated! Love your videos! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I worked in this place where they had this gorgeous gigantic monstera, it was 20feet tall, it was planted there when they first opened 35 years a go, I admired that monstera every single day I went to work, so one day I’ve decided to steal some leafs, I mean who would have noticed? Now after 5 years I have the biggest most gorgeous monstera ever, with leafs as big as my own body. Everyone is so jealous of my monstera and I get compliments all the time, they all want leafs to propagate, but I am so scared it’s gonna hurt my plant. By the way I live in Switzerland 🫶🏾❤️
That sounds absolutely amazing!!!! And if you do decide to propagate, your plant will do just fine. It can appreciate a trim sometimes.
Wow your monsfera looks gorgeous! What fertilizers do you use?
You look lovely btw 💚🪴🌵
What size pot are you currently using? And where is it from? 😊
I believe it’s a 24 inch pot from Lowe’s 😅
An exquisite specimen!
You so knowledgeable, girl!!
Thank you so much 🥹
The combination of your accent and your mic is such asmr to me. 😂 Like no one wants to hear "I started nodding off during your video!" but in this case it's a compliment? LOL. I know, people think asmr is weird, but in my case it's just about certain sounds making me feel more relaxed.
Anyway. Now that I look like a weirdo, I'll be off.
THIS is my favorite plant, as well. I have located my 1st one and plan to purchase it tbis month!💜
I just want mine to have leaves that big! 😭
Can you go more in depth about how to grow one in water? I’d like to learn more about that. I want to give it a try but I’m so scared of root rot!!
Krystal that's creepy. I was just searching your videos because I finally purchased a Monstera!! I'm so excited. Girl you're reading my mind.
I've honestly given up on monstera bc while I LOVE how they look, I keep having problems with them and currently just can't seem get rid of a thrips infestation. I cut off a stem and put it in water to propagate but it died in less than a week lol.
The mother plant is still going, kinda, but if I'm honest, if she dies I won't get a new one. I can't house a mature plant anyways they're way too wide to fit anywhere and my new apartment has unfortunate window placing and lighting anyways.
Too bad but you can't always have what you want. I'm really enjoying my dieffenbachias and syngoniums though.
The supports give it bigger leaves and more fenestrations as that is how they naturally grow in the wild
OMG THATS SO MOST GORGEOUS MONSTERA EVER 😮😮😮
Thankyou for the advice
my monstera is still young and it cries over everything
thank you for these helpful tips!❤ how often do you consider cleaning the leaves of your monsteras?
You’re so beautiful. I can watch you talk about plants all day!! Even though I haven’t watched anything I haven’t known already- I pretend I don’t know just to watch ❤
Theres a difference between pinnation and fenestration.
Monstera leaves pinnate first. The large, slits that reach to the edge of the leaf, that textbook monstera feature, is pinnation not fenestration.
Fenestrations are the next stage, they're the smaller holes in the leave.
Momsteras do both.
Epipremnum aurem and Epipremnum pinnatum only pinnate.
Monstera adansonii only fenestrates.
People in some comments seem confused about what fenestrations are. Hope this helps.
The monstera I have in water has grown beautiful roots but it hasn't grown a single leaf in months, does that mean I'm not giving it enough fertilizer/sunlight or is it just taking its time? (It was a rescue that I had to chop and rooted in water)
Your dog is a cutie
Thanks you so much! This helped me a lot.
I really like Ur plants
Need some suggestions for my indoor elephant ears plant
Make a moss pole. I feel like they absolutely love it. Mine has roots going through the moss pole. Not sure how I will repot lol
Love your work ❤❤❤
Thank you so much 😀
Def trying to get my monsteras growing!
What are those gloves you’re using to help clean the leaves??
I have one growing in water. Do you fertilize the water? How often do you change of add water?
My baby MD has started developing tiny leaf holes!!!🤓🥳🥰!
Yay!!!! You got fenestrations!!!! Great job!
Krystal, girl where did you get your green top?!
I see these on my way to school there’s one growing up a concrete pillar
I recently rescued a medium size plant.. an it was severely sunburned but this last few weeks ive been helping it an its has turned green again 💐
Mam I loved your thoughts...i don't know how to explain in this short comment...
Recently,, about a week.. I watched your short videos and also subscribed and almost watched all the shorts.
The way you care about your plant,, I'm in love ,,such a short period..
Sincerely,, I have a request to you...I want to see your whole house with the plant, for the plant. I know it's kind a personal..but i can't resist.❤
I'm a plant lover and my home is fully cover with plant-tree-flowers-fruits-also wild plant.
Thank you for share your thoughts,skills ..❤😊
I want one but the size of this thing intimates me.
I just got one. I been wanting one and I got one !!!!!!!!! .....and I came right here to see you and see what to do with my monstera delisiosa
Do you water the plank as well?
I thought there is a risk of rot with placing in just water? Great video though, gorgeous mature plant you have
Would neem oil be deemed appropriate for “insecticide spray”?
Красивая девочка искристые глаза, белоснежная улыбка❤
I just learned that these plants produce fruit!
do you have tips for swiss cheese plant? mine doesnt grow as bushy as i’d like :(
THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE LINE "so it can see the sun but the sun can not see it" BUT WITH IF ITS THE SKY THAT MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE
Lovely monstera.... Evergreen forever💚💚💚🌱🪴❤❤❤
This is my favorite plants and thrives in my house and thanks to you as well
Oh how neat 😀
How do you take the cutting from a large one growing outside?
My 11 year old wanted one of those for Christmas and I had already wanted one so we picked one up a few weeks ago. I'm wanting to repot it because I think there are two in one pot.
This is my favorite plant I own by far!! This is so helpful though. I didn't realize my baby didn't have a lot of fenestrations due to it being a little young still.
My man calls fenestrations bug bites 😂😂😂
It’s so annoying!!
Does the plant grow a fruit? I have heard this before but I don't know if it is ture.
Yes it does. You can only eat it when it’s ripe or else it’s toxic
Where do you get monsteras that will grow this big ? I have been working on learning indoor plants but my monstera just grew so many small leaves and i had to propagate thanks to your help and gave some away but i have no idea where i can get something that will grow this big! Pls help.
When do you think I should chop and prop? Mine just looks dull and I haven’t seen a new leave in months.
I was gifted a 2' tall monstera delicioso...🎉 I removed from the original pot because it had bugs in the soil. I have it in water now, but I want to pot it. What soil should I use?
I found your soil suggestion... thank you
Where do you get those gloves
Great tips!
How do you propagate them. I’ve had several failed attempts 😢😢😢
I like them on the smaller, fuller side in doors, and some of my leaves are ripped from when they were shipped to me so as the newer leaves fill in, I’m gonna cut off the outside leaves keep it fuller
Hi Krystal, Could u talk more about the monsteras you have growing in water ! The care , what to expect with it growing in water and how long will it last .I’m growing two large cuttings in water because buoy put some in water and I just don’t know what to expect growing it that way
How do I get a leaf to grow in the water???
is neem oil considered an insecticide?
Question, when checking soil do you use a new skewer stick for each plant each time or do you use the same one until it gets damp?
I use the same one but wipe it after each plant.
Are they okay outdoors?
Do you have the product brand for the insecticide spray? Castile soap?
I didn’t know they grow fruit. Guess that is why it is called deliciosa
you should have a Moss pole really for the aerial roots