hi everyone it's marianne
welcome to my wasteless life
in this video i'll be talking about the monstera adansonii
thank you so much for joining me today
and if you're new this is wasteless life
where i take you along my plant and sustainable lifestyle journey
and share with you some of my tips and tricks along the way
and for today's video we'll be talking about the monstera adansonii
and if you don't know yet this month i'm doing a monstera series
and i previously released a video on the popular monstera varieties
and what i currently have in my collection a
and every thursday this month i'll be putting out a specific care and propagation video
for the monstera plants that i have in
my collection and starting with the monstera adansonii
but how do you pronounce monstera adansonii
is it aden sonny
adden sonai
or aden so nee yai
i just go with adansonai
but let me know down in the comments how do you pronounce monstera adansonii
so nowadays if you go to a garden center nursery
or plant shop you can easily find a monstera adansonii
and you might even find different varieties of forms of it
but a couple of years ago they were actually pretty
hard to find and they were very coveted plants
and i was able to get a four inch monstera adansonii when i was in new york city
and found one in a plant shop in chinatown called da hing plants
and because it's chinatown you could haggle i was
able to get the monstera adansonii for five dollars in a four inch pot
but it was actually just a cutting with about a couple of leaves
and when i was paying for the plant i saw that she had some
cuttings propagating and she sold one to me for an additional three dollars
so back then i thought it was a steal to get
cuttings of the monstera adansonii for eight dollars tota
l so after the monstera deliciosa the monstera adansonii is the next popular monstera plant
the one that a lot of people
know about and when i first got my monstera adansonii i actually didn't realize that
i had two forms of it the wide form and the narrow form
but back then i couldn't really tell the difference because i was struggling so much
with the monstera adansonii plant
that i had it was constantly yellowing and it wouldn't produce more than four leaves at a time
i don't think i ever experienced root rot with a monstera adansonii which is what was puzzling me
i couldn't figure out why it was yellowing since there was no root rot issues
i was giving it enough light and i was watering it on time
it wasn't actually until this year that i was able to finally
grow my monstera adansonii into this tall beautiful plant
and this one actually just staked up last night and i
have the narrow form currently hanging right here behind me
and a couple weeks back i did post a reel on my
monstera adansonii and i did get dms on how they can get
their monstera adansonii to look like mine and to also help them troubleshoot the issues that
we're having with their monstera adansonii and mainly it was the yellowing
so in this video i'm going to tell you how i was able to troubleshoot that yellowing a
nd how i was able to let my monstera adansonii grow this big
unlike pothos plants the monstera adansonii are not low light plants they prefer to have
medium to bright indirect light
when both of my monstera adansonii were a lot smaller
i did have them in my ikea greenhouse cabinet
and they were under a grow light when they became too big for the ikea greenhouse cabinet
i put this one next to a south facing window and then a west facing window
and i did have the monstera adansonii also the same window
but it was wrapped around the curtain rod
so it wasn't really getting directly hit by the light
i would say giving it moderate light or medium light is enough for the monstera adansonii
i would be very careful with giving it bright light because it did cause burning of the leaves
it has a lot of holes in it so it doesn't really have a lot of surface area
to be able to absorb all those light
when it comes to watering the monstera adansonii
this would depend on how much light you give it if we're giving it
bright light then you probably have to water it a
lot more frequently than if you were just giving it medium light
but one thing is sure about the monstera adansonii when it comes to watering is it loves consistency
if you're very inconsistent with its watering that's when the yellowing starts
i'm not a huge fan of LECA but when it comes to my monstera plants
a lot of them do really well in leca
and that includes my monstera adansonii
and i do believe me switching it to leca is what helped it thrive
and grow to what it is now
of course leca is not a solution to all i still do
experience yellowing but it's not as bad as it used to be
and i still have continued growth and as you can see with my monstera
adansonii narrow form there is some yellow leaves
on this one so this could be one of two things these are just
old leaves that are dying out which kind of makes sense
second i did put a new type of nutrient water actually it's not even proper nutrient water
it's organic fertilizer that i diluted
and used it as nutrient water for this one so it might be a reaction to that
so the main reason this would produce yellowing leaves is the same with my
monstera adansonii wide form it is because
that i let the leca dry out for way too long and i forgot to refill the water
so in my experience as long as i am not letting the leca dry out
and i'm giving it a flush every now and then
i wouldn't have problems with yellowing leaves or not having any growth in my monstera adansonii
okay so right now we're in my bathroom and i'm going to give this monstera adansonii a flush
and as you can see there's very little water in there so that is not good
i do find that this monstera adansonii narrow form
drinks a lot of water
i usually have to change the water twice a week as opposed to my other plants in leca
that i do it once a week sometimes not even so i'm just gonna take out all the dried and dead leaves
so this is why i'm not so worried because this is like
pretty much a browning leaves so i suspect it's just like really old
leaves that were on their way out but
there is what i'm going to do put it in the sink just run tap water
and then some people prefer to use distilled water when it comes to their plants in leca
i don't really care my plants don't really care
but my tap water is a ph 7 though so i think that makes a difference
other people have much harder water so
i think that's why they opt for distilled or filtered water
but in my case i can get away with not using one
okay so that's what pretty much flushing entails just washing the leca and everything and then
this there you go
this is the temporary nutrient water that i'm using with my plants in leca so this
is the organic fertilizer perky plants
but the succulent formula because that one has the lowest npk ratio and
and i just fill about like a third way through
with this one though i try to put a little bit more because like i said
it drinks up its water pretty quickly so i'm not worried about it sitting in water for too long
but yeah so that's how i flush my monstera adansonii in LECA
but if you are someone who doesn't want to convert your monstera adansonii into leca
will your monstera adansonii still thrive in a different growing medium of course it would
a lot of people grow their monstera adansonii in soil
and other soilless mediums like coco coir, sphagnum moss, pons, perlite etc
i do think the most important thing to
keep in mind with your monstera adansonii is your consistency
when it comes to its watering whatever medium you're growing it in
and also in accordance to the amount of light that you're giving it
so my monstera adansonii is suffering from scales again
i initially thought it was just like you know only yellowing and i also forgot to
refill its water the other day
so i just thought it's regular yellowing
but i upon further inspection it looks like it's suffering from scales again
so i have to do another treatment which kind of sucks but we had worse
as you can see this leaf although it looks like
a variegated monstera adansonii mint right now or monstera adansonii aurea
it's actually just a yellowing leaf
and as you can see those are the scales in between the mid ribs and the petiole
that's where you usually find them and especially on the underside of the leaves
so do take the time to inspect your plants and i do find monstera adansonii very prone to scales
compared to any of my other plants
all you really need is isopropyl alcohol or hydrogen peroxide add some cotton buds
and the only way around it is to pick them off
one by one yeah that's really the only thing that you could do
spray them with neem oil spray which i have done this is the second time that
i've sprayed them it doesn't do it it
the scales will still be there because they're very attached to the leaves
so very important that you also check in between
the petiole because that's where they love to hide
so i remove this leaf because this one is pretty much a good goner but
i don't know if you can see but in between the petiole
you can see how many scales are in between it
you don't really want to let it get to this point because
often it's ready too late and just have to get rid of the leaf
and hope that the other leaves are not infected
when it comes to propagating the monstera adansonii i have
only propagated them to rehab them
not to propagate for the sake of making more points so that's the reason why
i have the narrow form trailing so long
and my wide form growing so tall i'm not going to make any cuttings on my wide form
because i'm trying to get it to grow
as tall as possible but we can make cuttings from our
narrow form this one is pretty much just like propagating pothos plants
and i actually cut the tips off this recently just because it had runners and
that's the only time i prune this plant otherwise
i just let it grow i can make cuttings from this one because the internodes are getting too long
so i'm just gonna cut in the middle
and
make another cutting with this one okay so i'm not gonna make much cuttings i'm just making two
just for demonstration purposes
but as you can see the internodes and this one was getting long that's why i cut it off
but with this one i'm just gonna cut it up a little bit on the top
this one i could leave it a little bit longer
because i am water propagating this
so it would need something to help it anchor inside the test tube
so with this one i'm pretty much just plopping it in here and there you go it's propagating
a couple of other things to keep in mind about the monstera adansonii it is a tropical plant
so it hates sudden drops in temperature
as of filming this video we are transitioning from summer
into fall into winter in the northern hemisphere
so do watch out for those sudden drops in temperature as we head into the colder season
sudden drops in temperature and lesser humidity would be
another reason why your monstera adansonii
would have yellowing leaves so as we head to the colder season
make sure your monstera adansonii is not close
to a window or somewhere that it would receive
a cold draft and as you start to use your heater as well make sure
this is not underneath the vent and if you can use a humidifier to give it increased humidity
and those are my care tips for the monstera adansonii
if you have any questions please let me know down in the comments
or if you have any additional tips and tricks
that i didn't mention in this video
please also share them down in the comments as well we would love to read it
and again thank you so much for watching if you like this video please give me a thumbs up
and if you're new here please do subscribe i come up with videos every week
and if you haven't yet go check out this videos up here until my next one
but until then i see you i appreciate you take care of yourself and each other
and have a plantiful day
bye