hi everyone it's marianne and for today's video i'm sharing with you my one year update
on the Thai Con monstera that i got from costa farms
thank you so much for joining me today and thank you so much to houseplant resource center for
sponsoring today's video and they sent me a bunch of their products for me to try out
that i could really really use and help with my thai con monstera you'll find out in a second why
but if you don't know anything about houseplant resource center they make great plant products
that specializes for fiddle leaf figs and monstera plants and you can definitely use their products
for any of your other houseplants but if you want products that is specifically catered for
your fiddle leaf figs and monstera do check out their products i'm going to share with you the
products that i received from houseplant resource center and if you're interested in purchasing any
of them i have a discount code right up here and the link to each product and to their amazon store
write down in description so do check it out and i actually have used products from house plant
resource center before especially when i just started my plant journey for those who have been
me for a while you know that my fiddle leaf fig was the start of my plant journey and the fiddle
leaf fig that i got was a rescue plant from the clearance section of lowe's and back then fiddle
leaf figs were kind of hard to find so i thought finding a fiddle even though it's in the clearance
section and not looking so great was such a great find for me and i had to nurse it back to health
and when i was looking online what is the best products that i could use for my fiddle leaf fig i
found houseplant resource center and i got their fertilizer specifically for the fiddle
leaf fig and as we know fiddle leaf figs are kind of finicky plant especially for plant beginners
you move them they drop leaves and they just have like a whole bunch of issues
but for me in my experience because i started the plant out with the fiddle leaf fig fertilizer that
i got from houseplant resource center i honestly never have big issues with my fiddle leaf fig now
and as you can see it is thriving it has grown so large believe it or not it is one of my lowest
maintenance plants and i can move it anywhere in the house it is fine it's not going to act
up on me and i largely attribute it by giving it a strong foundation using the fiddle leaf fig plant
food that i got from houseplant resource center so i'm hoping that their mostera products are going
to do the same for my Thai Con monstera that i got from Costa Farms so the products they sent me
the first one is the houseplant smart gravel and this one is the drainage solution to prevent over
watering so at the back it says avoid the number one killer of houseplants too much water
and that is so true for a lot of our houseplants but especially for the thai con monstera which
is very much prone to root rot especially if you over water them so the houseplant smart gravel is
the foolproof way to avoid water excess and keep your plants roots healthy so use houseplant smart
gravel as a drainage filler for your potted plants it is super light eco-friendly and made with 100
recycled material so i really love that about this product that is from 100 recycled material because
you know me here at My WastelessLife we love to take care of our plants their best of ability but
we also want to be eco-friendly and sustainable at the same time and the next one they sent me is the
monstera plant food this one has the npk ratio of 5-2-3 so it is higher on the nitrogen side
because nitrogen is the one that provides nutrients and support for foliage of our
plants and monsteras are known to have very large leaves so they're going to need a lot of nitrogen
so the monstera plant food provides a specialized blend of key nutrients developed exclusively for
monstera house plants designed to deliver nitrogen this formulation supports beautiful foliage
in both indoor and outdoor settings so if you have a lot of monstera plants or you think your
monstera plants can benefit from a fertilizer or plant food that is specialized for monsteras
then definitely pick this one out but if you're also thinking that you don't want to be using
like so many different type of fertilizers for your house plants this one you could use
for your any other houseplants i've done that with the fiddle leaf fig fertilizer
that i previously got from houseplant resource center i use it on my fiddle leaf fig but i also
use it for my other house plants and the next product they sent me was their root supplement
and this is a product that i was most excited to receive from them because we know root rot is
such a hard issue to combat with our houseplants and this one will help prevent root rot or help
combat root rot when you are experiencing it with your houseplants and next product they sent me is
their houseplant multivitamin again this is not a substitute for fertilizer but something that
you could use in addition to your plant food or fertilizer the houseplant multivitamin combines an
organic blend of essential vitamins and nutrients including humic acids amino acids seaweed extract
natural sugars vitamins and other organic compounds into specialized formulation developed
exclusively for house plants so this is designed to increase plant vigor chlorophyll production
and this formulation promotes strong roots and beautiful foliage in all of the house plants
and the last product they sent me which is one of their newest product is the houseplant probiotic
so this one is a blend of beneficial microbes for indoor plants it provides an exclusive blend
of beneficial soil components found in natural fertile soil that tend to be missing in typical
potting soil so this is definitely great to add to the top side of your house plants or if you have a
plant that doesn't really need repotting but could use replenishing when it comes to nutrients or if
you are creating your own soil mix i know for myself when i create my own soil mix i tend to
use a lot of inert mediums that don't contain any nutrients in them so the houseplant probiotic is
great to add to our soil mixes and lastly they sent me their premium monstera potting soil it
is specifically formulated to provide optimal growth for monstera plants and i'm definitely
going to be testing out and using these products later on in this video so make sure you continue
watching as i share with you the one year update on my thai con monstera that i got from casa farms
here i have the thai constellation mascara that i won from a costa farms giveaway
last summer and here it is a year later and it's kind of hard to fit the entire plant into frame
so i'm definitely going to be showing you b-rolls so you can see it's true condition a year later
and here she is a year later so she is not looking her best and you can see down here she has this
yellowing leaf and this is the second yellowing leaf from this plant and it has no past issues
i've checked and the other leaves though the white parts are also starting to brown so that's
what we're going to find out today to see what's exactly going on i have my huge suspicion you can
probably guess it already but let me backtrack for a sec and share with you my experience with
the plant ever since i've gotten it last year so i've pretty much gotten it in the same size to be
honest and there hasn't really been much of a size difference ever since i've gotten the thai con
monstera and they are known to be slow growers but i do have another thai con monstera which is back
there that i feel is a much faster grower than the thai con mastera that costa farms produced
so since i've gotten it it has only produced two new leaves for me one last year before the growing
season ended and only one so far for this growing season and i can see a new growth point coming
up but just based on my experience for this plan even if i see a new growth point it usually takes
months before it actually become a new leaf and even with this one it took like
three months ever since i spotted the new growth for it to actually become this and i think it's
gonna slow down a little bit more because i am starting to have the dreaded issue with thai con
which is root rot and probably a month or more than a month ago i did a repotting video on
the thai con monstera which i didn't really plan to do i wanted to wait a year before i repotted
this but because one of the leaves was yellowing i just want to make sure that there is no root rot
going on so if you watch that video you know that once i pulled it out it was just really root bound
in the plastic pot that it came in so i decided to upgrade the pot a little bit into a terracotta
pot that was like glazed on the outside so it's kind of like a ceramic terracotta pot combo and i
thought that would be beneficial for the thai con monstera to give it a little bit more room to grow
since it was very root band but a couple of days ago i saw another leaf yellowing and it yelled
really bad you could see it in the b-roll right after or soon after the newest leaf has unfurled
and hardened so that got me a little bit worried because when i shared my first repotting video
on the thai con somebody advised that even though if i don't see root rot now just make sure you
monitor it because you might see it eventually and so here i am repotting my thai con monstera for
the second time this year which reminds me of my regular monstera deliciosa that i've also repotted
three or four times by now also due to rot and as you can see the moment i pull it out of the pot
root rot is very much evident but at first i thought it wasn't too bad it was only
concentrated on one side but the more i untangle the roots and take out the soil i could see how
extensive the root rot already was and i try not to panic and just be methodical about it
try to get out most of the root rot as much as i can but it has become quite difficult to identify
the rotten parts from the non-rotten parts so i had to wash off the entire root system so
that i could see more clearly what i'm doing so as i wash out the roots the root rot is a
lot more expensive than i thought it would as you can see there's like rotting roots in there
pretty close to the root ball and i'm just like trying to wash it all out
so after i washed it i unfortunately just had to get rid a lot of the secondary roots
thankfully the main roots mostly remain intact but it's just in my experience when the rotting
started it's just best to get rid of the entire thing instead of just like cutting a little bit
or just the rock the part is rotten it's best to just like get rid of the entire root system where
the rotting happened but yeah we'll see so now i'm just letting it callous my battery is about to die
so i'm just gonna let it callus while i recharge my battery and then we'll take the next steps so i
have let the roots dried off and i think they're ready for potting up and hopefully i want to
experience any more root rot but we will see and i'm using all the products house plant resource
center sent me to hopefully help this thai constellation bounce back and not experience any
more root rot cross fingers but yeah so let's go ahead and do what we need to do so i'm using this
pot this is the original plastic pot it came in i kind of wanted to use a clear pot but it's hard to
find a clear pot this size so we're going to start off with the houseplant smart gravel and hopefully
this would help with drainage and over watering and prevent root rot so i'm just going to use
every single bit of this because i need all the help that i can get and put it all at the bottom
right there so everything is in here and i'm going to put the monstera plant on it
right here as i try to all right i'm gonna just take out
roots that are not looking too good but i'm just going to try to fit it all in here
carefully because i don't want to lose any more roots than i already have
so i am just going to try to maneuver it like that
and i'm also adding a moss pole at this point just to give it support from the back and just like let
it stand a little bit straighter like that and now i'm taking the premium monstera potting soil
and that's what i'm going to use to repot this plant so this is what that potting mix looks like
and i could share with you the ingredients it's composted topsoil orchid bark pumice cocoa
activated charcoal and worm castings so i think all of that is going to be good for this plant
turn it around
get the other side
okay so i'm just gonna
all right
okay
okay and then so i think she is well potted up so next i'm adding the houseplant probiotic
to the top soil and it says here to mix the houseplant probiotic into the top inch of
your soil every four to six weeks and watering directly afterwards that's what it looks like
it looks like kind of like coffee grounds maybe like mix it a little bit put some on the top so
i didn't really say how much but i'm just gonna like generously put on top because like i said i
need all the help that i can get with this plant so i'm just gonna do that and maybe a bit more
there you go maybe just a little bit more topsoil just cover it up
okay okay so now i'm going to be watering the thai constellation monstera but first i'm adding
these three products to the water and as mentioned earlier they have small vitamins in the supplement
they are not a substitute for fertilizers but can be used together with the fertilizers that's what
i'm going to use now so the root supplement right now this is probably my best friend
or my new best friend because this is the one that is supposed to help it with the root rot
and this one says one teaspoon of root supplement to two cups of water
and apply with normal watering every two weeks in addition to fertilizer i'm not going to put any
more than that because i don't want to also over medicate the plant and next one i'm adding is the
houseplant vitamin and this one is going to help with the transplant shock because this has been
through a ringer and this one is add one teaspoon of the houseplant multivitamin to at least one
cup of water and apply with normal watering as often as weekly so this one i could use a little
bit more often than the root supplement so every time i water this i probably gonna be adding this
so this one has a different consistency but it doesn't smell like anything
and that's like another thing that i like about it is it doesn't smell like anything because some
plant products well i get that they're great for your houseplants but they stink so much
and lastly i'm going to add mysterious plant food which is specially formulated fertilizer for the
monstera deliciosa and this one is one teaspoon to at least one cup of water as well and apply with
normal watering so i'm gonna do that too and this one is a little bit like bluish greenish color
gonna add it like that and then just stir stir and then let me get a tray so let me water it now
you can see what's going on from the top and i'm just gonna water all around make sure to
get making sure to get all sides so that is evenly watered and i can see the house plant smart gravel
working because it's draining really fast as well as the potting soil you know it's well
draining when it drinks that fast so here's the thai con monstera repotted for the second time
but this time using houseplant resource center products which i'm very confident it will help it
bounce back and i'm definitely going to give you more updates on this plan as it goes along but
do check out houseplant resource center i'll have all the links to this products down in description
and also don't forget to use my discount code if you're purchasing any products from them
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