The Cxlt-ish Professor Monstera Method

[@prettyingreen]

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[@Erin__D]

Oh this was SO juicy!! I’m so glad you did this video! I got sucked into the cult shortly, but after rotting several plants I went back to my regular DIY chunky mix or regular semi-hydro. I always felt so confused on his group pages. Another thing I’d noticed was how often he would tell his “followers” to give up on a plant, when there was clearly available nodes that could be propped as wet sticks. He doesn’t seem to have much or any respect for the amount of money a hobby grower will spend on a plant. Simply suggesting to toss it a buy another is not very empathetic. I rarely use coco peat in anything because it is like mud! That was a great description. Man, I learn so much from you. Please keep making content! 🙌

[@prettyingreen]

This is SUCH a nice comment. Thank you for the kind words!!

[@EBrassfield]

I am soooo glad you made this video, I was in his "group" years ago and called out his glaring lack of actual knowledge and how he was copying well known existing methods and applying them incorrectly, and too clueless to tell how or why . I put him on the spot and he couldn't tell what is PPFD, coco dryback percentage, or the life cycle of the microbes in the products he hawks . I was the one who told him silica was like an "insurance policy", how he was clueless about what he was talking about, saying variegated plants need "low nitrogen" nutrients , yet recommends his friends hydro shop bottle of High nitrogen. What pisses me off most was the "my way or the highway" view, and I called out how he had killed many plants based on his own poor recommendations, and then blamed the person he sold a rotten plant to, or who followed his "directions". He couldn't understand any other methods and couldn't understand that saying "water every day" is bad advice. YES, coco can even be watered multiple times a day BUT totally depends on dryback, plant size, heat and humidity. He would sit there and overwater like crazy, wasting so much water/nutes and drowning already soggy roots in a small container with a plant barely rooted. You water the Plant, not the Pot, but this fool couldn't understand that . A large healthy plant in a small pot thats tearing through water and nutrients in a high heat low humidity situation can be watered a lot more than a small plant in a big pot in a cooler high humidity situation, yet he just gave a one size fits all "method" because he doesn't actually know why anything works or didn't, which is how failed upward into his growing venture in the first place. I got blocked and kicked out of his group along with some female mods. F that guy.

[@CassyAthena]

I just want to say I’m so thankful that i took my first leap into buying expensive rare plants from you guys because i had no idea how many scammers take advantage of newcomers. Love all these videos on KZbin too

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you Cassy!!! I appreciate you 😊

[@letsclimb5828]

These investigative videos are by far my favorite that you do. Thank you Chris!

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you so much for watching early!! I really enjoyed making this :)

[@SLee-vc9gd]

SAME!!! I found this channel after coming across the video about that couple who was scamming people.

[@myopiniontoday5810]

Hi Chris … I live in Australia and I read so much about this prof monstera and finally you did a video on it.. I’m sure it will be shared in Facebook group chats sometime

[@prettyingreen]

I was hoping some aus folks might see this!! I appreciate you watching and sharing 😊

[@libby.t4424]

I came across the professor when I first got into plants( I live in Australia). My God, his followers were insane and just totally blinded by him. His method was very expensive. But when all the drama unfolded in all the plant Fbook groups, I'm in made me very glad I didn't get sucked in. Crazy shit be happening, I'll look forward to the update.

[@whatnana]

Same, speaking of, I really need to sell those damn nutrient bottles lol

[@generationia]

Chris, I risk being accused of comment redundancy when I state that this is an outstanding and poignantly brave publication based on FACT (a trademark I voice when introducing others to your work). It would be enough just to know that you are an experienced grower and seller in the plant community and delight in sharing your successfully intuitive experiences. However, you have built a successful following and legitimize your expertise further by being the “GO TO” guy for others to be successful by following honest credible guidance. Thank you again😊

[@prettyingreen]

Shaun-I had to screenshot this one to look at on the bad work days. Thank you so much for just saying this, but more for being a part of the community of free information. And thank you for supporting our small business. Always love seeing your comments. This one hits the heart strings!!! 🙏

[@morningstar8187]

I live for those plant drama videos

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you for watching early! I had fun doing one of these again :)

[@shanelesley9503]

Same!

[@anneplemons]

Same!

[@wandashaw3551]

Omg, this is once again absolutely UNBELIEVABLE to me. I just cannot wrap my mind around people doing something like this to scam others out their money. WOW. No morals and no scruples.

[@richardr5878]

PMM is an over the top, canna semi hydro growing method, but I did get some take a ways. I believe has helped my plant journey. I’m an advocate of adding silica to my water, especially for my variegated plants. I think it helps maintaining the white. I also use micros when I transplant. I’m not 100% sure of efficacy, as I’ve gotten better, and so has my success. I “feel” it helps. Lastly, I lightly fertilize every watering. Again PMM is over the top with the nutrients, but .25 strength of a nice 3-1-2 has my jungle flourishing. Cult is precisely what I’d call his forum. Literally every answer is “follow the method” or “you screwed up the method”. 😂. Not open to ANY talk of how you do things in your local environment. There is only ONE way….till he changes it.

[@prettyingreen]

Totally. But watering with 1/4 strength 3-1-2 is again, ancient methods borrowed from ag industry! Tons of useful information, but calling it your own, and selling a $300 kit for it, and shaming those who do otherwise is my problem

[@marilynjay9117]

Silica needs to be used solo. It causes nutrient lockout when mixed with other nutrients just fyi

[@prettyingreen]

@@marilynjay9117 Hmmm interesting! Is that because of the high potassium levels. What if you ph the water after? What is causing the nutrient lockout -- usually that comes from a ph issue

[@marilynjay9117]

@@prettyingreen excessive use of silica and use of silica with other products causes lockout due to the salts. Silica use naturally raises the ph of soil which is part of of the issue leading to nutrient lockout and root rot. Silica does increase nutrient uptake but too much of a good thing can also be a bad thing. Ph test soil and water to reduce risks with use of silica.

[@SLee-vc9gd]

This is how I care for my plants too. Silica seems to have helped some through attacks from pests and I just discovered mycorrhizae and love it! It's definitely helped bring back my ponytail palm that was struggling. She's getting gorgeous roots now!💚✌🏽

[@frothnflamesbathbodyhome]

I was part of original admin/mod team. It was just terrible. Every single member of the time had a bad experience. FYI he has only been doing this for about 5-6 years tops. He has been involved kirby vacuum scheme which ended on accurent affairs for ripping off old ladies and single mums, incidently still his target audience. I could write a novel here about all the wrongs I witnessed.

[@foreverloved2005]

Spill the tea! 😂

[@prettyingreen]

Let’s link up to make part 2!!! Would you email me? [e-mail]

[@FullyRooted_PlantBoutique]

I always love your videos! Love the style, music, and facts! Keep them coming!❤️❤️❤️🫶🏻🫶🏻🙏🏻

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you so much for the kind words!!!!!

[@AliciaBug120]

Omg I literally watched a few of his videos and thought he was crazy. I never followed any of his other socials. Thank you for posting this. I imagine alot of people could easily (and have) fallen prey to this man's antics. I also thought the supplements he was using were outrageous $$$. I'm fairly new to your channel but I've been a plant lover all my life. Your videos have helped me tremendously in the short time I've been here, and I'm always learning new things from you. Thank you for everything you're doing for the plant community ❤

[@kyrad6543]

Grifters gonna grift. Totally reminds me of these people who start "life coaching" businesses on FB and charge to be a "member". People who have no business giving advice to anyone let alone charging for it!

[@anneplemons]

I love these videos 😂 I need more in my life! I followed this guy after one of my friends was obsessed with him, I tried his suggestions and every plant rotted. His videos on social media make it clear he has mental health issues 😢

[@prettyingreen]

Ya that might be true :/ more vids to come!!

[@marilynjay9117]

I love your videos. Appreciate the hard work and investigations you have done to give proper information to consumers. Kudos and my hats off. Sincere

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you so much for the kind words!! It really means a lot 😊

[@mariodiloreto7103]

Interesting 😂 I've been doing PMM for over 2 years and my plants are thriving and have crazy growth, activated buds. I've learned so much from his group. Not saying I don't believe all this, but I've had nothing but a good experience with that group since I've joined

[@papayapixel]

Thanks for making this video. I stumbled into PMM and after much success with my aroids, was a paying subscriber (mostly because if I'm doing something and it's working, I feel like that has value and want to pay it back) but didn't realize that this is potentially a huge grift. I looked up Professor Monstera here on KZbin because something has always felt very off. Tbh, I think I recall him bringing up his bipolar disorder and since he recently asked all Facebook subscribers to unsubscribe, I was more concerned about his mental state than anything. I ended up in a very strange IG convo with him awhile back after just saying "hey thanks, it's working for me" and got a lot of extra correspondence that was pretty odd considering the distance of the relationship. It was strange, knowing that he's apparently so busy. Then I see these weird sites pop up incrementally that he's asking us to subscribe to, because reasons...which he somehow has the time to either suss out and create communities in, or the means to pay others to do that. I don't get how he's apparently so hard up for money and claiming to be doing this at a loss but also is able to ask us to unsubscribe? Frankly first my mental health bells started ringing, but this makes sense too. Anyway, tangent lol, thank you again, this really shines a light on the concerns I have been mulling over.

[@Eirwyn]

I must confess, I've always thought your channel is called petty in green, because you talk about plant drama some time. ☕

[@prettyingreen]

Honestly i love that. I'm petty af

[@4Azr]

I love 4:10 part but honestly Monstera deliciosa can grow in any medium, it is quite baffling to me how can anyone have problems with it and I mean any mutatant or not version of deliciosa, I get the argument like 'Oh its an aroid it must have the oxygen in the roots, you must use chunky mix' I get it but deliciosas are so easy to grow they do well even in backyard soil, in peat based soil with no perlite, no other ingredients, it all comes down to watering since you can't drown them in aroid mix thats why it is so recommended but realistically you can grow it in anything, if someone is bad with watering then yikes they killed one of the easiest plants, thats a bummer for sure. I very much enjoyed the video, keep on going Pretty in Green

[@amberloveschicago]

Mine had the best results in literally sphagnum moss 😂

[@hefoxed]

I have a 1 story high green monstera growing in bad soil outside. It is mostly neglected cause it prefers that. I'll water it occasionally. Zone 10...b? With fairly okay humidity year round. 😂 it'd be higher but it's below a deck so can't. It used to be attached to the house but eventually got to hwavy snd ripped itself free, and anapped halfway through it's stem... And survived with just a scar, top totally fine -- severel growth points activated. Came with my home in the ground already so at least 8 years old. They are just so tough.

[@oOOoOphidian]

Literally like aside from growing into a moss pole for easier propagating there isn't any magic to monstera

[@elisabethak9502]

How people in this day and age still fall for stuff like this is actually hilarious. I can’t even feel sorry for them anymore.

[@jyvaineorchids2255]

I think it's scarry

[@lydchn]

I am the Reddit whistle blower you listed in your video. It was the only way I could get the word out back then. Every other forum, his mods would delete and block me. Thanks for finally bringing light to all this insanity. He’s stealing. Plain and simple.

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you for bringing this to light for me to find! I feel like there’s so many layers to this. I’ve even got “geographical” blocks on this video automatically so hopefully that’s not for Australia. Someone is busy flagging this vid

[@alexaanderson6021]

I water my monsters all the time, and also water with coffee water my Thai loves it. I live in Florida so also think it loves the humidity.

[@mrfcp1235]

we should call Chris the Prime Minister of Leca&Perlite lol. I initially followed the Leca Queen technique but incorporated perlite after hearing it from this channel. all my plants are so happy except the crotons and ferns.

[@prettyingreen]

hahahahhaha I appreciate this

[@ErikaA2582]

Suggesting someone water a monstera every day and people actually doing it is mind blowing.

[@prettyingreen]

Hahahahahaa right!???

[@JorgeRivera-hy4cm]

On the other hand, I can say the method works. My monsteras went crazy when I understood what I was doing. Right now I have my variegated monsteras in it and are thriving like crazy. I have to repot it almost monthly due to the crazy roots they develop. The leaves have almost tripled in size since I moved them to the so called PMM. With the guidance of one of his admins i got to save two ot them that otherwise would’ve died on me. With that said, he is a fraud who is Ore focused on people’s money that helping them. He even asks his admins not to help people in the free group and let their plants die in order to gain subscriptions. He has no morale.

[@whatnana]

Yeah, like it's not really a scam because it DOES work. But so does literally every other growing method? My TC went crazy for it though, but needing to make a solution every 2-3 days got tiring quick. Holidays? Work trips? gg. His method is fine (though not new). He himself as a person is questionable. I remember buying a light from his shop, which he later got me to cancel because he had some issue with the person who was sourcing it to him? Every interaction I've had just... was very bizarre and unprofessional.

[@misscindypalacio]

As soon as you enter the dedicated Facebook group the 🚩 start popping off lol

[@dianakim5426]

I was part of his Fb group for a VERY short time. I left after being attacked by the moderator for supposedly not following his method. It was truly bizarre.

[@graceakagrace]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for putting this dude's dirty work out there. Completely unfair what he's been doing & go away with... till now! 👍🏾

[@prettyingreen]

I appreciate it!! Thank you for watching!

[@jaclynns.jungle]

Homie seems kinda unhinged 😂

[@jaclynns.jungle]

It's so easy to just be honest. I don't get people like this. In every care video I do, I specify that this is what works for ME! I'm not an expert. It's based on experience, and people should try different things to find what works for them!! It's not hard 🙄

[@gingkook]

thank god someone big is calling out this guy.

[@agathan.944]

Only newborn aroid collectors could buy this "discovery". Because people with at list some experience know that Mycorrhizae works with thread-thin roots, African violets, for example. Young aroids need time to grow such thin roots.

[@Aweirdmushroom96]

I stood on the giant’s shoulders. I saw chunky aroid mix.

[@prettyingreen]

The CHONKIEST

[@marilynjay9117]

People are suprised...those of us in cannabis were shocked to see the claims made. Some people just don't know the reality.

[@prettyingreen]

💯 💯💯💯💯💯

[@PlantedEarthLLC]

Thank you Chris! The internet is saturated with misinformation in relation to horticulture . I mean first of all he lost me when “the Professor” used the term Semi-Hydro, A Misnomer Passive Hydroponic, Kratky, or wick are methods there’s no such thing as Semi Hydro. It’s either Hydro or it’s Not, there’s no Semi in hydroponics. So much false information being spread through the internet. That’s why it’s so important to take the time and actually research from peer reviewed journals, university publications, established NGOs. Not TIKITY TOK or INSANITYGRAM. And anyone that calls themselves a “professor” outside of an actual university is definitely suspect.

[@plantypittsburgh]

I've heard people recommend this before, and there is a reddit recommending his method as early as 10 mints ago. It just seemed way more complicated than anything needs to be. Question! Do you add additional calmag to your fertilizer? Like fertilizer + more calmag. I'm working on my anthurium. Nyx plants uses a super complicated mixed feed for his anthurium, and I'm not about that life, but i do have some minorly chloratic looking leaves.... maybe...ha. I've been using it on all of my plants, and they're doing great! Is it weird that i like the smell and that it turns my water brown? I like to see that my water is fertilized! 😂

[@Lyric-central16]

I’m an active mod! He yelled at me for not having my face as my profile pic and that I could be a scammer! But an admin didn’t have her face as the profile pic and she was fine! And, he has taken money from an admin and didn’t pay it back so this is true

[@mylovecassie4ever]

Oh wow! That’s very intresting 😮. Thankyou for the information

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you for watching!!

[@bhagavatid.d.7619]

I tried tree Fern fiber on my monstera deliciousa yellow Marylin and it loved it, yet of course it's expensive. I also use great white and I am happy with that. Thank you for the video 😊

[@prettyingreen]

That stuff is great!!

[@monsteraetc]

Ohhhh, the tea! The ☕️🫖 is so good today! 😆

[@monsteraetc]

As you can imagine, given my screen name, I’ve had dozens of people ask me if I’ve heard of or follow this dude… Yeah, no. I actually understand the science behind what I do. 😉

[@prettyingreen]

Piping hot today!! 😆

[@AlanAbrams]

I'd seen mention of this Professor Monstera Method in a few different groups on FB and Reddit. After watching a couple of his KZbin videos, I got a bit of a shyster vibe and decided that it wasn't for me.

[@smajliiicka]

He came up on my newsfeed few times... Knowing ppl, seeing through them the way I do, I knew this was off by miles. Couldn't put my finger on it and here we are now 😂 thank you

[@prettyingreen]

Haha he does have an odd way of presenting it all / seems disingenuous

[@smajliiicka]

@@prettyingreen indeed, at first I thought to myself, who's this old hippie? For me it was the fact that all his videos were 'right in my face'... I think I prefer bit more gentle approach 😅 not having an old men yelling and spitting at me cuz I didn't drown roots in peroxide 🙈

[@dillonkentworth6718]

Is there really a group called piss? 😆

[@Bolcjek]

I've been using coco (with added mycchorizae) and perlite for years, something along 70-30, for aroids. I also add 5-10% orchid bark for a little more drainage and lower pH. And a tiny bit of diatomaceous earth and active coal. I also drill small holes in the plastic pots for extra aeration. Works great. Haven't had root rot since, yet the mix still holds enough water to leave my house for 4-5 days. No idea who this professor guy is though. The prices sound like a scam. I make my mix way cheaper.

[@CindyH907]

Great video! I watched him when I first started my journey. I quit bc I didn’t like the way the pushed the pmm method among other things.

[@Munz_is_at_your_house]

I made it! Oooo! Monstera drama…

[@prettyingreen]

good morning good morning!

[@letsclimb5828]

Also, this might be typical business practice for the industry, but I am super turned off by GT now

[@prettyingreen]

I don't consider it to be typical. Carrying multiple competitors is kinda standard

[@jordanschoffstall]

Yeah, just got GT Foliage Focus delivered (Amazon) the other day. Been throwin' the bottle some judgemental side-eye ever since I watched this video. Time to switch to DynaGro (though I'm sure the Pretty in Green fert. would be the wisest thing to do 😉).

[@prettyingreen]

@@jordanschoffstall 😆🫶

[@GreenWitch1]

If it walks like a duck & quakes like a duck, it’s a duck 🦆

[@foreverloved2005]

I followed him for awhile in his free groups and even one month paid sub for a few $. He is full of contradicting information and rarely gives actual good advice. For the subscription group he ran for a short time, he kept promising unique informative content for subscribers but never delivered it. Any video he made he would also put on his public page. He promised one on one access and advice for a sub but was always unavailable due to migraines or other random drama issues in him life. A complete hot mess! I always got the "ick" from him but thought I was learning good info, unfortunately most of that info I learned the hard way, was bad.

[@prettyingreen]

Ooooo this is very interesting and first account I’ve heard of the “paid” side of the group!! Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@christinakim3666]

@@prettyingreen yes I can attest to the above comment as I was in the paid-for subscription group. He promised “exclusive content” or “dedicated support” but would post the same content to his free group as well. He ghosted me on 2 occasions where we had scheduled a virtual 1:1 session. First time I was ghosted with no explanation, second time he cancelled last minute saying he was “meeting his long lost daughter for the first time.” One of his admins pretty much ran the subscription group until they had a falling out due to her giving advice against the PMM method and she was abruptly silenced. He also tried to push his subscribers to use his new “app” which was just a page on Wix 😂 but shut it down without notice or explanation to the group members he also tried to make claims of “revolutionizing” living soil as a secondary method to PMM but just put his label on top of an already existing bag of turbo soil…the list goes on and on…

[@AlfredoDiazCaballero]

He did bring the use of silica to the mainstream plant community, now it's widely used in monsteras and Anthuriums.

[@prettyingreen]

The cannabis community has used silica for ages. But maybe he’s popularized it with houseplants

[@AndYourLittleDog]

houseplants have their own Beyhive/Swifties/Sussex Squad😂 it was only a matter of time

[@prettyingreen]

truuuuue

[@marierejoiceinjesus3846]

I joined this group and left shortly after. It was definitely like a cult. Back when I joined, no one was allowed to post except the mods and they screamed at everyone.

[@prettyingreen]

So wild. I wish I saw this first hand early on

[@hberror404]

yessss the drama

[@JorgeRivera-hy4cm]

A very needed revealing of this scammer and liar. A sicko who thinks is a god and is just a bum.

[@prettyingreen]

🎯

[@EmilyArnold-ny6wp]

Amen

[@phungm7]

I did like the method but I found some improvements and when it was some members with the same problem I had I tried to tell them what I did to fix it and the whole PMM cult got on me being very mean for no reason. Then he made a post telling everyone in his group to not give anyone and info unless it’s his PMM method to the T.

[@prettyingreen]

This is the EXACT problem with PMM. There’s good bits to take. But allow people to update it and take it where they want. I like to start with the basics, and add in more and more advanced additives, one by one, and see what actually helps.

[@christina3478]

Could you tell me what you did change about it that made it better?

[@suezy1969]

I’ve follow his on facebook for a couple years now and have always thought he was a scammer! We used to grow Mary Jane and I had all the stuff to use on my albo’s and gave it a try. Ya watering every couple days…. Ya no! Like you said the soil was not airy enough and got root rot. I changed to what I normally use with my aroids and they are doing great! TBH I have always thought he was a drug user of some kind (crack?!) but then though hmm maybe just has adhd or something. Either way he is a scammer and people get blocked so easy on his page. I just watch silently and laugh. 🤣

[@prettyingreen]

Hahahahahaa 🤐🤐😅

[@marilynjay9117]

Cannabis doesn't encourage watering daily. Im not sure where that info came from but often its every couple days. We've grown 10 million lbs in just one season, and i promise I didn't water daily. That would flood the plant just like it would to an aroid

[@prettyingreen]

Some indoor growers suggest practices close to this. Check out Athena Ag-they run super interesting irrigation techniques

[@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887]

great video as usual - I'm in Australia, joined one of his groups out of curiosity but I just hate spaces where you're told there's only One Right Way and it's the way of the leader...ugh...I didn't realize he was this bad, thanks! A true arsehole scammer.

[@prettyingreen]

Thank you for watching!!! I’m glad Australia is still able to watch this video. If you aren’t able would you please email me? [e-mail] he seems to be busy trying to get the video taken down

[@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887]

@@prettyingreen I can still see it :)

[@fosterfoster9913]

If you comment on his page he would delete it

[@athenastafford1286]

Woooow I’ve never used his method but imma leave the fb group lol Also hi

[@athenastafford1286]

Not the paid one who tf

[@athenastafford1286]

Stealing grow equerpmernt

[@prettyingreen]

Athena!! 😆

[@kspence5300]

Drama of the plant world.

[@ADHDKING]

Do his plants come with a pack of beneficial meth. May explain the membership fee, and the people wiling to buy lol.

[@prettyingreen]

Hahahahahahhahahaa 💀

[@smajliiicka]

😂❤️

[@amberloveschicago]

Am I missing something. This is literally just a monstera (not nuclear science). 😂

[@prettyingreen]

NOPE. That's the whole scheme. Lots of money to grow something that grows itself. Just don't overwater it!! 😂

[@amberloveschicago]

@@prettyingreen that is so wild! Thank you for uncovering this schemer.

[@floranfauna3090]

Oh 💩 !

[@prettyingreen]

yesssssssss 💩 indeed

[@SLee-vc9gd]

Well hot damn...the drama of the plant community is f*cking WILD !!!🤭 I'm really glad I got into plants kind of organically after becoming a (youngish) empty nester in 2022 and not during the Millenial hype up/ COVID boom. I'm also not super into SM so guessing that helps too. I do grow my plants in a coco peat, perlite & worm castings base but then depending on the plant I'll add pumice, different sizes of bark, charcoal and sphag moss occasionally, the norm. But I'm not using semi hydro either. I'm also the rare weirdo that doesn't like anthuriums, alocasias & most philodendrons.😬🙈🤷🏽‍♀️😏

[@kylekozlowski4641]

lol!!! I remember the pmm method when I first got into aroids!!!

[@ZroLod]

Meanwhile in Mexico, monsteras are grown n pretty eroded soil 🤭

[@prettyingreen]

Hahahahaa exactly

[@nackedgrils9302]

Never heard of the guy but he seems to be slightly off the rails. To his defense, I learned most of what I know about plants from growing cannabis, there's a lot of good info out there if you're willing to look for it which, clearly, he didn't do. It's funny, there's somewhat of a plant cult in my area of the world too, people doing semi-hydro with cypress mulch as a substrate. It seems to be harmless as far as I can tell but there are still quite a few cult-ish elements to their Facebook group. It's all happening in french though, so you guys in the US have probably never heard of it. I haven't had any success with their method, so I'm doing chunky aroid mix with a little bit of added cypress mulch (on a recommendation from the Missouri Botanical Garden, not from those weirdos doing semi-hydro with it) and Pon for those plants I just can't get the hang of.

[@JorgeRivera-hy4cm]

I have to admit that

[@djhiggins4431]

I'll say I use silica with my plants and trees, they've grown so much healthier and larger with less pests and issues since using silica. However with airoids I always only use pon or chunky mix or tree fern fiber and it always works basically. This dudes a weirdo

[@prettyingreen]

Ya Silica makes sense to use. I use it with my aroids too. But that, a good fert, and a chunky mix I'd put against any overpriced method

[@djhiggins4431]

@prettyingreen I've had great results with pon and with tree fern fiber. But being completely honest a chunky mix is cheaper and results are negligible.

[@annafink2245]

I love how you do these shady deep dives and journalistic type videos. The only mycorrhizal I've seen work is found in Oh Happy Plants soil. I know it's working because the white fuzz. The other stuff is probably dead.

[@prettyingreen]

I had lots of fun making this one! I appreciate you watching!!!

[@wanderotter4667]

The only cult I am joining is the leca cult. But only if it's led by Nora the Leca Queen of course.

[@prettyingreen]

Hahahah I’m in!!!

[@phunk8607]

aussie here... never heard of Prof Monstera, sorry but you given this guy too much credit...

[@bluebear74]

Let’s not forget when he kept making up sob stories and asked for donations.

[@prettyingreen]

Oooo I did run across that story of asking his fans to buy him a cell phone? Was that it? 🗣️

[@foreverloved2005]

He always had a series of unfortunate events. He couldn't pay the bills, his electricity was out, he had migraines, his car broke down, it went on and on. There was a mod named Cristobal that probably has all the tea if you can find him.

[@deltatango6793]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@CharlieGreen05]

Hot 🍵 severed lol

[@prettyingreen]

What up Charlie!!!

[@GlassHousesConservatory]

That guy is so strange, very annoying and there’s just something about him….no.

[@prettyingreen]

😅😂

[@jyvaineorchids2255]

He is to the plant community what Indochat is for ark survival evolved, he have blinded followers, tell rveryonr he is right and play innocent, steal every ressources the others have and then leave or destroy you if he doesn't like you.

[@Dieppaloveplants]

Waooo and i have him on my Facebook

[@prettyingreen]

🫖🫖🫖

[@Dieppaloveplants]

​@@prettyingreen😂😂😂😂

[@carolstuff]

SMH, what a despicable person!

[@prettyingreen]

🌱🍵

[@bermandustin]

He’s pretty irrelevant since monstera became so cheap

[@bermandustin]

I guess maybe he isn’t. I havnt heard his methods praised in aroid groups in a few years.

[@ST-us7kq]

i used to follow him when i saw the product he suggested was far too expensive than a normal product and he is charging his followers too, I stopped following. Didnot make sense to me like people now do air layer to root the albos why so much of complicated methods, it just felt something off. Thank you for making this video, i am happy i didn't purchase anything he suggested.

[@alinebocanegrareich5529]

Fkn looooooossseeerrr

[@ohemmygee216]

I have so many thoughts about this and none of them are appropriate for the public comments section 😂😂😂 (but srsly media/propaganda training needs to be a thing in this country!). anyway- thanks for casting a light into another dark corner of the plant world! 🫡💪🥳