My entire monstera collection + my current monstera wishlist!

[@plantito-bong6586]

Finally I find my friend 😅✌️ Struggling with monsteras . When I see other's monsteras I just think of give up on plants . But now I think there are definitely not only me . Many Plantitas are in same track .

[@snt9518]

Burle marx flame is on my wishlist for when prices drop to about 50 😅 Don't know what's happening to my esqueleto, while the leaves are gorgeous it's only grown two since I got it from a cutting a year and a half ago. Now what's impressed me most is the obliqua peru, it has grown its third leaf since september. I know it's an acquired taste with its small form and delicate leaves, but if you like the look of it, I highly recommend getting one from a seller that you trust :)

[@horace6851]

Unsolicited advice - to increase albo variegation shine a directional growth light on a growing stem. But it needs to hit the stem not leaves. I went from a plant with less variegation than yours newest leaf to 3/4 white leaf in 5-6 leaves. It does work. But it needs to be a focused light, like a desk lamp with strong LED or grow light bulb. Or direct sunlight, but who can afford that :) It works for all chimeric variegations, harder to do when internodes are tight but for viners is a 100%.

[@karenmyers9146]

Wish you luck getting and growing a monstera flame. Would be my next wishlist plant behind the Queen

[@damaris864-s9p]

Thais are so variable in terms of health. I got one an online shop a few months ago and it was growing in pure coco husk. Holy smokes that Thai was so healthy, but I traded it for some high end Hoyas. I regret that trade to this day. That Thai would put out leaves one after the other. I doubt I’ll get that lucky again 🥲

[@nicolegriesbach9505]

agree re spider mites. have you tried SNS 209? it doesn't kill them outright, but once the plant takes up enough, the spider mites (and likely other biting pests) don't eat the plant -- it's made from rosemary.

[@ronjakh]

For the spider beasties, try 1 tsp neem oil per liter of water and add enough castile soap to dissolve the neem oil. Until it doesn’t pool on the surface basically. Water your substrate thoroughly with it and spray the whole plant down too. The plant will take up the toxin in neem oil and it will work as a systemic if you are consistent with it. Recently read a research paper on this, but can’t find it now 🤦‍♀️☺️

[@the_flora_archives]

Thais and albos are pretty, but i think green form is still my favorite❤️

[@ABilySecretly]

Hi Alice, I have big Thai in soil and small in pon. They both grow fine but in pon Im able to control more watering. You need to repot it in much bigger pot if you want the leaves to sized up.And I mean not one size up. Id repot in something 3 times bigger than current pot to see a difference. Good luck.

[@digitalwindowz]

Your Monstera look lovely to me. Interesting video, Thank you! I have 7 different types of Monstera in my collection. I have found the more I don't fuss over them the better they grow. I swear, just let them do their thing and they thrive. Thanks again, I always learn something new from your videos!

[@aplantprocess]

I have such a love/hate relationship with thin leaf Monsteras. I need a plant to be super exceptional if it’s that quick to tell on me when I fall short with it’s care and the ones I’ve had (and since gifted) were not exceptional enough. The thicker the leaf the better in every way - they’re soooo pretty. I overloved my first Albo cutting but worked it out with my second and third. Glad I didn’t give up. The green from is definitely a favorite and aways will be. She gives and asks so little in return. Great plant for growing 😉 confidence and nice for validation that you do know what you’re doing.

[@bigtomatoplantslover6205]

Lovely plants 🪴 Like 313❤️ My friend, thank you for good sharing 😊

[@ivanyergiyev9622]

thanks for the video :) i'm glad some of the elitism around monsteras has faded, although many are still so expensive. might be mistaken but the brown stuff around the roots could actually be the micorrhizae, i think pete vs plants said that once

[@plantypittsburgh]

I like the lechleriana so much more than the adosonii. I have a variegated that I'm rooting now. The leaves get longer and larger with smaller fenestration. I'm excited!

[@rhombifer566]

Wow amazing so beautiful 😮 nice plants 🪴 to

[@saraialegria]

Just in time, now I can do dishes without discontent 🥰

[@youdontevengrowhere]

Yessssss get your clean on! 🙌🏻

[@futuroid]

Ugh it’s craaaazy how I have the exact opposite experience with Monstera omg. They’re my easiest growing aroids followed by Philodendron and then I kill Anthurium like no other. Also, the Esqueleto is my hardest Monstera!! You have such a lovely mix - wishing you all the growth vibes with these babies. I’ve had the best luck with Monstera (albos and thais) with 70/30 coco/perlite

[@apseudonym]

yeah monstera are so chill. my faves

[@amylokers4942]

I appreciate you telling us about the sol soil! Maybe you should make up your own soil and sell it. I know I would buy it!!😍

[@blahglklsk3051]

please do an entire anthurium collection!

[@par3433]

I have an esqueleto that I got recently from a friend and it was a top cut with about 4 large leaves that I put on a pole but all the new growth was grown staked and the growth got a lot smaller. It could be the change of environment but who knows 🤷‍♀️ the plan now is to chop it back down and stay on top of extending the pole 😅

[@BlueOrangutan.]

The aurea monstera you have is the small form like a small form deliciosa, the marliyn kunzo has is the large form but the only thing the same between the aurea and the marilyn is the colour but the kunzo marilyn large form has larger blotches if yellow in the leave and the leave are alot larger being the large form their two totally differant plants.

[@horace6851]

As for the seeds - I don't find seeds that incredible, after all, we come from single cells too. What I find incredible is that the plants are essentially immortal. You can clone them indefinitely and there is nothing preventing them from carrying exactly the same genetic material forever. You can't do that with animals (or us). The oldest living organism described so far is an aspen tree grove in Utah where they've found living tissue over 80 000 years old. And if the environment allows it, it can just keep growing, sprouting new trees from the rhizome forever (yes, I've read The Overstory, it's pure magic). I consider myself an atheist but sometimes I wish I was a Celt living in a native forest, just walking around and worshipping trees :)

[@botanicassie]

Absolutely screenshotted this because it’s worded so beautifully and when someone asks me why I love plants again; this.

[@karenbrackbill79]

I love my monstera but they are sometimes so difficult and temperamental. My large form (especially Thai) grow very slowly. All of my monstera are very prone to thrips and I have to treat so often during winter! I love your esqueleto

[@Shegrowshere]

Pleasssse show your living room shelf, it could just be complete darkness with one grow light. It’s all fine, all is fine 😂

[@coffee2962]

Yay!! The Queen is back with another video🎉🎉 Glad I’m not the only one who struggles with monstera 🙏 Others : Perfect monstera big leaves even whilst trailing Me: stop running 🏃‍♀️ stop getting smaller Random side note: Thanks for your recommendation of great white! The plants have been growing better and I’ve been weirdly getting addicted to the scent of great white 😂

[@lovesyorkies3395]

Ugh spider mites … I found some on my Calatheas today, I sprayed them with an insecticide and jumped in and am treating the with a systemic pesticide. My last neon dieffenbachia had mealy bugs but in both cases I caught them at the beginning of the infestation. I can’t take out all my plants to spray them down every week 1/2 -2 weeks. Especially my regular Monstera, my TC and my Albo, I love those soooo much! Just started using granules today. Lasts 2 months. Let’s see but I hear your frustration!

[@iddybiddyladybugleeza909]

I thought I had more monstera’s but my philodendrons has really grown way more! My 1st Thai the roots grew out the drainage holes & I didn’t notice & thought it needed water but in reality i drowned the poor plant. I was just devastated & now I’m on #2 My albo, we had a crazy heatwave last summer & lost its leaf & so I went ahead an bought a new one but have them growing together in a pot.

[@preslydazon762]

Hi fam! Yes the Devan's thai con was labeled Devan's monstera albo last year lol. Check out monstera mint if you hadn't and maybe you'll like it too 🙂....it is becoming more available locally now but it is very expensive still unfortunately. Thanks for showing us your collection👊👊👊

[@lisaanglim9588]

When you have your houseplant tour did you show your living room shelves. I don’t remember seeing those shelves.

[@rhombifer566]

😮 love it all 👍🏻👍🏻

[@margimorris7360]

The Esqueleto is so expensive in Australia if you can find it. Wish it was cheaper, it's just gorgeous. I just called two nurseries and they said the Esqueleto if another name for the adonsonii🤦‍♀

[@botanicassie]

I wish you had better a experience with monstera. I bought one Thai that was so basic and basically became crème brûlée, one beautiful albo that rooted perfect in water and is booming, and one albo adansonii that’s kinda annoying with too much color but doing fine. So funny how different specimens grow so differently and we all have different experiences. ❤

[@sheliaglover565]

That happens to be an aerial root you can plan it into substrate but I would not cut it off those plants are climbing plants and that's what they grab hold with and climb up

[@sheliaglover565]

Captains Jack neem oil spray ready-to-use gets rid of so many things I've also had good luck with distilled water and Dawn dish soap just a few squirts to a spray bottle

[@lukki7ster]

Do u find when using Great White or TPS that u get more algae? I want to try a myco but i hate seeing algae. The Thai con didnt seem to have a lot. Lemme know! 💚. Btw i love the salad fingers reference, i jus watched some episodes a few weeks back. Hella creepy lmao

[@alexclark64]

Im so sorry you are dealing with SM, they are the worst 😢 Can you get killer mite? I struggled with outbreaks here and there and it was really affecting my mental health. I would come back from working away 6 days a week and then have to wash down and treat hundreds of plants on my day off 😩 i tried all sorts of oils and washes specific to SM and all this did was make the leaves look awful, predatory mites and washing. I read the reviews on killer mite and others were saying they were dealing with them for years and this stopped them dead. I decided to invest in a bottle and I sprayed killer mite once in November and haven’t seen a pest in the house since… honestly it’s been the best thing I’ve ever bought! It’s the most toxic thing I’ve ever smelt but it kills the spider mites. Looking after my plants is so much more enjoyable now.

[@artifect]

Sulphur soap works for spider mites

[@ssssundae]

I see sp. Sierranas for around 100 or even less per cutting locally on facebook now! Hopefully prices will drop in canada soon too :) I'm bummed I bought mine before prices got so low lol.

[@Emilieplantesetcie]

Spidermites probably stay in the sinus because they are succers (i'm a french speaker and we call them "piqueur-suceur") and the area where they can find the most soft and full of sap is near the sinus (just a wild guess)

[@kkmeilicke]

I definitely agree on the easiness of Monstera esqueleto. I've had much better luck with mine than I've had with adonsonii. It's really cool that the Burle Marx flame is getting more accessible, but it's a little too spindly for me--holding out for an affordable sierrana (which may be a while).

[@chrysteldespain143]

Oh man! I killed my first one and am now scarily babying my second one. 😢

[@chrysteldespain143]

When you say great white water… do you just mix great white in your liquid and water with it? Regularly? Once??? Pray tell!!! Thank you!

[@youdontevengrowhere]

Yes exactly as you described! I do it when I pot the plant, and then maybe again a couple months later if I remember 😆

[@miad.4976]

Lol, I got Thai with large leaves ( the last one is 30 inches long), but there is still no inner fenestration 😅

[@cozyjackie]

For spider mites the best luck I've had has been predatory mites. I haven't had a single spray work to be honest

[@youdontevengrowhere]

I’ve held off using beneficials because I didn’t think my open shelving would be warm enough for them to be active! Have you used them outside of a greenhouse?

[@cozyjackie]

@@youdontevengrowhere I'm currently using them in my whole apartment, which I keep at 68 degrees. The ones outside my greenhouse cabinet are definitely slower and less active but they did eliminate a spider mite infestation on my blood orange tree! I went a little nuclear after finding thrips on my Rio and a week in I'm actually not seeing any more. I definitely think it's worth at least trying once or twice!

[@lisaanglim9588]

You are going to need a taller pole for the esqueleto

[@EMuro-wu7uy]

What is great white? Fertilizer? What?

[@sherryporsch9349]

💚💚💚

[@sandybeachlane1528]

Does systemic insecticide kill mycorrhizal fungi?

[@single_use_planet_]

I only ever had adansonii and killed all of them, the newest one I bought is so far still alive, so far...

[@lovesyorkies3395]

Huxley wanted to join in the video….he couldn’t get his opinion in though.

[@Ceceisextreme]

I'll take your spider mites if you take the thrips 😭 all my monstera have thrips right now

[@kittybaumont2749]

hello, i've found the solution for spidermites but it's not very convenient, bigger spider! i have a sunroom where a leave the big black house's spider here in belgium they are called tegenaires and even if i'm really arachnophobe this big girl pay her rent^^

[@Dieppaloveplants]

My thai is hugeee like 5 feet and she is in pon she looove pon

[@cristyandplants]

Considering I have spidermites at any given time, F*CK SPIDERMITES. 😡