Monstera Plant Care: Water, Light, Nutrients

How to care for Monstera

How often to water your Monstera

Monstera needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.

Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.

Water 0.5 cups every
9

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☀️ Light

Finding light for Monstera in your home

Monstera may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.

Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.

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🪴 Nutrients

How to fertilize Monstera

Nutrient, fertilizer, and repotting needs for Monstera: repot after 2X growth

Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.

By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.

To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Monstera after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.

About to rename this Rapunzel. My monstera cobra is putting out these super fast growing tendrils with no leaves. I’m so confused. According to the Costa listing this is a slow growing plant that will do well in low light but thrive in bright light. I have this about a foot from a south facing window and it gets additional light from an east facing window about 13 feet away. There is also the lamp but that is a regular led bulb. I imagine it gets some light from the lamp, but it’s not a grow light. I read recently about a different plant that will stop putting out leaves in bright light “because it doesn’t need them” to feed. Is that was is happening here? At first I thought it was etiolation but that wouldn’t make sense either. It has this one thumb sized leaf and below that the tiniest itty bitty baby leaf. Below that it’s all sheaths with no visible leaves at all. Do you think letting it trail instead of climb has made it smaller? I’m stumped. Thoughts? #Monstera #MonsteraMob #Philodendron #GregGang #HappyPlants