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Suffering aroids

7 years ago


Hi fellows, so I have a bunch of severely neglected aroids (mostly monsteras & philodendrons) & their leaves are damaged/scorched from direct sun/heat. May I know how I can rectify & beautify the situation? I was thinking of trimming away ALL the leaves (since the scorched leaves can't photosynthesis any way) but am unclear about exactly where (along the "stalk") to cut away the leaves (I'd searched online & the videos mostly teach how to propagate, i.e. remove a leaf stalk right below its aerial root). My focus is actually not to propagate but rectify the mother plants.

On the other hand, If it's more fruitful to directly propagate a new specimen & abandon the mother plant (due to the severity of their situation), do let me know also.

Comments (9)

  • 7 years ago

    they are severely dehydrated too - they all need to be put in larger pots.

    did you give them a good long soak in water as is ?..like for 20 min in pots standing in sev inches of water..? they all look to be large leaved philos/monsteras, except for 1st in bottom row (golden pothos: epipremnum aureum).

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    where you have leaves left (even damaged but with some green): i'd cut the growing tip with several leaves (I see some have aerial roots too - that would help) and just float them in water for 30 min to hydrate, then keep them in a vase with water for a week or two, just to get some roots starting. best to keep them tented indoors at 75F approx., not where it's hot. if your humidity indoors or on patio is high, no need to tent then. but if it's too hot (like over 95F) it's too stressful, try to find some cooler 80-90F spot for them, shady if outside, in good bright light, but no sun if indoors.

    once you get some roots starting, put them in moist long fiber sphagnum moss or else in some very loose mix like coco-chips or large size perlite. or even crushed peanut shells..whatever you have on hand. they should root and then you can transfer them in final mix/pot - you'll have much better results with fresh cuttings.

    if mother plants recover by then, you can pot cuttings with mother-plant together : 2 vines look better then single one, of course, but might need a larger pot.

    the left-over plants might recover too, but they need to be kept watered properly: not too moist not ever dry. in good humidity and not too hot. out of the sun too, of course. what are your day/night temps and humidity?

  • 7 years ago

    This is so strange - I wrote an extremely long reply and a third of it is showing! This happened last week too...I wonder what is going on!

  • 7 years ago

    I just posted in yr thread about M. adansonii and it won't submit with pics.

    kept telling me my post was exceeding the limit..so pic size was somehow included.

    once I deleted the pic it posted.

    did u have pics?

  • 7 years ago

    Taylor, if your reply was a cut&paste from a Word document, and had an emoji in the text body, it's possible that it was cut off right at the emoji, as this site doesn't seem to support such graphics.

  • 7 years ago

    At current prices you probably have a thousand or two or three worth of variegated Monstera. Take care of them!

  • 7 years ago

    The bottom right photo is Rhaphidophora tetrasperma.

  • 7 years ago

    @woodnative what is your email address I have a question about a variegated monstera? Mine is tmckeown@uark.edu

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