FINALLY after 30 min of searching the internet I found your very clear and concise video! It’s insane how hard it is just to find actually clear instructions about where the growth nodes actually are and where exactly you should cut in relation to them. Thank you so so much!!

@karenpast

5 ай бұрын

So glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thank you for your video! It was direct and specific to pruning. Some of these other videos were WAY too long and don't even get to the fine details of how to prune. This was very helpful.

Thank you SO MUCH! I was searching for a clear, simple tutorial and this was exactly it.

@karenpast

Ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

THANK YOU! I honestly just needs to prune off the old leaves/broken leaves after a friend knocked the plant over. everyone else's videos discuss propagating and I was like "I dont need to propagate, just PRUNE" I thought I was killing my plant by cutting at the base of the leaves -- this video made me feel so much better!

@karenpast

10 ай бұрын

Oh yay! Glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thank you for being so detailed and the close ups are greatly appreciated

That was so simple and the clearest explanation of pruning I’ve seen so far here. Thank you so much! ♥️

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 💕🪴

Thanks for taking the time to make this clip. I was not sure where to make the cut and you cleared this up nicely.

@portlandgoose4727

Жыл бұрын

Pun intended?

I've just gotten my first Monstera so I had no idea how to prune or cut off the damaged leaves. This was what I needed.

Thank YOU so MUCH! I accidentally left my monstera on my super sunny deck for just one day and I have burns! 😭 This video is so helpful. ❤

THANK YOU!! I just rescued one with all burned leaves😮 wasn't sure where to cut! Difficult to find a video about this, they hurriedly snip without showing exactly where!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! Good luck with your rehab! 🪴

@tcwd3760

10 ай бұрын

@@karenpast Only 1 mo? From 2 stalks trimmed, each now have 4 and 5 perforated leaves! And each were only $2.50 each!

Thank you so much for the simplistic explanation! This has really helped💚

This video was exactly what I was trying to find out! Thank you so much for explaining how these leaves grow out of one another and exactly where to cut to prevent damaging future leaves. 🪴🪴plus the difference in what heat and cold damage look and feel like. All in under 5 minutes!! Thanks again!!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

You’re so welcome! 🪴💕

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!❤️ This is exactly what I need, and what I’ve been looking for! Now off I go to saving my monteras! 😁

@karenpast

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thank you so much for addressing the signs of heat and cold damage! I had some cold damage, on the edge of a new light green leaf, which I was trying to identify but there weren't many informative videos, which were relatively long in run time. You told me everything I need to know in less than 5 minutes! You're awesome! Thanks again, so very much!

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words! Glad I could help!

Short and sweet and extremely helpful. Thanks!

Omg thank you for getting straight to the point but still including important details ❤️

I think this is why my monstera has gotten so leggy, I’ve been cutting off future growth when pruning so it now has ALOT of gaps. It’s putting out new leaves weekly, usually 2-4 at a time & it’s color is good so hopefully if I just follow these tips going forward it will bush out! Thank you for sharing this! 🪴💚

Wow so easy, when you said It’s hard to mess it up I laughed because I did haha.. that’s all I needed to know short and to the point thanks a lot❤

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

We’ve all made mistakes. :) it’s how we learn. 💕🪴 glad this video was helpful!

Thanks, Karen. Your instructions were clear and helpful.

@karenpast

Күн бұрын

You’re very welcome!

No I didn’t know this and this is great advice thank you so much. A great explanation. I have a few of these plants and I have been cutting any damaged leaves off way too low! Yay thank you than you !

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful! 💕🪴

Great information. I have a few brown ish leaves that I need to cut but I hesitated. Now I can get them off properly. Thanks!

This was perfect thank you! I just grabbed one of these on the discount cart in Costco. She was really banged up but my daughter and I figured we can save her!

Thank you so much for a video that leaves no questions. I just purchased my first monstera. It was half price at Walmart and looking pretty rough. I've been putting off pruning for a week now out of fear of ruining it and now I can do it today. 😁

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

So happy it was helpful! 💕🪴

Hey thanks from Tampa-St Pete. I'm going out this morning to have a visit with my monstera!

@karenpast

6 ай бұрын

Hey there! Love your area! We have a place on St Pete Beach! It’s our home away from home. ❤

Extremely helpful! Thank u!

Thank you for this video. I’m going to have to prune my plant later today, and your video was quite helpful.

Thanks, so much, for this! I think I can prune and propagate my monstera with more confidence now.

@karenpast

6 ай бұрын

So glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thanks, it's really helpful advice :)

This was really helpful! Thank you very much!

Thanks, really well explained ❤!

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed.

@karenpast

5 ай бұрын

So glad I could help! 🪴

This is very helpful! Thanks for showing us!

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

You’re not so shabby with your channel too!!! 💕

This was great and helpful. Thank you 😊

@karenpast

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thanks so much for doing this video. I've been trying to find something just like this for over a week! I've been on FB plant groups and KZread and found nothing helpful until your video. I am a new plant mom and didn't know exactly where to cut my deliciosa (my favorite plant that I own) without hurting her long term! Now I feel comfortable to snip off the area that needs it! Thanks, again!

@karenpast

10 ай бұрын

Oh! Yay!! Glad it was helpful!

This was so informative!! Thank you!

@karenpast

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thank you so much I really appreciate you uploaded this. X

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🪴

Thank you for sharing…a few of my monstera leaves were sunburned and this was helpful

This is amazing!! Thank you!!!

Thank you! Great video!

@karenpast

6 ай бұрын

You are very welcome! 🪴

Thanks a million! I need to prune mine and have no idea where to start.🙂

Thank you sooo much for this video!!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Glad it could help!

Thanks! I didn't know this before!

Thank you, great to the point video.

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

OMG thanks so much, I didn't know that - and I just bought my first baby monstera :) glad I found your video ❤

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found it too!! :)

Glad I found this video thank you!

@karenpast

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks. I didn’t know that, thanks for the video!

Thank you, this helped me so much

Thank you! This is exactly the video I needed to see! I can cut my damaged leaf stem with confidence now!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

You’ve got this! :) glad I could help. 🪴

Thanks for this! ❤️

@karenpast

3 ай бұрын

You're so welcome! 🪴

FABULOUS!!!

Thx for this detailed vid.

The best video ever i see thanks for your information

@karenpast

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🪴

I moved back in July and during the half hour my plants were in my car my monstera got burnt on a lot of its leaves. I was hoping it'd get better without me cutting off its beautiful large leaves that I've grown so proud of but I realized that though my plant wasn't "acting" sick her growth rate was reduced with the damaged leaves. I'm glad I found this video, I did cut off the leaves exactly as you showed and I'm confident she'll be her beautiful bushy self again in no time. She was a self bought mother's day gift from my at the time 8 month old daughter. I got a 8 pack of random live plants off Amazon with no labels and she was one of the ones that flourished. Out of the 8 I only have 2 of them left for to my lack of knowledge about the plants. They were all only about 4 inches in height and I had no idea I even had a monstera till the holes started assisting in her leaves. At first I thought I somehow messed up but upon closer inspection I realized they were naturally forming and was finally able to identify her. The other one is what I call my Arrowhead plant and then I had an asparagus fern that was amazing but she sadly did not make the car ride from Arizona up to Minnesota. It was just too dry in the car for her to last the 4 days of the trip. My other 2 pacts in that car ride were my spider plants (originaly came ss one plant but turned into twins) and I had my aunt look after them but she accidently over watered and they got root rot so my monstera and my Arrowhead mean a lot to me. Their the only plants I've kept alive over 3 years so far. My Arrowhead also Walmart came close to dying but mostly because my cats decided she made a comfortable bed and broke her stems to nubs. I just kept watering her even though I thought it was a lost cause and new stems and leaves are coming out of the old trunk and even the soil and they're growing pretty fast. Sorry for the long comment, I just really found a passion in my plants and I feel pride in how I've been able to grow them with basically no knowledge on their care from little 4 inch sprouts that was barely even recognizable from the beautys they grew into. I've had many plants in the past before and on average they lasted about a month before withering and dying

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

I love this! My favorite thing to tell plant parents is, don’t think of it as killing or losing a plant, think if it as a lesson. We all learn from our plant parent mistakes. I’m glad your monstera is doing well!

Thanks. Informative and to the point :)

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

💕🪴 glad it was helpful!

Hugely helpful, thabj you

Great tip. Thanks

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Marlene!

Thank you so much!!!

Great video and very informative,

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch!!

Thank you for this

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome. 💕🪴

Thank you! I hope you share more tips about Monsteras.

@karenpast

8 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome!

Great information thanks

Thank for ur share. Its really heplfull

just picked up a huge one from home depot that needs some TLC, this is very helpful!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

So glad it’s helpful! Enjoy your new baby!

thank you!

TY!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome! 💕🪴

Thanks

Thank u! 💚

Thankyou

Thank you very much for this video. I'm late to indoor plants, and I purchased a sad Monstera with twisted - sad leaves. Your video will help me to cut her back to hopefully give her a fresh start🤞🪴

@karenpast

7 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome! Good luck on your plant rehab.

Thank you so so much. My monstera caught a rust fungus infection and I had to hack the poor girl. This was very clear and easy to follow.

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it could help!

I'm so happy I found you! Great info! Can you cut down the small leaves that didn't fenestrate when pruning? Thanks!

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

It’s personal preference. I leave my immature leaves to keep the plant looking full and to help with photosynthesis. The more green on a plant, the more natural food it creates. If you do choose to cut those off, make sure you’re not cutting off your next new leaf.

Best video homegirl

Great info. My Monsterda is very leggy. How do I make it bushy like the one shown in this video?? And how do I keep it short

I am singing your praises!! Just as natalieayala1584, below said, NO ONE showed, in detail, how to prune a monstera. They would say 'You cut at the stem.' Where's the stem?!? Or they would say I'm going to cut here and they would be at the back of the plant with the camera in front back a ways. Really?! Still doesn't show me where to cut the plant. Thank you so much for your detailed instructions along with the camera close up so we can see what you're doing!! You know how to teach people. Thank you, thank you!!!

Thanks to you. I new to plants. Stuck swiss cheese plant in to sun while going away for weekend. If it weren't for ignorance I'd have no intelligence. Anyway, came back to poor burnt plant. Your video helped tremendously!! Thank you.

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Don’t be hard on yourself’! We’ve all made mistakes along the way! I have faith you can rehab it back… and when you do… it’s so satisfying. 💕🪴

Question: (I’m very new to gardening and I had 2 monsteras that were delivered to me, but left in the sun for a couple of hours and were burnt before I could bring them in the house). Everything I read said you needed to prune the damaged leaves. Little did I know you could cut the wrong leaf and stop the growth of future leaves (now I know thanks to your video!) My question is: since some of the leaves WERE cut (that would have gone on to produce more leaves in the future), how can I save my monsteras and get them to grow more leaves? Thank yo u for your help!

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

A plants will to survive is amazing! Be patient, you will eventually see new baby growth coming from the soil level. (Providing the roots are healthy). They will be baby leaves for a while, but eventually will size up leaf by leaf. It sets the plant back a little, but there is so much satisfaction in growing a plant from immature leaves to mature :) One positive is that when growing from baby to big, especially with Monsteras, you can train it from the start into the shape you want with additional pruning, adding a pole or strap training stems into the direction you prefer.

Is it okay to cut the littlest ones (probably the first leaves) all the way to the soil if the stems get broken from kids/husbands moving/running into it etc? 😬

how do you propagate if I can't find any nodes on my monstera? Mine somehow looks like this, when one stem comes out from another but no nodes.

Thank you!! I had to move my big plant closer to my heater vent over the winter because of new furniture and some of the leaves got soooo crispy. I just pruned her up and she’s looking gorgeous again! Question - can those burnt leaves you just cut off be propagated? Or does it need to be cut below the new leaf uterus (this is what I’ve decided to call it) in order to root?

@karenpast

25 күн бұрын

Hi! First off.. I love the term leaf uterus!! 😂 The leaves of monstera won’t root without a node. So basically you need to cut the stem below where the leaf is growing off the stem to propagate.

Great video! I have a question I’ve been having trouble finding the answer to. When I propagated my monstera cutting a year ago, I was a newbie to the hobby. I unfortunately allowed the water to cover the petiole on 2 out of 3 stems on my cutting. This unfortunately permanently damaged it to the point it will not produce any new leaves. The one stem where the petiole was not submerged is growing beautifully. My question is, can I cut off the two leaves not producing below their damaged petiole, and will my plant grow a new stem that will produce leaves?

@karenpast

11 ай бұрын

New stems come from nodes. Nodes are generally located where the leaf comes out of a stem.

Thank you so much for your video! I just realized what I did before was totally wrong! And as you instructed, I cut the damage leaf right before the new little nub. But it has been a month and it's still not growing. Am I going to lose it?

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

If you mistakenly cut off the next leaf that was hiding in the stem, the plant will generally regrow from the base. The new base growth will be juvenile.

Following now due to just finding this video. Im here for it 🤚🤚🤚

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Hi!! 👋 thanks for following! 💕🪴

Hi from the Philippines! I have my very first Monstera Deliciosa damaged as that with its leaves yellowing around the corners. May I ask once you prune it, how long does it take for the new leaf to develop? Btw thank you very much for the video! This truly helps!

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! It depends on conditions and if a new leaf is showing in the stem. But generally, within a few weeks a leaf should be showing as a ‘point’ on the stem.

What did you do about the smaller leaves growing from the soil? My monstera has a few that are damaged but I’m not sure whether to cut them or remove them from the soil completely.

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

My general rule of thumb is.. if the leaf is less than 50% damaged, I leave the leaf until there is new growth. Any healthy tissue is still creating food for the plant via photosynthesis. If you really can’t stand looking at them, cut them off at the soil level. Those small ones are the oldest on the plant. They were the starter, juvenile leaves that the larger leaf after came from.

Hi.. Great video! Does the area where u cut off the damaged leave turn black? I cut mine and its turned black after a few hours. Should I be worried?

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

The cut end will brown. It’s called callusing. Very similar to when we cut ourselves and a scab forms. As long as the brown/black does not travel down the stem, it will be fine.

Thank you for the video!! 💚 i just got a monstera about a month ago and some of the leaves got dark spots due to underwatering ( i was away for a while). If I don't prune the leaves that are damaged , will it affect the rest of the plant? xx

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

It will not… as long as those spots don’t continue to spread. That can be a root rot issue. Root rot can be from regular overwatering and dry rot root rot happens when very dehydrated roots are heavily watered.. the roots split when they quickly go from very dry & cracked to fully hydrated and they split. That allows Bacteria in and causes rot too. Keep a close eye on the dark spots.

@iliana221

Жыл бұрын

@@karenpast good to know, thank you sooo much!!!

Thanks, I bought a deliciosa on clearance that had some ripped damaged leaves. Not burnt or dried out or anything just not the prettiest leaves. Do you suggest cutting these off or leave them there? If I do cut the stems will the stems continue to grow or do they just become stubs?

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Hi! It’s up to you whether to cut damaged leaves off. The leaves won’t heal. The newest leaf is the only one that will create a new leaf from it. In this video I show the point of a new leaf living inside the last leaf. If the leaf you’re cutting is older, it will be just a stalk.

@MrSpike77777

Жыл бұрын

@@karenpast Okay, I think I'll take it slow and cut high on the stem to see if there's another leaf that might pop out. If not I guess can cut it back further to the main stem. Be a good learning experience to try and see what happens. Thank you for the advice and help.

Great video. I have a question. On my plant the newest leaf was damaged and fell off, so there are no new nodes for a new leaf to come out of. Is there a chance new leaves can grow from somewhere else?

@karenpast

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately new growth will only come from a node. Was it only a 1 leaf cutting? Or are there older leaves below? There are nodes where the petiole (what holds the leaf up) meets the stem. So if it had older leaves, new growth would come from the stem where the next leaf down is. Plants have a will to survive so if you lost the top growth, it will activate another growth point further down the stem. I hope that makes sense.

@Sportsgirl019

5 ай бұрын

@@karenpast thanks Karen. The plant was dehydrated so the new leaf basically died. Unfortunately like the plant in the video some of the other plants were sunburnt but otherwise the rest of the plant is ok

I was really looking forward to my first propagation. If I cut as close to the base as possible, will that negatively effect new growth?

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

It’s all dependent on nodes. If you leave a node on the mother plant, it will regrow from that node. Make sure your prop has an aerial root when you take your cut.

@amwright2550

Жыл бұрын

@@karenpast thank you! I appreciate you’re response!

Do I prune the new leaves on the bottom that are small and don’t have and fenagrarions yet?

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

It’s personal preference. I leave them on to create a fuller looking plant. I adore the heart shaped non- fenestrated leaves myself. :)

When pruning if there’s just a small sun spot can I cut out the spot or do I have to remove the entire leaf

@karenpast

7 ай бұрын

You can just cut the damage off if you want. Either way will work.

👋🏼 Hi! I'm new to plants so please excuse my ignorance. I cut my leaf but it turned a dark color at the top where I cut it. Is that normal?? I cut an arrowhead plant and it did the same thing. I can't find anything to tell me if I messed up or not 😢

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

Hiya! It is normal for the cut ends to turn black or brown. Think of it as a scar. If it continues up or down the stem, that’s an indication of rot. Make sure you use a clean cutting device before you cut and wipe with alcohol between cuts to reduce bacteria from going into the open cells. Hope that helps! & we welcome newbies around here 🪴😀

Do you have to put anything where you made the cut?

@karenpast

9 ай бұрын

Nope! It will callous on its own. That cut end will brown up and seal.

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Hello i am from india.... Can you make video in which you show...... From where cut the damage leaf (burn, black spot) so that new leaf could grow..... Please reply.....

Hi there i wanted to ask i jus got the monstera and unfortunately i broke a leaf now wanna know can u grow that leaf in water need help thankyou.

@karenpast

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! A leaf alone will not root. You would need a node on the stem.

My monsters has been bitten by some slugs and it doesn’t look appealing should I prune it ? Will it grow back ?

@karenpast

8 ай бұрын

It’s entirely up to you whether to prune it or not, that’s more of an aesthetic thing. If you prune correctly, it will continue to grow. Just be mindful of where the new leaves come from (the petiole of the last mature leaf)

Perfect 🇸🇦💋💋💋💋💋💋

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Can you be relatively aggressive with pruning like this?

@karenpast

Жыл бұрын

As aggressive as you wish. But remember that all healthy green on the plant is creating food via photosynthesis. The more green you remove, the longer it takes to bounce back.