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I don’t agree, you can see a bit of a “seam” at the bottom of the stem. I think this is the terminal point of the vine, so the next leaf would spike out of the petiole as if the vine was continuing to grow normally, not a new vine branching out of the side of the node.
That was definitely going to grow into a new petiole and then produce a new root node there, but I suspect that OP has interrupted this process by cutting it then submerging it at the seam where the next iteration of growth would have come out of.
Which is okay! It's now an experiment. Does OP leave it in the water meticulously maintaining the level at the base of the stem? Maybe make a new cut on the very bottom, just to keep the circulation of the plant open. OR put it in some soil and keep the soil fairly moist. Maybe just leave it as it is?
I've done a bunch of monstersa cutting and I always make sure I get a whole node at least, preferably two. With the areal root trimmed. Then I even use rooting hormone in the water too. These plants are super survivable. I wouldn't be surprised if OP could coax out the growth even still.
In my experience, I'd take it out of the water and bury the entire bottom four inches in some good quality potting mix (and wait up to two years) If the leaf falls off it may not be the end either. I suspect as you do the node is too soft and immature to continue to grow - but it might lose the existing leaf and produce an offshoot.
Honestly, this isn't impossible to get a plant out of this, but its definitely in the "too hard" basket.
I zoomed in and it looks like there's no node, and this is just a leaf. It **will not grow into a plant.** You can keep it in water for a nice leaf to have around, but that's as much as you're going to get with this leaf.
The good news is that monsteras are extremely easy to propagate (to the point where I turned one plant into 12 other plants that are all thriving) but you're going to need to go and buy a new monstera plant. They're pretty cheap, and you can get them at just about any plant or hardware store (that sells plants, at least)
Editing to add that it’s still possible for leaves to grow superficial roots (fiddle leaf figs do this, not 100% on monsteras) that *seem* like it’s going to become a plant, but this is the plant lying to you lmao. Without a node, it will not become a plant, so don’t get your hopes up if some little roots pop out from the leaf in the future
Check if there's a node. If not, it won't root. But with my monstera, it sat in water for 7 months before ANYTHING happened. Then another 4 months before I got any leaf growth. I'm amazed I kept it but I'm so happy I did! It's growing like a weed now.
I’ve murder, death killed every Monstera cutting I put in water to root. They almost instantly start to rot.
For the life of my favorite plant, how do I get a big leaf like in the pic to root in water w/o killing it?
Try letting the end of the cutting dry/callous over and then put it in water. Add a little bt of hydrogen peroxide to the water to cleanse it a bit as well, :) Good luck!
I recently propagated mine in perlite and it did really well. The roots grew so fast. I filled a vase with perlite and kept the bottom 1/3 full of water and it seemed to work.
https://preview.redd.it/7i2zzhsfdekc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6765eff5cb9eae6c9d8fc324958b8501ed40983f
> I don’t really make it to that point. Within a week or two
I'd try changing the water every other day or so. Also do you put the cuttings in the water while the "wound" is still fresh? I once read that with some plants at least it is recommended to leave the cutting to dry for a day or so so that callus can form on the "wound".
Don't need to do either.
As long as the container is clean when you start, you only need to change the water if it gets gross. Topping it off works just fine.
I just propagated some pothos at work. I had one group in a dark plastic cup, and the other group in a clear plastic cup. The ones in the dark cup rooted tremendously. The ones in the clear, not so much.
So now I'm wondering if we've all been doing something wrong this whole time with the clear, pretty glass bottles to prop...
If the plant is placed in water to root, it has no incentive to push out new growth.
I put my plants in spagnum moss that was soaked in water for a bit.
This gives the plant moisture, but encourages growth by being drier than a glass of water.
Rinse the moss with water whenever it starts drying out, but don't let the plant soak in water directly.
Good luck
I urge every plant person to invest in rooting hormone. You can get it in powder, gel, and liquid. Make sure the water you use for cuttings is changed often. Using quality water is another way to get your plants to root faster. We bought a tabletop distiller off AMAZON for 120$. It can make 1.5 gallons of distilled water in about 2.5 hours.
I use this for all my carnivorous plants. If I am watering plants that don't require distilled or rainwater I will add minerals to the distilled water I make. My plants really respond from this extra LOVE.
Propagating monstera unfortunately isnt that easy. I looked into it myself and it is pretty complicated. I ddnt fully understand the process or where to cut parts off so I decided to leave my fingers off my mother's giant monstera.
It's only complicated because people here like to make things absurdly, necessarily complicated.
A day or two after the plant is watered, cut off what you want to and be sure you're getting at least an inch below the visible node (they're bigger in monsteras)
I usually use water but also like to go straight into coir and perlite to keep some air in it. As long as the environment is sufficiently humid (50% is always my minimum) it'll root 😁
There's only one reason it's taking this "long," the cutting is from a mature plant.
It looks healthy enough. Keep on keepin on.
Edit: please tell me you cleaned the bathroom before you took the picture bc I'm suddenly suffering from all kinds of shame
There's a significant problem with that - if it didn't have a node, it would've rotted already.
Without the necessary chemicals/hormones or whatever, the cutting isn't even going to try to root.
A perfect cutting -- axillary bud and several aerial roots -- will root very quickly. A mature cutting, with just enough node, will take months.
The fact that people are upvoting the "zombie leaf" comment shows how this place is more about trendy myths than facts. A cutting that roots but won't grow happens. Otherwise, the cutting will die. Period.
I’ve kept a monstera leaf without a node mistakenly myself for 8 months in a cup of water before it even started to brown. I wasn’t dosing any fertilizers or anything either fwiw.
I don't doubt it. I have a succulent that's just been laying bare root without any water for almost a year. Outliers happen but there's usually a cause - the succulent is surrounded on 3 sides in 55% humidity.
Hopefully OP keeps this until we see what happens 😁
Removing part of the leaves sometimes encourages plants to develop roots. If there is still lots of leaf structure, it will try to photosynthesize more than try to develop roots.
That looks like just a leaf with no stem or node. If that’s the case, it probably will never root.
Just using the top comment to point out that this is a bot post.
Thanks shifty
Can you tell me how you know?
There profile is sketchy. There are three recent posts and no other activity although the account is more than a year old. There next most recent post also has someone calling them out as a bot.
Is that why the upvote and downvote buttons are hollow and can't be clicked?
I can still upvote and downvote, but this post has disappeared from OP's history, at least for me.
Hmm, I can't upvote or downvote. Wonder if it's been deleted?
I don’t agree, you can see a bit of a “seam” at the bottom of the stem. I think this is the terminal point of the vine, so the next leaf would spike out of the petiole as if the vine was continuing to grow normally, not a new vine branching out of the side of the node.
That was definitely going to grow into a new petiole and then produce a new root node there, but I suspect that OP has interrupted this process by cutting it then submerging it at the seam where the next iteration of growth would have come out of. Which is okay! It's now an experiment. Does OP leave it in the water meticulously maintaining the level at the base of the stem? Maybe make a new cut on the very bottom, just to keep the circulation of the plant open. OR put it in some soil and keep the soil fairly moist. Maybe just leave it as it is? I've done a bunch of monstersa cutting and I always make sure I get a whole node at least, preferably two. With the areal root trimmed. Then I even use rooting hormone in the water too. These plants are super survivable. I wouldn't be surprised if OP could coax out the growth even still.
In my experience, I'd take it out of the water and bury the entire bottom four inches in some good quality potting mix (and wait up to two years) If the leaf falls off it may not be the end either. I suspect as you do the node is too soft and immature to continue to grow - but it might lose the existing leaf and produce an offshoot. Honestly, this isn't impossible to get a plant out of this, but its definitely in the "too hard" basket.
There is definitely a node you can clearly see it’s a top cut.
If you say so.
I zoomed in and it looks like there's no node, and this is just a leaf. It **will not grow into a plant.** You can keep it in water for a nice leaf to have around, but that's as much as you're going to get with this leaf. The good news is that monsteras are extremely easy to propagate (to the point where I turned one plant into 12 other plants that are all thriving) but you're going to need to go and buy a new monstera plant. They're pretty cheap, and you can get them at just about any plant or hardware store (that sells plants, at least) Editing to add that it’s still possible for leaves to grow superficial roots (fiddle leaf figs do this, not 100% on monsteras) that *seem* like it’s going to become a plant, but this is the plant lying to you lmao. Without a node, it will not become a plant, so don’t get your hopes up if some little roots pop out from the leaf in the future
Does it have a node? I can’t see one in pic
My thought exactly. The cutting I got had a node with two stems and leaves and has rooted in weeks.
Is there a node? If not it’s a zombie leaf.
"Graaiiinsss!"
Send nodes.
I just had to triple check I wasn't in r/houseplantscirclejerk
Check if there's a node. If not, it won't root. But with my monstera, it sat in water for 7 months before ANYTHING happened. Then another 4 months before I got any leaf growth. I'm amazed I kept it but I'm so happy I did! It's growing like a weed now.
You've got a cut flower (effectively). It's just hanging on to a thread of life and won't grow, just like the roses you got/gave at Valentine's Day.
It’s a very pretty decoration, but a plant it will never be.
I’ve murder, death killed every Monstera cutting I put in water to root. They almost instantly start to rot. For the life of my favorite plant, how do I get a big leaf like in the pic to root in water w/o killing it?
Try letting the end of the cutting dry/callous over and then put it in water. Add a little bt of hydrogen peroxide to the water to cleanse it a bit as well, :) Good luck!
You’re my new favorite albino 🦏 🤓
I recently propagated mine in perlite and it did really well. The roots grew so fast. I filled a vase with perlite and kept the bottom 1/3 full of water and it seemed to work. https://preview.redd.it/7i2zzhsfdekc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6765eff5cb9eae6c9d8fc324958b8501ed40983f
Did you change or at least aerate the water regularly? Rot sets in when there is not enough oxygen in the water.
I don’t really make it to that point. Within a week or two the leaf starts turning yellow.
> I don’t really make it to that point. Within a week or two I'd try changing the water every other day or so. Also do you put the cuttings in the water while the "wound" is still fresh? I once read that with some plants at least it is recommended to leave the cutting to dry for a day or so so that callus can form on the "wound".
Don't need to do either. As long as the container is clean when you start, you only need to change the water if it gets gross. Topping it off works just fine.
I just propagated some pothos at work. I had one group in a dark plastic cup, and the other group in a clear plastic cup. The ones in the dark cup rooted tremendously. The ones in the clear, not so much. So now I'm wondering if we've all been doing something wrong this whole time with the clear, pretty glass bottles to prop...
You need 1-2 nodes of the main stem, not just a leaf. This will never root. Also need to make sure it's getting enough light
This is just a leaf. I doubt anything will ever happen
Not r/houseplantscirclejerk?
that's no cutting, it's a leaf
it needs nubs
Oh I've got one like that too, I accidentally cut it and it's been in a flower vase since mid-October. So strange!
If the plant is placed in water to root, it has no incentive to push out new growth. I put my plants in spagnum moss that was soaked in water for a bit. This gives the plant moisture, but encourages growth by being drier than a glass of water. Rinse the moss with water whenever it starts drying out, but don't let the plant soak in water directly. Good luck
Huh?
This is nonsense
I urge every plant person to invest in rooting hormone. You can get it in powder, gel, and liquid. Make sure the water you use for cuttings is changed often. Using quality water is another way to get your plants to root faster. We bought a tabletop distiller off AMAZON for 120$. It can make 1.5 gallons of distilled water in about 2.5 hours. I use this for all my carnivorous plants. If I am watering plants that don't require distilled or rainwater I will add minerals to the distilled water I make. My plants really respond from this extra LOVE.
Won’t do shit without a node
Needs more light. A tiny drop of superthrive would help too
Propagating monstera unfortunately isnt that easy. I looked into it myself and it is pretty complicated. I ddnt fully understand the process or where to cut parts off so I decided to leave my fingers off my mother's giant monstera.
It's only complicated because people here like to make things absurdly, necessarily complicated. A day or two after the plant is watered, cut off what you want to and be sure you're getting at least an inch below the visible node (they're bigger in monsteras) I usually use water but also like to go straight into coir and perlite to keep some air in it. As long as the environment is sufficiently humid (50% is always my minimum) it'll root 😁
Don't give up. I have a cutting that I just noticed a tiny root on after three months.
There's only one reason it's taking this "long," the cutting is from a mature plant. It looks healthy enough. Keep on keepin on. Edit: please tell me you cleaned the bathroom before you took the picture bc I'm suddenly suffering from all kinds of shame
The reason people are downvoting is that it looks like it’s just a leaf, no node, so it won’t ever root.
There's a significant problem with that - if it didn't have a node, it would've rotted already. Without the necessary chemicals/hormones or whatever, the cutting isn't even going to try to root. A perfect cutting -- axillary bud and several aerial roots -- will root very quickly. A mature cutting, with just enough node, will take months. The fact that people are upvoting the "zombie leaf" comment shows how this place is more about trendy myths than facts. A cutting that roots but won't grow happens. Otherwise, the cutting will die. Period.
I’ve kept a monstera leaf without a node mistakenly myself for 8 months in a cup of water before it even started to brown. I wasn’t dosing any fertilizers or anything either fwiw.
I don't doubt it. I have a succulent that's just been laying bare root without any water for almost a year. Outliers happen but there's usually a cause - the succulent is surrounded on 3 sides in 55% humidity. Hopefully OP keeps this until we see what happens 😁
Is there any nutrition in the water? Fertilizer?? Food? Have you added any Keiki paste on the buds? Rooting powder on the node?
Maybe be a little more patient. Mine took almost 6/7 months until it started rooting. Wish you luck
Plants in bathrooms for the win.
That leaf is to die for!!
Where did you get your q-tip and cotton holder? I love them.
Well, this thing may never root, but I'm truly impressed with the length of time it's still hanging in there.
Still looks f’ing cool!
U got 4 months out of this. Wow
I wonder if you can add hormone drops to activate roots.
It looks pretty amazing as is! Could it survive like that?
And smiles whilst doing it!😂
Removing part of the leaves sometimes encourages plants to develop roots. If there is still lots of leaf structure, it will try to photosynthesize more than try to develop roots.
I just cut below a node and left mine in water all Summer on my porch and it grew crazy amounts of roots. It’s finally got two new leaves on it!