Avoid direct sunlight as this can cause leaf scorch! Provide your monstera with lots of bright, indirect sunlight, either from a bright window or a grow light that you leave on for at least 8 hours per day. The best way to encourage your monstera plant to grow strong and healthy aerial roots is to take good care of the plant overall. If you want your monstera to climb, you’ll also need to train the aerial roots and make sure they’re strong enough to support the plant as it grows up your moss pole or trellis. If you decide to keep your monstera’s aerial roots, it’s best to keep them healthy, because this will benefit the overall health of the plant.
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Note: If you do decide to remove your monstera’s aerial roots, make sure you use sharp, sterilized shears so you don’t accidentally infect your plant with harmful bacteria or fungus! How to Care for Monstera Aerial Roots But if you want a massive, striking monstera that commands attention in your space, you may want to leave the aerial roots intact. If you want your plant to stay small and manageable, that might be fine. If you don’t like how the aerial roots look, you can actually prune them off and it won’t hurt the plant per se however, removing the aerial roots may prevent your plant from growing larger leaves. Monstera roots also aid the plant in absorbing moisture from the air and surfaces they adhere to, though the underground roots are primarily responsible for water and nutrient uptake. Climbing, vining plants like these use aerial roots to affix to other surfaces.Įven potted monsteras naturally want to climb, and as your indoor monstera grows, you may notice it either growing wide and looking very messy with aerial roots hanging out all over the place, or you might see it try to climb nearby surfaces such as walls or furniture. In the wild, monsteras are climbing plants and typically climb up trees, boulders, or even cliffs.
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