How often should you really water a monstera?
Forget the weekly schedule. Read the soil, the leaves and the season instead, and your monstera will tell you when it is thirsty.
The question we hear most at the counter is how often. The honest answer is: it depends on your room, and a calendar cannot see your room. A finger in the soil can.
Check the top five centimetres
Push a finger into the soil up to the second knuckle. If it feels dry at the tip, water. If it is still cool and slightly damp, wait two or three days and check again.
Water deeply, then let it drain
Pour slowly until water runs out of the drainage hole, then leave the pot in the sink for ten minutes. Never let it stand in a full saucer.
- Summer, bright room: roughly every 7 to 10 days.
- Winter, heating on: every 2 to 3 weeks.
- Yellow lower leaves usually mean too much water, not too little.
Most monsteras that come back to our plant doctor were loved a little too much with the watering can.Tomás, greenhouse lead
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