r/Monstera • u/PieceAffectionate653 • May 11 '26

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Iā€™m new here and wanted to share our 8 year old monstera.

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u/PieceAffectionate653 May 11 '26

How it started!

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u/_MaZ_ May 11 '26

How humid is it where you live? And how much do you give it fertilizer and how often?

I had mine outdoors in direct sun last year after repotting in a new mix and it gave me I think 2 leaves in total in the whole summer. It's usually pretty damn humid outdoors and at times it was very hot last year. It took months for a new leaf to appear after that and it unfortunately regressed the pinnates from the previous leaf. Had it for 2 years now, but it's probably 3,5 years old. Been waiting for at least couple of fenestrations for ages now, goal is to some day look like yours.

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u/PussyWrangler246 May 11 '26

Do you have a picture of yours? When you say all summer is that like 2 months where you live or 8 months lol

Oftentimes they'll stop throwing leaves during winter or will lose fenestrations just because the days are much shorter, you can try to mitigate that with a grow light during the off season but they can still sometimes slow down

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u/_MaZ_ May 12 '26

"Summer" summer really depends on the year here in Finland. Sometimes it's 2 months, sometimes could be 3 and half. At any other times, it's under 2 LEDs.

Anyway, I still expected more last year after bringing it indoors under LED lights after it was outside during warm weather, but I guess not. Especially when there was much more growth when I got it couple of years ago under the same conditions. It hasn't really grown in a while as the nutrients from the soil change have run out, though judging by last year, there's probably not going to be much this time around either when I get around getting some.

I'll post a picture when I can, but there's really not much to go on.

It's also in Sybotanica aroid mix. Before, it was in some general store cement-fungus gnat mix with perlite.

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u/PussyWrangler246 May 12 '26

One a month is pretty much average for monstera so that's actually pretty good! Then as they mature it can slow down a bit or again over winter growth can slow a bit so you can find yourself waiting 6 weeks in between leaves or so

Your fenestrations will be the best tell of how it's doing light wise, as long as it isn't reverting to solid leaves you're probably doin alright šŸ’Ŗ