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Monstera

Monstera deliciosaHouseplant

Monstera tolerates a wide range of light and watering, but in both the wrong direction is the same one: too little light and too much water. Leaves without splits are not a disease, they are a measure of light, and yellow leaves are usually not thirst but the opposite.

What it needs, briefly

Light
Bright, indirect light. Direct midday sun scorches the leaves; it survives a dim corner but produces small, unsplit leaves there.
Water
When the top 3-5 cm of the mix is dry. Markedly less in winter. Permanently wet soil is the number one way this plant dies.
Soil
An open, free-draining mix: bark and perlite. The pot must have a drainage hole.

If you can see this

The difference is in the second look

Answering one photo is the easy part. With Monstera, whether the advice worked only shows days later, which is why Farmagile comes back and asks.

  1. 1Today: upload the photo, get the finding and what to do about it.
  2. 2A few days later the app comes back and asks: did it get better?
  3. 3If it didn't: a second look from a new photo, free, this time knowing what the first one said. If it is still unclear, there is an agronomist behind it.

The misleading part of overwatering is that doing the right thing produces nothing in the short term. The yellow leaf does not turn green again and the plant looks the same for days. Whether it worked shows in the next new leaf, and that is weeks away. This is the plant where asking 'did it get better' earns its keep.

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This page is general information, written without seeing your plant. There are deliberately no product names and no doses: both depend on the plant, the region and the season, and a guessed dose on something you eat cannot be taken back.