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title: "Just adopted this giant unwanted monstera from the high school. It’s…"
description: "Just adopted this giant unwanted monstera from the high school. It’s so gangly that it can’t stand on its own. What do I do?"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/UeI834LBSHCioL8MwLcQxA/qUvwNBmXA2GEXO61a2FK0D"
community: "Monstera Maniacs"
author: "Dash"
published: "2026-06-23T04:48:19.888111Z"
language: "en"
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# Just adopted this giant unwanted monstera from the high school. It’s…

_Posted by Dash on 2026-06-23_

Just adopted this giant unwanted monstera from the high school. It’s so gangly that it can’t stand on its own. What do I do?

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## 3 comments

### Mikimoto commented on 2026-06-23

Me personally id chop it where the node/aerial root for the each leaf is, put them water and wait for it to get a good root system then pot it back up into soil. They will form new growth points. If u want more plants you could chop up the nodes along the stem and try to propagate those so they could become their own plants. But I feel like that would just end up taking too much space😭

### Nikiller commented on 2026-06-23

Haircut time! Long stretching out leaves means it’s been reaching for light and that doesn’t fix itself, the only way to get a denser more sturdy plant is to grow new. I’ve seen where someone cut every leaf off their monstera, but because it was heavily rooted and on a moss pole, it was able to shoot 15 new leaves instead of the original 10 or so. I just spent an hour or so the other night mutilating 4 monstera to separate them from their root bound pot and put them all in their own and they’ve all been much happier for it even though they lost a lot of their root mass.

### Dash commented on 2026-07-12

Thank you both!

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