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title: "Hello fellow plant lovers! I’d love your advice… This is my first…"
description: "Hello fellow plant lovers! I’d love your advice… This is my first Monstera. I feel like I could be doing better with it, but I’m not sure how. It seems to be…"
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published: "2024-07-11T01:34:41.028856Z"
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# Hello fellow plant lovers! I’d love your advice… This is my first…

_Posted by PhantomPhilodendron on 2024-07-11_

Hello fellow plant lovers! I’d love your advice…

This is my first Monstera. I feel like I could be doing better with it, but I’m not sure how.

It seems to be growing well but the leaves aren’t perforating all that much. I heard that you should have something for it to grow up like a moss pole. I’ve also heard that you should only have one “plant” in a pot, and even though I bought this as a single plant, it looks like there may be more than one.

I’d love your input on how to keep her thriving.

P.s. I understand why people are obsessed with them because I’m definitely on my way lol.

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## 8 comments

### Lindsey commented on 2024-07-11

She looks pretty happy all in all! 👏🏼 if you want more fenestrations in the leaves, more light is your anecdote.

A pole to help her climb is ideal… or else she’ll start to crawl.

Regarding one plant per pot- it just depends on your aesthetic preference. Not necessary. I have around four big nodes in mine. 🌿

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#### PhantomPhilodendron replied on 2024-07-11

Thank you so much 💚 that’s so great to hear. Your monstera is gorgeous! The leaves look so perfect. I’ll be sure to give mine some more light if it can look like that🌿

### GBaby commented on 2024-07-11

No reason to change what you’re doing. She looks great. More light=more fenstrations. As far as the multiple offshoots goes that’s a good thing in my book. Makes a plant look more full. I still consider it one plant. Although you can put two different kinds of plants in one pot as long as they’re companion plants, buts that’s another topic

#### PhantomPhilodendron replied on 2024-07-11

Thank you! I’ll be sure to give her some more light — I’d love to get more fenstrations. I agree, it looks full with the multiple offshoots and I love that.

### MoMo commented on 2024-07-11

Totally agree with more light! My monstera has responded well to some light pruning of the smaller sucker leaves, and it also loves fertilizer.

#### PhantomPhilodendron replied on 2024-07-11

Thank you! I will give her some more light. I didn’t realize they grow suckers!

#### Cait2k3 replied on 2024-07-11

What is a sucker leaf?? Pls explain I new

#### MoMo replied on 2024-07-13

Not sure I’m using the technical term here. I mean the small leaves at the bottom that never grow any bigger and don’t get fenestrations.

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