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title: "I bought my monster Thai con from marketplace a month and a half ago…"
description: "I bought my monster Thai con from marketplace a month and a half ago and have watered her once; she’s on a decent lighted area but almost all the tips of the…"
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published: "2025-09-18T19:57:32.685103Z"
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# I bought my monster Thai con from marketplace a month and a half ago…

_Posted by aarzoo on 2025-09-18_

I bought my monster Thai con from marketplace a month and a half ago and have watered her once; she’s on a decent lighted area but almost all the tips of the leaves are browning and this leaf is yellowing. The pot is very large with no drainage so I feared overwatering, hence the only watered it once. Does this look like root rot or is the plant thirsty? Any advice helps!! Thank you.

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## 2 comments

### Tom commented on 2025-09-18

Looks like overwatering and poss part fungle, the paler bits on leaves are more susceptible to drying, and from burn from sun/ to intense light on it, as no drainage holes, best to repot with a good drainage mix or soil perlite coco choir, and if you have got some root crack sprinkle a tiny amount on the soil part the roots will sit on. Before repot be best to give it a loop warm shower, cover top of pot with bag, the when repotting remove top layer of soil, there also prefer distilled water rather than tap as there is a lot of chlorine they don’t like

#### Tom replied on 2025-09-18

I see it’s in a 40cm pot, that’s does sound a bit big, but you won’t know till you investigate the root ball size, they like to crawl and climb , but most pots round and square, a rectangular type of pot would help it branch along and up, I’ve still got mine in a round pot though , mite be worth adding a support when repotting

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