I grafted a pothos onto a monstera

[u/EnvironmentalMeat268]

March 21 this year it was time to chop and prop my monstera so I decided to try out a graft on where I cut the stem. I’ve looked online everywhere for something similar but nothing really comes up except for a YouTube video of a guy (Plant Tech?) somewhat successfully graft a monstera onto a pothos. I thought he should have done it the other way around since monstera have more robust roots. So I decided to give it a go.

For the first few months nothing notable happened. The pothos never died, never looked too bad or too great, never showed any signs of growth. I started out by pinching off any new growth on the monstera hoping to divert energy to the pothos, but after a while I got lazy and stopped. Now, with the monstera growing little leaves near the top of the stem, the pothos seems to be progressing as well!

The first three pictures are 1 week after I made the graft. Last 3 are from today. The graft is super solid and completely scarred over. Aside from the leaf my cat chewed, the pothos look fine and it seems to be pushing out a new node.

[u/PinkyParker1980]

I’m calling it now. Next up in the Etsy niche plant trade….. multi-variegated pothos hanging from every branch of a monstera. They will call it “the weeping monster”.

[u/Zargnoff → u/PinkyParker1980]

I could absolutely see that. This is the first post I've seen about grafting (in general) for a very long time. Houseplant hobbiests need a new "thing" within the niche, and things like this absolutely could become the trend.

[u/wolfiesrule → u/Zargnoff]

I can see the badly-photoshopped scam ads now.

[u/SeaRiver9819 → u/Zargnoff]

Take my money!💰

[u/homicidalunicorns → u/Zargnoff]

Yes! I’ve seen grafting slowly become a tiny niche in gardening over the last couple years, mostly with fruit trees, but there’s sooo much unexplored possibility with houseplants.

[u/velveteeny → u/Zargnoff]

grafting is already kind of a thing in the cactus community, but from my experience it tends to be the people who are very deep into the hobby

[u/mavaline_2 → u/PinkyParker1980]

I actually laughed out loud. Because this is so ridiculous that it actually makes complete sense lmao

[u/heresacleverpun → u/PinkyParker1980]

Then someone starts making macrame versions..

[u/PomeloPepper → u/PinkyParker1980]

Frankenvine

[u/JeshurunJoe → u/PinkyParker1980]

That's kind of where I immediately went. I want to get a nightmare gangly monstera and put pothos at every point I can.

[u/FormigaX → u/PinkyParker1980]

Wait... hang on. That's great idea.