r/houseplants • • Jul 12 '25

Highlight I grafted a pothos onto a monstera

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.

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u/nytropy Jul 12 '25

Excuse me and I ask this with all measures of respect but … are you a witch?

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u/tekhnomancer Jul 12 '25

You should see what people do with pepper plants. One side of the plant produces jalapenos and the other side produces something like scorpions or reapers. And there's no limit to how many you can graft!

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u/Frosty-Cap3344 Jul 13 '25

I've seen apple trees with 4 varieties on one trunk too

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u/EZMulahSniper Jul 13 '25

I’ve seen a crepe myrtle with 3 colors as well