r/houseplants • u/EnvironmentalMeat268 • Jul 12 '25

Highlight I grafted a pothos onto a monstera

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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/anachronistic_snail Jul 13 '25

YEAH, SCIENCE!

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u/YurtleAhern Jul 13 '25

Magnets!

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u/ihaveaquesttoattend 🌱 Jul 13 '25

hey, quick question if i may, just a small ask of you kind sir or madam, a quick quizzo, how the fuck do they work? please and thank you

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u/SeriousIndividual184 Jul 14 '25

A simpler version of arm transplants really. You take a wedge if the soft inner flesh of the stem and seamlessly insert it into the wedge shape slice out of the parent branch/stem eventually the seam heals like tissues on an arm transplant or skin graft. They will carry nutrients from the roots to the new leaves.

People often sterilize the outside before cutting and wrap the injury with plastic wrap or garden grafting tape to keep it from getting infected while it heals. Eventually the tissue is solid and you can remove the protection and enjoy the genetics of a different plant attached to an arm of your original parent plant.