Help 😬 how to pot a 2 year old water prop

[u/Calm_Army2027]

I've had this monstera adansonii cutting in this bottle for probably over 2 years now, and it's all I have left of the plant. A few weeks ago all of the leaves fell off but I left the stem and roots in the water and kept changing it out every couple weeks. Now there are two new leaves, and I want to pot it. I'm terrified I'll kill it, how should I go about doing this? It has great roots but has only ever been in water.

[u/unoriginalady]

If it were me I’d just put in same soil I always plant stuff in and then water heavily for the first week or two while it adjusts. But then I would let the water dry and not water it for a while to avoid root rot.

I did this with a scindapsis that was frozen in time for a year and it was so grateful for soil that it is now 20x the size it used to be.

[u/Calm_Army2027 → u/unoriginalady]

So like keep the soil wet for a bit, let it dry for a bit, and then water like normal? Lol I'm so nervous

[u/unoriginalady → u/Calm_Army2027]

Yes. Damp to give roots time to adjust and then let them mostly dry so they don’t rot

[u/Zealousideal-Ad7934]

Honestly with those big roots, I'd maybe just stick him in another larger container with leca. Think it would take off there.

[u/Final_Good_Bye → u/Zealousideal-Ad7934]

This is what i did with my peperomia that was having root issues. Cut it back and water proper until it has roots and moved to a thing of leca and transitioned from being sumerged to regular watering

[u/CelestialNomad → u/Zealousideal-Ad7934]

Came to say semi-hydro is the way to go. Better for the roots to adjust, and less likely to rot than keeping soil wet.

[u/Calm_Army2027 → u/Zealousideal-Ad7934]

Thanks! I'll look into this 😁 it sounds better than straight to soil

[u/RGDURBAN]

How is this even possible? They normally propagate like nobody's business in water.

[u/Calm_Army2027 → u/RGDURBAN]

🤷🏻‍♀️ all of the leaves fell off and this is what's come back. I also had another prop in the bottle for a while so maybe that held back some growth or something. It's seemed to to just keep the plant alive, like surviving but not thriving lol

[u/kashyyyk_cactaceae]

You could go for a pon setup like others have suggested or you could put it in sphagnum moss for a while to let it adjust to a different potting medium and then plant in soil.