Hello!

I need a little help with my Monstera Albo cutting I bought from Etsy a couple of weeks ago for a friends birthday present. I got a rooted one that had a huge root on it and the person I purchased it from said it can go straight into soil which I have done.
It had well training soil with perlite etc. I have propagated plants before and always been successful, so i'm not completely new to this but I have never had such a rare and expensive plant.

I watered it once it was all potted up and haven't since because it hasn't gone dry but I can see the leaves starting to yellow on the side I really can't loose this leaf and just wondering if anyone has any advice for me!

It's kept in a very bright room that is also the warmest so it's very humid

Thank you for any help or advice!!

Well, its a small plant with one root and one leaf. And it looks like you have placed it in a very large container with a whole lot of substrate. Going into soil when a plant has a great single root is certainly a fine idea. But the first rule of plant propagation has always been....only pot a cutting into a pot **just big enough** to hold whatever root mass it has. That way, the plant can safely get established without the danger of drowning. The soil in a much smaller container will drain a lot more quickly. All the extra soil in your container will stay wet a lot longer and increase the chance for rot.
The other thing is, patience. Monstera albo can be very slow to establish. The fact that the seller was generous enough to actually give you a viable root is a plus. Many people receive butchered cuttings with all the roots removed.
I might not have said 'straight into soil'. I would have probably said, into damp sphagnum moss first, get a great root system, then more to soil.

Gina1960 said: Well, its a small plant with one root and one leaf. And it looks like you have placed it in a very large container with a whole lot of substrate. Going into soil when a plant has a great single root is certainly a fine idea. But the first rule of plant propagation has always been....only pot a cutting into a pot **just big enough** to hold whatever root mass it has. That way, the plant can safely get established without the danger of drowning. The soil in a much smaller container will drain a lot more quickly. All the extra soil in your container will stay wet a lot longer and increase the chance for rot.
The other thing is, patience. Monstera albo can be very slow to establish. The fact that the seller was generous enough to actually give you a viable root is a plus. Many people receive butchered cuttings with all the roots removed.
I might not have said 'straight into soil'. I would have probably said, into damp sphagnum moss first, get a great root system, then more to soil.

Thank you for getting back to me! Do you think it's okay for me to change this over to a smaller pot without any further damage? I'm guessing it won't do as much damage as I'm already causing it in a bigger pot.
Is that leaf still salvageable? I'm really hoping I don't lose it.
The root was huge - almost as long as the plant itself so I guess I just assumed a bigger pot was needed

Scrap everything I've just said, I've got to take it out the pot and it has root rot so i've cut off all the dead root and left with a small amount of root left. Shall I get this back into water propagation now? What is my next step or is it time to say bye to this plant?

I would use THIS. Clear plastic cup. Take scirrors, cut 3 drainage slits around the bottom. Put in damp sphag. The moss seen here is too wet. You would squeeze most of the water out of a blob like this so its just damp. I keep moss in a cup like this 24/7/365 to sow seeds into and put cutting in. I collect these empty cups from my kid and his friends (Starbucks, Arbys, Wawa, McCrack etc) Its an endless supply of free and infinitely usable pots.
I would treat your cutting with a fungicide, since you already have rot. Once you put it into the moss, don;t be pulling it out to 'check' the root development. Just leave it alone, keep the moss evenly damp, NO FERTILIZER. Bright light.
Yes, you may lose the leaf. But you have to realize that at his point, the leaf is unimportant. The plant will not grow unless it has ROOTS. The energy needs to go into that. If the leaf started to deteriorate, let it go.