Hi folks
Hoping you can help with my monstera which looks unwell.
I got it in November, so about 3.5 months ago, and it arrived looking in great shape with healthy green fenestrated leaves. I should confess that I repotted it - I didn't really know that this was potentially harmful - but in so doing I didn't remove any soil, just added a bit of cactus/succulent type potting mix to help fill the bottom of the slightly larger, but thinner, new pot. However it became obvious that the plant didn't fit that new pot super-well and it was difficult to water it by soaking (no drainage holes) so I repotted it back into something resembling the original plastic pot a month or so ago. I think it's therefore now in a second new pot with most of the original soil intact.
In the time I've had it it's developed a variety of yellow and papery brown parts to the leaves with what look like new leaves sprouting from the base, some of which have remained green and healthy-ish, some of which have just turned entirely yellow. The weird thing is, some of the original leaves still look in pretty good shape but some of the others are really quite significantly brown and papery, and others yellow - it's not consistent.
Initially I was paranoid about overwatering so maybe let it dry out too much. Since then I've been fastidiously waiting for the top of the soil to dry out before watering it again - I checked on it today and the top of the soil is still moist about ten days after I last watered it.
I'm in Glasgow, Scotland, so fairly far north (it's pretty dark this time of year) and the plant sits near a north-facing window - all the advice online was to avoid direct sunlight but maybe a complete lack of it, in such extreme latitude, isn't helping? It sits in my office which has some mild air conditioning but it's at a healthy room temperature in the mid-to-high teens all the time. It's been on a pebble tray to try and moisten the air for a month or two.
