18-01-2023, 09:16 AM
Trivial but fun discovery this morning... Before covid I bought a plant from a TM seller listed as an Adanson's monstera, which duly arrived as a cutting, and thrived in one of my tropical aquariums, putting on a few leaves quite quickly. But none of them had holes the way a monstera usually does and I wondered kind of jokingly on the TM gardening forum if in fact I had been sent a heart leafed philodendron instead, by mistake. LV aka lakeview assured me I had been conned and we had quite a robust conversation about whether TM plant sellers were scam artists, lol. I often had those kinds of conversations with her, she just rubbed me the wrong way most days whatever she said...
Anyway, when I broke down the aquariums I took new cuttings to save some of the jungles I had growing out of them, and replanted them after months in water jars on the window sills, and this morning I noticed one of the sus plants has produced a leaf - with a single window in it! Success! Proof positive it is a monstera. I win, LV!
See? Trivial but fun, lol...
Only took three years...
Anyway, when I broke down the aquariums I took new cuttings to save some of the jungles I had growing out of them, and replanted them after months in water jars on the window sills, and this morning I noticed one of the sus plants has produced a leaf - with a single window in it! Success! Proof positive it is a monstera. I win, LV!
See? Trivial but fun, lol...
Only took three years...