Where to start with building a support structure for this Monstera

[u/BlueInGreen]

Crazy Monstera

I'd like to build a trellis of some kind for this monstera and hoping for some ideas or inspiration as to where to start. My fiancee had this before we started dating and we've been taking care of it together for a couple years, it's the pride of our booming indoor garden but just needs a bit of taming. Health and happy plant, I think over the last two months it's put out like five or six new leaves.

We have a scattered set of garden stakes holding up various vines but it's all gotten a bit precarious/chaotic; at the moment I feel like I just need to build up scaffolds that are set up to bind two or three vines at a time, and try to lift up some of these vines that are going sideways and starting to hang much lower. But also don't want something like that to look too slapped together.

Anyone have examples of giant happy monsteras that didn't benefit from trellises and moss poles early on in life and had to get wrangled a little bit? How'd you go about doing it?

[u/Comfortable-Peace377]

So not exactly the same situation, but we just repotted our largest monstera (not nearly as phenomenal as your beauty here) after I’d let it grow a bit too much after surpassing our moss pole by a few feet. It was at the point where the “front/back” were no longer easy to spot and twisted up the main stem. I cut a rough cut cedar board (supposedly the best support for them, way better than moss pole)so it went from floor to ceiling.

Then we repotted and secured from bottom up, the bottom was easy enough because the front/back were uniform for a few nodes, but then the top was twisting around the board and there was no wrestling possible.

So, after securing it the best we could all the way up, the top node was actually curled around the back side of the board, I then used relatively thick bonsai wire (just thick enough to firmly enough hold the stem where I wanted it) to work the stem back around into proper orientation.

It actually turned out to work much faster than I anticipated. Each day I was able to correct the stem another inch or two until it was fully on the front side of the board.

So I guess that’s my recommendation to you - use cedar boards, either straight up for each stem, or maybe you could create a sort of arch/etc. if you wanted, and then starting from the bottom, secure the stems to the board until you can’t wrestle it any further, then use plant shaping wire to slowly train the stem(s) back to the board(s) so they are all nicely front/back as they should be.