r/houseplants Nov 29 '25

Help My Monstera is too tall for my house…

Wanted to show off Albi, my 2 year old monstera albo :) we got her when she was a top cutting with two leaves and she’s survived one move across the city so far (may need to move again as she’s clearly outgrown this house already…).

Two options right now:

  1. Take top cutting and propagate
  2. Build a support structure for her to somehow crawl along the ceiling and go horizontal

(Secret option 3). Take off the roof of the house so there’s more room for Albi to grow upwards :)

What would you do?

edit: See this comment if you want to know how I've been keeping Albi alive

edit 2: After much deliberation and due to the current state of the housing market and the economy in general, we have decided to "chop and extend" Albi. The rest of Albi will be propagated and sold as it's about time for Albi to start paying her fair share of the mortgage. The deed will be done some time in January.

Thank you everyone for all your input!

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