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Help me find an enormous metal planter /pot for our Monstera please!

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sugarbum · 11/07/2019 11:09

Sorry for the badly lit photo, but I think you can sort of see what I need.
I bought this hammered brass planter from TK Maxx a year ago for our new home because I loved it (and it matches my pineapple chandeliers!) but since then the Monstera has thrived so much that its now too big for its pot. (It only had two and a bit leaves when we moved in)
The only pots I can find that are bigger than this are brightly coloured plastic ones or the wooden barrel type ones that are really for outside. I can't find the brand online (India Palace)
I'd pay up to £100 for something very similar but it needs to be really big. Stupidly I haven't actually measured the diameter of the current one but I think its about 45 to 50 cm.

Help me find an enormous metal planter /pot for our Monstera please!
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Letthemysterybe · 11/07/2019 22:55

I think you just need to prune your plant. If you repot it, surely it is
Going to get even bigger!

Gardenersnaptime · 11/07/2019 22:59

Blimey that is a monster! How long have you had it?!
Try fb marketplace for pots or maybe salvage yards?

DramaRamaLlama · 11/07/2019 23:07

Sorry just place marking because I'm looking for similar.

Mitebiteatnite · 11/07/2019 23:10

Worth remembering that Monstera tend to do best in smaller pots. The size of the pot usually looks disproportionate to the size of the plant itself, but they thrive like that. I wouldn't be repotting that for at least 2 years!

Also, take cuttings. They do really well on ebay (or you could send me one Grin)

Mitebiteatnite · 11/07/2019 23:13

I'd just get a moss pole to train it up, and leave it if I were you. If you really want to repot, leave it until spring.

It really is quite beautiful though, I have severe plant envy. My monstera is but a baby.

Mitebiteatnite · 11/07/2019 23:15

If you love the pot, keep it in the pot!

Help me find an enormous metal planter /pot for our Monstera please!
sugarbum · 12/07/2019 11:52

Thank you all that's really helpful. I'm not a plant person at all - thats DH who is naturally green fingered but not particularly knowledgeable - I actually designed our living room furnishings around this one - I'm a sewer not a grower!! see pics

It has got a moss pole up the middle @Mitebiteatnite (and another to try to support the first one!)

We've had it about 5 years I think. Dh bought it from the 'almost dead please rescue me' section at the garden centre for 50p.
It was about 30cm high then with one drooping brown leaf. It then thrived really well and grew and grew to about 5ft tall, but then he put it in the conservatory about 2 years ago, and it was too hot and it singed the leaves and lots of them dropped off and it really looked like it was on its last legs.
We brought it with us to the new house a year ago, and put it into this pot, and it just went a bit nuts. It really likes its new spot! Its probably about 7ft now.

I hadn't even thought about selling cuttings!

Help me find an enormous metal planter /pot for our Monstera please!
Help me find an enormous metal planter /pot for our Monstera please!
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Gardenersnaptime · 12/07/2019 17:47

Wow can’t believe how much it’s grown in that time!
Cuttings are really easy-just chop off a branch just under one of the little nodes, put it in water for a few weeks until the roots develop then pot in soil.

Beebumble2 · 20/07/2019 16:18

I’d look for a second hand/ antique/ salvage yard pot. Even if it’s not meant for plants you can always drill holes in the bottom.
Failing that, how about a plain terracotta pot that you spray paint bronze.

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