Anthurium Care Indoor

However, cutting back an anthurium is necessary from time to time to keep the plant happy and healthy. You can also remove wayward leaves to improve the appearance of the plant, but leave at least three to five in place.

One good way to work with anthurium water requirements is to hold off on repotting the plant.If your anthurium becomes a little bit root bound, its container won't retain as much water and the plant will actually benefit from it.

This means that unless you have several plants with flowers in different stages of development and of different sexes, an individual anthurium is unlikely to produce fruit. Gently move seedlings to individual containers and follow general anthurium care.

A variety called Centennial starts as a white spathe and gradually turns a bright green. The spathe may also fade to green if it doesn't get a long enough dormancy period in its second flowering.

Conversely, the drooping with yellow tips may be a sign of too little water. The thick glossy leaves are a perfect foil for the spathes. They can be dealt with by rinsing the insects off the leaves of the plant.

Maintenance is low, although dividing anthuriums is sometimes necessary to keep them blooming.Anthurium is truly a tropical flower, so most of us have to be content with growing them indoors in containers.

These plants cannot tolerate direct light however, as this can burn the leaves. If the rootball becomes too dry in the pot, soak the pot the anthurium plant is in for an hour to rehydrate it.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

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