I recently found out that these were easy plants and I've since collected 4. They grow like weeds for me and I'm loving it! My recent purchase was a pink arrowhead and it just took my breath away. They are beautiful plants!
I've had one since 1996 when my ex fiance gave me ine as a birthday gift .They're definitely pretty easy to care for I like putting them on the backside of my aquariums with the roots immersed in the water via little basjets that clip on the inside of tank and then just watch em grow .They live the nutrient rich water and the fish benefit from the filtration they provide for the water .I've loat track hiw many cuttings I've given away to friends and family 🤣
Just got one of those last week. Havn't had one since I killed one about 40 years ago. Seems like a very easy one though. Mine is the cream illusion. Yours is very beautiful. Thanks for the info as always.
I have had my arrowhead plant for almost two years now and it really hasn’t grown at all. It’s gotten slightly taller but it looks nothing like that….I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I’ve tried different spots of light, different pots, different watering schedules, fertilizers, pruning. Ugh. They’re so pretty I don’t know why mine is lame 🤦♀️
This is what I do and I’ve had mine for about a year and a half(pink splashes on the leaves), was in a 6 inch pot when I bought it and it’s already beginning to vine. I have it in a plastic pot with drainage holes. It doesn’t get direct sunlight but it gets a bright light, it’s by a window but it’s out of direct sunlight. I don’t let the soil dry all the way out between waterings, and don’t water on a schedule, don’t water any plants on a schedule!! When it gets to about a 3 or 4 I water it until it drains through(use a soil moisture meter, I attached the Amazon link at the bottom of this). And it sits about 3 feet from a humidifier. If you’re not seeing a lot of growth you should take a very close look at the leaves, especially the bottom ones and make sure you don’t see any webbing from spider mites. If you do immediately spray it with neem oil. The soil mixture I use is an indoor soil mix that you can get from any nursery and then I add perlite and coconut coir and mosquito bits. It’s always good to mix a spoonful of mosquito bits into your soil mix so every time you water it if there’s any larvae of any kind living in the soil it will be killed. When you’re mixing your soil make sure it is a well draining soil, not compact. So that’s what I’ve been doing, and again don’t water on a schedule, use a meter, and it’s been working, mine is bushy and it’s beginning to vine! I hope that helps!! - Soil moisture meter - XLUX Soil Moisture Meter, Plant Water Monitor, Soil Hygrometer Sensor for Gardening, Farming, Indoor and Outdoor Plants, No Batteries Required a.co/d/07Nzb9X - mosquito bits - SUMMIT CHEMICAL CO 117-6 30OZ Mosquito Bits a.co/d/4jGiN7N
I would say maybe you are doing too much too often. Find a spot that has the right light that it can sit undisturbed. Get a water meter for your plants & monitor your water that way. Make sure it doesn't sit in water & doesn't get too cold. HTH!
It was very hard to see what you were actually pruning and what you meant by "tips". For those like me newer to houseplants a bit more explanation would be tremendously helpful.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge ... I learn so much from you!!! It sure helps to start with a plant full on top, I guess? Mine only came with 4 medium size stems and it's taking a long time to grow more leaves. They do like to trail so leggy and floppy they look... :)
I grew mine from a cutting and the 4-5 stems looked very beautiful. It was an office plant so when I went on vacation I encased it in a clear plastic’tent’ to mimic a green house. It grew well but was floppy and leggy and didn’t look so attractive anymore. I did what Nell suggested and cut off the leggy growing tip and this encouraged it to produce new shoots/stems from the soil, I can see it is now heading towards the bushy look (which I love). I water it thoroughly as soon as soil is just dry around the roots and I also work in dry tea leaves in the soil and I really think this helps feed my plants and make them flourish.
What does it mean when stems and leaves are raised, there not really hanging down like they were. Do they need more water or have I given too much, it does feel dry so i water it a little
I trained my arrowhead to grow straight up. Probably a mistake because now all the stems are bare for about the first foot! Plenty of healthy leaved at the top. But I don't like the bare stems. Any suggestions? Should I take the supports out and let it vine? Just flop and grow downward? Thanks in advance for any help!
Hey Nell!! Love ur videos 🥰!! I have hade this plant for about 5 years now, it's growing,nice leaf's. ...but there is only one stem,and it's getting looong!! How can i get more stems?!! I am afraid of any cutting,pruning because it only has one stem.... Do you have any tips???!!!
Wow have a really bad over grown. Stems bent almost over on a bunch. Foliage weak, stems are a bit yellow & not as green. Damn yours looks awesome in the house (red) basket. That's my goal.
Does it start growing out of the lower stems if i trim new growth? I did not realise it was a vine but that explains some of the issues I have had with it getting longer and longer! Plus I have been pruning it incorrectly (old growth). I find this easy to propagate and grow esp since I live in Singapore where it is always hot, and have some growing in water without soil. (Lazy to transfer after rooting in water.) What do I do if I want to grow big leaves?
I was just looking at my arrowhead thinking it looks so loose compared to when it was gifted to me a few months ago and I thought it was on deaths door (I'm just a plant newbie). But there is a couple of evident vines that are drooping over now in growth and I'll try and get another support to help it look bushier in the centre again. Now that it's spring (and a warm spring at that) I have to adjust my plant care routine..so these how to videos should help 😇
I repotted mine and had to change the soil because it was okverfertilizing it. The plant has bounces back but I am concerned that because it lost a lot of its bush, its too small for the 6" it is in. It is growing very compact and tangled meaning it doesn't have good balance. Should I repot it back into a 4"?
I just "stole" a really tiny arrowhead from my sister in law. Thanks for basic care info. Love your feed, subscribed also. I have a question. Medium light ? Is that a corner next to the window for example? My devil's ivy is a happy 7 foot plant over there. Is it ok for my arrowhead?
It really seems that some arrowheads do very well in spots that the pothos (devil's ivy) actually get leggy in. The area you describe sounds like bright indirect light which should be perfect for an arrowhead, particularly if you want faster growth.
Hello Nell, best wishes from the sunny southeast tip of Turkey in this mid Decemner day. I have been growing his wonderfull Arrowhead plant and porpagating it as I prune it from time to time. I now have few rooted plants which I want to plant under my camquat tree in the shady part of the garden. Would you recommend this or should I forget it?
@@yenererguven1625 If you look up/google syngonium care... it's best between 16-24° C/60-75° F It can tolerate some range... several of mine stay outside in the summer (in containers) in the shade and are fine... it's humid and gets very warm in July and August 90s F... In the winter, some i bring into the house, some the greenhouse... house in winter stays average 65° F, greenhouse average 50° F....so, fairly wide range...but below 50° F would likely not survive unless somehow protected. Hope that helps!
Everything I've seen suggests that they really prefer to get dry before watering, which makes sense. A lot of "aggressively vining" plants usually do well in drier soil. It you try another one, wait until it's dry 2/3rds to 3/4ths of the way down before watering it. Also try a balanced fertilizer once a month during watering, and that should help it grow.
I was following all the advice about not overwatering and they (multiple syngonium) were looking sadder and sadder, pale, spindly and the edges getting brown. I was watering probably weekly. Humidity at about 60%, feeding, etc. (I have about 60 plants so I'm not a novice) but I finally found someone that said they actually had to water their larger syngonium 3x's per week! It seemed to me that mine wanted more water and I thought I was watering pretty good but I upped their watering schedule (not really a 'schedule') to more frequent waterings and not letting them get too dried out and finally, after about a yr and a half of this, they are looking nice and flourishing!
You can keep it bushy as well as letting it vine. If you keep cutting those long leaves off you’re preventing it from Vining. It’s a vining plant so letting it do its thing is going to let it be at its happiest.