Anthurium care guide
Anthurium are amazing plants! Wide variety of species and fun to cross🌱
I reached out to PlantWithRoos
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and asked for a golden Anthurium tip. She responded! She said, and i quote: ¨That's amazing! My golden tip is to give them a bigger pot quite quickly, then the leaves will grow bigger very fast. But use well draining soil or it will rot the roots! (Mix in lots of bark, pumice, perlite, leca or whatever you have)¨
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FLOWERS:
The flowers of the Anthurium andreanum for example, has a thick stem-like thing at the start of the flower, which is called an "inflorescence". And are suprisingly easy to pollinate.
They can grow berries (not edible sadly) on their infloresence/spadex after pollination.
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POLLINATION:
For pollination, find a male, and a female inflorescence. A male inflorescence is easy to identify. Just look for a inflorescence with yellow-ish powder on the inflorescence. That is the male stage. Right after the inflorescence has been in the male stage for a while, it can change to the female stage. The female stage has a thick liquid on the inflorescence. Rub the male inflorescence on the female one. Successful pollination will cause the Anthurium to develop small berries with usually 1-3 seeds inside, which you can squeeze out and germinate in a loose, moist potting mix or sphagnum moss. Anthurium seeds die if they dry out, so saving them is difficult.
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WATERING:
Water thorougly once a week and keep the humidity high.
Tip: add a moss collar! Or in other words, moss on top of the soil to hold moisture
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PROPAGATION:
As you've read at the 'Pollination' part, propagation can be done by seeds, and stem cuttings.
Just take a cutting below a node, stick it in water and it'll grow roots!
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LIGHT REQUIREMENTS
Anthurium prefers bright indirect light. That basically means that the plant can see the sun, but the sun can't see the plant. Of course, the plant can and definitely enjoy bright direct light, but it may burn the leaves.
Many people keep it under a grow light, which i do recommend.
Remember, the more light, the more happines!
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MEDIUMS:
My Anthurium do well in a chunky soil mix.
My standard soil mix is universal soil, perlite, LECA, coco peat and coco chips, and growing them in sphagnum moss works too! I´ve seen people grow Anthruium in Fluval stratum (aquarium substrate) and LECA.
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