Rhaphidophora Care Guide

Rhaphidophora is such a beautiful genus with lots of varieties! What i do hate is that a lot of people refer to Rhaphidphora tetrasperma as ''Monstera minima'', ''Philodendron minima'', ''Mini Monstera'' and ''Monstera piccolo''. This leads to many people thinking that these plants are a Monstera or Philodendron, which is defenitely not the case. Rhaphidophora is its own genus, and the one thing Monstera, Philodendron and Rhaphidophora have in common is that they are all in the same family, not genus.

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FLOWERS:
These plants (like most aroids in the Aracae family) get inflorescenses which can be pollinated and grow a fruit, but the berries that Rhaphidophora produce aren't edible, but has seeds that you can germinate!

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WATERING:
I find Rhaphidophora really easy, it doesn't mind if i forget to water for a week, but it does appreciate having moist soil. So i say water once a week and don't sweat it, these are easy plants!

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LIGHT REQUIREMENTS:
I made the mistake of not putting it near a window or grow light and my Rhaphidophora got really leggy and ugly so i chopped everything off and gave the cuttings to my friend, aka restarted the plant.

So avoid doing what i did, and place it in front of a window or a grow light and consider giving it a trellis to train it to grow the way you want it to, kind of like a bonsai tree.

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PROPAGATION:
Find an internode (the piece of stem between 2 nodes [nodes are little bumps on the stem where leaves and roots grow out of]) and cut it, remove lower leaves of the cutting, put it in water and wait for it to root! I personally find the rooting process quite slow of any kind of aroid to be honest, so have patience and wait a week or two.

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MEDIUMS:
Mine likes a soil mix and does pretty great in it. My mix is soil, perlite and leca. Thats the easiest, cheapest and one of the best and affordable soil mixes. You can always swap soil for peat moss if you want, so don't worry about that! Like most plants, you can grow these in water/hydroponics too if you want.