Q&A for How to Grow Anthurium Plants

You can divide the plant when you re-pot it. Remove it from its current pot, and untangle the stems/roots to separate individual plants. These can be re-potted using the guidance above.

Leaves turning brown could be a sign of too much light. Try reducing the amount of light by moving the plant farther away from your light source.

Mature anthurium plants need 10'' diameter pots, while slightly mature plant need 8" diameter pots.

I soak mine in a large plastic container in a mix of liquid fertilizer and compost tea. They flower like crazy and the flowers are very big.

I believe the yellowing is a sign of too much water and possibly poor light.

The brown spots may indicate that your plant is getting too much sun. Move your plant to a shadier area.

You can plant them anywhere as long as it's shady and allowing indirect light onto the plant. Sun cannot touch plant or it will burn it! Most of mine are under trees in shady positions with indirect light touching them.

Yes it can. Take it out of the potting mix and put it in a glass of water under a plant light. It will grow more rapidly. Clean the water once a month

You don't have to, but it works. You can mix your own or experiment with variety. Mine are hydroponic/air plants grown in aquarium water and air dried 1-3 days a week.

Yes. You can also purchase potting soils at your garden center that are pre-mixed and organically composted together.

Plant food is vitamins that help your plants flourish to their full potential.

Yes, you should cut it off with a sharp knife as low as you can at the base of the stem.

This happens if you have an animal addicted to plants, or because the plant isn't healthy.

Spray the foliage and soil with a solution of Seasol, according to directions and every two weeks.

Yes, you should. Cut them close to the base with a pair of sterile scissors. If you don’t, then diseases can harbor over in the dead bloom and kill the plant

Yes. Once the fruit develops, you need to remove the pulp, soak it in water for 1 to 2 days, then plant. If you don’t, the seeds will not grow.

Anthurium plants can tolerate all levels of indirect light, but anthuriums growing in low light will have fewer flowers and will grow slower. It grows best in bright, indirect light.

Try a liquid fertilizer for a few weeks until your plant recovers.

You can put more soil or bark over the root and cover it so that it will get nutrients and grow again.

It depends on the size of your anthurium plant. Get a small plant pot for a small plant and a bigger one for a bigger plant; eyeball it as best you can.

You will know when the flower is stating to go brown and droopy, and the flower stem is drying up.

Depending on the size of the flower itself, the seeds can be the size of a tacking pinhead or a mustard seed.

They turn green as the flowers get older, you might be lucky to get seeds if the middle bit has lumps on it.

It's probably all dead anyway, so cut it off if it's brown. Or you can leave it and eventually it'll rot away by itself. New shoots will come as the old flowers die.

You can buy different colours. Most flowers are red or white but you can also find pink and even double pink. If you are into experimenting and your Anthurium gets seeds, plant them and the colour will probably be different from the mother plant. Anthuriums are often cross pollinated if you have different coloured plants close to each other.

It's possible that you have issues with the root system. Possibly overwatering and/or root disease. You need new roots to support the developing flowers and leaves. Keep the plant drier to allow new roots to form and function. Alternatively, you may have a bacterial disease that develops on the new leaves and flowers near the growing point. There is no cure for a bacterial disease problem.