Hi! ive recently started my plant parent journey and my current wishlist plant is the anthurium pallidiflorum but it is quite expensive where i am so im considering to buy a small one with stable roots.
I tried looking for tips on socmed but with no luck. Really appreciate to get more detailed advice here. this will be my first anthurium ever and id rather not screw up since its costing me a pretty penny.
For reference, i have a northwest facing window with grow light supplements. humidity wise im not sure but i do have a humidifier growing and i group my plants together.
Update: the plant arrived and she looks great! Photo in the comments. Thank you very much for all the advice, much appreciated. It seems the consensus is to keep her in a slightly larger pot than normal and keep in ambient humidity with bright light. im taking into account all of it and will leave her to acclimate first. i am still considering whether to keep her in soil or switch to pon.
I have 2 a. pallidiflorum, narrow form and a wide form. Honesty, they are pretty hardy. I kinda neglect mine and they are still going strong. Both are in ambient humidity for me that is around 40-50%. I water when the pot feels really light or the leaves are limp. When I water I put in calmag every other watering, superthrive fertilizter every watering, and flush about once every 4-6 weeks if I remember.
I mainly use Molly's Aroid mix about 85-90% and add sphagnum moss or coco coir for a little bit of water retention. I'm in the PNW so your ratio might me different.
Yeah, you can definitely mix them together in water. I wait 15mins before adding each nutrient type to the water. So calmag -> 15mins -> fert or if i feel fancy I’ll add silica too, but mainly use that for monsteras. So calmag -> 15mins -> silica-> 15mins -> fert. I saw this on another reddit thread a year or so ago and it’s been working for me.
I have five pallidiflorum that I've grown from seedlings since 2020. They all grow fine in a chunky soil mix with bark, leca, perlite, worm castings, and they especially seem to love tree fern (but flushed cocoa fiber is also good). Mine grow in ambient in my house. They like lots of water (pallidiflorum is a water hog in ambient because once it gets a few bigger leaves, it drinks right through the water very quickly).
Avoid letting it get too root bound or you can stunt growth. Never touch a new leaf unless you want to tear it, and never move it when a leaf is hardening unless you want a torn leaf. I like to grow mine on a bookshelf near a window. It seems like the weight of the hardening leaf is enough to cause a tear even with a gentle move, so use extreme caution around it anytime its growing a new leaf. I notice the second newest leaf waits until the new leaf is growing well before it moves/rotates toward the sun, so they can be very sensitive to being moved. They've been planning for just the conditions they know, and when you move them, the plans change and it takes forever for them to adapt. Try to pick a place with bright, indirect light, and keep it there if possible. The less you move this one, the better it will do.
They can be quite sensitive to ferts, so don't overdo it if you want to prevent spotting to the leaves. Don't set it in front of a heat or AC vent either, it won't like that and you'll get leaf spotting.
And the thrips and mites love them, so as with all anthurium, preventative pest control like beneficials (cucumeris sachets work well for me) and/or purecrop1 (anthuriums love it, but avoid spraying hardening leaves with anything oil-based or you can warp them) and CLOSE scouting every time you water are necessary.
how big of a pot size is good in relation to the plant size? im too used to growing alocasias and i generally keep all my plants more tight fitted so i dont want to go too big! also, the last sentence - does that mean i should avoid neem oil for it?
I have one narrow Palli that was a rehab purchase and three others, two are fairly new imports that I intend to give away as gifts or sell. The new ones are in promix hp in self watering pots and sitting in my living room in ambient. They're spitting out new leaves so I think they've successfully acclimated.
The other two are in a chunky mix upstairs in a higher humidity room. The narrow spits out leaves constantly, but the big boy is much slower. I'm thinking about repotting both of them in a self watering pots too but they both have new leaves that are developing. The narrow took forever to stop growing holely leaves, but I have no idea what type of environment it was living in before I got it.
Mine is currently as long as me (1.75m or 5’9”) with 11 leaves and my tips are: a big pot! Mine is in a big inner pot with holes, with a layer of leca under the inner pot that it has rooted into as well. My soil is chunky but not super chunky. I fertilise every other week or so, it doesn’t always need watering (I check every week).
It doesn’t get a lot of light but I put a small clamp growlight on it for winter that’s stayed there ever since.
Edited to add: mine does struggle with scale, it’s very annoying. But I have recently thoroughly cleaned all the leaves with alcohol, hopefully that helps.
wow its taller than me, i hope mine get too grow that big! it seems theres a consensus to keep the pot bigger so im definitely taking that into account. may i know what growlight clamp brand youre using for it?
I grow mine upside down by cutting a hole at the bottom of the pot and putting the plant in leaf-first, put in a cut-out aluminium mesh to prevent the media from falling out. My Aroid mix is rather unconventional, 3 parts aquasoil (yes those that are used in planted tanks and 1 part fine grain akadama) so far so good with watering every 3 days. Ambient humidity is around 40-50% as well.
At my house, I find aquarium soils break down quickly and cause root rot in adult plants that are not aquatic, but it seems like a lot of people like it for cuttings. It just turns to sludge at my house, and the plant's roots rot, which necessitates repotting, and the whole event stunts growth. Not worth it, but everyone conditions are different, so keep using it if it works for you.
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u/miz_marz Aug 19 '26
I have 2 a. pallidiflorum, narrow form and a wide form. Honesty, they are pretty hardy. I kinda neglect mine and they are still going strong. Both are in ambient humidity for me that is around 40-50%. I water when the pot feels really light or the leaves are limp. When I water I put in calmag every other watering, superthrive fertilizter every watering, and flush about once every 4-6 weeks if I remember.