As a tropical houseplant, the anthurium is susceptible to horticultural mistakes in care. Read here about the most common care mistakes that make life difficult for your anthurium. You can find out how to recognize and correct care errors for a flamingo flower here.
How do I fix care mistakes for an anthurium?
Common care mistakes for anthuriums include low temperatures, dry air, hard water and excessive watering. To save the plant, improve the location, spray the leaves, repot and optimize watering behavior.
What are common care mistakes for anthuriums?
Common care mistakes for anthuriums arelow temperatures,air dryness,calcareous waterandexcessive watering.
Beautiful anthurium varieties, such as the large flamingo flower (Anthurium andreanum) and small flamingo flower (Anthurium scherzerianum) come from the tropical regions of South America. In their warm, humid habitats all year round, the evergreen flower beauties have not learned to survive in cold or dry heated air. As epiphytes, anthuriums collect soft rainwater with their aerial roots to meet their water needs. If care as a houseplant ignores these premises, mistakes are inevitable.
How can I recognize care errors on my anthurium?
Important indications of care errors for your anthurium arediscolored leaves, curled leaf edges, sparse growth and no or sparse flowering. Common care mistakes can be recognized by these characteristics:
- Low temperatures: drooping leaves.
- Air dryness: curled leaf edges, brown leaf tips.
- Lack of light: flowers get stuck, brown leaves, green bracts, long fearful shoots, anthurium falls apart.
- Calciferous water: yellow leaves, white spots, leaf chlorosis (yellow leaf veins).
- Excessive watering: waterlogging, root rot, yellow or brown leaves, droopy foliage.
How can I correct care errors for my anthurium?
The most common care mistakes for anthuriums can be corrected bySite improvements,SprayingandRepotting with a subsequently optimized casting behavior. This is how you get your flamingo flower care back on track:
- Place anthurium in a bright location with an ideal temperature of 20° to 25° Celsius (winter temperature minimum 16° to 18° Celsius).
- Set up a humidifier or spray the leaves regularly with lime-free water.
- Compensate for a lack of light in winter by lighting plants.
- Repot anthurium with waterlogging in orchid soil over expanded clay drainage, from now on water more sparingly with rainwater or stale tap water.
Tip
Don't throw away the faded anthurium
The biggest mistake with anthuriums has nothing to do with incorrect care. In view of withered flowers, the exotic houseplants are thrown away far too early. In fact, flamingo flowers are busy, continuous bloomers that take a short break between three-month flowering phases. In the right location and with good care, anthuriums delight with their spectacular inflorescences and have a lifespan of six years.
