It doesn’t have to be soaking wet, just humid. Start by moistening the growing mix, pouring some into a pail or bowl and adding tepid water, then mixing well. Given that they no longer serve any purpose, removing them is fully justified.įinally, water your anthurium well a few hours before potting so the roots will be well-moistened, lessening transplant shock. Also, remove the stipules from the stem: those little brown leaflike growths that originally serve to protect the leaves when they’re young and tender, but then just seem to dry out and hang on for ever, making your plant look messy. Photo: Rachel BernierĪlso, clean the plant up a bit beforehand, removing dead and yellowing leaves and faded flowers. You can remove the stipules before your repot. You’ll also need a pot with drainage holes, likely 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm) larger than the original pot. That will help replicate the growing conditions of this plant which grows as an epiphyte (on tree branches) in the wild. You can use ordinary potting soil, but then, considering the anthurium grows like an orchid, it will actually prefer something lighter and better aerated, like an orchid mix or a 50/50 blend of orchid mix and houseplant mix. So, I’d say it is indeed high time to repot pot your specimen, lowering it in its pot as you do so.įirst, you can repot an anthurium at any season, but you’ll find it recuperates best if you do so sometime from early spring to midsummer, when it’s naturally growing most vigorously. Plus, after 4 years, the originally potting soil has probably become compact and contaminated with mineral salts, something anthuriums highly dislike. However, if you cover the bare stem with soil as you repot, not only will the plant appear shorter and denser and therefore more attractive, but the buried roots will start to lengthen and give renewed vigor to the plant. In many ways, the anthurium is like a phalaenopsis orchid, producing similar thick aerial roots on a stem that gradually lengthens over time even as the lower leaves slowly die and are removed, turning what originally was a compact, dense plant into something quite ungainly and even floppy. It’s the most popular of some 1000 species of anthurium, all native to the New World tropics.Īnswer: Yes, lowering the plant in its new pot to hide its bare stem is exactly what you should do. It bears an inflorescence in the shape of a waxy, leathery, heart-shaped bract called a spathe that can be red, pink, white, purple, green or bicolor with a narrow yellow to cream spadix (spike) at the top. The anthurium ( Anthurium andraeanum and its hybrids), commonly called flamingo flower or painter’s palette, is a popular houseplant, one capable of blooming all year long.
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