Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden #25, 0 by gothqueen

gothqueen wrote:
Rita,
that's a lovely philo. Which one is it?

I have been growing Anthurium regale for a little over a year. I have four plants. Three were gifts but the plant material of those three originally came from Ecuagenera from what appeared to be fairly old stock. I say that because each stem cutting had a diameter larger than a garden hose, and the roots were the size of pencils. Each had a single large leaf. Of course, they were from plants being actively grown in the Amazon region, so conditions there being perfect, I guess they were going to be big, LOL. The fourth plant I bought from Tropiflora when Dr. Mardy Darian sent them a large shipment of his seed grown plants from California. That was actually a very very small multi-leaf plant.

All four have been extremely slow growing. I have large leaves (although not as large as they will eventually get by a long shot). Most of my leaves are about 10-12 inches wide and 12-18 inches long. I have one 'monster" leaf that is about twice that size on one plant.

Just have patience with them, give them good light and well draining soil and feed them well in the warm long-day months. I give mine a fair amount of water, but they are planted in fast draining pure sand. I also give them a micronutrient spray with chelated iron every 3-4 months when I do my palms. I think they will eventually need totems but they are not there yet.

Here are a couple photos, these are all from last year, I haven;t taken any more recent ones