Beginner Gardening: Pink Syngonium flopped over, 1 by purpleinopp

purpleinopp wrote:
Aerial root nubs circled. If you were to want to remove that piece, I would cut it at the blue line. Then you can put in water (just enough to submerge the nubs) until the nubs swell and turn white, usually takes 1-2 weeks, which is what I prefer for this kind of plant, or put it directly in soil.

If you were to leave that piece on the plant and give it a support to climb, the nubs may turn into elongated aerial roots that eventually reach the soil. Aerial roots don't really wrap around the support like a Clematis tendril, so may need to be attached or woven through it to stay in place, as in JM's pic above. In nature, Syngonium would spiral up/around a tree trunk and use the aerial roots to hold itself in place, some would go to the soil.

Good idea about adding a drain hole or moving it to a pot that has one already. It's way too easy to accidentally kill a plant in a pot w/o a hole.