Hanging on by a thread

My arrowhead is almost DEAD. Soil is almost dry and i only have 5 leaves left. these poor five leaves are yellow and brown. I am not ready to quit though. I moved him to a slightly different spot and added a tiny tiny amount of water.

if the soil is dry add more water! you can actually train arrowheads to live in water in a vase with a beta fish at the bottom...cool plants, you can train them to grow just about anywhere, aquariums, little pockets on walls with very little dirt as long as there is a good source of water...or at least that has been my experience

What location, light conditions has your plant received? It could be that it's been getting too much sun. I find that most Syngonium do best in shade.

There are quite a few Syngonium's (Arrowhead Vine) listed in Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/b/Araceae/Syngonium/none/cultivar/0/

How long since it was repotted?

Al

Arrowhead was repotted two weeks ago since it was suggested it was too wet due to the brown leaves. I used moisture control soil and placed it in my bedroom on top of a shelf not in direct sunlight. I have actually no place in the house that gets direct sunlight.

I have had this plant for almost a year. I had it at my office that got absolutely no sunlight and was full of dirty air until our facility shut down. Not a single problem out of this plant, until I brought it home. I have repotted it twice since June moved it 3 times. I now have it in my hallway again, seemed to do better there.

repotted it twice and moved it 3 times, in 4 months, I would say it's just a little stressed then. If it did best in the hallway leave it there. It sure would be helpful if you had a picture of it. that way we could tell if it really is from over or under watering or if it's just the plants cycle, If there has been a lot of new growth before you started moving it and repotting it the the older leaves would turn brown and die just because they do that. or it could be something else...houseplants an exercise in patience

Based on the fact that it's getting very little light and is newly potted into a very water-retentive soil, the odds overwhelmingly favor a drought response due to either impaired root function/metabolism because of the saturated soil and accompanying anaerobic rhizosphere (root zone), or worse, a drought response due to root decay caused by the conditions outlined.

Al

Tapla...LOL I didn't understand your last message. Is there any hope for this little guy in the conditions/issues you stated?

Trina I will post a picture shortly of his current state, I posted one previously when I initially came here for advice/identification.

I didn't remember seeing it. as for water I don't know I have one floating in a fishtank of water an it just keeps getting bigger, and then I have one I keep forgetting to water in the bathroom and it's doing just fine as well.

Ok picture as promised. Trying to link my initial post on this guy as well.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1039204/
You can see he has definitely gone down hill. But I wont give up

What I meant was your plant is ticked and throwing its leaves at you because you're drowning it. It's drowning because the soil holds tons of water and the low-light conditions don't allow your plant to use the water at a rate fast enough to allow air back into the soil before problems with root function/metabolism/rot occur.

Think of a sponge that is thoroughly wrung out - that is the ideal level of moisture for your soil.

Al

What are the black spots on the stems? and yep tapla's right it is throwing its leaves at you....that's good by the way, and I have new growth for the first time on my schefflera AL Thank you so much!

Some (most) of the black spots are soil. I didn't want to disturb it too much after repotting so i didn't shake it off. A few of the black spots are what appear to my untrained eye as stems that started to sprout and didn't quite make the team.

Aaah I see

Cool Trina, I never thought of putting a cutting in fish tank! I ran and got a piece and did that. Will be excited to see it grows there.

I've used glass vases with narrow necks and put beta fish in the bottom, lasted right up until the urnace broke in while we were out of town one day for holiday visits...came home and the thing was frozen solid....poor plant...oh and fish