Last night I went to walmart and they have Tropical Plants I picked up a Anthurium and have no ideal what to do with it how to grow it or can you get seeds from it does any one have a web sites to help?
Anthurium
I don't believe they are self fertile. They like humidity & well draining soil. They are semi-epiphytic, I believe, so I have mine planted in a mix of potting soil, orchid bark, and chunky perlite. They seem happy ;) When repotted, you should leave the crown and the 'beginning' of the roots just above soil level.
Mine stay outdoors all year, so I don't know how they'd do indoors.
I grow 'Peace Lily' indoors in several of my table top fountains....they love the water. They do well in potting mix too, but like low light and high humidity.
They do bloom nicely, but have never seen seed, only pups produced near the base of the crown.
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anthurium definitely aren't hardy to where you are, Dimmer, so you'll most likely need to keep them as houseplants
just keep them nice and warm .. maybe mist them every couple of days... dont keep them in complete darkness, but maybe .. filtered sunlight from a window, or something..
whatever you do, make sure you keep the air roots (cant think of the technical term for them right now) above dirt!
they really dont like when those get buried.. lol
my anthuriums stay outside year round in a protected area of the patio (near the dryer vent..) and they do fine with very little care
I'm no expert, but it's my understanding they like light, not heat, so indirect sunlight or indoor lighting. Ours lives under a tree in the summer.
They like a lot of humidity, so you might want to set it on a saucer of rocks and water. They don't want to be watered often, but when you water it, drench it - then don't water it again until it's really really dry. Miss_Kitty is right about the air-roots, don't cover them up. And they do want a very light potting mix (ours don't always get what they want ... ;-)
I've never seen anything resembling a seed. We just divided one of them by literally cutting it into pieces. It was an experiment ... seems to have worked!
My cousin keeps a beautiful one in his garage, near a east facing window. It's in a huge pot, and it is glorious! Much nicer than ours ... ours have to deal with wind and bugs, not to mention the dog knocking them over every now and then ...
Good luck with yours!
Cheri'
Thanks everyone for the tips most of all my plants are indoors I was just suffing the web and found a site that has all kinds of plant information it is www.Botany.com Encyclopedia of plants that helped alot
Dimmer
I have an anthurium that my DH bought me several months ago. I recently repotted it and it looks like it is now trying to rebloom. So far I see only one bud and it has been the same size and closed position for about 2 weeks now. Is there something I should be doing to help the blooms along or am I just being impatient?
I've had one for about a year and this is what I've found. They like high humidity and a well-drained pot, pebbles under the pot works well for me. They also like fairly strong light-mine won't bloom unless it gets some direct sun each day - I had it about 3 feet away from the same window its in now (faces south) for 6 months, and it did not bloom at all - I moved it to the window, and within 2 weeks a flower had started; its now a month later, that flower's opened and another has started. The flowers do take awhile to open though, but sun and lots of moisture will keep it going!!
HI - we use the rule of thumb of 80% shade, water every day (like rain...they are epiphitic...need water on the leaves and aerial roots) indirect light - they grow in rocks, cinder, moss, trees..... The seeds come on that yellow pointy thing in the flower (spadex?...gee, my mind is blank) and can be harvested when they are like tapioca or really just hanging by a thread. You can pollinated with the pollen from one rubbed on the spadex of the other (with I could remember that name). Then you can take the seeds and mash them into damp moss and smear them around... Voila, more Anthuriums.
I bow to your greater knowledge AlohaH ... Until I joined DG, I didn't know what I was doing most of the time - trial and error and several old books! But Carol, because you can grow yours outside all year round, they do "natural" things like get polinated while my housebound beauties, just get to be pretty. I have a hibiscus that blooms like a fool all year round, but the seed pods drop off empty; I think the same basic thing would happen with an anthurium. Am I right?
Gosh...dunno. Maybe your Hibiscus is a hybrid type that doesn't produce seeds? A friend of mine walks around his garden and takes pollen from one Anthurium and smears it on the next...on and on and on. You might try it... I know they grow/pollinate/grow seeds in shade houses/greenhouses where their environment is controlled by humans... I have to say, tho, that they are really ugly when they start to form the seeds...like they have pimples!!!