You should avoid these care mistakes

What are common care mistakes in anthuriums?

Common care mistakes in anthuriums are low temperatures, air dryness, calcareous water and excessive watering.

Lovely Anthurium varieties, like the flamingo flower (anthurium andreanum) and Lesser Flamingo Flower (Anthurium scherzerianum) come from the tropical regions of South America. In their year-round warm, humid habitats, the evergreen flowers have not learned to survive in the cold or dry heating air. As epiphytes, Anthurium collect with their aerial roots soft rainwater to meet their water needs. If care as a houseplant ignores these premises, mistakes are inevitable.

How can I recognize care mistakes in my Anthurium?

Important information on care errors in your anthurium are

discolored leaves, curled leaf margins, sparse growth and no or sparse flowering. Common care mistakes can be identified by these characteristics:

• Low temperatures: drooping leaves.
• Air dryness: curled leaf edges, brown leaf tips.
• Lack of light: flowers get stuck, brown leaves, green bracts, long fear shoots, anthurium falling apart.
• Hard water: yellow leaves, white spots, leaf chlorosis (yellow leaf veins).
• Excessive watering: waterlogging, root rot, yellow or brown leaves, limp foliage.

How can I fix care mistakes on my Anthurium?

The most common care mistakes in Anthurium can be corrected by site improvements, Spray and repot with a subsequent optimized casting behavior. This is how the care of your flamingo flower gets back on track:

• Place the Anthurium in a bright location with an ideal temperature of 20° to 25° Celsius (winter minimum temperature 16° to 18° Celsius).
• Set up a humidifier or spray the leaves regularly with lime-free water.
• Compensate for a lack of light in winter with plant lighting.
• Anthurium with waterlogging repot in orchid soil over a drainage expanded clay, henceforth water more sparingly with rainwater or stagnant tap water.