The first winter I kept a philodendron indoors, I kept watering it on the same weekly schedule I had used all summer. The plant was not struggling with the cold — my home stays warm….
The first time I got watering wrong on a philodendron, I overcorrected and got it wrong in the opposite direction three days later. What surprised me was how similar the plant looked both times —…
Back in 2023, I made a pretty embarrassing mistake. I paid a premium price for what the seller called a Philodendron White Wizard. The plant arrived. It was healthy. The leaves were beautiful. But something…
I still remember my very first propagation attempt. It was a heartleaf cutting sitting in a glass jar on my windowsill. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Eight years and 500+ philodendrons…
My collection sits at over 500 philodendrons right now. But the squamiferum? It took me almost a full year to figure out. I moved mine to four different spots before it finally pushed a new…
I first spotted this plant at a local aroid swap in 2022. The leaves stopped me cold. Three bold lobes. Deep green. An hourglass pinch in the center. Nothing in my 500-plant collection looked quite…
My Philodendron Brasil showed up by accident, on an early trip to a local nursery — a hanging pot with wild variegation, dark green edges bleeding into bright lime down the center of each leaf….
My Birkin was one of my favorites in the entire collection. New pinstriped leaves every few weeks. Totally flawless growth. Then one Tuesday morning, I spotted something near a leaf stem base. It looked like…
My philodendron pedatum gave me my first real propagation win back in 2020, right after I’d lost two cuttings trying to copy a random YouTube method. Those failures taught me exactly what not to do…
My first Pink Princess cutting sat in a glass jar for six straight weeks. No roots. Not a single one. I had read every article I could find before making that cut. The problem wasn’t…