Arrowhead Plant
Syngonium podophyllum
Through the year 🗓️
☀️ Summer now
Water more frequently through the heat and feed monthly while it races.
🍂 Fall
Reduce feeding and pinch stray runners to keep its shape through slower months.
❄️ Winter
Let the top soil dry a bit deeper between waterings and skip fertilizer until spring.
🌱 Spring
Repot and cut it back hard if leggy. Spring pruning triggers a flush of fresh arrowheads.
The details
Light & placement
- Light
- Medium to bright indirect; pink and variegated forms need brighter light to hold color
- Ideal PPFD
- 100–300 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
- Grow-light distance
- 18–24 in below LED
Water & feed
- Watering method
- Keep evenly moist, watering when the top inch dries. It wilts theatrically when thirsty and bounces back within hours of a drink.
- Fertilizer
- Balanced liquid feed at ½ strength, monthly in spring–summer.
Home & habit
- Soil
- Rich, well-draining houseplant mix with perlite; pH 5.5–6.5
- Humidity
- Average; happier at 50–60%
- Temperature
- 60–80 °F
- Mature size
- Bushy 1–2 ft young; vines 3–6 ft with age
- Repotting
- Every 1–2 yrs in spring
- Propagation
- Stem cuttings with a node root easily in water; division of clumps.
When something looks wrong
- Overwatering signs
- Yellowing leaves, soft stems, persistently wet soil
- Underwatering signs
- Full-plant droop, curling, crispy brown tips
- Common pests
- Spider mites, mealybugs, aphids, scale
Common problems 🩺
The usual suspects when Arrowhead Plant looks unhappy. Most houseplant trouble is watering or light, not disease — see all plant problems if you are not sure which plant is the culprit.
Yellowing leaves
Likely cause
Overwatering, or occasionally too little light.
What to do
Let the top inch dry between waterings and give it bright indirect light.
Vining out and losing its bushy shape
Likely cause
Normal maturity — it starts compact then becomes a climber.
What to do
Prune the runners to keep it bushy, or give it a pole and let it climb.
Crispy edges
Likely cause
Dry air.
What to do
Raise humidity and keep it away from heat sources.
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