I bought this Anthurium Dorayaki about 3 months ago without ever having heard of it before. I’ve been doing research on care and all the Anthurium I’m seeing online have 3-5 really large leaves and are called out for being slow growers.
However, mine has a cluster of leaves and has grown about 5 new leaves (including the big one on top) since I got it. It seems to be growing upward, which makes me wonder if I need some kind of support, but I don’t see the same thing with other, bigger Anthurium online. I have not repotted, but it is under a grow light with some of my other plants. Does this seem normal?
by eleventeendandelion
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Looks normal to me! They grow what’s called “offsets” which are little baby plants that split off of the main root section and grow beside the main plant. If you look underneath and see more than a single “stalk” with petioles and leaves coming from it then that’ll explain it.
As they get much larger they don’t put out as many leaves nearly as quickly, assuming due to the larger energy expenditure required. Seems like everyone splits the offsets off the main plant and either grows them separately or sells them off, so you don’t normally see huge anthuriums with several offsets all growing large in the same pot. It can certainly be done though, and looks great IMO
You just need a bigger pot. If you want big leaves as fast as it can grow, repot him as fast as possible. The clustering is a more or less normal thing under anthuriums with a large portion of green in the leaves. I would recommend to use a at least about 6cm bigger pot that it is in right now.
It don’t has to be a fancy soil-mix, a light coco soil works for me the best.