Syngonium Pink Neon

How to grow Syngonium Pink Neon

Plant Description: Syngonium Pink Neon is an indoor ornamental foliage creeper, suitable for small pots & trellises. It is a beautiful miniature plant, featuring heart-shaped leaves with pink-green variegation. Syngonium Pink Neon is most suitable for green walls, hanging baskets, terrariums, bottle gardens, dish gardens & other tabletop miniature gardening use.

Botanical Name: Syngonium podophyllum

Plant type: Ornamental foliage plant, indoor plant, ground cover plant.

Deciduous/Evergreen: Evergreen.

Growth Habit: Perennial creeper/climber.

Growth Rate: Quick growing plant.

Average Landscape Size: Planted in distance of 1.5 x 1.5 ft for ground cover.

How to care for Syngonium Pink Neon

Soil: Syngonium Pink Neon is not very fussy and particular about soil. It can be grown in well drained sandy soil or coco peat.

Pot Size: 8 to 12 inch round pot.

Potting/Transplanting: Transplant the Syngonium Pink Neon saplings in a pot along with root-ball of original soil. Carefully place the plant in the middle of the container & cover the roots completely with remaining soil.

Repotting: Change the pot every year. Use bigger sized pot every time you repot the plant.

Sunlight: Syngonium Pink Neon can grow in full shade (indoors) or partial sunlight (outdoors). Direct sunlight will burn the foliage & stunt the growth of the plant.

Water: Syngonium Pink Neon must be kept well watered throughout. Maintain the soil evenly moist, but allow it to dry out between waterings..

Fertiliser: Add rich compost/ leaf mould & well rotten cow dung while potting a plant.

Temperature: Syngonium Pink Neon prefers pleasant warm temperatures. Minimum temperature requirements are 15 Degrees Celsius.

Humidity: Syngonium plant likes hot & humid climate.

Pruning: Train the climber to grow in desired direction & shape by cutting off the unwanted growths.

Propagation: Vegetative Propagation is easy from cuttings. The plants root from nodes wherever these touch the ground. Plantlets can be easily split from the base.

Companion Plants: Ferns, Dracaena, Aralia, Spathiphyllum, Rhoeo.