Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
About Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
Philodendrons grow aerial roots that grip the bark of trees, allowing them to grow over 20 feet tall! Their leaves change shape as they climb and can grow larger than a dinner plate. Fossils show Philodendrons growing as far back as 30 million years ago when South America was still connected to Antarctica! ❄️
Taxonomy
Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
Philodendron
Araceae
Alismatales
Also known as
Philodendron minarum 'Lime Fiddle'
How to care for Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
How often to water your Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
every 9
Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle' needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.
Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for None in your home
a window
Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle' can tolerate being far from a window and light source.
Place it less than 6 feet from a south-facing window to ensure it receives enough light to survive 💪.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle' in your home 🏡.
How to fertilize Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle' after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.
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Philo checkup time! I bought this cutie from target months ago when they were all on sale. She’s been surviving, though not necessarily thriving. Not long after I got her, i was moving her and bumped the newest leaf nearly completely off! Somehow it’s still alive haha. I’m wondering if anyone knows if it’s able to be propagated? I attached a photo below. After that i forgot to water it for a while, and the leaf spike dried up and got all brown. I thought it was the end for growth, but today i noticed two new leaves pushing out of the dried shell of the old spike! I also noticed a little green nub growing from a spot where another leaf had been accidentally broken off prior. Does anyone know if this is also a new leaf? I’ll also attach pictures of the new leaves and third potential leaf. My final question is just if anyone knows what kind of philo she is? I’ve looked it up before but i honestly can’t figure it out. Thank you all so much, and have a wonderful day! 🌿🌿💕 #Philodendron
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The leaves are leaning downwards now? #Philodendron
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Planty 101 Light, Part 2! ☀️💡 Good evening all my planty friends. 🌿 I am back with science, and Light, Part 2. Light is so important it gets two parts, and I’m just scratching the surface here! ☀️ Let’s just refresh the basics, as I said last time that light is food for plants, I realized not everyone may know the process, which is called photosynthesis. In simple terms, plants need a certain amount of sunlight particles (photons), carbon dioxide and water molecules to be able to make their own food, an energy-rich planty sugar (glucose), and, luckily for us, the by-product of this process is oxygen, which we all need to breathe. So, if you deprive your plant of light, you deprive it of food. Okay! But now there are steps. You can’t just go blasting your plant with direct sunshine when it has had none before (it will burn, even a cactus!), and also the direction that your windows face is important, because there is a different level of intensity from each direction. There are also different levels of light (and intensity of such) throughout the day AND throughout the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, windows (unobstructed) facing: SOUTH: these will have the most and brightest light, with plenty of direct sun NORTH: these will have zero direct sun, and the least amount of light of all directions EAST: direct but gentle morning sun, indirect light the rest of the day WEST: have direct afternoon sun, which is more intense and hotter than morning sun, but has indirect light for the morning 📝 **If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, south and north windows are switched, with south having the least amount of light, and north the most. East and west stay the same.** There are many more factors that influence the light coming through your window, such as window size, 🪟 window type (single pane? Double pane? Frosted?), and any obstructions like large trees 🌲 or buildings 🏢 nearby. Different plants like different amounts and intensity of light, so you must research your plant to figure out what window it might like best. Southern (or Northern in the southern hemisphere) windows are a blessing to have because while they are great for sun loving plants, you can also reduce the amount of light with sheer curtains to grow a wider variety of plants. 🌱🌵🪴 Selecting houseplants should be based on the light you have, and not the other way around. **Except if you have grow lights. If you only use grow lights, you will only have to figure out how far away from them your plant can be for optimal growth, and for how many hours per day, and you can measure this with your light meter and be happy in the knowledge that that amount will not change while the grow light is operational.** But if you’re using natural light only, you must figure out exactly what spot(s)in your house gives them the best amount of light throughout the day with the best level of intensity, and depending on the season. The sun’s path across the sky changes throughout the year in varying degrees. I find that in the fall/winter is when I risk too much light for certain plants because the sun is lower in the sky and blasting straight into my windows. But, as soon as my plants have acclimated to that sun, the majority of my collection gets all the winter sunshine they can. Why the distance from your windows 🪟 or grow lights 💡 matters. How far away is your plant from a window (or grow light)? In simple terms: The light intensity dramatically drops the farther you get away from a window. If you want to get nerdy, this is the inverse square law in regards to light: Light intensity decreases with the square of the distance from the source. The following is Rafelle di Lallo’s (Book-The Houseplant Warrior) light reading experiment (This is also true for those using the lux system because the percentages are the same): The light meter reading from a point almost touching his south facing window on a sunny day, indoors: 1500 Foot candles 1 foot away: 900 FC (40% reduction!) 2 feet away: 330 FC (78% reduction from initial reading) 3 feet away: 180 FC (88% reduction from initial reading) 4 feet away: 100 FC (93% reduction from initial reading) So a general rule of thumb, especially for beginners, is to place your plant within 1 or 2 feet from your window, depending on the plant and the window. And if you remember from my last post that 200 FC is “low light,” di Lallo’s experiment showed that 3 feet away from his southern facing window on a sunny day was LESS than the minimum for low light. The reason I use grow lights everywhere? When I put my light meter almost touching my south facing window, in the winter, in the pacific northwest, it reads 188 FC 🤦🏼♀️ . They don’t call it the long dark wet for nothing! 🌧️ Indoor vs Outdoor light intensity and acclimating plants to their spots I hope you can see now why it’s best to keep our plants within a few feet of our windows. That plant that is 12 feet away from the window is straight up not having a good time. So here’s a thing about the intensity of light, inside vs outside. Today, in the winter, the spot touching my south facing window measured 188 FC. But when I went outside, and measured the spot touching the outside of my south facing window my reading was 417 FC. PASSING THROUGH MY WINDOW the light decreased by 55%. Because as the light hits the window it gets reflected and refracted. Our homes are considerably darker than outside, and your concern should be mostly about giving your plants ENOUGH light. Indoors, it is really hard to overdo it on the light. But have you ever had a plant that got sunburned or bleached? It is totally possible, and I’ve seen loads of people read their data wrong and make statements like, “I guess this rubber plant/string of pearls/cactus/FILL IN THE BLANK doesn’t actually like full sun.” shrug. Well, buckle up baby, because we’re going to talk about acclimation. This is how gradually or abruptly you increase the light levels for your plant. You will also hear this referred to as “hardening off” in the outdoor gardening world. If you’ve had a plant shipped to you in a dark box 📦 , or a plant that has lived indoors for a while, you will need to SLOWLY introduce higher light levels to it. If you put a plant that has lived inside its whole life suddenly outside in the sunshine? It will burn, totally hate life, and might just give up on you. It has inside leaves. (Leaves that are sprouted and grown outside will be acclimated to outdoor light) If you’re moving it outside you must first move it into full shade outdoors, FOR DAYS, and then gradually creep it closer and closer to sunshine. Same for moving plants around inside. If you’ve realized you need to give your plant MUCH more light? Creep it closer to brighter light gradually! I really like how Rafelle di Lallo puts it, he says, “I have a pale complexion…often pasty white in the winter. What would happen if I were to suddenly go the beach without a base tan and without sunscreen? …You have to gradually increase the light… think of it as developing your plants’ base tan.” Years and years ago this is how I killed my fiddle leaf fig. I went “oh SH*T you need WAY more light!” and moved it right next to my window, and then it 🖕🏼 and died 🪦 on me. How to tell if your plant needs more light? -you won’t see much growth -the growth you do see may be a lot smaller -fading or dull leaf patterns, variegated plants losing variegation -stretching, leggy growth (etiolation) You can: move them closer to the window, change to a different window exposure, add mirrors, or add full spectrum grow lights. (Did you know that if the wall behind your plant is painted green, then it won’t reflect ANY useful light on your plant because plants cannot use green light?) How to tell if your plant is getting too much light? -sunburned, bleached out or white areas where the sunlight touches the leaves -leaves curling in on themselves, trying to conserve water (this could be other things though) You can add blinds, sheer curtains, holographic window film, or move your plant a little further from the window. The myth of “low light plants.” These poor plants are labeled as such because they want you to buy them. Snake plants? ZZ plants? Pothos? These plants LOVE higher light. But they are just better at slowly dying in a graceful way. It’s not that they “need” low light. It’s that they will TOLERATE it better than other plants. But please give them better light. ☀️ They will be so much happier. Join me next time and we will “dig” into Roots and Soil Structure. 🤭 Links 🔗: Planty 101 Light, part 1: https:// #brunchataudreys #TheWateringHole #happyplants #hoya #Greggers #greggang #newgrowth #prayerplant #hoyahangout #TradescantiaNanouk #CalatheaCorner #AlocasiaAddicts #SucculentSquad #CactusClique #BegoniaBunch #DreamMachine #MonsteraMonday #Philodendron #tipsandtricks #EcoTherapy #crazyplantlady #PlantingOnABudget #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantTherapy #PlantAddict #plantfriendsarethebestfriends #adhdplantlovers #planty101.
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Is this root system healthy? Any advice on repotting? #Philodendron
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Can I wait to spring to propagate she had real long legs #Philodendron
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Does your plant do this? #Philodendron Kendall always has drops of water on its leaves when I get home. It's like it's tearing up or sweating. Is that normal? What does that mean? Good or bad?
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My plant has some yellowing and browning. How can I go about making it more healthy #Philodendron
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Just making a post for links for my #planty101 🤓🌿 Don’t mind me. And to go full Inception, the link to this post: https:// It’s not overwatering: https:// Planty 101 Light, part 1: https:// Planty 101, Light Part 2: https:// #brunchataudreys #TheWateringHole #happyplants #hoya #Greggers #greggang #newgrowth #prayerplant #hoyahangout #TradescantiaNanouk #CalatheaCorner #AlocasiaAddicts #SucculentSquad #CactusClique #BegoniaBunch #DreamMachine #MonsteraMonday #Philodendron #tipsandtricks #EcoTherapy #crazyplantlady #PlantingOnABudget #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantTherapy #PlantAddict #plantfriendsarethebestfriends #adhdplantlovers #planty101
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Good morning! 🌿 Just a quick one this morning from me about EPOXY PUTTY and why it's so useful, (she says, knowing full well she goes off on side quests regularly 🤭). So don't get me wrong, I love seeing pots everywhere now with drainage holes 🕳️ . That message seems to have sunk in, I rarely see people direct potting into pots without drainage holes, and that's great! However, the method I use for almost all of my plants is a clear nursery pot within a cache pot with NO holes. That way I can water 💦 where my plants are, and then I can dump the water in the cache pot later if I still have some standing in there. But it is so hard for me to find cache pots WITHOUT drainage holes now. Wah 😭 Epoxy putty to the rescue! I use a two part putty, you mix equal amounts of A and B together, and then you can plug up any holes. It starts drying 45 minutes after you mix it, and then you let it sit to dry/cure for 24 hours. You now have a useful water-proof cache pot! 🫗🪴 This morning, I didn't do mine perfectly, and that's okay. It was a little cold 🥶 so it wasn't as easily spreadable. After it's dry I can sand it to make it a little more smooth if I want. You can also paint it, or drill through it if later you decide you actually needed a hole there. Hope everyone has a great Wednesday! 🌿🩶 #brunchataudreys #TheWateringHole #happyplants #hoya #Greggers #greggang #newgrowth #prayerplant #hoyahangout #TradescantiaNanouk #CalatheaCorner #AlocasiaAddicts #SucculentSquad #CactusClique #BegoniaBunch #DreamMachine #MonsteraMonday #Philodendron #tipsandtricks #EcoTherapy #crazyplantlady #PlantingOnABudget #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantTherapy #PlantAddict #plantfriendsarethebestfriends #adhdplantlovers #planty101
Care Summary for Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
Philodendron 'Lime Fiddle'
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 6ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4” pot your plant is in, and that it doesn’t get direct sunlight.