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You can keep syngoniums bushy by pruning them to encourage new growth. Pruning your syngonium (also known as the arrowhead plant) in strategic areas that are more bare or leggy can create a fuller plant over time.
In addition, remember to give your syngonium plenty of bright, indirect light and provide it with its other care requirements. A healthy plant will grow larger and fuller!
How do you prune a leggy arrowhead plant?
A leggy plant means it has long, stretched-out stems with fewer leaves. It’s the opposite of a bushy, full plant and usually means the plant needs more light (think of it as the plant stretching out to find more light). Luckily, this can be corrected!
Use clean scissors or plant shears to cut about a quarter-inch above a node. Cutting “above” means when the vine is pointed up, you should find a node and cut right above it. The node will remain on the mother plant, not the cut-off part.
Nodes are the growth points on plants. New roots, stems, leaves, and aerial roots grow out of the nodes (they often look like bumps along the stem). Cutting right above a node will “activate” that growth point, causing the plant to push out a new stem.
By doing this in the leggy areas of your plant, you’ll be cutting off those bare spots while also encouraging new growth to eventually fill the plant.
Propagating this plant follows a similar process, with one crucial difference. Learn how to propagate syngoniums here (video tutorial included)!
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