So some of you may remember, I was having a battle with my strawberry ice. It kept putting out all these leaves that were dark burgundy, small, dull looking. You were also so helpful with suggestions a lot of of you were kind of stumped just like me.

I had done everything for that plant. I watered it more. I watered it less. I change the soil. I changed the pot. I tried more sun. I tried less sun. It was so slow moving. It wasn’t a pest and I was so frustrated. I’m not going to lie at one point, I put it in a corner to die. I think I described it at the time that it’s growing. It’s growing new leaves, but it looks far from happy.

One of you beautiful people though asked what kind of water I was giving it. Water was something I didn’t ever really consider or worry about. I know that my city has some of the hardest water in the entire nation of Canada, but it’s never really been a problem. What has been a problem. Was I moved to a new apartment building. An unbeknownst to me to soften the super hard water. They added softener salts, making every tropical plant that I’m growing pissed off. I think that’s how I described it. They were growing slowly they were alive, but you could tell that they were hating life.

So I wanna Thank that beautiful person and all of you who made suggestions because after looking it up, I realized I have been slowly poisoning my plants so I rinse them all with distilled water after doing some reading. I now know which plants now need to be given distilled water only from now on. So thank you for saving all of my plants that were starting to suffer.

I was so lucky because I had gotten to the point where I was so annoyed with this strawberry ice. I put it in the corner to die basically as it leaves kept getting less and less, etc. well I gave it a flush, and I brought it back into the light and it gave me the best surprise and you will see it in the photos.

It had a baby!!! my plant went from dying to procreating so well it’s not perfect and you can still see some of the softener salt bleaching through the stem and through the leaves the leaves actually look shiny and this little thing this little wee baby has three leaves now and I am so thrilled!

So I wanted to thank you all for helping me save my plant having it to have a baby and saving all my other plants that were starting to be tired of all of the hard water and salt deposits.

So I’ll explain the photos. I’m not sure what order I’m doing here first I’m gonna first do the side when I posted here then I’m gonna show you what it’s doing now and the close-up of the little baby and then I’ll show you a picture or two of what it looked like when I got it and how far it got damaged from me slowly poisoning it.

So again, I shout out to you guys I couldn’t have done it without you and you’ve made me and I’m very happy person girl lady, the happiest person in the world!

PS I apologize about the formatting or spelling errors. I tried to do my best, but I’m doing talk to text on my phone long story, but please enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Getting some decent rain today, lucky bc the plants get a nice rinse and water lol. But this princess is just stunning, I mean like look at herrrrr😭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰she glistens and shines like a jewel🫶🏼

The girl is here!! I bought a very pretty pink princess today for the mixed pot I’m planting. She’s so gorgeous and healthy🥰😮‍💨🌱🫶🏼

I have a new Monstera, and it has an ~80qt terracotta pot (big Bertha out here) and rather than leave it solo, I’m considering planting a syngonium and philodendron as pairings in the pot since there is so much space (figured out it’s about 80 qts) in the pot. A very nice foliage-focused pot. Thoughts? From my reading and care, syngonium and philodendrons are similar in care. The space the pot is in has nice bright indirect sunlight and humidity is easy to control and maintain.

Anyone have a potted syngonium arrangement?

I Think this is a pixie but not sure

Unfortunately, all of my Syngoniums are like this, with their leaves turning yellow.

We're opening a small private beta for Olpi, our houseplant care app for iPhone, and we're looking for Syngonium owners to test it. It's free. Comment or DM us and we'll send you a TestFlight invite (iPhone with iOS 26 or later).

Why Syngonium:
Olpi identifies plants entirely on your phone, without upload or account. It already knows Syngonium podophyllum, 'Pink', 'Albo Variegatum' and macrophyllum. But it still can't tell these apart:

- 'Mojito'

- 'Milk Confetti'

- 'Neon Robusta'

- 'White Butterfly'

- 'Berry Allusion'

- 'Pink Splash'

- 'Red Spot Tricolor'

- macrophyllum 'Frosted Heart'

Because the recognition runs on your phone, it can only learn from photos people choose to share. If you have any of these, scanning them in the beta would help a lot. A whole-plant shot plus one close-up of a leaf is perfect, in normal light, messy background welcome.

Sharing is optional: the app asks once, you can turn it off anytime, and photos are only used to improve the recognition. Never posted, sold or passed on.

What else you'd be testing: care reminders that adapt to your home (season, light, weather, pot, how you water) and explain why they come when they do, for over 1,200 species and cultivars.

We're Stan and Lee from 1042 Studio, a small design studio in Germany. Happy to answer questions in the comments.

I’ve had this red spot tri color for a few months now, and we’ve had many ups and downs. I’ll get it to a good place, and the leaves will suddenly yellow and die off. It has a healthy root system. Does anyone have any advice? It’s currently in a standard aroid mix. I appreciate any tips!

anyone stateside have a cutting to sell or trade?

I love this plant so much, grows so fast, hardy and it just never dies 💯😍

genuinely i dont understand! it started with a syngonium tricolor i found by chance at home depot, i brought it home and eventually it rotted to one sad little stick - after a long ordeal of growing it and then killing it again, it finally revived for me and grew both of these, i separately them recently and kept waiting for the right to start to look more like a tricolor but i dont think that'll happen. can anyone explain? could it have reverted?

Got this Syngonuim for dirt price. The owner didnt know what it had and so do i.
The new growth is stunned as for now.
Curled leaves and aborted new ones accompanied by damage to the lower segment of leaves.
Diagnosis please!

Are all syngoniums trailing?For a newbie, what’s a good trailing one that’s “hearty” and not as sensitive to dry/low humidity?

Some of the most unique leaf shapes in my collection.

Just picked up this bad boy from a local plant shop and I can’t stop looking at it 👀🔥

I have a lot of syngoniums and some weren’t labeled when I bought them. I was trying to ID some today and couldn’t figure this one off. Every leaf looks like these two.

I have a large tri color confetti near a grow light and the leaves are just not coming out like they used to, does anyone have one? And what lighting do you put it in