Syngonium Albo Review | 4 Years owning the Variegated Syngonium Podophyllum | Care and Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video I continue the plant review series, with the Syngonium Albo.
As with all of these reviews, the review is biased to my experience with the Variegated Syngonium Podophyllum in my conditions.
As always I encourage you, if you have this plant too, to add your own review in the comments.
The format is the usual format for these videos:
Some background on my experiences with the Syngonium Albo
Speed of Growth that I have experienced with the Syngonium Albo
Ease of Propagation of Syngonium Albo
Common Pests for Syngonium Albo
Availability
Accessories and Growing tips for the Syngonium Albo
My final thoughts and score on the Syngonium Albo
Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:36 Background
06:46 Speed of Growth
08:37 Ease of Propagation
11:27 Availability
14:21 Pests
16:48 Accessories
19:07 Final Thoughts
23:08 B-Roll
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I'm in the US and haven't seen any albo syngoniums in any big box store or at any local plant shops. I got mine from a private seller. And I'm editing my comment to say how much I love your channel! I love your plants, your knowledge of plants and your content in your videos! Thank you! Keep the videos coming!
Awwwww thank you so so much for the kind words, it truly means the world to me 😊 🙏 🌿 💚 also thanks for sharing what the availability is like in your local area 🙌🙌🙌
Where I'm at in the US, I've not been able to find it in our Lowe's or Home Depot store. Surprisingly I also haven't seen it often available via local sellers. I had to get mine online.
In May 2023, I bought a 4-inch pot of Syngonium albo from a medium-sized online plant nursery for $30. You are correct in emphasizing how fast this plant grows. In about 45 days that I've had it, it's doubled in height and it's even putting new vines from below. I really like it!
I absolutely love my Syngonium Albo, Syngonium are one of my favourite plants. Mine is really large now, about 4ft tall, and I’ve divided and propagated so I’ve got 3, my most recent propagation is living in semi hydro and looks sooooo healthy, leaves are just so shiny and it just looks so happy! I also find mine can tolerate a fair bit of neglect, I probably water mine once every 10 days and on my biggest one I’ve been getting one or two new leaves a week! Just love it, thanks for another great vid! 💚
Awwww that is so awesome to hear that it is growing so happily!!! Yeah this is like the posterchild of benign neglect and still trucking on. So happy for you that your one is getting so huge, they truly are such cool plants.
Thank you for all your very informative videos. You persist and help people like me a lot. With over 100 plants, I always need new information on my plants.
The best things about syngonium, for me is that you can actually decorate with them. Some plants just need and want a window and I hate to deprive them of that but with my syngoniums (I only have a few) I can put in a space where I just want to add a plant. I do wish that other plants were this forgiving haha! There are a couple more syngoniums that I would like to have for this reason.
My pink Thai is not forgiving but the rest love me lol
@@anayamari1 I’d love to see a pic of the pink Thai. Sounds lovely.
that is so very true i never thought about it that way, I definately have a new found appreciation of Syngoniums now, i have always given them loads of light as that is what I thought they needed, but will give your method a try for sure now.
Based in South Korea and this syngonium albo is my first variegated plant, I purchased it in summer for about $10 USD equivalent and I bought it in summer. I kid you not, I get at least one new leaf every week, the growth rate is simply insane! It has 6 leaves when I purchased it, which I then added a small thin moss pole and it just took off XD After 1.5 months it'd reached to top of two 35cm moss poles, so I did a chop and extend, replanting the top half back into the same pot and trimming the roots of the original. It's been about another 2 months and both have already gotten to the top of their 70cm poles again. The growth rate is both a blessing and a curse, but I'd be curious to see how it grows in less than ideal conditions as my plant hasn't seen winter yet.
Also I noticed some reversion about 3 weeks ago on both the original motherplant and the top cutting - I followed the same rule where if it looked like the third leaf was going to be all green then I'd cut it back, so I cut back both. Sure enough, on the mother plant cutting the third leaf is 90% green, and the third leaf of the cutting from the top cutting is still unfurling but it's looking to be about 75% green, so I definitely agree they need a bit of monitoring.
I've decided to let the cutting vine downwards rather than putting them on a pole because they just take over the pole way too fast and it looks a bit silly having such a long pole for such a small plant, but I do like that I planted the first cutting back with the mother plant because it has a much fuller look than a single vine (even though the mother has not got 3 growth points following the original chop.)
Here in Central Florida, HOME DEPOT has more plant selection than LOWEs. And HD does have Albo Syngo. in large pots selling for around $30. Really love your videos!
I got an Albo plant today in Germany (grown in the netherlands) in a middle size for 15 € and gave it a try. It is so beautiful! Thanks for your video!
Mine is finally maturing and getting multiple fingers [5]! Love them 😍
Syngonium albo always looks clean and elegant.
this was fun! in the US (west coast) the syngonium albo v. still isn't in the shops at all. so weird! :)
Syn Albo is a favorite of mine. 💚
It is such an awesome plant, i definitely have come to love it too
I just got a cutting for $12 in TX, US and that was a really good price here!
wow that really is a great price for a cutting. Hopefully it grows huge for you soon too!
Wow i just got mine (with 2 medium leaves) only 3$. I think they are much cheaper here in Asia
Hallo love your plants its beautiful...and your jewlery...have a greate day.Jan from South Africa😉
awwwww thanks Jan, glad you enjoyed 😊
Many of my Syngonium Albo/ Fantasy {Australia) propagations revert to green. However some are throwing out totally white leaves. The lower leaves are varigated or green (which I imagine is helping with photosynthisis) but I now have a vine with totally white leaves and its flourishing. They are still very expensive here.
seee I find the same thing out of all of my variegated plants, the albo syngonium, is one of the few with back to back white leaves (as long as there are some green or green and variegated leaves) that will still keep growing happily.
Good to know on the prices in Australia. Thanks for sharing!
I just purchased my syngonium albo a few days ago. It was $89 Australian dollars for a relatively big plant with a lot of varigation. They aren't terribly common here in Australia. I think I will be cutting mine soon. The main stem is about to unfurl what looks like its second heavily green leaf in a row.
Never seen an Albo in Lowes
Yes love mine just started chop and prop game have a lovely baby have chopped green leaves but can see me having many of them in no time 🤣🤣
Hi Memo! The common names I've seen for this plant are Arrowhead plant/vine, Tri-leaf Wonder and Nephthytis. The albo variety is actually pretty cheap to buy on the private market at the moment (20-40CAD). I think that the reason it's not in production is three-folds: unstable variegation; quick grower (too much to manage in a big production) with a low selling value. Actually, the only unstable variegated plant I've seen in stores is the PPP and I've seen so many of them in my garden center tour yesterday that I feel like our local market is probably already saturated.
About your whitefly problem (which has gotten a lot more out of hand than the one I dealt with last winter...), I may suggest how I got rid of my problem in the case you haven't tried these solutions yet. First step was to spray the affected plant with a dish soap + Neem oil solution and a week or two later, we received some predatory wasps (Encarsia formosa) and some Green Lacewing Fly larvae (Chrysoperla rufilabris) on some little cardboard hangers that I hung on the Abutilon I was treating. Bear in mind that this was at school where we're not allowed to use pesticides and I was being evaluated on the survival of my plant because I would have trashed my Abutilon at home if it had been infested with Whitefly as well as Spider Mites. But it actually worked! After 3-4 weeks, the plant was pest-free and we'd gotten rid of the Whiteflies in the whole classroom!
Ohhh amazing, I have heard of most of those names but not the Nephthytis, that is awesome thanks for sharing. One of the other commenters mentioned the name i was trying to remember it was the Syngonium Fantasy. I think based on their comments it seems to be the common name in Australia.
I agree with you about the reason that it is likely not in mass production, all three of those reasons create the perfect storm for non mass production. Same here with the PPP it is almost everywhere now, I think soon I will start seeing it in th big box stores and the supermarkets.
Awwww thanks for sharing your Whitely methods, that is super sweet that you took the time to explain, I have done most of the methods you mentioned, I think it did start diminishing with the predatory wasps, but i think I didnt do it for long enough or in enough quantity to deal with my whole collection. The lacewings is one thing I did not do this year, but i think when i am back from holiday I might give it a try for sure.
I sometimes used a few drops of an essential oil like lavender in water and sprayed it on outdoor plants.
It is organic ,so maybe that will work.
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I almost bought one because people were recommending it as a practice plant for Albo Monstera...but then i came to my senses and went for the Monstera . I don't have enough space for plants and i also have a habbit of propagating the plants i love or buying multiples . 7 Gloriosums, 8 jewel orchids, 3 queens...i might have a problem. It is better for me to just get the plant i want directly , instead of someting similar since i know i will otherwise end up with both :D
The Syngonium Wendlandii and Llano carti road spoke more to me, I also have a White butterfly that is doing great in lower light. I might get some others in the future because they are so easy but i do agree that most seem quite similar.
(in Germany the Syngonium Albo is going for about 20 to 50 euro depending on size and variagation)
Yep I am fully with you on the just buying the plant you want, it took me years to come to that realisation, but like you I end up with so many multiples and I just really dont have much space any more.
Ohhhh I love my Llano and soon i will hopefully see the Wendlandii again, I saw one a while back and did not pick it up sadly, which I have been kicking myself for, for a while now.
Excellent, the German prices are kinda similar to the prices we have in the UK now too.
I’m with you Memo. For some reason I can’t really put my finger on, Syngoniums just don’t do it for me the way other genre do. I just think that come down to personal taste and if we all liked the same things, life would be very boring, wouldn’t it. I do have the green podophyllum pixie version and think that’s totally adorable and cute, so it’s not like I hate them. But I don’t go out seeking them. I am also remaining open to the idea that maybe I haven’t found one that really strikes my fancy. Another great review. Good luck with the whitefly issue. I get them every summer all over my parsley. Drives me bonkers, but I can’t offer any advice for indoor issues outside sticky traps and fans (they hate breezes) as I have no experience here. Be well 💚🌿
Awww thanks Sharon, nice to see its not just me with Syngoniums, you are completely right that we cannot all like the same things 😊 like you I think i am still holding off for the one that will strike my fancy 💚🌿
I will keep trying with the whitefly, do not worry I will succeed... Eventually 😅😅😅
It’s almost always in online stores in the US. I don’t see it in garden centers or big box in Indiana. Mostly I see it for mid double digits. I ordered one with 3 leave from Ecuagenera for $20.
Ahh that is good to know, excellent news on Ecuagenera, I have heard good things and I really do want to try getting some plants from them soon too. Thanks for sharing your local stats for this plant, that is super helpful.
In France we can find them for 50€ in garden centers.
in the US, its common name is Arrow Head.
Haven’t seen it anywhere here in the Texas city I’m in except our nursery that specializes in rare or hard to find nursery. I think the price here is $40 for a relatively small plant.
Ahhh that's not a bad price, kinda on par to here in the uk 😊
Janky support stick FTW! I put a twine covered stick in with mine, and the air roots are appreciative.
Yay Janky support stick FTW!!! Ohhh I have been meaning to try that actually 😊
why my Maria Allusion turns yellow they very healthy and lots of new growth, but most of the mature leaves turn yellow I think is yellow they turn orange ,dark pink because of the dark colour leaves I think it is to be yellow type , is not overwatered , this is the second plant that has happened in the same way, I kept in the same container when I bought it they usually happens after one leave drop and another one happens again, what do you think is it the problem? thank you
Regarding your whitefly issue I get them attracted to my Syngoniums and Alocasias in my greenhouse and the only thing that works for me is sticky traps and SB Plant Invigorator & Bug Killer. I spray the SB fortnightly and use Neem Oil & Horticultural Soap mix in between. The Albo is ridiculously easy to propagate and it's a plant that definitely gives you your moneys worth although as you said they did get quite high in prices for what they give you in ease of distribution so to speak. I think if the variegation was stable then those higher prices would have been justified. It's going to get to the point where people won't be able to get rid of propagations because everyone will have one 🤔🤔😁Syngoniums as a genus are fantastic plants that you can decorate with in a number of ways, although I keep saying I will have them trailing but as soon as they start to vine I just have to give them something to climb so there are no trailing ones yet in my house. I have them all in different growing media and they are not fussy either. Thanks for another informative video Memo 👏
Hey Carey, that is awesome, I will definately give SB a try, i did get some many years ago and try it, on a different pest (can't even remember which) and i didnt find it works so i dont tent to gravitate towards it, but it makes sense that it might work as SB is also used for veg crops and I know whitefly can be an issue there too. Thanks so much for sharing 😊
Awww glad you enjoyed and also thanks for sharing what the situation is with this plant in your local area
I found that SB doesn't work with Mealybugs even though it's supposed to but it does work on White Fly, Aphids and early, stress on the early, breakouts of Thrips. I use it all year round now rather than when pesky pests are first spotted.
I got mine for free as a cutting from a friends dad whose had it for like 15 years 😊 now that I know it’s not a common plant I wonder where he got it from.
I am not sure if I will pay $40 to 50 for Albo (that is a current price in the US for a 4" rooted plant from a trusted seller.). For the US collectors I can highly recommend Steves Leaves, they have a big luck in growing Syngoniums. I have a Batik and LLano Carti from them and very happy.
Was the common name you heard Syngonium Fantasy? It seems to be what Australian sellers are calling it now that it's got to their big box stores. I had a friend call it that recently.
Can I ask - what is the mature long plant to your right? Looks like a mature melanochrysum but doesn't look to be velvet? It's lovely :)
Yessssss that was it, syngonium fantasy. Ahh the Australia comment makes sense. It took me off guard when I heard it, I thought it was a syngonium I never heard of.
Do you mean the one with the ruffles, it is my mature philodendron esmeraldense and you are completely right it's not velvety, kinda leathery actually 😊
@@Houseplantygoodness That is the one I mean, Esmeraldense isn't commonly found here in New Zealand, it's gorgeous! It was giving me Anthurium Vetchii vibes but I knew it wasn't one. She's a stunner will definitely keep that name in the back of my head for future reference, thanks :)
I bought a mature one of these from a local garden center for £7 a couple of months ago... I'm not sure they quite know what they had. I like it but I wouldn't have bought it if it hadn't been such a bargain.
Syngonium Albo still isn't commercially available at the big box stores... at least not locally. You can sometimes find a syngonium confetti and a few others but not albo.
At plant shops I've seen them. Still pricey but not triple digits. Like many other plants (minus albo monstera) the prices have dropped. Think I saw 4 inch pots for $20-ish shipped on ebay.
Amazing, yeah I think a lot of people are now mentioning the same thing about not in box stores yet, but prices around 20-50
I’m surprise that everyone says it’s a fast grower!! I’m having trouble getting mine to grow. I bought it two months ago as a one leaf cutting, it still hasn’t gave me a new leaf.. I have it outside and it’s very humid here. Any tips?
Ahhh that makes sense. Your conditions seems good, but yeah I had a similar experience looking back all those years when I first bought it, it took a while to start growing, it took a minute to establish. To be fair I have found this with loads of syngonium too 😊 hope that helps 💚🌿
Similar experience - it’s taking a bit of time to get started.
Is there any hope for a plant putting out all white leaves??? I got a highly variegated single leaf cutting and it’s first leaf it put out is like 98% white with just a spot of green and it just put out an all white leaf
As long as you don't get browning of the white portion, your plant should be somehow OK, but it'll probably grow extremely slowly!
I do have an all-white Kalanchoe ''Pink Butterflies'' that's been alive for 6 months now but it's twice as small as the other propagates I got at the same time.
Most plants die it’s rare to survive all white
I have luckily not had all white leaves on younger plants yet ( I think i have just been super lucky and it will happen to me someday too) but based on what I saw from a friend who had this issue, she kept the humidity very high (terrarium) and chopped back the all white leaves, as she still had some with green, and eventually after a long time (like Nacked Grils mentions) it did start getting some green back.
In Pakistan specially in Karachi here very hot weather not showing that result I have synghonium albo but new leaves coming out old leaf died
I really enjoy my albo... found from a local fb group relatively inexpensive. Random question... do mealybugs jump?
hmmm good questions, I don't think they do, their anatomy wouldn't suggest it to me, I might be wrong, but I haven't read anything anywhere stating that they can jump, but if the plants are touching they can migrate from one to another (crawling)
Male mealybugs fly. If you have a plant with an infestation definitely QUARANTINE!
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There is no such thing as "Albo". There are 'Albolineatum', 'Albovirens', 'Albo-micans', and 'Albovariegatum'. We assume you means the last one or the first as those are most common but people talking about "albo this" and "aurea that" are without fail not experts.