French White, Syngonium podophyllum, Arrowhead Vine, or American Evergreen, is an herbaceous perennial foliage plant native to Mexico and Central America. This variety offers green and white variegated foliage with a bushy, vining habit 3-6' tall and 1-2' wide. Juvenile leaves are cordate, maturing to an arrowhead shape. This plant excels in hanging baskets or climbing a moss pole in containers, bringing a tropical feel and striking color and contrast to any houseplant collection. While hardy in zones 10-12, Arrowhead Vine typically grows indoors, flourishing in bright, indirect light with little water and high humidity.
French White Selling Tips
Sell French White to customers looking for a low-maintenance houseplant. This plant offers many benefits, including easy care, a bushy, vining habit, and unique foliage. White and green variegation is a stunning centerpiece in any houseplant collection, and customers enjoy watching leaves mature and change shape. This plant adapts to bright, medium, and even low light and hangs or climbs. Create an attractive array of tropical beauty indoors by growing this plant alongside Philodendron, Ferns, Aglaonema, Peperomia, Pothos, Anthurium, and Fittonia.
Coach Your Customer
1. Grow this plant in bright or medium, indirect light.
2. Water when the top of the soil is dry. The leaves will droop if the plant gets too dry, but will perk back up once watered.
3. Provide temperatures above 70 degrees, although this plant will withstand colder winter temperatures while dormant. Water less often in winter.
General Growing Tips For Your Rooted Cutting Liner
For best results with French White, grow one rooted plug per 4- or 6-inch container. Use well-drained soil formulated from peat, pine, bark, vermiculite, and perlite with a pH of 5.5-6.5 and low feed (150 ppm N of a 3-1-2 NPK fertilizer). Provide temperatures between 70-90 degrees, humidity at 60-100%, and light at 2,500 fc. Watch for aphids, mealybugs, spider mites, bacterial leaf spot, and rhizoctonia.
Flowering
This plant is prized for its foliage indoors, although it can produce clusters of tiny white flowers in its native habitat.
Pinching
This plant doesn't require pinching.
Spacing
Space containers for adequate airflow and sunlight penetration around the base and foliage of each plant.
Height Control
This plant doesn't require PGRs.
Pests
Scout for aphids, mealybugs, and spider mites as part of your commercial greenhouse's Integrated Pest Management program.
Aphids are small, soft-bodied insects that cause damage by sucking sap from plant tissue. They reproduce quickly and are particularly attracted to young growth. Curling and yellowed leaves, stunted growth, and stickiness on leaves are signs of an infestation. These insects also spread diseases and reproduce rapidly. Use biological controls or horticultural oils to discourage and kill aphids.
Mealybugs are small, white, soft-bodied insects that feed on plant sap. They are covered in powdery wax, which gives them a cottony appearance. They reproduce and spread rapidly. Inspect plants regularly for signs of an infestation, including white, cottony masses on foliage. Always check new plants before bringing them into the greenhouse. Remove any highly infested plants from the greenhouse for quarantine or disposal. Introduce beneficial insects like ladybugs, lacewings, and parasitic wasps as biological controls for mealybug populations and apply insecticidal soap or horticultural oils to disrupt lifecycles and feeding. Maintaining a sanitary greenhouse and eliminating debris can deter pest infestations.
Spider Mites are tiny pests that cause stippling, yellowing, and webbing on foliage by feeding on plant sap. They flourish in warm, dry environments. Use correct water and fertilizing practices; over-fertilizing can attract spider mites. Proper humidity levels, predatory mites or ladybugs, and insecticidal soaps or oils may prevent or address a spider mite infestation.
Disease
This plant isn't prone to disease, but bacterial leaf spot and rhizoctonia can develop, especially during production. Sanitize tools and use sanitary growing media and containers to ward off disease.
Pythium and Rhizoctonia are fungal diseases that cause stunted growth, yellowed leaves, and plant death by eating away at the plant's roots. Use well-draining planting media and provide good airflow and spacing in your greenhouse. Allow the soil to dry slightly between waterings and apply fungicides with active ingredients abamectin, spinosad, or imidacloprid to combat these diseases.
Bacterial Leaf Spot results from a bacterial pathogen and causes water-soaked yellow or brown lesions on foliage. These may merge and cause leaves to turn yellow and drop. Prevent bacterial leaf spot by practicing sanitation and hygiene, watering at the base of each plant, and space plants for adequate circulation and light penetration. At the first signs of infection, remove the affected leaves and treat the remaining plants with a copper-based fungicide like hydroxide, sulfate, oxychloride, or octanoate. Use fungicides carefully according to the label's instructions, and be aware that applying copper-based fungicides at high rates or during hot, dry weather can lead to phytotoxicity.
Planting French White Liners
We recommend growing one rooted plug per 4- or 6-inch container. Use well-drained soil and completely bury the ellepot in the center of the container.
Rooted Cuttings
Cuttings vary in size between different plant families. These rooted starter plants will arrive ready to be transplanted in to your final container. If they are to be used in a landscape application, you will need to establish them in a 4 inch pot or an 1801 before planting outside.
Syngonium French White Quick Reference Guide
4 Inch crop time | 8-12 Weeks |
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Habit | Vining |
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Height | 3-6 Feet |
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Light | Bright Indirect/Filtered |
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Minimum Temp | 65 |
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Perennial Zone | 10-12 |
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Water Needs | Light |
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Patented Plant | No |
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