Philodendron Florida Beauty Tissue Culture

Okay, Florida Beauty is one of those plants that makes you check every new leaf like it’s a tiny surprise party.

The Philodendron Florida Beauty Tissue Culture is a beautiful choice for rare plant collectors who love unique leaf shapes, fun variegation, and watching a plant grow from the very beginning. As it matures, Florida Beauty can develop gorgeous cream, yellow, and green variegation, and each plant has its own personality.

This plant comes as a tissue culture, which means it was grown in a sterile lab environment and will need proper acclimation once it arrives. This is not a “throw it on a shelf and hope for the best” kind of plant baby. It needs humidity, patience, and a gentle transition into normal growing conditions.

Once acclimated, Philodendron Florida Beauty does best in bright indirect light, warmth, humidity, and a well-draining growing mix. Leaf shape, size, color, and variegation can vary from plant to plant, which is honestly part of what makes growing rare plants so addicting.

A little note from us: Make sure you’re comfortable with tissue culture acclimation before purchasing. These little lab babies need a good start, but watching them take off is so worth it.

Acclimation Steps We Follow (THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY…THIS IS JUST WHAT WE DO):

1) DON'T TOUCH IT. 👀 Let it acclimate for 2-3 days to the temperature of its new environment. Try to keep it out of direct sunlight to avoid browning of leaves 

2) RINSE IT.💦 (We wear gloves 🤷♀️) Get three bowls out, bowl 1 = distilled water for first rinse…use a small paint brush and your fingers to get all of the agar off the plant (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT), bowl 2 = distilled water with 2 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide…after clean throw TCs in this bowl for 15-20 seconds (ish) to sterilize, bowl 3 = distilled water for final rinse…one last rinse to remove the peroxide and ensure all agar is off the plant.

3) DRY IT. 🧻 Lay the rinsed TCs on a paper towel to try and get some of the excess water off the plants. 

4) DIP IT. 🍄🟫 We dip our TC roots in a 50/50 mixture of Rooting Powder and Mycorrhizal Fungi. This helps accelerate root growth and promote faster rooting.

5) PLUG IT. 🤎🔌We use grow plugs (brownie plugs). It’s fast and easy and we have had consistent success with this method. Split in half, slap your plant in there and you’re all done. 

(STEPS 4 AND 5 ARE PERSONAL PREFERENCE AND WHAT WE HAVE HAD SUCCESS WITH, THERE ARE OTHER METHODS AND MEDIAS THAT CAN BE USED)

6) DOME IT. 😶🌫️For best results place your TC in some form of humidity dome to produce 100% humidity for the first two weeks of acclimation, slowly reduce humidity and introduce air flow for the next two weeks before you leave your new plant at ambient humidity. 

7) WATER IT. 💦 We water our plugs in with our general houseplant fertilizer with tap water out of the facet. If you want to play it safe use distilled water..we want the extra nutrients and don’t like to wait to get our plants used to tap water. Try to keep water off the plants leaves as much as possible 

8) LIGHT IT. 💡Make sure your new plant is getting 12-16 hours of sufficient light.