The tips of my house plant are turning brown :( what can I do to minister to her and prevent this? Do I trim the brown parts or the whole leaves? I have...
Do I trim the brown parts or the whole leaves?
I have adjectives kinds of house plants
well if you help yourself to the whole leaf bad a new one will grow back but if you newly trim the brown part of it will just look kinda abnormal but i think the brown part is lately that leaf dieing so a new palm leaf can grow... First try buying some plant food and adding it to your water.Also use a spray bottle to spray the plants leaves and setting it out surrounded by the sun.
Burnt tips are usually sign on chloride toxicity. Cl is common in municipal drinking hose down systems. Often, we only apply a cup or two of water to our houseplants and level of Cl begin to build over subsequent waterings (months). Therefore, it is a good view to leach these accumulated salts by watering your plants heavily. I usually will nick all of mine outside on the lawn and hose down each plant- about 5 times!
This will remove the salt and hopefully make your plants happier.
PS. It's a great time to fertilize your plants after you leach them. Elenors, VF-11 is my favorite.
Good Luck
Answers: If it is just the tip of the leaves that are browning consequently it is probably that you are using tap water. If you set out the tap water out over darkness the chlorine will come out of the water and will not cause the brown tips to form. Plants that are especially susceptible are spider plant and peace lily.
Also if you are watering too commonly you may be drowning them. Try to water your indoor plants only once a week and check in the past you water to make sure they aren't still raining from the week before. If they are moist then afford the watering a pass for a few more days. The reason the leaves turn brown beside this sort of thing is that the plant is actually losing it's root supply and if it doesn't hold roots then it can't take up hose and the plant dies from lack of water even though it have too much. Leaves will go from yellow to brown and after die. Sometimes new leaves will do this. Weird huh?
If you aren't watering once a week then it may be too dry. In this suitcase they usually start by losing the oldest leaves first by browning and getting brittle dry.