Find Your Ask the Expert: The tips of my lucky bamboo plant leaves have turned brownish and dry. I only put distilled water in the pot, mist the leaves, fertilize with the green drops occasionally, and keep the plant on my dining room table under the light fixture, away from direct sunlight. What could cause the brown, dry tips? Should I cut them off? Please advise. Thanks very much.
Lucky Bamboo With Brown Tips – What’s Up?
June 4, 2008 by
Martin,
There are three things that cause brown tips on Lucky bamboo:
1) Fluoride
2) Too Much Fertilizer
3)Dry Air
Fluoride should not be a problem since you are using distilled water. So it has to be a fertilizer or dry air problem. Change your water and don’t fertilize for a couple of months. Lucky bamboo like to be misted every day. Since yours is under a light which can remove moisture from the air either, increase your misting or move it from under the light. I would remove the leaves or trim the brown tips off. Your new growth should be healthy if you follow the suggestions above.
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