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Plant: Peace lily (Spathyphyllum)
How long have you had the plant? 6 months to 1 year
I live in an apartment and I have a peace lily plant and we keep it on the kitchen table and it keeps getting brown tips…just don’t know how to avoid these brown tips from happening. It started a couple of months into owning the plant.
It’s not in direct sunlight and I water it when the plant gets “droopy”.
How do you determine WHEN to water: I wait for the soil to become completely dry.
Describe HOW you water: I pour a small amount of water onto the soil.
Fertilizer? No
Soil situation:
Look at my plant, which I’ve had for over 10 years:
The key to enjoying a plant in the long run is not to prevent blemishes like brown tips and yellowed leaves – it is to provide good growing conditions and care so that new growth keeps replacing older leaves that inevitably die. Cutting off dried and yellowed leaves is totally fine – leaves have a limited lifespan.
So I don’t think there is anything to be concerned about with your browned leaf – you will get many more over the years.
But in terms of “good growing conditions and care”, based on what you’ve told me, here are a few suggestions:
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