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New leaves coming out with dry, black tips (infosec.pub)
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I've had this plant for a while in other countries, and it was always very easy going. But after the last time I moved the sapling I took with me has started struggling.

The picture is not a perfect illustration, but you can see new leaves coming out turning black in the ends, and eventually drying out and dying. This already happened with a lot of leaves that I cut off, but now it's repeating itself with the new ones.

The plant has been in a relatively bright spot and I think it has received enough water that it shouldn't be the problem. The black parts are completely dead. Does anyone have any idea what can be done? :)

I'm sorry the picture is not more illustrative.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Using rainwater has always solved blackened tips for me. Forgot the class, but my professor was talking about how plants will move the chemicals in tap water to the leaf tips to get rid of them.

If collecting rainwater isn't practical, fill a wide-mouthed pitcher with tap water and let it sit for a day, preferably in the sun.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Is it about chlorine? Cause my tap water doenst have any added chemicals, just a bunch of limescale

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Hard water can build up in the soil. There's some plants I've had in the same pot for a long time where the top of the soil starts to look a little "crusty", even though i don't have particularly hard water. If you have a lot of lime scale, your water pH is likely high, which can make it hard for plants to pickup nutrients.

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