(Tl;dr: question in the last paragraph)
Hi there!
So my dad recently died all of a sudden and now I'm basically left alone with the entire flat and still have to learn a lot about, well, everything really 😅
Thus this might be a stupid question for the more seasoned gardeners in this community, but I really wanna take better care of our remaining plants after we had to throw out most of them so I gotta learn at least the basics and then some.
I am glad there's the internet nowadays but I couldn't find anything on this specific topic that would've satisfied me so here goes my question:
In the picture I added you can see partially brown leafs. And on the internet it said I should cut them off but only cutting the brown part because its already dead.
But then doesn't the leaf just stay that way and not recover?
Does it recover if I cut slightly underneath the brown part or do I just completely damage the leafs and they can get infested?
by User51973
1 Comment
Hi op, sorry for your loss. My personal belief is that all palms are slowly dying as house plants, it’s just a matter of how long you can hold it off. Once a leaf turns brown, it won’t turn back green. I think if you only cut off the brown parts it should be ok (cutting off the brown is mostly just an aesthetic thing). If you cut past the brown, it will cause the plant to expend resources to seal the new cut in healthy leaf. My recommendation is just cut brown, and don’t cut into healthy leaf, but def open for someone smarter than me to change that opinion