Two of my newer leaves started browning, but the plant is still growing? I usually water when the soil dries out, which is about every week and a half. It is an indoor plant that stays under a grow light primarily for eight hours a day. Any advice?
by aResidentPotato
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It could be too bright??
Can you provide more photos of the plant? Close ups, under the leaves, the soil, just cover more area of the plant for diagnostic purposes? It’ll help get you a better response to dealing with this, for sure.
Also, wattage of the grow light and what the distance is from light to plant would help.
This happened to my new growth too, found it is was from overwatering
It got sunburn 🙁
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More background to help! In the last month, I did move back to college, so I figured he’s in a bit of shock already. I have poor lighting through my windows, so my plant is typically kept under grow lights.
Looks like it was recently repoted. A plant which goes through such a stress should be keep in shade until it settle down into its new media
Could it be overfertilizing ?
That is how my plants looked (only hella worse) when I left them for 24+ hours in my car in the summer.
Life tip: Don’t do dat.
Thank you for your help everyone! I’m going to experiment these next few days and see if moving it a bit away from the grow light will help.
My leaf just did this- it’s a prop in a fish tank and I’d moved the tank around to drain and refill its water and I forgot to rearrange the prop plants in it so this leaf was face to face with the wall in the corner. I have no clue if it’s bc it had zero light source or if the fish water was too much fertilizing ( the other leaf is happy and there’s a good handful of roots coming out now!) or what.
Only sunburn looks like that. New tender leaves are more sensitive, particularly if there is a sudden increase in intensity.
Looks like sunburn
This is going to sound like a troll, but bear with me, one time I microwaved a philodendron for 5 seconds just to see what would happen. Do we know if plants can survive short bursts of microwave frequencies? I wanted to find out. Anyway, immediately afterwards it seemed totally fine. But after about 24 hours had passed, I checked it again and the leaves looked exactly like this. Do with that information as you will.
My suggestion is to download a light measurement app like “Lux” from doggo apps. You want the monstera to get between 4000 and 15,000 lux 😁
Sunburned
Glow light may be too close