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Giving my ferns a cold shower fixed their brown tips
They were drying out in my Phoenix apartment even with daily misting. I started putting them in the actual shower under cool water for two minutes every other day, and the new fronds look perfect. Does anyone else run their plants through a rinse cycle?
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dakota_rivera6d ago
Saw my friend try this with her sad looking Boston fern last month (she was convinced it was a goner). She gave it a cool shower twice a week, just like you said, and now the thing is putting out all these bright green new leaves. It's basically her bathroom mascot now. I guess some plants just really want that full leaf soak instead of a light mist.
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james_clark6d ago
Mist daily and you're just asking for mold. That's how you get those fuzzy gray spots on the fronds. A good shower every few days gets water to the roots without leaving the leaves wet for hours. My maidenhair fern got a nasty case of that before I switched to a weekly soak.
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