Brown tips on my Aspidistra

[RacquelDarrian]

What is the cause of this?

 

[TexMex]

What I know about gardening you could fit onto one of those brown tips but, this site mentions a few reasons.

This one suggests, too much fluoride (from tap water), will cause it.

Other sites mention too much water (especially in winter), or insufficient humidity!

 

[horsechessnut]

It could also be the wind, we seem to have had a lot of it again lately. (if it is outside that is!)

 

[amandaeb]

As TexMex says, I was told this can be caused by insufficient humidity. You can mist water over the plant daily and put a container of water near your heating so it evaporates. Other than that, I cut them off!

Amanda

 

[john.a.page]

It sounds very much like 'sun scorching' to me.

Remember these plants like to be in the cool shade, never in full or half sun. In Victorian and Edwardian times these were kept in a dark (ish) parlour with thick curtains and so rarely saw any full sun.

My old Granmother had a beautiful specimen that she kept in her dark cool front room and it thrived for years. She NEVER repotted it and only fed it once a week from the spring to autumn with cold tea and about once every three months she bathed the leaves with cotton wool dipped in milk.

I have a much smaller specimin that I treat in the same way and it's doing very well.