Trim these leaves?
#Aglaonema
I just found this BEAUTY on clearance at my local Lowe's. Should I trim this leaf, or leave it be?
I just found this BEAUTY on clearance at my local Lowe's. Should I trim this leaf, or leave it be?
2ft to light, indirect
6” pot with drainage
Last watered 4 days ago
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Tell you my experience. Sick leaves are like mold in a fruit. You see it but once you do you can’t just cut that part off. The whole fruit needs throwing away. So if you want to trim it so there is no brown there will still be microscopic parts in other parts of the leaf and it’ll just carry on growing into the other parts of the same leaf and make them turn brown too. You’ll just get the plant stressed. My advice. Either cut it whole or leave it and let it die. Which will probably happen since a lot of the leaf is already brown. It could be a lot of different reasons your leaf is doing this and check the others for same signs. But don’t go doing paper figurines on your leaves! ;) Goodluck! Check it’s basic needs though and what’s different to it and the other leaves. Receive same amount of sun? Cold exposure as closer to window than others? Did you pour too hot or cold water to shock the roots of the plant or did you make sure it was like warm? Check the kind of plant you have on Wikipedia and look what temps the leaves can handle too and the temperature of the room they are in. Hopefully bugs haven’t touched your plant though. Cause once they do it’s a never ending battle. If that’s the case and there could be even pests in the roots eating the plant then that opens up a million doors to why the leaf is doing what it’s doing. My idea, don’t stress, there’s all these things it could be and people end up getting worried. Focus on the main things I said at the start the main actual things that matter the most. Also, I say this to everyone. Don’t buy huge plants if you haven’t grown them before. If you even are experienced but don’t know the plant your now a noobie. If you grow it from small you’ll see issues as it grows and if it dies you haven’t wasted the money! You’ll learn tons of different things about the plant and eventually it’ll be extremely easy to understand problems when they arise. Now if you don’t want to, then don’t. But you’ll be having tons of problems you won’t know how to fix! Goodluck though!
I’d like to note! If it’s small brown at one side that’s different! Cutting off a part is sometimes the solution. But this hasn’t affected the whole side but there are dots on different parts and smears going around. There is no cut you can really do. It’s like cancer in a human. If it’s just in an area you don’t just apply therapy to the cancer but the area around it. Now if your leaf has it in different parts and it’s in so many that it’s all around the whole leaf needs therapy if that makes sense. So cutting here isn’t an option.
