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Posted 2w ago by @WinChards70

My corn plant has brown leaf tips. How do I fix it?

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1ft to light, indirect
14” pot with drainage
Last watered 5 days ago
Brown tips on a cornstalk dracaena usually come from dry air, inconsistent watering, or minerals in the water. Trim the tips, adjust watering, and switch to filtered water
@AridRunner Adjust watering more or less? I have been watering weekly. Should I adjust amount or frequency of watering? Thank you!
@WinChards70 I’d stick with watering about once a week, but focus more on the soil moisture than the schedule. Dracaenas like it when the top inch of soil dries out before the next watering. If the soil is still damp on watering day, wait a little longer. If it’s dry sooner, water a bit earlier
One of my plants has that same name
probably low humidity. if you have it near an AC vent, you should move it away from the AC vent, and if you’re unable to move it away from the AC vent, consider investing in a humidifier, and place it next to the plant, to try to cancel out some of the cold air that’s drying out your leaves. if it’s not next to an AC vent, then your house is probably just naturally really dry, so you’ll need a humidifier to try to add some moisture and humidity to the dry air.
Would this guy fair better in a bathroom where people are taking hot showers nightly? I lost a great plant do to rot from too much humidity in the bathroom so I want to find a plant that needs more humid conditions for that area specifically. This one would be too big though for the location.