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Questions tagged [plant-health]

For questions about how to maintain or assess a plant's health.

Use this tag for general questions about plant health:

  • Is my plant healthy?
  • How can I keep it healthy?
  • What am I doing wrong?

Where appropriate, include symptom specific tags to identify not only your intent but any specific problems you may be having, or that you intend to avoid.

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Chlorine vs Chloramine: Both harmful?

I've seen a lot of information saying that chlorine can be bad for some plants and the suggestion to let the water sit out for several hours before using it on plants. I rarely see anything about chloramine, a common alternative to chlorine in…
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Do I need to leave space at the base of a plant so that air can get into the soil?

I have heard this mentioned many times that at the base of a tree or plant you need to leave the surface uncovered so that air can get into the soil. How true is this? The idea is that if you are laying down decorative pebbles or a thick ground…
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1/4 of my Christmas palm dead, do I cut or leave alone?

One forth of Christmas palm seems dead. Other parts of cluster seem to be doing fine but I don't know if I should cut the dead part off or hope it will come back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Plants turning purple and red?

I recently transplanted a bunch of corn flowers and they are turning purple and red. I also have lupins, tomatoes, and sun flowers turning red and purple. When I transplanted them i dug the hole twice as deep and filled the difference with soil, 3…
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Do porch lights affect how grass grows?

If I leave a light on at night, does this help or hurt the grass? No particular kind of grass, just grass. I'm using CFL light bulbs.
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Discoloration on edges of pink syngonium leaves

I have a pink syngonium plant and some discoloration that feels damp to the touch has started to appear on the edges of some of the leaves. Should I be worried about this? What could be causing it? I live in a basement apartment so I have a grow…
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My Avocado’s leaf are turning brown

I have planted my avocados in soil a month ago and since then they started getting brown edges on the leaf. What should I do?
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Will a snowball viburnum thrive in the San Francisco bay area (Fremont)?

I'm thinking of gifting someone with a snowball viburnum for Christmas. Will it live alright in the bay area (specifically, Fremont)? I heard that the soil may cause some issues.
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Tear in alocasia calodora

There's been a slight tear on my indoor alocasia plant and I was wondering if it'll heal? Is there anything I could possibly do to help it?
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Yellowing leaves on some hibiscus plants

We moved into a new house in SW FL (the Cape Coral area) a couple of months ago, and the front was landscaped with 5 hibiscus plants. All of them are flowering nicely (a nice, fuchsia color), but 2 of the plants have begun to have more and more…
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Pepper plant top leaves deforming

I have used municipal compost 2: river sand 3 pot mix. Chilly planted (2 weeks old) drip irrigation done on a poly tunnel. For the first two weeks growth was really good. But after that, sudden deformation of leaves appears on some plants. First new…
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How can my rubber plant revive?

My Rubber plant shed it's leaves completely, just the last top leaf is left now. The leaves fall turning black from the tips. It was bought from a local nursery in Dec and repotted during spring, it was doing fine till last of may. How can I save…
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Snake plant leaf thinning

So I've had this snake plant fit and healthy for the last 4 years or so, but recently some of the leaves have been thinning around the edges, going almost paper like. It was recently repotted, and I'm somewhat suspicious that the new soil (although…
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Privacy Trees - Keeping alive

I recently bought a property where I'll need around 340 feet of privacy trees. I'm planting around 35-40 Thuja Green Giants on the property line. However, I'd like to get these trees in the ground soon - or during the fall. We will not have a…
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Phoenix Canarienses going brown and dying

Hope you can help. I have a beautiful Phoenix Canarienses that was very healthy till this summer and then suddenly is going brown and slowly dying but I have no idea what is the reason. I have attached some pics so you can have a look. I came back…
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