Alocasia brown tips and edges? Check the water.
Alocasias have a reputation for being dramatic. A lot of that drama is a plant with thin leaves and sensitive roots reacting to what is dissolved in its water.
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Is it your water?
Tips and edges brown while the veins and center stay a healthy dark green.
You see white mineral crust on the soil or the pot.
You water from a city tap or a softened line.
Two of three and it is the water:
Why alocasia edges burn
Alocasias take up a lot of water and push it to the leaf margins, where it evaporates. Fluoride, chlorine by-products and mineral salts are left behind at the edge, and the tissue dies back from there.
They also dislike swings between soaked and dry, which makes the damage worse.
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Three steps to clean new leaves
Keep moisture even. Water when the top inch is dry.
Switch to filtered water and flush the pot once to clear built-up salts.
Raise the humidity with a humidifier if your air is very dry in winter.
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When it is not the water
Alocasias drop leaves and go dormant in cool, dim conditions, and that is normal. Spider mites love them; check the undersides of the leaves. Yellowing of a whole lower leaf as a new one opens is also normal.
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