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    Best water for dracaenas

    The best water for dracaenas

    Growers have known for decades that dracaenas burn on fluoridated water. It is in the textbooks. The brown tips on your corn plant or dragon tree are the same reaction, in your living room.

    • Removes chlorine, chloramine and fluoride
    • Adds back 20+ minerals
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    Watering a houseplant with the Pearl Roots filtered watering can
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    Filtered, rain or distilled water, and nothing softened. Fluoride is the cause of brown tips on dracaenas, and it stays in water that is boiled or left to sit. Filtered and remineralized water removes it.

    The cause

    What dracaenas react to

    Fluoride, above all.

    Chlorine and chloramine.

    Perlite dust and superphosphate fertilizer, both fluoride sources.

    Softener salt.

    Clean filtered water being poured onto a houseplant
    Options

    Which water to use

    Tap water
    What it does for this plant
    Carries chlorine, chloramine and fluoride straight to the roots
    Catch
    The usual cause of fluoride burn
    Tap water left out overnight
    What it does for this plant
    Loses chlorine only
    Catch
    Chloramine and fluoride remain
    Distilled water
    What it does for this plant
    Clean, nothing harmful
    Catch
    Contains almost no minerals
    Rain water
    What it does for this plant
    Excellent
    Catch
    Only when you have it
    Filtered and remineralized
    What it does for this plant
    Removes chlorine, chloramine and fluoride and keeps minerals
    Catch
    Needs a filter
    Pearl Roots filtered watering can

    Watering Can With Filter and Remineralizer for House Plants

    Filters chlorine, chloramine, fluoride and lead as you fill it, then adds back 20+ minerals

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    The fix

    How to switch

    Use filtered water from now on.

    Flush the pot thoroughly once.

    Trim brown tips at an angle and watch the new growth.

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    Pearl Roots filtered watering can

    Watering Can With Filter and Remineralizer for House Plants

    Filters chlorine, chloramine, fluoride and lead as you fill it, then adds back 20+ minerals

    Free shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee

    plus sales tax where applicable

    Questions

    Frequently asked questions.

    Ready when you are

    Better water, tonight's watering.

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    • Replaceable filter packs