Peace Lily - not looking so peaceable! - Help please?
Question:I was given two peace lilies when I moved into my house a year and a half ago. For some reason, over the last few months I have struggled to keep it looking healthy and have not had any flowers for some time.
I am not green fingered and tend to neglect plants as I forget about them..but I have tried hard with these as they are so lovely.
The leaves are still kind up, but the tips of many are browned, and the colour of some of the leaves is changing. There are lots of new shoots coming up and I suspect I need to repot now, but I wondered if anyone had any tips?
Where should peace lilies be kept, how often watered etc.
Answers:
You need to give them a rest, Lilies need a dormant period before they'll flower again.
Put them outside in a cool, shady spot and keep the soil moist but not wet. Protect them from squirrels and strong, dry, winds.
Don't fertilize for a while. The old leaves will fall off and new growth will start soon after.
When they start to send up new leaves, put them in a semi-shady spot for a week before moving them to a sunny spot. Then fertilize with a mild solution when ever you water.
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Like most flowering plants, Lilies flower best when they are slightly pot bound, so wait until you get multiple flowers before repotting.
Last year for the first time my Peace Lily sent a shoot up that was at least 3 feet tall before it flowered. Weird, but what a flower!
Brown tips mean the air is too dry and you can mist daily to up the humidity or get a humidifier, in the mean time just take scissors and trim the leaves in the same shape as they are now. Check and see if it is root bound and re pot if necessary, don't fertilize if you do re pot for a while, till it is well settled into it's new home. Blooming takes some sun, so put it closer to a window and if not repotting fertilize, if you want you can buy fertilizer spikes and you don't have to worry about over doing it. Peace lillies like quite a bit of water and the more crowded the pot the more water it will use. To check put you finger into the soil up to the first knuckle, it its dry, water, and always water until water runs out of the drainage holes. If you water and it just runs through, put it in a bucket or bathtub for half and hour so the plant can soak up water. If when you water, you don't give it enough the roots have to stay up near the top and the plant gets unhealthy quickly. Hope this helps good luck
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