The leafs on my house plant are going brown from the tips?
Question:cant remember what plant is called(fairly sure'upside-down'is in its name)ill try to describe,plant incase there are any house plant experts reading this!its like a mini tree,the trunk is light brown and is round looking at bottom main trunk is about 2" thick the leaves are very long and thin and wavy looking,and grow downward to almost bottom of trunk.id say my plant is almost 1& half foot tall.
It always looks half dead any tips?
Answers:
i'm no expert but maybe if you can find the proper name of it you can look it up on line or just try upside-down tree on your search engine. maybe it needs some food.
Your choice is too wet or to dry. Either one can cause browning of the leaves.
If you have over watered it , lift the plant out and allow to drain on some newspaper. Then when dried to damp replant with a little fresh soil around the outside and in the bottom of the pot. (if it is root bound, use a slightly larger pot)
If it is too dry, put it under the faucet and let it drizzle slowly to thoroughly saturate the plants root system. The pot MUST have a hole in the bottom, and ideally gravel or Styrofoam peanuts to allow the water to drain away from the root system.
When this happens to my plants, I take the scissors and trim off the brown tips.
In my experience the tips of the leaves go brown when the plant is over-watered.
Try not watering it more than once a week for a couple of weeks.
Good luck.
There is a 'Leaf tip burn' caused by too much fertilizer.
Upside down is a fad among a few tomato growers
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