If palm tree gets the brown tips on the leaves.
If it is one of the bottom leaves - you probably have nothing to worry about.
As the palm tree grows - the bottom leaves die, the new ones are coming. Just
cut the bottom leaf off when it becomes unattractively dry and brown. But if it
is the one from the top we are talking about - then it is a problem... |
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Grow palm tree in your house from seed.
(part 1 - Getting seeds ready.)
I always wanted to have a palm tree in my house, just as a houseplant. When
you live in a place with such cold winters as we have here in Ottawa, palm tree
in a house makes the whole winter suffering a bit easier, maybe because
they always associated with some warm caribbean beach in my mind...
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Mealybug - the worst houseplant pest.
It all starts with little cotton-like deposit on a plant, which might be really
hard to notice as it usually appears on the underside of a leaf first. If you
touch it and brake that cotton shell, there will be smooth soft insect with
yellowish-gray body. This little pest can cost your plant's life... |
Potting soil with premixed plant food.
Everybody must have noticed those soil bags with beautiful pictures of healthy
plants on them. There is a sign in the corner :"with plant food". If you
look inside - you will see little green granules mixed into the soil. Use this
soil carefully! ... |