brown tips on Basketplant
Quick answer
If your Basketplant has brown tips, the most likely cause is: Tradescantia spathacea (boat lily, also sold as basket plant or Moses-in-the-cradle) develops brown leaf tips and edges when the indoor air is too dry, because this tropical rosette plant expects higher humidity than an average heated room provides during the cooler months.
Start here:
- 1. Group the boat lily with other houseplants so their combined transpiration raises a humid microclimate around the rosette of stiff leaves.
- 2. Stand the pot on a tray of damp pebbles kept just below the drainage holes, refilling the tray as it dries, so evaporating moisture lifts humidity right around the foliage without waterlogging the mix.
Why Basketplant gets brown tips
Tradescantia spathacea
Tradescantia spathacea (boat lily, also sold as basket plant or Moses-in-the-cradle) develops brown leaf tips and edges when the indoor air is too dry, because this tropical rosette plant expects higher humidity than an average heated room provides during the cooler months.
How to reverse brown tips on Basketplant
- 1
Group the boat lily with other houseplants so their combined transpiration raises a humid microclimate around the rosette of stiff leaves.
- 2
Stand the pot on a tray of damp pebbles kept just below the drainage holes, refilling the tray as it dries, so evaporating moisture lifts humidity right around the foliage without waterlogging the mix.
Keep brown tips off this Basketplant
Keep boat lily in bright filtered light with steady warmth and maintain humidity around the leaves by grouping plants or using a pebble tray, especially through winter when indoor air dries out.