brown tips on Calathea Lancifolia
Quick answer
If your Calathea Lancifolia has brown tips, the most likely cause is: Calathea lancifolia's patterned, lance-shaped foliage burns and bleaches when given too much light; Murray's Beginner Houseplant Garden places Calathea (the genus entry that names Calathea lancifolia as a rattlesnake calathea) in the diva-plants chapter and warns that direct sun will burn the leaves and strip them of their vibrant colors, with faded leaf color as the tell that the plant is receiving too much light.
Start here:
- 1. Move the Calathea lancifolia into bright, indirect light only and out of any window where direct sun rays fall on the leaves during the day, because the chapter is explicit that direct sunlight will burn the foliage and cause it to lose its vibrant colors.
- 2. Confirm the light level by inspecting the lance-shaped markings: if the pattern is fading or the leaf color looks washed out, the plant is getting too much light and should be shifted to a shadier bright-indirect spot before scorch marks set in.
Why Calathea Lancifolia gets brown tips
calathea lancifolia
Calathea lancifolia's patterned, lance-shaped foliage burns and bleaches when given too much light; Murray's Beginner Houseplant Garden places Calathea (the genus entry that names Calathea lancifolia as a rattlesnake calathea) in the diva-plants chapter and warns that direct sun will burn the leaves and strip them of their vibrant colors, with faded leaf color as the tell that the plant is receiving too much light.
How to reverse brown tips on Calathea Lancifolia
- 1
Move the Calathea lancifolia into bright, indirect light only and out of any window where direct sun rays fall on the leaves during the day, because the chapter is explicit that direct sunlight will burn the foliage and cause it to lose its vibrant colors.
- 2
Confirm the light level by inspecting the lance-shaped markings: if the pattern is fading or the leaf color looks washed out, the plant is getting too much light and should be shifted to a shadier bright-indirect spot before scorch marks set in.
Keep brown tips off this Calathea Lancifolia
Display the Calathea lancifolia in a bright room away from direct sun, never on a sunny south- or west-facing sill, so the rattlesnake-pattern leaves keep their color and never develop the leaf burn the book flags as a diva-plant warning sign.