The Anthurium is one of the evergreens on the windowsill. With a little instinct, the plant develops magnificently and is a wonderful room decoration with its intensively colored bracts and flower spikes. Unfortunately, it also reacts quite sensitively to care errors. Often she gets brown spots on the leaves.
Too much moisture damages the anthurium
This can be caused by:
- Watered too much or too little
- pests such as spider mites
- Fungal diseases such as leaf spot disease
How should it be poured?
The natural home of the flamingo flower is tropical rainforests, where it thrives as epiphytic plants or in the light shade of the jungle giants. Therefore you need an evenly moist, but not soggy, substrate and sufficient humidity. If these conditions are not right, the plant often reacts with brown spots on the leaves.
You can remedy this as follows:
- Water regularly, whenever the top inches of the substrate feel dry.
- increase humidity. This can be done with an indoor fountain or evaporator trays.
fight pests
The tiny spider mites suck the plant sap from the leaves, so that they initially get brown spots and then wither. The little animals living on the underside of the leaf are often hardly visible to the naked eye. If you mist the flamingo flower, the webs will become visible.
Spider mites are quite stubborn and often defy household remedies. So that they do not spread further, the anthurium should first be placed individually. Then treat the plant with a suitable agent.
The leaf spot disease
In this case, the leaf spots are quite characteristic: the brown spots usually have a yellow halo, which is clearly distinguished from the green by a black border. Cut back the affected leaves and also apply a spray that kills the fungus.
tips
Anthuriums are quite sensitive to insecticides and fungicides. Therefore, test the active ingredient on a single leaf first and wait a few days. If the foliage is not damaged, you can treat the whole plant.