- Causes of brown leaves or leaf tips
- Check for pest infestation
- Ensure optimal site conditions
- Cut off brown fronds or not?
It is not uncommon for the golden fruit palm or areca palm to get a few brown leaves every now and then or for a few leaf tips to turn brown. It is different when many leaves turn brown. Then there are usually errors in maintenance.
Brown leaves can be the result of incorrect location
Causes of brown leaves or leaf tips
- Location too dark
- too much moisture in the root area
- too dry
- too low humidity
- pest infestation
The golden fruit palm needs a lot of water, but it does not tolerate waterlogging at all. Water the palm regularly, but make sure that the water does not pool at the roots. If the temperature falls below 18 degrees, reduce the amount of water and water accordingly less.
Check for pest infestation
Brown leaves also develop when the golden fruit palm is infested with pests. These are spider mites or thrips. You can recognize spider mites by the fine webs that form in the leaf axils. Thrips leave brown nubs on the leaves.
Take countermeasures immediately.
Ensure optimal site conditions
The golden fruit palm likes it very bright. However, it does not tolerate full sun in summer. The fronds burn and turn brown. Provide indirect light. Let the palm tree spend the summer outside on the terrace.
In winter, however, the Areca palm likes a sunny location by the window.
Cut off brown fronds or not?
Brown discolored leaf tips can be cut off with scissors.
If the frond is already half dry, leave it on the palm until it is completely dry. It is then cut off close to the base.
tips
The Areca palm can also be grown well in hydroponics. However, you should buy palm trees that have already been hydroponically grown. A subsequent adjustment from earth to water is usually doomed to failure.