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Houseplant hacks: will trimming brown leaf tips do any harm?

Houseplant hacks: will trimming brown leaf tips do any harm?

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Cutting out dead material will make the plant look better without damaging it. But be careful not to slice into the living leaf

The problem

You can really love your plants and still be rewarded with crispy, brown leaf tips. While they won’t kill your plant, they aren’t aesthetically pleasing.

The hack

The tidy-up is simple: cut off the dry, brown parts of the leaf. The plant looks instantly better, and the theory is this does no harm because the tissue is already dead. But the worry is it will hurt the plant or make the browning worse.

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