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title: "This is my prayer plant that I inherited from my nanny after she…"
description: "This is my prayer plant that I inherited from my nanny after she passed away. I am very new to plant care and I am a bit concerned about the brown bits on the…"
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community: "Prayer Plant Allies"
author: "Scarlett"
published: "2025-09-04T12:56:48.751327Z"
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# This is my prayer plant that I inherited from my nanny after she…

_Posted by Scarlett on 2025-09-04_

This is my prayer plant that I inherited from my nanny after she passed away. I am very new to plant care and I am a bit concerned about the brown bits on the tips of some of the leaves. Any help/advice would be much appreciated! Thank you!

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## 11 comments

### Crazy plant lady commented on 2025-09-04

Not enough humidity, I keep mine in the bathroom, when I bought mine it was attached to a moss pole to train to grow up instead of out, they are natural creepers and with it being a prayer plant the leaves will move with the sun

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### Crazy plant lady commented on 2025-09-04

Possible a little too much sun as well just a little though

### happysoxdonkey commented on 2025-09-04

In my experience they need to be watered with only filtered, distilled or conditioned water by adding a few drops of fish tank water conditioner.

#### Scarlett replied on 2025-09-04

Great, I’ve been using filtered water! Thanks.

### EllenLikesPlants commented on 2025-09-05

Such beautiful colors!!

#### Scarlett replied on 2025-09-07

Thank you!!

### MrsT commented on 2025-09-07

I'm in the UK and the fish tank dechlorinator, and since I started using It the new leaves aren't getting the brown tips. 😁😁😁

#### Scarlett replied on 2025-09-07

Fab! I’ll try that too, thank you

#### happysoxdonkey replied on 2025-09-07

That’s what I do. I add five drops of fish tank conditioner to my filtered water. My calathea are flourishing.

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### Libby commented on 2025-10-15

This might be too late but - I recently heard that if the tips of prayer plants are browning it could be from your water! The water traveled all the way to the tips and if there’s too much mineral build up it can do this!!

#### Scarlett replied on 2025-10-15

Very helpful, thank you!

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