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title: "What’s wrong with my plant"
description: "What’s wrong with my plant"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/NiZALrtASBeROEC20lQA3w/64izi4Jo3anTIMMmPQ2fAY"
community: "Fern Friends"
author: "1"
published: "2025-07-06T15:07:28.687087Z"
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# What’s wrong with my plant

_Posted by 1 on 2025-07-06_

What’s wrong with my plant

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## 6 comments

### Rhus commented on 2025-07-06

It looks very thirsty/ in need of humidity! If you have a clear plastic bag or bin you can make it a temporary humidity dome to see if it recovers. What kind of fern is it?

#### 1 replied on 2025-07-07

An adiantum

#### Rhus replied on 2025-07-07

I had a button fern that looked like this, and I put it in a mini greenhouse, watered sparingly every day, and upped the humidity to about 75%. It did recover, though it took a few days and lost some fronds. Good luck!

#### 1 replied on 2025-07-08

I bought a humidifier a while ago to help it but I don’t think it’s done much other than keeping it alive

### Rhus commented on 2025-07-08

I got itty bitty stick-on hygrometers for like $10 online and put them up around my plants-- you'd be surprised how dry our homes are. I moved recently to an older/more humid house and it's incredible how much happier my plants are at >50% ambient humidity, but some of them even need more than that

#### 1 replied on 2025-07-08

Thanks I’ll have a look into them

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