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title: "Hope everyone is doing well. Is my Rattlesnake plant doing ok with…"
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# Hope everyone is doing well. Is my Rattlesnake plant doing ok with…

_Posted by Kier on 2025-05-29_

Hope everyone is doing well.

Is my Rattlesnake plant doing ok with the brown spots and edges? Will they turn back to their normal selves or would I need to cut them off? 😕

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## 12 comments

### Bedroom Botanist commented on 2025-05-29

They will not turn back. I wouldn’t cut them- that might introduce potential infection vectors. Just leave them and focus on the actual cause so new growth will not have the same issues.

#### Kier replied on 2025-05-29

Thank you! I appreciate it

### Beth commented on 2025-05-29

Hello! Mine is doing the same. What are the causes of this happening?

#### Bedroom Botanist replied on 2025-05-29

I agree with Victoria - maybe a pebble tray would work. The best solution would be to increase humidity in the entire room with a humidifier.

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### Victoria Maddison commented on 2025-05-29

Most likely lack of humidity

### Bedroom Botanist commented on 2025-05-29

I keep about 1/4” of water in them, but below the top of the pebbles because you don’t want the water to creep up into the bottom drainage holes of your pots. Helps a lot.

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### Bedroom Botanist commented on 2025-05-29

Distilled water. I go thru a 1.5 gallons a week… not counting actual watering and fertilizing.

### Bedroom Botanist commented on 2025-05-29

She’ll be fine and the unsightly leaves will eventually be a thing of the past.

### Kier commented on 2025-05-29

Thank you so much!!!

### Phil commented on 2025-05-30

Depending on where you live, but many areas are into the rainy spring season. So humidity may not be the case. As someone said it could be your local tap water is not appreciated by your Rattlesnake. RO water or distilled water is best. You could also try filtered water. Not bottled spring water. It has minerals in it. So leaving tap water sit overnight does not work either. There are some aquarium supplements people have found to work. This is not personal experience because I have an RO system and use that for all my plants.

#### Amy replied on 2025-05-30

Do you add fertilizer to the RO water?

#### Phil replied on 2025-05-30

Yes. I just follow the app to fertilize.

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