I put my plant outside for a month (in the shade) and it looks like something’s wrong. It’s had no progress on these two leaves coming out and I’m worried I fried it….does anyone know how I can help? Also some of the super damaged leaves are from when I rescued it but I feel like it got worse when it was outside.
It doesn’t look fried to me, just looks like it got whipped around in the wind. I would cut off the most damaged leaves, since they’re not able to photosynthesize as much when damaged, but the plant is using a lot of energy to keep those leaves going. This will allow the plant to put that energy toward new leaves.
1 like Are you saying cut the whole leaf off? Will it grow a new one in its place?
1 like Yup! Trim as close to the base of the stem as possible. It’ll grow a new one but it’ll take a while. You can look up YouTube videos of people trimming Birds of Paradise leaves if you want to see how it looks :)
0 likesAny of the wilted bottom leaves can be trimmed off, but leave the torn top leaves. As long as they are still green, they can photosynthesize.
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