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title: "Advice needed! Why are the tips of my spiders always brown? I have…"
description: "Advice needed! Why are the tips of my spiders always brown? I have them in a northern window with a grow light. I only water them with distilled water when my…"
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author: "Amateur plant mama"
published: "2026-09-09T23:37:30.558351Z"
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# Advice needed! Why are the tips of my spiders always brown? I have…

_Posted by Amateur plant mama on 2026-09-09_

Advice needed!  
Why are the tips of my spiders always brown? I have them in a northern window with a grow light. I only water them with distilled water when my moisture meter is leaning towards dry. Even the plant with the baby has brown tips. I don't know what else to do.

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## 7 comments

### SJ commented on 2026-09-09

Very common and usually has to do with humidity

#### Amateur plant mama replied on 2026-09-10

Thanks! I moved them all to the same area since I'm getting a baby and that one seems happy.

### Tim commented on 2026-09-10

I think they look great! Brown tips are no big deal. Very common.

#### Amateur plant mama replied on 2026-09-10

Thank you!

### Michigan mommy commented on 2026-09-10

Stop bothering with distilled water. If your tap water is nasty, put it through a brita filter. Spiders don’t need distilled water, and actually distilled water can be very detrimental to soil health and pH balances.

#### Amateur plant mama replied on 2026-09-10

Oh interesting. I thought I read somewhere distilled can help with the brown tips. If I can just use tap that's much easier.

#### Michigan mommy replied on 2026-09-14

Distilled is really only the answer for extremely sensitive plants or plants that want zero nutrients in the water like carnivorous Plants.

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