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title: "This plant was too close to the grow light +/- overwatered. I have…"
description: "This plant was too close to the grow light +/- overwatered. I have moved it away from the light and holding off on watering. Should I snip off the yellow…"
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community: "Plant Pro Tips"
author: "JR"
published: "2026-04-05T13:50:43.426911Z"
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# This plant was too close to the grow light +/- overwatered. I have…

_Posted by JR on 2026-04-05_

This plant was too close to the grow light +/- overwatered. I have moved it away from the light and holding off on watering. Should I snip off the yellow leaves? Or could they come back?

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## 2 comments

### ArchNouveau commented on 2026-04-05

Yellow leaves will not turn green again, unfortunately. If it were me I would prune them once they are completely yellow because at that point they are not contributing to photosynthesis but are still taking energy from the plant that could be going towards new growth. I’m sorry this happened! I’ve dealt with the grow light problem with my pothos and parlor palm. I had to raise the light and reduce the number of hours it was on and they’re doing a lot better. Growing with lights has been a learning curve, but necessary because I don’t have any windows with enough light coming in to sustain anything besides a ZZ raven.

### JR commented on 2026-04-05

Thank you. I thought this would be the case. I have a similar plant on the same shelf so I thought it would be ok and probably didn’t notice the yellowing right away

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