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Lucky Bamboo Leaves Are Turning Yellow?

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December 3, 20091 found this helpful

Yes, it's the tap water. Buy some good bottled water, don't use brita, it's junk. I have had & sold those reverse osmosis systems, for over 25years. Brita sucks.

What I would do is, pour fresh water on it & change it everyday for a couple of weeks. You need to help flush out the bad stuff from the tap water. See in tap water they put ammonia & chlorine in it. Separate, these can be used by the plant for fertilizer, but when they combine them, they make chloramines, which is a completely other thing & the plants can't use them. Plus tap water is really hard & plants like soft water, like rain is.

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I don't know if it would work, but there are a couple of things you might try, while you flush out the bad stuff. I don't know how much water it takes to water these plants or to cover their roots, but to say 1cp of water, add maybe 1/16th tsp vinegar, or maybe less. Soft water is on the acid side (low Ph), this will make it more acid. It also breaks down the hard minerals in the water. Also, I have a potato vine on my front porch & it's huge, but occasionally it starts to get yellow leaves & will drop a ton of them. When this happens I add just a drop or 2 of household ammonia to the water. Now my watering can holds about 1-3/4qt of water, so u can figure out the dilution if you want to try it. It greens up the leaves in no time at all. I only do this for one or 2 waterings in say 6 months, but it works well. Sometime plants need nitrogen & ammonia is exactly that. Don't use this on flowering plants, only foliage plants.

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