Stop Killing Your Peace Lily Houseplant - SPATHIPHYLLUM Care Guide

[@coffeejellyash]

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[@HouseplantHacks]

This comment wins the internet for me this week! 🙏

[@linnea323]

Thanks for this video! I gave up on my Peace Lily's, no matter how much I cared for them, had 2, they were not completely happy🥲. So I moved the 2 to my parents' house and they started to brighten up, unfortunately one didn't make it in the end. The other one is thriving, so I decided to keep it at my parents' house. Maybe someday I'll get another Peace Lily, when I moved to a bigger house, but for now I'm good and enjoying my Peace Lily whenever I visit my parents😁

[@ld1994]

Lilies^. Not lily's

[@alvaromora3981]

THIS is what I needed!! I was leaving my peace lily dry before watering it again and it didn’t seem to work well on it. Thanks for the advice!!

[@NJack-uu8ej]

Thanks for this. My 25-year-old miniature spathiphyllum has taught me so much about its needs, which have been anything but straightforward. It started out as several small specimens belonging to my mother, who grew them in a narrow planter (with no drainage) attached to a wall, facing a large northwest picture window. They did surprisingly well, but when Mom passed, I transplanted them all into a very large plastic pot with good drainage and placed it in a large northeast window. It didn’t go well for the next 10 years. The leaves were sparse with brown tips and the plant bizarrely shot out 7 or 8 flowers at a time once per year in the spring, and then none for the rest of the year. I was careful about fertilizing, watering and humidifying, although from your guidelines, perhaps I didn’t water it thoroughly enough or often enough. Finally, I was ready to ditch the plant when it lost most of its leaves, but decided as a last effort to take a chance and put it outdoors during the summer, even though my deck has full sun all day, and I knew there was a risk of burning. At about the same time, I happened to read a review stating that this plant is highly sensitive to chlorine and should have either rainwater or distilled. Anyhow, the wonderful result is that the plant completely changed after a few weeks outdoors. There was a lot of both sun and heavy rain, but in no time the plant became very lush, with plentiful tall and glossy green leaves. It was more than a bit of shock to see, after so many years of the poor thing looking so awful. After bringing it in at the end of summer it was pretty waterlogged, but seemed happy. I top-dressed it with fresh soil, but didn’t water it for 3 months, as it was still moist and continuing to put out leaf after gorgeous leaf. I now keep it somewhat back from a corner east-south-west window, water it with distilled, and supplement lighting with a GE Par38 grow light. It’s obviously happier than ever. And although it hasn’t put out any flowers yet since its amazing recovery, I’m not concerned. I guess the moral of this plant’s story is ‘never give up’!

[@leoniebell7055]

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[@leoniebell7055]

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[@LindaTreliving-l8l]

I must be doing something right. I have two in my east windows and there are 6 to 8 blooms most of the year. What a beautiful plant.

[@HouseplantHacks]

They obviosuly love their position and care, well done!

[@MzEbony_Luvz]

Thanks for these helpful tips, you got straight to the points.

[@rosehemenway5238]

Mine doesn't bloom. Don't know why.

[@_nicohofma]

spathiphyllum tend not to bloom all year round despite being advertised to and seeming to do so when you see them in store, this is because a lot of nurseries that supply them spray them with a hormone that encourages them to bloom before shipping them off. so don't worry too much if your lily isn't blooming all year round, chances are it will eventually if you are patient and keep looking after it well :)

[@johnnewbold-knipp3117]

Hi there. Could you please post an update on your bromeliad propagation from 2 years ago? I am wondering if the pups ever bloomed?

[@HouseplantHacks]

They are all doing OK but growing and maturng very slowly, I think they need more intensive light and heat to push them on to flowering. I'm thinking now that they will grow faster staying with the mother.

[@vibertmartin9157]

Beautiful and different 👌👍

[@yolyrom7233]

I left on vacation twice recently, and thought I had left enough water. Upon my both my return’s I thought I killed it. She survived. I now use a self watering pot with Leca in the reservoir so my Var. Peace Lily can drink as much water as needed. Lol

[@HouseplantHacks]

That's a good idea.

[@xiangzhou7069]

Watering tips are helpful! I got what you said about they preform better in nursery, but mine grew several really small flowers and bloomed. Are they being small because there are two big ones took over nutrients? Or it’s just lack of sunlight?

[@HouseplantHacks]

That's great to hear if you managed to get several smaller flowers that's a sign that you have given your plant the best possible conditions, the size of the flowers can be dependent on both the amount of light and the nutrients, if you have several flowers growing back I would say your lighting is probably right, maybe you could experiment with a slightly higher level of fertilizer and see if that increases the flower size in the next season? if you are using 10-10-10 NPK maybe you could try 20-20-20 and see what difference that makes, but work up in strength slowly as too much can be harmful too. In general, to get Peace Lily to reflower at all is a good result so you are doing well so far. :-) Let us know how you get on. Andy

[@angieclarke1363]

One of my flowers has gone brown & wilted, what do I do please? P S. My mother sent me this & is praying for it as I'm not very good with plants😱so any info would be much appreciated, plus she can stop praying & checking up on it on a weekly basis ❤

[@HouseplantHacks]

It's hard to know without knowing about the watering routine, light situation etc. The flowers only last so long before they die and another one will come out so maybe cut this one back and see how it goes. Please send my regards to your mother.

[@jacquelinealbornoz6702]

Which month is the "beginning of the season"? I'm from Australia

[@HouseplantHacks]

Spring? I'm not sure if it ever gets cold in Oz so maybe not appropriate but whn the plant goes from cold months to the beggining of the warmer months. Maybe from your prespective going from hot to hotter!

[@CramaPunk]

Feeding once a month could give your peace lily green flowers (spaths). Also there are different species of this plant who need quite the same care but have different looks and behavior. I have an adult plant with much darker leaves than your example, with thicker leaves and spaths (flowers) and it grows quite bushy but stops at around 45cm height. I get 2 sets of 3 flowers/spaths during summer and autumn every year. Mine also loves a spray of water everyday onto leaves in summer aka being kept free of dust. Yours is quite generic advice you could just google and read up in a minute.

[@kimr4402]

I have had my peace lily for 2 months. It had one large flower. It thrived into 5 flowers but now my plant is drooping and the leaves are turning yellow. I was watering once a week. The weather turned cloudy and cold again for the last 3 weeks. That was a change. I used tap water to water it. I had been using bottled water. It continues to wilt and yellow. I looked at the roots and the bottom is dry. Should I give it a lot of water and get it good and wet?

[@HouseplantHacks]

if the roots are dry I would say give it a good water and make sure all of the soil and roots are getting the water, a little water is not enough to get to all the roots.

[@bryanyang1453]

I pruned my peace lily aggressively and it never grew back. 😢

[@MattBeck21]

Top tips 👌🏼. Thanks Andy.

[@HouseplantHacks]

Any time Matthew! :-)

[@jaydavies2001]

🙂

[@ld1994]

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