What kind of peace lily is this?
tlbean2004
9 years ago
I got this at lowes marked as "peace lily" but it looks a little different that the standard one. These leaves are a lighter color, are not shiny, and have white going down the middle of the leaves.
What is the scientific name for this version?
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plantomaniac08
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What are the most common problems encountered with peace lily's?
Comments (9)Rain water, snow melt, distilled water, as well as air conditioner or dehumidifier condensate are pretty much free of dissolved solids, but bottled water can be very high in dissolved solids, so it isn't reliable as an effective hindrance to necrosis of leaf tips and/or margins. When plants wilt while the soil is still moist, it's a very good bet the soil is too wet, and starved of enough oxygen for roots to function normally, which, since water uptake is an energy driven process, causes loss of turgor and wilting. Unless root function is severely compromised, affected plants normally regain turgor and stand up again as they close stomata in preparation for the dark cycle. If a plant wilts during the day & recovers turgidity at night while the soil is still damp or wet, it needs less water in the rhizosphere or a soil that has better aeration/holds less water at container capacity (when saturated). Al...See MoreWhat's wrong with my Peace Lily?
Comments (18)I wasn't able to view your photos from when you first posted, but was curious as to how your PL is doing now. I have gotten a lot of very helpful advice on this forum.I have a huge PL from grammas funneral two years ago, it seemed to be happy for a long time but lately I noticed it looking a little sick so I did some asking on here and now I ma happy to report it is coming back and looks really good. I water it with water that I let sit for a few days before using it, I keep it in front of a west facing window filtered by sheer curtains, I mist it or set in the bathroom and let shower run for 15 mins on hot then turn off the water and let it sit in there all day with the door closed, I check the soil regualrily so I can water when needed rather than when I think it should be watered, I repotted it in a size bigger pot, I diluted the fertilizer to 1/2 strength, all from advice I recieved here. All or some of the advice worked cuz the leaves all perked up, (they were very droopy, even the new ones)it has a lot of new growth, I don't see any more brown tips and it even has 3 flowers forming. I have a smaller one too that gets all of the same treatment as the big one, hopefully it will be a big one some day. Hope yours is doing well too....See MoreWhat is this? The tag says 'Peace Lily'...
Comments (41)Hi! Apologies for the delay on seeing this post... The photos originally posted plantomaniac08(8) but the photo showing further down is the 'White Stripe' spathiphyllum we used to grow. Sadly, it didn't perform well for us, so we're no longer growing that one. Regarding tags and accuracy: I totally hear you --- our tagging isn't the most accurate in the world. We typically don't go variety-specific on our tags because it makes things MUCH more expensive for us... and we have to keep our costs within the threshold of what our retailer partners are willing to buy our plants for (while still being able to afford to invest in research and development to find and test new plants...). Another problem is that we're human --- everyone makes mistakes and with the volume of plants we produce, it happens from time to time that the wrong tag gets put in the wrong plant. We are always working on making things better, though, and we're testing some different systems that can help us be more specific on tags without becoming crazy expensive. But if you have any questions about our plants, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. Oh, and by the way: I'm working to get every plant we sell photographed and put up on the website with the variety name, but it's a slow process... ---Justin, Costa Farms...See MoreWhat is killing my Peace Lily?
Comments (6)See the middle pot for an example of water 'perching' above a "drainage layer". You CAN make a "drainage layer" work for you under specific circumstances. One way is to screen the vines out of peastone or start with gravel in the 1/8-1/2" size range. Mix 5 parts of the gravel with 1 part of your peat-based soil and lay that down 4-5" deep on the bottom of the pot. You'll still have a perched water table, but since the gravel makes up 83% of the mix and can hold no water, you will have eliminated that fraction (83%) of perched water. Essentially you're utilizing it in such a way that it becomes ballast instead of a failure as a "drainage layer". Another way to use drainage layers is stratification. Water won't 'perch' above another strata if particles in the lower strata are less than 2.1X larger than the size of particles in the strata above. You COULD start out with a thin layer (1") of gravel from 1/8-1/4 on the bottom of the pot (grower size grit) followed by a 1" layer of starter grit, followed by 1" of uniformly coarse sand about 1/32-1/16" (roofing company), then your medium. That should eliminate perched water entirely. Of course, neither of these options does anything for aeration in the problem soil, which is why it's still much better to use a soil made of a very large volume of particles in the 1/8-3/8 size range to increase aeration and significantly reduce the amount of water a soil is capable of holding. Al...See Moretlbean2004
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