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Hello everyone! Newbie here. Hope you all can help me. Got a bosten fern last year in the fall and when I brought it indoors, it got all brown and lost most of its frawns, but in the spring put it back outside and it came to life again. It is time to bring it back indoors again and I'm afraid it will happen again. Maybe this is normal, I dunno? Also I recently acquired a lucky curly leaf bamboo. How do I care for it?
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Hello Honey Bunny (cute screen name by the way) your up early for a Sunday! Guess it would be a few hours later in PA.
Welcome to TGH. Sit tight and there should be someone on within the next few days. In the meantime feel free to browse and chat with people in the banter hall section or chime in if you think you can help someone else!!! We are all here to learn and have a good time.
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Welcome Hunny Bunny! I know NOTHING about Boston ferns, but I do know alot of live and learn the hard way about plants and what I would suggest is this. Start bringing the fern in a little at a time and make sure it has enough humidity in the air. Pittsburgh will be very dry in the house in winter (oil heating and such) so you want to provide it with a good moisture source. I personally like to put my plants in the kitchen or bathroom during the winter because that is where the most moist air is. I just divy them up by where the light suits them best. Good luck and welcome again to the garden helper!
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Boston ferns usually develop a lot of brown leaves when their environment is changed dramatically. You can minimize the adjustment by hanging your fern right in a bright north or east window. The low humidity indoors is OK as long as you keep the roots good and moist. Boston ferns do not tolerate dry soil.
If it were my fern, I would give the entire plant a crewcut before moving it inside. You will find that new growth comes in quite soon and that new growth will be adapted to the indoor environment. That would eliminate the brown leaves problem.
Lucky bamboo are not actually bamboo. They are Dracaena sanderiana cuttings. Like most cuttings, they need fresh water periodically and they will grow roots in the water. Although they will live for a long time in water, in most cases the new growth weakens considerably after a year or so. If you want yours to live a long time, it is best to plant them in a small pot of soil before they start to deteriorate. They do best in bright indirect light and warm temperatures above 60 degrees.
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quote:Originally posted by honey bunny: Hello everyone! Newbie here. Hope you all can help me. Got a bosten fern last year in the fall and when I brought it indoors, it got all brown and lost most of its frawns, but in the spring put it back outside and it came to life again. It is time to bring it back indoors again and I'm afraid it will happen again. Maybe this is normal, I dunno? Also I recently acquired a lucky curly leaf bamboo. How do I care for it?
Also I have noticed with boston ferns is if you can keep it on the cool side this tends to lower the need for the humidity . Nothing under 55 though and also it is a must to provide adaquate light eastern sun is superb..
I have done a lot of indoor landscaping and noticed this one account that had boston ferns in every office ( messy plants)and this one bostern fern was in an office that was vacated and they turned the heat low . It did wonderfully as opposed to the others due to the heat in their offices .. You just have to watch watering practices in the low heat situations ..
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