My Living Fire leaves have brown tips. What could this be from? HELP!!!

It could be from fertilizer burn or too much salt in the media it is in. Have you tried to flush the pot? I would cut about an inch of green leaf above the brown tip and put cinnamon on the cut. I would flush it also.

Thanks, Tadd! I was just going to say the same thing. Good luck, Dan!

I had this problem with a caudatum and I did that and it seemed to help. It is in spag and it seems a chipmuck likes spag also and has been eating the leaf :mad: , so I moved it last night into my stream from my pond to see if this will help. It is a very small stream with a steady water flow.

Hey Tadd,

Dumb question. Can you do the same thing with cinnamon (excuse spelling) with paphs? I would think so. Yes?

Yes of course, Susan, you sure can!
I had a great cinnamon post at another forum. Unfortunately I cannot get there from here any longer. I'll try to reconstruct the post at some point, tomorrow if I can, it was quite informative about the natural anti-fungal, anti-bacterial functions of cinnamon.

Howdy Susan, Heather is correct. I never use cinnamon , because my paphs are just perfect and I am such a great grower :poke: :evil: I keep a bottle of it handy just for my orchids. I use it alot even at the greenhosue. It is a great antisepetic for rot. Paphs don't mind the cinnamon, and I will sometime reapply it after I water a week or two later to be safe.

phrags are very prone to brown leaf tips...partly its fertilizer sensitivity....and phrags make brachy paphs seem as fertilizer tolerant as a Vanda....partly its hereditary...I once had 2 clones of lindleyanum..under identical conditions one had constant severe leaf-tip browning, while the other was clean.
Also some species are more prone than others...my bessaea is clean...caudatum types are notorious for browning. I have heard, and this is at best 3rd hand, that the Wellensteins have found that an acidic pH (I think around 5, but then again this is what I heard a few times removed...) eliminates the browning, even with strong fertilizing...and some growers actually fertilize their phrags heavily.....Take care, Eric

I'll give this a try eric, thanks for the info. I have plenty of Black water from a few specialty fish that I can use for my caudatum