I have here an AV It has 3 different color leave at first I thought that it was brown than I looked real close and it has pink in the leaves it is not brown and they is only 3 that have the pink in them and they are on the bottom row maybe I should take a leaf and see what I get
Dimmer(AKA) Kim
Here is one with all the leaves in lite to dark green leaves
Dimmer, I could be wrong but my bottom row leaves just get tired and worn out often. So, I just take them off...........your plant looks very healthy! Maybe someone will affirm that this is normal..............
Thanks Gail
Well I have all the time in the world HAHAHA. So I think I will take one off and just see what wood happen. I do have a 50 50 change live or die
Dimmer
Hi Dimmer,
Gail is right...those leaves need to be retired. They are old and lacking in nitrogen. The center of your plant looks healthy, so I would guess that it is getting some nitrogen (you are fertilizing, right?) but sometimes the outer leaves will fade or yellow if they are nitrogen deficient. In this case I think they are just old. Remove any faded or off-sized leaves in the outer row, even if this means removing the entire outer row...your plant will thank you. If there is a neck left behind when you remove leaves, pot it down.
As for as the pinkish cast to some of your leaves, I think they are just fading and the pigmentation of the leaf backs is showing through. This is not uncommon. I try to remove the leaves before they look like that...the leaf isn't too young and spry anymore. For propagating, you can take any leaf from the plant and end up with a clone, or baby that looks just like Mom. The exception to this is chimeras, and they need to be propagated by sucker method. But for regular AVs, you could, in theory, reproduce the entire plant identical to the mother from any cell in the plant. This is what happens when we stick a leaf, we expose the cut end of the leaf to soil and one of those cells at the cut edge will start a new plant. So any leaf will work for propagating...leaves from the middle row are recommended for vigor. Pier
