when i got this thing it was tiny. i repotted it in a slightly larger pot. new growth popped out everywhere. i was so excited. now it hasnt done much of anything. all the little blooms that came out have been the same size for months now. and the leaves aren't growing any bigger. most of the blooms are green and the biggest one is turning brown and looks like it is dying. what am i doing wrong?
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's how peace lilies are. You said the blooms have been around for months now....as they get older they get green. Were they green when they came out? The blooms will not last forever, so this is probably just the natural progression of the plant. It is sometimes hard to get them to rebloom, you have to have very bright, but indirect light for them to bloom again. I've had one for about two years, and haven't seen it bloom since I first got it. Hope this helps a little, I'm new at this too!
Kristie
that is probably it. i moved it from directly in front of the double glass doors (on the other side of the room) to another place in the living room. so, it could definately be the lighting. thank you.
If the blooms are green, you need to cut them of about 1/2" from where the bloom comes out of the stem. your plant looks fine. don't worry about the brown one that looks like it's dying. It served it's time. :)
Your pot is large and the lily will have to grow to it. In a larger pot, it will put out lots of new roots and little or no new top growth. After it's roots have caught up, it will begin to put out lots of new leaves. It may not flower again until it finishes this process. And kls_01 is right--it will need bright but indirect light. They also like it humid. If the room where you have it isn't humid (likely not), then mist it a few times a week. Yours is still small enough that you could put it in your shower about once a month (or use your hose if you put it outside) to give it a good shower to wash the dust off the leaves. I have a porch with a roof and put mine out there for the summer--it loves it and grows like crazy. BTW, I agree too that your plant looks plenty healthy.
Hi Jess, all the info you have been given is so right, these plants flower best when they have filled the pot and almost no more room to grow more, it looks healthy to me and the only thing I would add is to give it a liquid feed say once each month at one of you watering sessions, they like to have the foliage misted about once per week or in really warm weather, 2'3 tomes a week to keep up the humidity. keep cutting off the faded flowers (spathes) as this helps to generate new flowers, but like said before, it will flower better once the pot is almost filled, next time it has to be re-potted, just move up ONE size of pot so it wont need to work so hard filling the new pot with so much root work. good luck, just move it to the right place and be patient. WeeNel.
thanks for all the advice! im gonna put it on the porch for a while. and start misting it. ive been 'dusting' it with wet cotton balls. its pretty time consuming, misting seems much, much easier. :)
i havent got around to putting my lily on the porch, ive been busy. but i just noticed that where it is gets a huge draft from the air conditioner. is that a bad thing? could that be what is causing the damage?
Your plant looks fine to me too. The flowers on some Peace Lily's will turn green as they age. I do think you should change the location of your plant to get it away from any heat or air conditioning vents, where drafts are not good for it. Both the heat and air coming from the vent can cause your plant to dry out rather quickly. Misting with a spray bottle of water once every day or two will help with raising the humidity.
Here's the link to Plant Files with information on Peace Lily: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=spathyphyllum&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&searcher[genus]=Spathiphyllum
There are a few different ones listed but most all of them require the same conditions.
Never a good idea to have plants too close to any air conditioning units or heaters for that matter, they get too much either cool air blowing onto the foliage, or dry heat from the heater, best to sit it in a still or very slightly breaze rather than direct windy conditions, your cooler will cut of and on and the plant wont know if it's coming or going, just same with heaters in winter, even though the cooler cools a room, you need to ask, would I like to be that close 24/7. same with dry heat or sunlight, some plants need sunlight, but not magnified through a glass, like you or I stuck in a car and the sun streaming onto us, we would soon die of sunheat exhaustion, good luck. WeeNel.
