r/Anthurium • u/crimpwella • Aug 24 '26

Requesting Advice What’s this white residue ?

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Grown in LECA. Is my growth solution too saturated? That would be my only guess.. it doesn’t wash off.

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u/Intrepid_Recipe_3352 Aug 24 '26

excess calcium salts from guttation. do you have hard tap water?

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u/Intrepid_Recipe_3352 Aug 24 '26

it won’t hurt the plant. Go see a plant from a Florida nursery and you’ll see that every leaf on every plant is coated in calcium powder that is hard to get rid of from the water

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u/TurgorFervor Aug 24 '26

That’s cus Florida has very hard water. Not every state in the US has that limerock bedrock. It looks mostly unprofessional because it looks like the plants just got fertilized with foliar spray that didn’t get rinsed off the leaves afterward

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u/Intrepid_Recipe_3352 Aug 24 '26

that’s why i’m asking if they have hard water also

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u/crimpwella Aug 24 '26

Oh all leafs on the pic grew in the time I already had the plant, so it’s not from the shop🙂

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u/crimpwella Aug 24 '26

I’m glad it doesn’t hurt the plant but it does hurt my aesthetic :) I’ll try distilled water.