dearest plant-carer
i have a tall indoor palm ( sorry don't know it's name )..it has very open fronds, & the problem is that it's brown at the ends & has yellow & black spots coming on it!!
i'm watering once a week & using palm liquid food in the water.
we live in spain, it's near a window but the linen blind is always down so that it doesn't get direct sunshine..more indirect light.
can you help? any thoughts?
thanks in advance
look forwards to hearing from you
best wishes
kay hunter saber.

The brown tips are a sign that it isn't getting the right amount of water picked up by the roots, even though you are being conscientious about watering. Please try this - soak the whole pot in a container of water for an hour or so. This ensures that the whole soil ball gets wet in a way that watering from the top doesn't always do (the pot gets very full of roots, and/or some of the water runs down between the soil and the pot). Then wait until the top inch or so of soil is dry before you soak again - and so on. This will not put right the existing brown tips, but should keep the newer leaves in good shape. Now the fertilizer. The black spots may mean that your plant food doesn't have enough potassium in it. Check the label. It should have a third number in the analysis at least as high as the first. If it does, then you could also give the plant some epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) - a tablespoon im water put on after you have soaked the soil.

The spots may also be one of the many fungi that attack palm leaves. They are very hard to control, and do not do much harm, so if you can live with spotting, it is easiest to try to ignore them.

Derek