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Pang Nam Fui

Pang Nam Fui is the founder of Plant Care Basics, a friendly online resource dedicated to helping beginners grow happy and healthy houseplants. With a passion for demystifying plant care, he shares simple, practical, and well-researched advice to empower new plant parents with the confidence they need to thrive. His goal is to prove that everyone can develop a green thumb.

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Peace lily varieties and how to identify them: the three traits you can see

September 11, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
Peace lily varieties and how to identify them: a twelve-cell grid, one distinct selection standing in each cell.

Three visible traits name a selection, and I read them in order: the white marking pattern, then the blade surface, then two measurements taken with a plain rule. No flower is needed and no root ball comes out of the pot, which is why an unlabeled shelf plant is rarely a mystery.

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Why does my peace lily have brown tips? Three looks that name the cause

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
Why does my peace lily have brown tips: a papery brown tip on a new blade with a thin yellow band before the green.

Cut tissue never grows back, so I finish all three looks before a blade touches the leaf. Where the mark sits, whether it has stopped spreading, and how it feels under a thumb name the cause between dry air, salt in the water and a sun-struck patch on my peace lily.

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How often to water a peace lily? Read the pot, not the calendar

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
How often to water a peace lily: the clump drooped over the rim while water pours into the mix.

The surface lies, so I stopped watering to a calendar and started reading the pot instead. A lift the day I water and another three days later builds a scale nothing else can give me, and the pour ends when the saucer fills rather than at a measured volume.

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What is the best soil for a peace lily? The peat-and-bark ratio that stops root rot

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
What is the best soil for a peace lily: four separate heaps laid out in a row, the peat heap plainly the largest.

A peace lily stores no water of its own, so everything the roots draw on has to come from the medium around them. No bag prints the number that actually decides it, which is how much air that blend still holds, and I have learned to settle it by hand.

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Is a peace lily toxic to cats and dogs? The crystal, the signs, the first response

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
Is a peace lily toxic to cats and dogs: a close look at a white spathe with a torn bite mark along its edge.

The pain here is a physical wound rather than a poison the body takes up, which changes every part of the response. I handled a division bare-handed once and my fingertips stung for an hour, and that is the same mechanism a pet meets when it bites a peace lily leaf.

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Monstera deliciosa care: the science-backed manual for split leaves (2026 Masterclass)

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
Monstera deliciosa care at full size: a tall split-leaf specimen on its moss totem in a bright room.

Caring for a Monstera deliciosa comes down to four things I get right every week: light bright enough to cast a soft shadow, a chunky mix that drains fast, water judged by depth, and a pole to climb. The rest of this page is detail.

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Why is my Monstera deliciosa turning yellow? Start with the substrate check

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
Why is my Monstera deliciosa turning yellow? One lower blade yellowed above the mix, older leaves first.

Every yellow leaf I have chased on a Monstera deliciosa turned out to be a root-zone story rather than a feeding one. I push a skewer two or three inches down, read what it brings up, change a single thing, and let the next leaf tell me whether it worked.

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How to save a Monstera deliciosa from root rot: the 3-test check and the rescue cut

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
How to save a Monstera deliciosa from root rot starts here, the plant lifted out beside its pot, roots blackened.

The first Monstera deliciosa I lost to root rot looked healthy above the mix right up to the day it collapsed. Since then I bare the root mass, work along every strand with my fingertips, and let what has gone soft decide where the blade goes and how small the next container must be.

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How often to water a Monstera deliciosa? The finger test that beats a calendar

September 19, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
A finger pressed deep into the mix tests how often to water a Monstera deliciosa before the next drench.

I stopped watering my Monstera deliciosa on a schedule after two plants crisped at the margins while the mix sat bone dry. Now I check the top inch or two with a finger, water until it runs from the drainage hole, and tip the saucer out. That one habit ended the guesswork.

Categories Monstera Care

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How to get rid of bugs on a Monstera deliciosa: name the pest before you spray

September 11, 2026 by Pang Nam Fui
How to get rid of bugs on a Monstera deliciosa starts at the node, white cottony clusters wedged in.

I sprayed blind for a season before I learned to name the pest on my Monstera deliciosa first. Silvery scrapes, fine stippling, cottony clusters and dark specks each point somewhere different, and the hand-removal pass does more than any bottle I have tried.

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