Dypsis lutescens seeding question

[Rickybobby]

Hey everyone I have a handful of dypsis lutescens seedlings that I grew from seed which I got in jamiaca. Kinda cool souvenir. 

Anyway there in pro mix hp. Perlite and peatmoss mix. Been under my led grow lights. If you take a look you can see the browning of edges  is this from the light. Being too. Bright or lack of humidity. Now the room they are in is full of palms so the relative humidity is around 60-63 percent. Which is high for a house and temps between 73 and 77f

[PalmatierMeg]

More likely low humidity. 60% humidity is not high when you are talking about tropical palms. 73/77F is not high heat for tropical palms. They are looking for 80+% humidity and 80+F temps. When I say northern homes are too dark, too dry and too cold, I'm not kidding.

[Rickybobby]

50 minutes ago, PalmatierMeg said:

More likely low humidity. 60% humidity is not high when you are talking about tropical palms. 73/77F is not high heat for tropical palms. They are looking for 80+% humidity and 80+F temps. When I say northern homes are too dark, too dry and too cold, I'm not kidding.

And then I see people who live way way north than me with perfect specimens and they stay indoors all year round obviously a few years more mature than mine 

[Rickybobby]

I have majesty palms bottles a coconut that are In perfect condition compared to my dypsis lutescens 

[DoomsDave]

@Rickybobbylooks like your plant got a touch of something that irritated it a bit. Yeah they definitely like high humidity! But, Lutes are tough; they survive and thrive in my often low-humidity Death Camp In Guada La Habra. Looks okay to me.

I’d worry about soft brown patches more than the hard ones you appear to have.

[DoomsDave]

1 hour ago, Rickybobby said:

I have majesty palms bottles a coconut that are In perfect condition compared to my dypsis lutescens 

In [expletive] Ontario!?

You are NUTTY! And we love ya fer it!

[tropicbreeze]

I think your biggest issues will be too dark and too cold. Here during the dry season the humidity can get very low (in the teens) with temperatures in the mid 30's (C). The lutescens that get little or no irrigation water just grow a lot slower. They get deluges during the wet season, but no rain during the dry season. The constants are year round high temperatures and high light intensity (direct sun most of the day). Note, mine are all in ground plants, not potted.

[Rickybobby]

I currently have 100 seedlings of all kinds of different palms and yeah only my lutes have issues so i thought it was worth a discussion I have moved them away from the direct light. Mist them constantly and room humidity is up. So I will see soon when next always open 

[redant]

Thy don't need bright light, they are weeds that you can barely kill if you try. Maybe less light and don't over water. 

[DoomsDave]

16 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

More likely low humidity. 60% humidity is not high when you are talking about tropical palms. 73/77F is not high heat for tropical palms. They are looking for 80+% humidity and 80+F temps. When I say northern homes are too dark, too dry and too cold, I'm not kidding.

Yeah, well I remember that dry and cold stuff back in Ohio as a kid. Remember Jones & Scully, "the Orchid people"? I ordered some orchid plants from them with my paper route money and all died in a few weeks, even after the water dish treatment.

And, I suspect it was a lot worse than @Rickybobbys house or apartment now. Back in the 1970s we had forced-air heating, drafty windows, and a winter humidity of literally 5 - 10%. I'll never forget when we got that humidity gauge. We'd watch as the needle would be way down low, then jerk upwards when we held the gauge over some soup boiling on the stove, then fall down again when we pulled it away.

Years later, Mom and Dad finally started to use the humidifier which the furnace had been equipped with all along. It was actually bearable to sleep and not wake up with your mouth and nose feeling like the Bonneville Salt Flats after the Green Monster had raced across them at 1,000 miles an hour.