Tap water or city water is different. The water from your kitchen faucet has most likely been treated.
Years ago, cities began to add chlorine and fluoride to the water supply. Fluoride may be fine for your teeth, but many indoor plants are not fond of it.
Lynn Griffith from A & L Labs states:
“Fluoridated city water usually has 1 ppm (parts per million) of fluoride, four times the amount considered safe for sensitive plants.”
Don’t get the idea that if you water your plants with water from the kitchen they will die. What does this have to do with brown edges on leaves on your plants anyway?
Over time some of these minor chemicals, such as boron and fluoride, build up in the leaves.
This buildup shows itself as brown plant leaves on plants or tip burn on Dracaenas, and spider plants. Spathiphyllums – the Peace Lily plant show distorted or yellow leaves with high boron.
Photo Credit: @PlantCareToday.com
There are other reasons for brown tips on indoor plants:
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