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The watchword when working with AVs. Be prepared to wait a few anxious weeks before you start noticing real changes. The only way to stop light damage is to reduce the light intensity. What kind of lights do you have? That's vital. Some pics would be good, too.

Good luck.

Korina

ÂThere is nothing I love as much as a good fight. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Tracy -

There is more than 2 reasons of bunched crowns - I mean light and mite. It can be cold, it can be pesticide spray, wrong Ph - both too alkaline and too acid, it can be something that plagues half of the country and not still identified.

In any case - the life of the leaf is 1 year. So if it is crunched - it will never be as good as never crunched no matter what you do. Wait for half a year or so - until these now slightly distorted leaves are getting to the outside part of the crown, remove them and all leaves under them, repot to lower down and cover the stem - and provided that it WAS the problem - you will get a potentially show quality plant in several more months.

You can drop the hours on your stand to 8 and see how it works.

Good Luck

Irina

PS Our Fred from NJ posted an example how to fix the plant with a "break in culture" defect in leaves and basically that's what you will have as a result of too much light for some time. These damaged small leaves will be damaged medium size leaves and then damaged outer leaves.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fred's AV surgery