When to prune brown java fern leaves

[Anaxus]

When I purchased my Java fern a few months back there was 5 large leaves with brown spots. It has since produced 4 leaves from the root system and 5 smaller plants from the larger leaves. A day or two ago one of the large leaves fell off so I removed the plants that had started to grow from it and all the other smaller plants growing on the other leaves and have attached them to my driftwood. So my question now is should I remove the 4 remaining large leaves with the brown spots or leave them?

If I should remove them where should I cut them off at?

 

[GobyGuy5]

My Java Fern's older leaves have Brown Spots on them too. I'd leave them, they are older leaves, but in my experience, the leaves aren't dying until they start to turn yellow, then I'd reccomend just pruning them off at the base, since the plant will waste energy on supporting a dying leaf...

Hope that answers all your questions

by the way, you've got quite a few baby Java ferns, congradulations! Mine's produced a whopping one so far!

 

[Anaxus]

Ok thanks. I had read some place that the leaves produce alot of baby plants when they are about to die. Like a last ditch effort to beat nature. But my leaves are still green just have lots of spots