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title: "Help I need to know how to save my plants"
description: "Help I need to know how to save my plants"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/Ktw8B5CcTlSQqDurUu87ug/jGrh3Ua7AU13HYuleHOLAZ"
community: "Pets and Plants"
author: "plant 🪴 wiserd"
published: "2025-04-18T13:28:22.795151Z"
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# Help I need to know how to save my plants

_Posted by plant 🪴 wiserd on 2025-04-18_

Help I need to know how to save my plants

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## 7 comments

### LearningPlantMom commented on 2025-04-18

Bugs?!!!!! insecticidal soap, neem oil, or a mix of soap and water, or even physically removing the bugs with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol or vegetable oil. For soil-borne bugs, you may need to repot your plant with fresh soil and potentially use a hydrogen peroxide solution or diatomaceous earth

#### BigGrac replied on 2025-04-18

I second using 70% isopropyl alcohol as a spot treatment - it kills them on contact. Other methods can take a little bit to work

### Summer commented on 2025-04-18

Previous comment from LearningPlantMom is a good plan! If you wanna go really simple, you can use JUST water 💦 but you’ll need a strong jet to spray them all off.  
To avoid breakage, put your palm ✋ beneath the leaves 🍃 before spraying.  
Also be sure you sequester this plant 🪴 so it’s no where near another 🪴. These little aphids (the white bugs) like to spread quickly, \& they 💗 new growth! If you have a succulent they tend to prefer new growth on these I’ve found. Finally, I’ve had Lots of success keeping them gone after the initial bath by spraying White Vinegar on the plant. Not forever, just immediately after. 🍀 to you! Great Q!!! 👍

### fuey commented on 2025-04-18

This is a mealy bug. They are very sticky and you may want to hose your plant or otherwise spray it.  
Make sure you sanitize the areas around where it was with a disinfectant.

### BigGrac commented on 2025-04-18

I did not expect to be jump scared by a zoomed in pic of a mealy bug today

### plant 🪴 wiserd commented on 2025-04-18

That's what I was thinking about doing now I am going to do it

### Bree commented on 2025-04-19

I have used rubbing alcohol (misting/spraying it directly on my plants after spot removing them with a q-tip) without any issues. That method has worked for me since my succulent addiction in 2018 lol!

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