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erised

Help, my string of pearls was looking very healthy until about a week ago, and now most of its ‘strings’ are either becoming shriveled or rotten and there’s some sort of mold/ miniature ant-like animals running around the soil

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  1. Daril

    Same - minus the insects!

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  2. ElizabethF

    Are the insects white and fuzzy looking? Those would be mealy bugs. You’ll need to remove them with isopropyl alcohol on a qtip. You can also make a diluted spray but you may want to test it on a section of your string of pearls before applying it everywhere.

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    • erised

      Yes! I’ll try that, thank you

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  3. Alyssa

    It’s probably going into root rot decomposing territory…possibly fungus gnats in the soil too or thrips not sure what you mean by ant like

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    • erised

      It looks decomposing fungus-like

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