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title: "help me make my begonia thrive! King is literally my king. If my home…"
description: "help me make my begonia thrive! King is literally my king. If my home set on fire, I would go back in to get him. He came with some imperfect leaves. If they…"
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# help me make my begonia thrive! King is literally my king. If my home…

_Postat av fuey den 2025-03-31_

help me make my begonia thrive! King is literally my king. If my home set on fire, I would go back in to get him.

He came with some imperfect leaves. If they were major imperfections on small leaves I just picked them off but most of them I kept. I have picked off most except his big leaves with holes as of now  
He’s not in a self watering pot. I bought one for him but I decided to wait and see if he likes the regular one because the leaves were moving to face the grow light he’s under for 12 hrs daily (technically he’s under 2 because there’s a second light on the shelf below facing the opposite way for my other plants).  
He has all purpose soil with perlite and some cactus soil to make better drainage since I didn’t have anything else at the time of repotting.

I go over and check him more than any of my other plants, so I know these wilted leaves are fresh. Planta first said thrips, but he has no visible bugs. Then watering, and he’s a little dry but nothing crazy. He’s next to a constant humidifier.  
The leaves felt a little soggy but I don’t overwater this guy, like at all. He has some basic mold at the top of his soil that I haven’t had the time to remove yet. I’m in the process of keeping up with insecticide when I need to water as spring comes and it’s not his turn yet.

![Bilaga 1 av 3](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/7SKbucSsa3x7Hc0JE52ZouSTCYSUkYi4knafwIFj7BY/3j2adRH0S3KNfy9I9L79gw.webp?size=large)

![Bilaga 2 av 3](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/7SKbucSsa3x7Hc0JE52ZouSTCYSUkYi4knafwIFj7BY/XHyfi3oqQ4Cui9eD3tJGEg.webp?size=large)

![Bilaga 3 av 3](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/7SKbucSsa3x7Hc0JE52ZouSTCYSUkYi4knafwIFj7BY/Z1fL3i4HRzKOAb1NnYxFTA.webp?size=large)

## 2 kommentarer

### fuey kommenterade den 2025-03-31

btw “Rex” means King, I’m not crazy there’s a reason 😂

### Yolanda kommenterade den 2025-03-31

Sounds like you doing a good job. I would go ahead and take it to the shower and lightly spray off the leaves just to make sure it’s no pest, then late in the evening or early in the morning spray it down really good with neem oil which helps fight off pest and maybe go ahead and put it in the self watering pot. Also I would use purified water instead of tap water. I have noticed a big change in my plant babies when I stop using tap water on a lot of them. Hope this helps King

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