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title: "These little white spots suddenly appeared in my prayer plant soil,…"
description: "These little white spots suddenly appeared in my prayer plant soil, is this bad?"
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# These little white spots suddenly appeared in my prayer plant soil,…

_Postat av Bo Cheng den 2024-10-21_

These little white spots suddenly appeared in my prayer plant soil, is this bad?

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## 10 kommentarer

### Ezzeldin Yaqoub kommenterade den 2024-10-21

It is just excreting excess minerals, which means you should use distilled or rainwater, not tap water due to the high mineral content.

#### Bo Cheng svarade den 2024-10-21

I've been using filtered water to water, would this still happen?

#### Kades svarade den 2024-10-22

Filtered water still has “normal healthy” minerals but few to no impurities. Distilled is stripped of all impurities and minerals

### AbbyJ kommenterade den 2024-10-21

That looks like a pest to me

#### allie svarade den 2024-10-22

I agree, it doesn’t look like the white film left behind from minerals, it looks like little bugs

#### Bo Cheng svarade den 2024-10-22

How should I get rid of them?

#### AbbyJ svarade den 2024-10-22

I use predatory mites from Arbico Organics

### Lindsey kommenterade den 2024-10-22

This has happened to my plants too i was never sure the cause and the planta dr. Kept trying to diagnose other problems

### Mamarod kommenterade den 2024-10-24

The leave has white stuff on it. Check the leaf crevices for sticky white stuff and it could be mealy bugs. If it’s just the soil it could be a yellow fungus/mold that starts as little fuzzy egg looking specks and usually from over watering.

### Mamarod kommenterade den 2024-10-24

If it’s mealy bugs it will require a good mix of insecticidal soap mixed with rubbing alcohol and a repot

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