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title: "Hopefully someone can help me out 😂: I’ve recently noticed white…"
description: "Hopefully someone can help me out 😂: I’ve recently noticed white spots on my pothos leaf and the stem as well. From my inexperienced eye it looks moldy. Is…"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Brotanical Bry"
published: "2024-04-17T02:42:03.058607Z"
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# Hopefully someone can help me out 😂: I’ve recently noticed white…

_Posted by Brotanical Bry on 2024-04-17_

Hopefully someone can help me out 😂:

I’ve recently noticed white spots on my pothos leaf and the stem as well. From my inexperienced eye it looks moldy. Is that treatable??

Thanks in advance!!

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## 23 comments

### David S commented on 2024-04-18

How many times put them all in the shower and spray them down. I’ll even take a shower with some of them and shampoo them and rinse them off. The spider mites are whatever bugs they are that leave a white nesty material do not like soap.

### David S commented on 2024-04-18

They like the young leaves that are tender

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gE9Wwaqoko9q1q7PvJP6nAW5PMEHEz0_a28rx6ZMBp8/3T3NCfhWRTOty0KJL6CL7g.webp?size=large)

### David S commented on 2024-04-18

![Attachment 1 of 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/gE9Wwaqoko9q1q7PvJP6nAW5PMEHEz0_a28rx6ZMBp8/gMp_pyNZSTe4RRo1poYfpQ.webp?size=large)

### David S commented on 2024-04-18

It is a constant battle

### David S commented on 2024-04-18

Someone at a flower shop said to use Nine.

### Brotanical Bry commented on 2024-04-18

Good luck!!! Hopefully we will have positive results. I’m gonna give them another wipe down in a few days

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