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title: "Please help me with my African Milk Tree!"
description: "Please help me with my African Milk Tree!"
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community: "Pests, diseases and problems"
author: "Koyote"
published: "2025-02-04T03:21:13.166559Z"
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# Please help me with my African Milk Tree!

_Posted by Koyote on 2025-02-04_

Please help me with my African Milk Tree!

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## 3 comments

### Lilian commented on 2025-02-04

I woukd say he’s either dryy or he’s rotting a little bit, cacti aren’t my large knowledgeable topic, but those are my guesses, if it’s dry bottom water it , and if it’s rotting I’d say get  
New substrate and start new

### Karson commented on 2025-02-04

African milk trees start dropping their leaves if they get too cold, and some of the discoloration is likely due to that as well. I would move it away from the window in the winter months, somewhere where it can get light at a distance, without the cold.

### Koyote commented on 2025-03-10

thank you Lilian and Karson!!

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