Isobel
What do you do when your plants keep attracting many different random pests? A bunch of mine had aphid’s and now a couple have spider mites. How do I ensure the rest of mine don’t have any, and how do I (try to) permanently prevent pests?
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Pests, diseases and problems
Share your own experiences with plant pests and diseases, and gain valuable insights from others on how to prevent and treat these common problems.
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OG.99
Hi Back again with weather damage from being too cold. I bought this plant and then two days later our weather gets super cold and icy. I bought a heat pack with this cause I was told that one was just fine for this negative weather so I did that. I just received it. The heat pack was completely frozen and this plant looks like my other plants when I drove up here from Florida…. There is one stem on here that is still good. That’s still hard towards the bottom. The rest are very mushy. Do I cut them off now or do I wait since I just opened this package? Do I water the cold ass soil with warm/cold/lukewarm water very lightly or don’t water at all. I’m very annoyed lol I bought plants when I was living in Maine during the winter with no problem again this is my first time having frost damage to any plant and then I have another plant coming on the 10th and I hope to God is fine cause I’m tired of looking at these damaged ugly plants i’m used to seeing my Full green, lush plants. Sure it’s on me for ordering plants during the winter (Will be driving 1-3 hours now To the next state to buy plants & hopefully they will have plants im interested in🙄) . But I’ve never had the problem like this before I’m from Florida, but I’ve lived in colder states before multiple times. I have bought plants with the same weather like here and I’m just having problems now with these and I’m just irritated
Jessica
This meyer lemon tree has been in our garage during the harsh winter. We brought it out when the temps came back up. It went in with a few blooms and came out of the garage with a ton of flowers and the bees were SWARMING it! Now we’ve noticed all these black spots. They appear to be bugs?? There are very few moving. Any advice?
Heather
Any idea what this white thing is? About a month ago I thought I had spider mites and started using insecticide spray about once a week. It started turning somewhat yellow and then this morning I found this.
Whatdoggo
I recently bought this Peperomia Rotundifolia and have very little experience keeping indoor plants. It was very small when I bought it and since alot of the leaves have falling off. It has new shoots with what looks like new sprouting on them. I’m not sure if this is normal with this plant as it is a trailing plant, or if I’m doing something wrong. Any advice is appreciated
Zoey
I use bug spray stuff on my plants to get rid of the buvs but I have so many that it doesn't work any other ways????
Anna
anybody have any ideas? this guy is so fussy I’ve adjusted how often I water and no matter what I do I keep losing leaves 🥲 he was in a window but I’ve just moved him to be closer to a grow light to see if that’ll help
Laurelantur
I’ve had this dracaena for about two weeks. It has three planted together. The smallest one is dropping all of its leaves. The other two seem fine and have not dropped any leaves. I am being mindful to not over or under water. Right now the top inch is dry and I feel damp soil below that. Plenty of drainage. I know sometimes these things just happen but any thoughts?
Plants&Pets 🌱🐱🐶
I was gifted a lime tree before Christmas and it has brought a few varieties of pests home with it. So far I’ve had to deal with spider mites and pretty bad scale infestation. Yesterday I spent a while scraping the scale off while rinsing it in the shower to deal with the spider mites. Today, with the soil still very wet from the shower, I noticed the soil is full of centipedes. I’ve read mixed things online, do I want to keep or get rid of the centipedes? Are they good for killing scale and fungas gnats? They gross me out but they can stay if they’re serving a purpose…
Mossy-paws
What’s wrong with my baby dracaena? I just got it about a week ago and now it’s all droopy. I watered it yesterday with tap water, but my cat has also been chewing on the leaves so that might have something to do with it.i just moved it to this spot yesterday, but it’s still droopy. Please help!
Jay
Does anyone know what's wrong with this leaf?
Kelly
I got this staghorn/elkhorn fern a couple of weeks ago. It had a little brown spot when I bought it, but it’s spread really quickly. I’m having trouble identifying what the problem is, as google searching has just said it could be due to under watering/overwatering or freezing temps. It’s located in our bathroom near the window so it gets a lot of humidity and some indirect light, but it has been really cold here in Portland. Could that be the cause? Is it beyond saving? Any insight or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
BabyBeanies
Sorry no pictures because I hate them but I’ve got spider mites that just don’t seem to go away. I water whenever dirt is dry. But every time I finally get things growing (like beans or peppers) indoors I get spider mites! I’ve done nematodes, rubbing alcohol and water. I have fans on them all the time, I wipe off the leaves once in a while but maybe not enough?? It’s so discouraging this happens too often but now they’re on my aloe. They leave my rosemary alone. Maybe I can just mist with rosemary water and rubbing alcohol?
Katelyn
Not sure what’s happening to my pilea :(
Brooke
Not sure what the white specs are in my hoya soil? Any ideas? I'm guessing repot it?
AvgGenZ
On today’s episode of white powder that I am genuinely scared about: What is that white powder on the tips of my zz plant shoots and should I be scared of them🌚
Zoey
I forgot the name of the plant but it was doing good then I noticed it was drooping to the side. What should I do?
Ava
Help! My peace lily was doing great until one day it started drooping so i cleaned it, misted it, changed its water and added a bit of fertilizer. Now it just looks worse, i also gave it a little more sunlight but it's doing terrible, any tips? Should i pot it? Am i giving it ooo much sunlight now?
Lauren Muegge
hi! i bought some fish fertilizer and mixed it with water for some of my plants that are struggling. how long does it take to start to see a difference? do i need to water them multiple times with this stuff? thanks!
Maddie
I bought this banana plant just under a year ago and it was looking overall okay, some damage to the leaves from the shop, but had 3 health ones - I have repotted it once into this larger pot about 6 months ago & water it once a week- but it’s started to get a lot of browning, and crispy/split edges - it could be because of the cold temperature in my room (and it will be moving into a much warmer apartment with full glass windows all around) but is there I can do to help it for now/is there anything other than the temperature causing this?😢
