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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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This is my Lion’s Tail plant. It’s one of my favor plant. Although it’s growing and having lots of babies, it is showing some black spots on some leaves and the tips are turning brown. Sometimes it also looks yellowish. Can anyone tell me what is wrong and how can I help. It’s one of my older plant and I don’t want to loose it. I keep it outside because i don’t have any space inside, but i’m in CA and weather is nice. Thank you in advance.
What is wrong with my albahaca plant. It was doing very well and all of the suddenly almost all the leaves became ill.
So she’s turning yellow! Ugh. I’ve already cut one of her leafs because she’s pushing out a new one and that one was pretty much dead and with no energy. But this leaf is strong and standing on her own but now she’s turning yellow and I’m scared she’ll end up like her twin…. In the trash. I’ve read they sometimes can only have two leafs because it’s too much energy for them but she’s the first leaf and the one she’s picking out would be the second. Any help and tips truly appreciated!!! Update::: it was spider mites… because of course…. Step one was DROWNING her in warm water and dish soap! Then I treated her with spider mite spray! After that I have been isolating her in the corner of my living room with purple light and I had to cut TWO of her most infected ones! I just had to let them go but the last two are brand new leafs that haven’t even fully opened yet so I’m trying to give them a chance to survive! I’ll be wiping them down every two days and I’ll be very sad if I have to fully cut her down. In happier news the corm that she gave me has given me a brand new leaf so if I do end up throwing her mom away at least I have her baby!!
What is eating my canas?!
How do my plants look? I want to ensure I’m taking the best of care of them! Let me know if you see any issues :) thank you in advance.
Had to cut off a few branches from my limelight hydrangea tree due to fall webworms. 😫 I then sprayed with neem oil to, hopefully, kill/deter any eggs I missed. Any other suggestions to help keep them away would be greatly appreciated!
I love this little guy😭 hes some sort of pine tree or something like that, is there anyway he can come back alive
This is about an hour after cutting my cactus that had root rot. It’s a little brown around the vasculature still - do I need to cut more? This is the second cut.
Help?! I’m a newbie to plant care & trying so hard to establish a green thumb but I’m clearly struggling! Does anyone have any suggestions on what’s wrong or what I can do to help this failing plants thrive? Currently trying to revive a spider plant, haworthiposis venosa, and a lemon lime.
is there any way i can keep a banana plant inside?? this is my second one ive had in the same spot but ive added a grow light since the first one. it seems to be doing the same thing tho, it only keeps three leaves the same way alocasias do, and every time i new leaf comes an old one dies. but the entire time most leave have some yellowing with browning the same way it looks with root rot (around the edges) but also random big spots on the leaves as well. i know it has pest as well so that is definitely a problem but honestly my plants usually have pests and don’t die. I live in canada so putting it outside in the ground isn’t an option. Any help is wanted thanks!!
HELP! Is my polka dot plant too dry??? Why is it wilting like this? The leaves feel super thin and sad
Are these soil mites? They’re actively crawling around the edge of the pot, with only one or two on the plant itself. In the photo, they’re actually crawling on the bottom of a yellow sticky trap. The plant looks healthy, without any signs of tissue damage or webbing. If they’re soil mites, I read they could be beneficial even?
Has anyone tried Systemica Insect Killer brand for spraying on plants? I don’t mean systemic. Systemica is the brand name.
Hii! I just got this Monstera Albo the other day off FB and it came with these yellow spots. They don’t seem to be spreading but I’m wondering if I should be worried? Or if I can just leave it be?
Strange sesame seed looking things growing from new nodes on Hoya Matilde Splash… found along with this lil bug. Both are very very tiny, about the size of a poppy seed. Lay it on me… how bad is it? 🙃
Need help id-ing this bug/pest. Just found it, and I haven’t added any new plants to my collection for a couple of months. I don’t see any damage but maybe that’s scale in the stem? It doesn’t seem sticky though. The bugs are walking around on the leaves. I treated with neem.
Does anyone know what am I doing wrong with this plant? It looks floppy.
What exactly are these and why are they on my plants? TIA
My son and daughter-in-law bought two Basil plants and want to keep them to use, not to mention they smell wonderful. One plant died within a week of repotting it. I have one picture from when I put Basil in a pot and some from today for comparison. Basil is doing well. There have been some leaves with brown or a brown spot, usually young leaves, so I removed them. I also checked it for leaf stems that were long and removed them as well. As I was checking for them, I was pleasantly surprised to learn new leaves sprout at the base of the leaf stem. I know next to nothing about Basil plants. I'm used to succulents that can go a long time between drinks. Basil plants need more water with damp but not wet soil. That's where my chicken is. I don't want him to end up with root rot. How do I know if he's getting too much water? When should I take off leaves if we don't use them? I'm carefully watching for buds so I can cut them off.
does anyone know what these dark leaves on this orchid are? should they be removed or can they stay? it hasn’t bloomed since it has been purchased and i was concerned ):
