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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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Planty Granma

My variegated money plant is dropping leaves. Grow lite, eastern facing window, dirt moist. ? Thanks 🪴😻

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Eli

Okay so ihave this succulent and the bottom leaves keep turning yellow. What can I do to help my poor plant??

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Joanne

My avocado tree leaves are turning brown. Any idea what is causing this? I have 2 other avocado plants that are on similar watering schedule and have same light distance that don’t have this issue.

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Plantina

Question on Grow lights I found some LED Strip lights that are flexible but they do not specifically say they are grow lights. Can a regular LED strip light work as a grow light?

Darwin

What is this? I was about to fertilise my golden Pothos and saw all of this white cloudy puff, I started look at the other plants in my room and all but one have it, the one shown is the worst case. Is it mould?? Cause the one with the most of it is in the darker area.

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Lew88

Help please! I recently bought this “choco calathea” which I had never heard of before. I’ve placed her in my living which has medium light. Very quickly some leaves died off and others are yellowing. I’m struggling to see what’s wrong, the soil was a little dry and I watered again. Drainage is good and she’s not sitting in water. Any thoughts?

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Emily 🪴🤍

Anyone have any ideas why this one calathea leaf might be leaning backwards? It only started doing it 3 days ago. The plant itself has really been thriving lately, it just produced 5 leaves and has 2 more coming. I water every 7-10 days when needed w filtered water. This has never happened before! Any ideas?

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NicTheBucket

Dark slots and crispy tips have been appearing pretty quickly on my Thai Con. Root rot? I guess my soil is still not well draining enough. There’s not as much orchid bark in there as I’d like. 🥲 That one dark spot on the stem is right on top of where the newest leaf was supposed so pop out. Life is insane right now, I have been neglecting my plant slightly.

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00Keeks

I need some serious help. I’m a relative newbie to plants, but over the last 18 months I’ve been very successful and now have around 50 plants! All of a sudden, everything that has been thriving is now struggling or dead. Several pots have what looks like mild, but also appears webby if you look closely. Until a few weeks ago, I had every plant in straight potting soil (fox farms) but I wanted to put them all in plastic nursery pots so I could monitor root growth. When I repotted, I added perlite, orchid bark, hort. Charcoal, and some leca. In an attempt to create an airy mix I’ve somehow done the opposite (the leca is the perp, perhaps). Before I spend $100 on potting soil and repot everything again, can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I don’t think I overwater, but am I? Am I using too much fertilizer? Did I screw up with the repot soil mix? I’m not seeing evidence of pests (besides gnats). Please help. 😭

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Lyd

Hi. Not a great photo but can anyone tell me what bug this is please? I’ve watched a video but can’t determine what they are! There are only a few on this plant

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Lana

Hi everyone! Does anyone know why my soil looks like that? Is it bad? Thank you!

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Ash220022

Can someone tell me what this white stuff is on the soil and plant? And what should I do to get rid of it?

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KaiMama

Help! My African milk tree isn’t doing well. I already removed one stalk because it turned black spotted and mushy. I carefully repotted what was left (and appeared healthy) and moved it to a room without a humidifier. It’s getting a lot of love from my grow lights and is not overwatered. I also treated with neem oil. But now there’s a black spot coming in on yet another stalk, near the base. (So far still firm— not mushy). Any ideas as to what’s wrong and how to treat?

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Riley

Are the marks on my monstera from pests?? I also just got this ficus elastica burgundy, what are the white spots?

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Clairellie

Scindapsus/semihydro experts - pls help! So I decided to do a big chop on my scindapsus bc it just wasn’t growing/looking the way I’d like (rly small growth, leaf curling mainly at the top, some yellowing)- so my plan was to put the rooted part of the plant in semihydro (pon) & I cut a majority of the vines to propagate bc I just haven’t had luck w/ soil when it comes to these guys. However, upon further inspection of the root system I’m not sure if the rooted part of the plant is worth saving (also considering a lot of the roots just broke right off and look to be almost a light yellow color & not white). So 1. Is it worth trying to repot? 2. Does anyone actually know what’s wrong w/ the root system…does this look like overwatering/underwatering…both?!😅 not sure if it’s rot, bc the roots weren’t mushy, they actually mostly look super dry - despite a good watering schedule. I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong w/ this guy and I rly wanna master it!

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Vonne

What’s the Best spider repellent?

cndough

What kind of bug is this and could it have come from my plant or did it end up there by mistake😭? I was spraying neem oil to help with fungus gnats and I look and see this bug in the sticky trap😭😭 Any help is much appreciated— thanks!

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PlantaZeph

Indoor lime plant leaf dropping. Any advice on why my plant is dropping so many leaves right now? Is it the change in season? How long till it will start regrowing leaves?

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Chloe

Patho starts getting yellowish and droopy; help! Something is wrong?!

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