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Laura L

Gabby has white powder or sticky stuff all over. Is it mold or disease?

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  1. inkibees

    From this photo I think mealybugs. They’re bad, you don’t want them, but imo easy to deal with as far as pests go. Take her outside (or into the shower if you can’t lol) and get a spray bottle and some isopropyl alcohol and spray her ALL THE WAYYYYY down. The isopropyl will kill those white fuzzy jerks on contact so it won’t be that bad to deal with lol. Let it soak a minute, make sure you get every crevice, under every leaf, etc etc. Check the soil also, possibly clean soil will be needed but you can spray the root ball a bunch as well and it will be totally fine and everything bad for her will be endgame, yay! Do this once or twice really thoroughly on any plant you see with these white horror fuzzies and you should be okay! Once you’re satisfied with the isopropyl coverage make sure you rinse her off with clean water, let it drain out and proceed with whatever else you gotta do! 👍 Also those kinda spread like white wildfire so hustle a bit lol they will legitimately suck the life out of your plants. Good luck!

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    • inkibees

      ALSOALSO before you go do all this please either take another close up pic or google image search to confirm! It’s kinda hard to tell but I want to be correct on my first guess bahaha

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    • inkibees

      One final also for the road — if it does turn out to be mealybugs 1000% use neem oil to treat it after you rid yourself of the fuzzy hatred as the first commenter suggested! Okay bye for real maybe lol

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    • Kelly

      They have killed so many of my plants 😢

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    • Buffy

      Fuzzy jerks.. lol!

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  2. Wolfen 🐺

    Need a close up. It could be powdery mildew (treat with a fungicide) or it could be scale/mealy bugs (treat with bonide/pesticide) if its scale you'll need to definitely treat the soil too with that level of infestation

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