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title: "What is this stuff?! I have “Neemed” this plant, not too long ago! Is…"
description: "What is this stuff?! I have “Neemed” this plant, not too long ago! Is this a pest? A fungus? IDK… Please, help! TIA… 🤗💚🪴"
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author: "Lynda"
published: "2024-11-18T18:50:51.829711Z"
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# What is this stuff?! I have “Neemed” this plant, not too long ago! Is…

_Posted by Lynda on 2024-11-18_

What is this stuff?! I have “Neemed” this plant, not too long ago! Is this a pest? A fungus? IDK… Please, help! TIA… 🤗💚🪴

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## 5 comments

### Shirley🪴you jest commented on 2024-11-18

Too blurry for me to be certain. Maybe scale? Hope not. 🪴

#### Lynda replied on 2024-11-18

One of my other ficus in another room has had scale for years. It doesn’t look like this, it’s just a very small white round spot, but I wondered if this was scale, also. So, would you go ahead and treat it for scale, at this point?

### Alyssa commented on 2024-11-18

It almost looks like powdery mildew to me, maybe if it’s been too humid or wet

#### Lynda replied on 2024-11-18

If it is powdery mildew, what do I do for it?

#### Alyssa replied on 2024-11-18

Hmmm well since you already gave it a neem oil bath, I might do a very natural treatment of baking soda liquid soap and water on front and back of the leaves and do that or neem oil or both weekly to get rid of the spores

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