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title: "My girls leaves have curled up. What can I do to make her feel…"
description: "My girls leaves have curled up. What can I do to make her feel better? should she be away from light? Golden pathos"
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author: "sydney boyd"
published: "2025-06-23T23:24:31.177151Z"
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# My girls leaves have curled up. What can I do to make her feel…

_Publicado por sydney boyd el 2025-06-23_

My girls leaves have curled up. What can I do to make her feel better?  
should she be away from light?  
Golden pathos

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## 20 comentarios

### David comentó el 2025-06-23

Could you share a picture of the soil? Usually when they do that it can be a telltale sign that they are thirsty

#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

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#### David respondió el 2025-06-23

Thank you! Sorry I don’t mean to be annoying but two more questions 😂 1) What is the white thing on the left stem? Maybe zoom in because I wonder if that might be a plant pest.  
2\) What is the light coming opposite the window? Is it a grow light?

#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

Yes it is a grow light and actually I’m not sure about the white thing! It has been there since I got the clippings

### David comentó el 2025-06-23

Okay! Last question. When you got this plant, did it have roots? You mentioned it was a cutting

#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

They were a little bit small, but yes, they did have roots

### Yolanda comentó el 2025-06-23

Does it move if so that’s a mealy bug, and it’s sucking your plant dead, change soil spray off the entire plant, roots and all, wash and sterilize pot really good, spray plant really good with neem oil, then isolate this plant. If it was near another plant check those and treat them

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#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

How does this bug get to a plant?

### David comentó el 2025-06-23

Okay so that might be the issue. Plants can have trouble acclimating to going into soil especially if their root system is not well established.

#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

Should I put it back in water?

#### David respondió el 2025-06-23

So that may be up to you but I would first try and see what the roots look like if you pull it out of the pot. Feel free to share a pic if you’d like. But yes either putting it back in water to root for longer or putting it in a smaller pot might be the solution

### Yolanda comentó el 2025-06-23

It can be brought in on another plant from the store, come in through windows,doors or even clothes it just depends. Pest typically target weak plants especially new cuttings that’s trying to grow. If this was given to you they could have had them on some of their plants and this little bugger hitched a ride home by hiding in your soil or on the back of the foliage

#### sydney boyd respondió el 2025-06-23

Oh no!

### sydney boyd comentó el 2025-06-23

Should I wash it and the keep her in water for awhile?

#### David respondió el 2025-06-23

Yes, I would try that 👍

### sydney boyd comentó el 2025-06-24

There was two of those bugs on my plant! :0

### sydney boyd comentó el 2025-06-24

One was near the root system and almost completely ruined the roots

#### TrinaLovesPlants respondió el 2025-06-24

Check any other plants. You can use alcohol and a qtip to wipe them off and kill them.

### sydney boyd comentó el 2025-06-24

Thankfully it looks like it was just that one.

### sydney boyd comentó el 2025-06-24

How soon do you think my plant will bounce back? ?

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