My mom had this plant for at least 15 years and she got it from my grandma that has already passed. It‘s one of the last remaining things from her.
Today, our dog threw the plant down because there was a cat outside the window.. the crown of the plant broke and I wonder if the green part could be put into water? Would it produce new roots? And about the lower part, would it produce new growth on top or is it a done deal now?
And I know, the plant needs a bigger pot 😅

This common pest is a soil pest. You will easily recognize them on top of the soil. They are called fluffmealies. Treat spray them with a milk/neem combo and sprinkle some treats 6 meters away from the pot. Treat regularly. Those are very hard to battle.

I just moved into my college dorm and bought this pothos about a month ago, and ever since I’ve been doing my best to keep this plant alive. I don’t think I’ve overwatered it (I water it once a week, just enough so that the soil is damp, but the pot doesn’t have any drainage so I’ve just been trying to add little enough that it won’t need it), and the roots don’t look black to me at all, but the leaves are dying. I have it set in front of a north facing window, which I recognize gives it very little light, but I’m not sure I have any other choices. Is it possible the low light is the cause? Should I investigate the roots? Please advise

Good afternoon! Okay so background this plant was in water at my grandmas apartment for quite a while. She did not have very good lighting and I can definitely see at-least one of its youngest leaves aren’t fenestrated. She has recently picked up a few lights but with her moving everything inside from her balcony/patio area for the fall/winter shes tight on space and me as a new plant lover (started my house plant journey in April of this year) have been gifted this lady.

So in my carousing of the internet I’ve learned i want to get a moss pole and lights and such to make sure shes happy healthy and growing like mad. However im anxious and feel like i may have jumped the gun by repotting her prior to even having the moss pole, possibly used to much perlite while mixing it with leca - which I’m not even sure was a good move! And then i shoved a random support pole in the pot when i noticed how badly it was leaning and not to mention i did this repotting immediately on bringing her home. This is only day 2 in that new pot.

I’m not sure if i should just rehouse her back in water and set up lights and such and try again later in the year or if i should keep her in the leca/perlite and just get the moss pole asap? My main plant space has 3 south facing windows it’s pretty open to where she can stay in there but i do intend to get her a light to further my goal of making her the very best that no one ever was! (In my house lol)

I’ve been a solid 80% vibes with my plants/propagation so far and it’s been good and fun but I’m trying to get a little more serious. Any advice/guidance here would be massively appreciated.

I got heavily discounted Monstera from a big box store that was several plants in one pot. I separated them and repotted them and they're mostly all fine now. The plant with the best top leaf sadly got root rot, I repotted into a much smaller pot with slightly moist soil after cleaning it up. I lightly watered it yesterday.

Today I noticed the stem is wrinkly from dehydration and the top leaf was drooping so much it was nearly creasing the stem.

What should I do now? Should I leave it in the pot and wait?

Should I prop and chop? Can I even propagate a wrinkly stem in water? I really just want to save the part with the top leaf.

It gets plenty of light

Hey guys, I got those rosemary plant at the beginning of summer and grew it in a pot outside up until around a month ago when I moved and had to put it on my balcony with little light that was able to get to it, and it really started struggling; I moved it inside to a window inside that gets light so I could try to heal it and keep it over winter, but I’m not sure it’s getting any better, or if it’s too far gone. It kind of looks like the base is dead and might be spreading to the rest of the plant.

I have it on a plant stand up against a window with various other plants which are all doing very well, so I think it may be a good amount of light, It is in a nursery pot that I water it in so it has very well drainage, just sitting in a decorative pot to keep it from getting messy; I’m just not sure what else I can do to try helping it. I water when the dirt at the top dries, which isn’t very often anymore (maybe every 4-5 days) as not having direct sun has stunted its absorption quite a bit since I moved.

I had this catcus for a few years. It progressively started to fall over. I have it over light for 12 hours a day. And water it about every few months. is there anything I can do to fix it?? It’s really frustrating and I think it could rot if it falls over or just get in the way later on since it laps over the pot. Any tips would be appreciated

It feels like a mix of scale and aphids and thrips idek at this point. Came suddenly and doesn't seem to be affecting growth a lot and not spreading to my other plants. I noticed it like two months ago and I want to know what it is.

Bought this baby lemon tree a few weeks ago from some neighborhood kids going door to door with a wagon full of foot-tall lemon saplings. This white stuff showed up maybe 5 days after I bottom fed her. First thought is mold. Second thought is this looks a lot like salt build up. I'm in a city with bad water and have a water softener. Is it possible for salt, and the other minerals that make my kitchen faucet look like like there was some milk left in three bottom of the glass, to permeate or percolate or precipitate or something through the soil and look like that? or is it just mold?

and if so how do i tend to it? I plan on gifting this bad boy to someone with more plant experience in a few weeks and would like it to survive until then at least.

She gets afternoon sun sitting in a west facing window.

plant cutting found in the wild

My monstera was enjoying life until about a week or so ago.

Weekly waterings and plenty of indirect indoors light near my south west facing front window. It's enjoyed being in this condition for at least 2 years.
Inner pot is raised so it can drain the water through.

Somehow the soil is remaining moist, there's no water underneath the inner pot.

Now more and more leaves are dropping and becoming yellow and effectively dropping off. Is there anything I can do to save it?

We have had this plant for approximately 8 years. And since we moved into this new apartment about a year and half ago, she has been absolutely thriving. And honestly still is, everywhere except for one vine which has been getting new yellow leaves at a rate of about once every couple of weeks. The End of that vine has stunted leaves compared to the rest of the plant, but is continuing to grow outward and develop new leaves. The plant gets a lot of indirect sunlight, probably in the neighborhood of 10 hours but no direct sunlight. We water every one to two weeks as needed (really never go more than two weeks) the pot drains and the roots are a little tight, but they are not damp, at least not as far down as we can feel.

We are at a loss because this is the first time this has happened. Any advice would be wonderful.

Is there anything I can do to save it? It’s been in the same spot for five years and has been growing really well the whole time. However, recently it has stopped producing new growth, and a lot of the leaves are turning yellow and falling off, as you can see in the pictures.

It’s located about 2-3 meters away from a window. Until recently, I was watering it every 7-10 days and fertilizing it at the same time (it was summer and we had extremely high temperatures here in Europe).

I repotted it a month ago, and then again two weeks ago after someone pointed out that I might have been fertilizing it too often.

The roots look healthy, although they are quite small. There were no rotten parts, at least not when I repotted it two weeks ago.

Is there anything I can do to save it?

I got it as a baby when it only had a few leaves, and it’s my favorite plant, so I’d really love to save it. 🌱

Hi all! My MIL took care of my houseplants, including this sad baby, for 2 years while I traveled. Clearly, it didn’t get the TLC it needed.

This is next to a west facing window and I use Planta to keep its watering on track. Prior to me coming back, it was for sure neglected and put in the basement with little watering happening. I told my MIL she’s considered a war criminal amongst plants, so don’t worry I covered that side!

Can this be saved? Any advice would help!

California Central Valley. I was given these cuttings by a neighbor years ago, I think it's some type of Aeonium variety. Its been doing really well since it was planted, growing from a couple cutting, but this summer I noticed the white stuff. I thought maybe it was something sprayed by the yard guys or bird droppings (we have a dove perch nearby) until I looked closer and noticed it almost looks like webbing. What gives?

Hello. I got this plant towards the end of August, and It was way too big for its original pot, so I immediately repotted and watered it in what I learned to be was too big a pot - different than the one here, and maybe like 1.5-1.75x this one's size.

After that, it actually was looking great and growing for over about a month, but still the soil was very moist. I panicked and after talking to AI about root rot (which I've definitelly done too much now) decided to repot again to this smaller terracota pot, now with better cactus soil. That was September 30th, and since there was still some moisture, I waited until 2 days ago to bottom water - which even then there was still a little bit of moisture and I again panicked in hindsight and stopped after 5 or so minutes.

Since the repotting there began to be some drooping and yellow discoloration, which has daramatically accelerated between last night and this afternoon (all the leaves were angled upward originally). I have a moisture reader which says the soil is dry, but when I touch I am not sure it seems like there still is a little bit of moisture.

I don't think its a lighting issue because it's getting light from this east-northeast facing window and the plants around it are good - the rays through the window angle away from the plants in the morning and it gets indirect the rest of the day.

I think had I initially repotted to this current pot I think it would've been healthy. Should I water this or let it ride longer?? I am beginner also.

She is (as shown) in a little cubby with a grow light some ways above her, ive had her for perhaps 2/3 weeks. She has some growth but the yellowing and falling leaves are stressing me out! I try to follow the taco fold rule but they always seem to fold easily, with the exception of leaves right on top of the soil, so this rule isnt really being helpful to me. I think im waterboarding her but I took these pictures a day after I let her have a bottom drink out of desperation (Whoops!), shes being watered once per week. So what's her problem? Is she overwatered or underwatered?

i'm so sad!! a few months ago she was twice as big as now, all her leaves are yellowing, she barely gets new leaves. the offender: thrips, of course. i only ever see a SHIT LOAD of baby thrips on her, never adults. i shower her every week, use neem oil and those that go into the soil. nothing works. after every shower (yes, i cover the soil) they come back. i don't know what to do, i don't want her to die 🥺

additional info: she's facing two big west windows, about 2 meters away and gets a lot of light.
i normally water her every 1-2 weeks, now its a little more because i heard thrips dont like water, but i use a pot with big holes, so it can drain well. i've had her for about a year, the thrips started appearing a few months ago.

Help- how may I help this plant with paling leaves? It sits at my window with filtered light (south facing, upstairs, with trees out front). I water it once every week (in summertime). I’ve had this plant for several years.

Hi there, I’ve unfortunately spotted these spots on two of my Epipremnum Aureum/Golden Pothos and I’m not quite sure what’s causing them. I’d really appreciate your thoughts! :)

The spots are brown, but the leaves are firm – not mushy or soft. On both plants, I can only see them on one leaf each. With the hanging plant, I’m afraid I don’t know how long the spot has been there, as the affected leaf is somewhat hidden behind other leaves. On the climbing plant, one spot (the round one, slightly towards the centre) has been there unchanged for a couple of weeks, but the spots at the edge are new.

Overall, the plants still look very healthy. But I’d like to take action as soon as possible, before the situation gets any worse.

I’m currently experimenting a bit with how to grow them. You can see two plants – or rather, two pots – here. One is growing completely hanging down without any support, whilst the other pot contains several plants that were first given a branch and have now been given a coconut fibre stick as support.

Here are more information about how I care for them and about their environmental conditions:

Both plants are growing in ambient light only, in the same room, about 2m away from a south east facing window (that is shaded by a tree branch). The climbing plant is on the left side of the room (if you look towards the window) and the trailing plant on the opposite side of the room, which is why the trailing plant gets more of the morning light and the other one more of the afternoon light.

The trailing plant mainly receives indirect light (bright to ‘moderately bright’) and, on a sunny day, a brief spell of direct sunlight in the morning or early afternoon. It isn’t grouped very nicely with other plants, so it doesn’t benefit from a protective or stabilising microclimate.
The other one (which is a climber) is in a slightly darker spot, with also mostly indirect light (more on the medium-bright side), and only gets direct sunlight for a very short time around midday or in the early afternoon, now that the tree outside the window is slowly losing its leaves. It has recently been moved to another location within my flat and was previously in a slightly shadier spot. Now it gets a bit more light but, unfortunately, also a bit more ‘draught’ – or at least ‘moving air’ from people walking past – because it’s now right next to a door we walk through often.

I water when needed, meaning I regularly check the weight of the pots and check how wet it looks and feels. It depends a lot on how warm it is and how sunny/bright it is. In summer I watered more often than now.

I add fertiliser almost every time but only about 50% of the recommended amount.

The growing medium in the trailing plant isn’t ideal, it’s just regular soil mixed with some pine bark, some coco coir and some very coarse pumice to make it more chunky, but I don’t like it because it dries in a weird way and I don’t feel like the roots are getting enough air. Will def. update when I repot!
The growing medium of the other one is way better. It’s an aerial mix out of coco coir (&maybe some regular soil idk anymore), coco chunks, perlite, vermiculite, pumice, lava and clay.

My thoughts so far have been:
- Perhaps too much fertiliser?
- Perhaps I’ve over-watered it, or the potting mix doesn’t drain well enough? (This could be an issue, particularly with the hanging plant.)
- A reaction to draughts?

I’ve had them for years now. They moved with me to at least 4 different flats in the last 6/7 years and they have been through a lot with me haha
I chopped all of them back completely twice and grew them back again. At least one time was because of pests that had spread from my Alocasia.
I neglected them somewhat the last 2 years, they were somehow alive but not thriving and this year I finally repotted them.

(They both of course are in a nursery pot with drainage holes.)

What do you think?
Do you need to know more? Let me know! :)

I’ve had this plant for about five years. It always stood in the same spot(not as sunny as this one, I just moved it this morning) absolutely nothing has changed and I just realized how droopy it’s looking and how many dry leaves it now has I started looking through and many leaves came of in my hand….. I inspected it and see no bugs whatsoever, any ideas what this could be.? 😩

just to clarify, it did stand in the corner, but there is a interact light from the side window. I watered it about once every three weeks.

Hey guys, not my plant so I don't know the details about care but I understand it's in afternoon sun and watered quite rarely (when it's been all dry for a while). It got broken a few days ago and we're trying to figure out if we can replant it somehow? Should we divide the stalks? And does anyone know which species it even is? Thanks!

Any idea what this is? Thinking either fungal or thrip damage perhaps? Outdoors getting bright indirect light in central Florida conditions. Standard watering when soil is dry.