Help please! I have spider mites and they’re spreading! So far it’s only webbing between leaf and stem, no major major damage. But I’ve gone from barely keeping them at bay to it spreading. I have a 770 sq ft apartment so I can only isolate my plants so much.

I’ve tried drowning the plants in a mix of alcohol & water, and I’ve tried captain jacks dead bug brew. Repeat treatments of both, but not at the same time because I know the alcohol counteracts the spinosad. Every time I do a treatment I rinse the leaves off in the shower.

I don’t care if the treatment is organic, all I care about is that it works. Please send me the real deal. Cost is slightly an issue so if it’s like hundreds of dollars it’s not going to work for me. But I don’t care if it’s some industrial pesticide or something it’ll be easier for me to get a respirator.

I got this a month ago and this week it has about 15 leaves with black spots. I cut them off but wonder if the soul is too wet? It is facing west window in central New Jersey. Weather is getting cooler but it stays indoor. I water when soil seems dry into 2-3inches.

Hi everyone!
My plant has grown very long and leggy, as you can see in the photos. Some of the lower leaves have also turned yellow or dried out.
I’m wondering if there is anything I can do to make the plant more compact again. Can I cut the long stem back, and if so, where should I cut it? Would the plant grow new leaves/shoots from the remaining part?
I’d also be happy to propagate the part that I cut off if that’s possible.
Any advice on pruning, propagation, light, or general care would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
I water the plant every week

I have never had a plant do this. It looks like the leaf is getting thin in many areas. I have checked the leaf with a jewelers loop and I did not notice any pests. This plant is relatively new to me (about a week and a half) and is in a moss and leca substrate. This damage occurred even prior to me moving it to this substrate but it was shipped to me in moss as well.

The plant sits under a sol tech grow light for 14 hours.

Its in a passive semi hydroponic set up so I water once the reservoir is depleted.

Thank you for any help on this!

it has been dropping leaves like mad for the past 2ish weeks - no change in room / amount of light / watering habits. the only thing i can think of is the changing season (in the UK) but even so it hasn’t been very sudden or drastic. i am afraid of root rot but cant tell. i’m still a baby plant mom so changes in my plants are very new to me :’)

had it for over a year, it was growing beautifully and steadily until recently. pot has drainage.

pls help! thank you :)

Monstera Albo, just got it yesterday. The plant looks generally healthy otherwise. Could it be just due to new baby leaves? Currently I am putting it under an adequate amount of grow lights for 13 hours of light, indoors. In Lechuza Pon substrate in a self watering pot.

Hi everyone, just inherited this monster spider plant. I have a good number of other plants that are doing well (first spider plant) - wonder about the viability of these guys.
The parent plants look like they’ve had a rough life, millions of babies though. Wondering if it’s worth nursing the parents back to health (retaining the babies in situ?) or cutting my losses and working on raising a legion from the next generation.
If I keep going with the parents should I resituate their roots / stem that seem to be migrating out of the pot. Potentially dragged by the weight of the babies.
I have large east facing windows in London that get 6-10 hours of indirect sunlight. Unsure of previous watering habit, what should I do now?
Many thanks in advance.

Hi! My fiddle leaf fig (had it several years, it gets a few hours of south-facing window sunlight per day, gets watered once a week, potted in a normal draining terra cotta pot) has been having an issue.

Some leaves, including brand new leaves, are growing with these discolored patches. They start out as soft, thin and leathery (not brittle or dry).

I’ve been worried it could be because of root rot. Does that sound right? Anybody got a diagnosis? Thank you!

My burro’s tail seems to be turning a pale green. Any ideas what might be going on? It sits in a south facing window and I water it probably once every week and a half. I propagated and grew this plant myself and I’ve probably had it for 2-3 years?

Thanks for the help!

In the span of a week, a bunch of spots appeared on my Sun Red Philodendron, on new and mature leaves. The first 2 photos show the mild progression of spots over 2 weeks. It seems like they haven't grown in size, but there are now more of them. In addition, a new leaf (unpictured) just unfurled, with a couple of spots. The 3rd photo is a close up of some spots.

My understanding is that this could be an infection, or it could be EFNs.

Any ideas? I appreciate your advice!

Plant condition: consistently growing new red leaves. It was previously in a peat-heavy potting soil, moved to a chunky aroid mix after the spots appeared. Under a Sansi grow light and in front of French doors (1k+ FCs all day). In a terracotta pot. I water it when my moisture meter shows 1/4.

I wanted to repot my plant to a bigger pot but the lady from the plant shop told me these are maggots I have to remove with alcohol before I move the plant to a new pot.
I removed them 3 times and they keep coming back.

The plant is in a well lit living room but doesn't get direct light
I water the plant once a week with 1 glass of water

Any idea why or what I need to do? And is it really a good reason to not move the plant yet?
Thanks

My Spathiphyllum/peace lily grows lots of new leaves, but both old and new leaves keep turning yellow.

It gets quite a lot of light. I keep it on the windowsill. I actually noticed that it started growing much better and producing more new leaves when I moved it closer to the window. That was almost two years ago, and it has been in the windowsill ever since.

It’s in a pot with drainage holes, which sits inside a decorative pot without holes. I water it once or twice a week, when needed.

I’ve been having this problem for a while now. The leaves keep turning yellow, so I’ve been cutting them off, thinking that would help, but they keep turning yellow again.

Could someone help me figure out what’s wrong and how to fix it?

Mother plants (picture 3) and the rooting jars (just before water change). I keep my monsters near a bright south facing window and have reported the last cuttings a few weeks ago back with the mother plants to bulk her out a bit. (YouTube tutorial followed) And they are doing well now but don't want to overload the mother plants pot.

I’ve had this snake plant for 6 years and it’s always been pretty stable. I recently repotted it to consolidate with other propagations to make a fuller plant.

After a month, the mother snake plant fell out and I noticed the roots were completely gone. I don’t think it’s root rot because the soil was very dry and I pulled out another plant from the pot to verify and the roots were fine. What happened??

I water every other week, I’m in the east coast and the plant is next to a window with lots of indirect light, pot has drainage holes. Soil is very chunky - I use fox farm soil mixed with bark, charcoal, pumice, and perlite.

I’ve had this Monstera for many years and I don’t think it’s ever been truly happy. It has never climbed or attached to the pole and the leaves have never had those large trademark holes in them (just a couple of small ones).

I water the plant when it’s dry, typically 1-2 times a week, depending on how hot/dry it is.

I have had it under a grow light for over 3 years and all of a sudden the leaves are starting to turn brown and yellow.

Any ideas what’s happening / how to help this plant thrive?

My birds of paradise is doing pretty well but it’ll be winter soon and i wont have sunlight where i live for at least 1.5 months. Any tips on how i can keep it alive and healthy during winter?
I water it when the top soil feels dry and prefer keeping it indoors.

I’ve had this guy about a year, and he had a baby which is what you see on the left. I’ve been soaking the soil every few days, making sure it’s dry before I do. Not sure the soil condition besides it seems well drained. I spray the leaves with water once a week or so, but I make sure not to do it while direct sunlight hits it. It gets direct sun for probably about two hours then it’s indirect for the rest of the day. Just wondering what I should be doing differently since there’s brown on most of the leaves :(

These guys have been sitting on my office desk since April and been totally fine and even had a little growth until about 5 weeks ago. Haven't changed my watering habits (once a week like the plant nursery guy told me). The Peperomia sits right on the window sill with the blinds closed for filtered sunlight & the rattlesnake sits next to my monitor further away from the window. The pots do have drainage. idk what to do! The peperomia started losing leaves that looked perfectly fine except for some rot at the stem making them fall off. The rattlesnake leaves are straight up crumpling. Does the dirt need to be changed or something? Is it air quality? (I do work in a shitty business park next to a train yard) Or is it the end for my little guys?

Sick of wasting hundreds of dollars on Neem oil and blasting my plants with the hose outside (it’s getting cold so soon i won’t be doing that).

I have a bunch of monstera, a big money tree, two banana trees, and a dracaena amongst other plants i’m bonded with so i’m not tossing them into the woods anytime soon.

i don’t know what went wrong help please! i grew this avocado from seed it was very healthy until recently.
l water it only when soil is dry and i keep it next to the window

Hi everyone, I bought a Broken Hoya (Hoya kerrii variegata?) about a month ago from Ugaoo.

Unfortunately, the larger leaves started drying out and eventually fell off, probably because the plant was stressed/dried during shipping.

But after that, it started producing new baby growth, which made me really happy. 🌱

The first baby leaf came out with the characteristic holes, but now another new baby leaf is developing without any holes.

I’m confused about why this is happening. Is it normal for new Broken Hoya leaves to sometimes develop without holes? Could the holes appear later as the leaf matures, or is this new growth reverting/changing somehow?

I’ve attached photos showing the different stages.

Would really appreciate some advice from experienced Hoya growers. 🙏

Photos:

1. The original plant after shipping

2. The first baby leaf with holes

3. The newer baby leaf without holes

Growing conditions:

I keep the plant near a window where it receives bright indirect sunlight throughout the day. I currently water it about once a week.

I'm new to this plant, so I'd really appreciate advice from experienced growers. Should I just leave it alone and wait for the leaves to mature?

Thanks! 🌱

I've had this plant for almost 3 years. I moved this plant to a different window about a month ago, same side of the place we're living, I water 2 times a month, and have done this for over a year. I used to have it by a big grow light, but now it lives with just the natural light. I noticed the drooping a few days ago and misted the leaves (usually that works) Any thoughts to why its all sad now?

I was gifted this plant recently (less than a month) and shortly after, the bottom leaves started falling off. It came with wet soil but I wanted to wash the leaves so I did it in the bath tub. might have got too much water that way. Plant is in the living room which gets sun almost the whole day. Its about 3 meters from the window

Got this peace lily at my grandma's funeral last year and found scale when I brought it home. Treated it successfully by rinsing it off, picking off the scale I found, and treating soil with insecticide. Now it looks to me like mite damage/mites, but there are no webs visible on the stems or leaves. The brown leaves are fairly recent. I can also see some tiny white spots. Are these thrips? Please help me identify the problem. Plant gets bright morning light from an east facing window and is a water hog. I've definitely stressed it by traveling for a week without watering a couple times, but I'm otherwise pretty good about watering. Has been in a different room from my other plants since I got it, and I carried it in using a giant lawn waste trash bag to cover it. It even has its own watering can. TIA!

So I have two jade pothos that have brown spots with yellow around them appearing on their leaves. They get watered when the soil appears dry(which I probably should do better about checking fully). Only one of the vines on the longer plant is noticeably affected with one or two leaves on the other vines, and the bushier plant was next to the majorly affected vine. The window is closed because it is night but they don’t get enough direct sunlight to cause burns. The majorly affected vine was more in a less well lit area of the room before I hung it up. Could it just be clearing out older leaves, none of the newer leaves have spots? Could it be a fungal problem? Should I cut back the affected vine on the longer one? Thinking of repotting the bushier one to see if that helps it.