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Dragon tree leaves drooping and falling off – Can it be saved and should I trim the stems?

Is it too late to save this dragon tree? It had been kept in the shade for several weeks and was likely overwatered. After some leaves started yellowing and falling off, I moved it to the window sill. ...
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Red agleonema has yellowing leaves?

Some of the leaves have stared turning yellow and drooping. The soil is completely dry right now but I was afraid the yellowing was because of overwatering. Please help :)
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Neon pothos plant needs to grow leaf again

I have a neon pothos plant. First pic is its original state (IMG_1258), second pic is post-being bitten by a Beagle (IMG_6078) Before After I took it to a horticulturalist after it developed brown ...
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Deformed Leaves on Newly Grafted Citrus Tree

I'm reaching out because I've noticed some unusual deformities in the leaves of my Washington Navel Orange tree (grafted in September this year), and I'm a bit puzzled about the cause. I've attached a ...
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Help My Mango Tree Is Dying!

My sapling was doing amazing throughout the summer and as it grew I changed its pot and added more dirt. It was doing good but then as September hit the leaves started to turn yellow and I thought it ...
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Purple blisters on my opuntia cactus, need advice

I've had my cactus for a couple years now and it's been doing fine up until a couple weeks ago. It started producing these strange purple blisters where the fuzz comes out. I've been searching ...
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My Cat Palm Has Dark Brown Streaks , brown leaf tips & worm bugs coming out of the stem

I’ve had this Cat Palm for about 2 months. It was on clearance at Home Depot & wasn’t super healthy looking when I bought it. I thought I’d try to save it. I have been inconsistent in watering it- ...
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Are these photinia's roots normal?

They've got an orangish colour, is it normal for this plant?
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Arborvitae has been cut beyond the growth line, will they ever grow back?

They look like heck. All I see is branches in the 3 foot spot in the middle of my 15 foot arborvitae where the gardeners trimmed back too deep. All I see are brown twigs. Will it grow back?
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Lemon are Sour Orange with many sharp thorns

Yields Hundred r better Orange color fruit. It could produce Alam if you can feel me. I'm wanting the fruit it produces to be consumed instead of a tripping in rotten Orange/ Lemon slip n slide!!! I ...
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What is this damage on my Anthurium leaf?

I've got this on a leaf on an Anthurium: Is this a disease? Do I have to cut this leaf? If so where is the best? From the base or just the leaf? It is in the same situations from days, without any ...
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Apple seedling starting to die

I read the other post about the apple seedling dying and my situation is similar. I grew the seedling from an apple from the store. I had grown it to about 11 inches (30 cm) and all of a sudden the ...
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Help with dying plant

I've had this plant for a few months, actually have no idea what it is (if someone could let me know that would be great). I am getting a lot of dead leaves, although there are also some fresh shoots, ...
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Dwarf sunflower closing

Can anyone tell me why my sunflower is closed up? It didnt look like this a few days ago, it was completely open, it has a smaller flower on its side so i thought it had to do with that but im at a ...
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Nyssa sylvatica - Identify possible disease?

Region is Pacific Northwest (Portland) We have a 12 ft tall Nyssa Sylvatica that's showing significant brown leaf spotting that is worse the higher you go. Photos are below. Last year, while still ...
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Why doesn't my brugmansia flower

It looks healthy with lots of leaves and 2' tall but no flowers. I kept it over the winter and it survived well.
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What is happening to my Avocado tree? The leaves turned yellow and then started to turn brown

I have planted an avocado seed in water using toothpicks (About 1/3 submerged in the water. It was growing well, and started growing nice green leaves. But in the past 2 weeks the leaves started ...
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Browning and dying leaves on Lotus [duplicate]

Here is a picture of the brown leaves
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Browning and dying lotus leaves

Outside pot in Santa Clara County California. Lotus is about 8 years old and has done fine up to this year. Now every single leaf gets brown around the edges, then gradually gets totally brown from ...
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Bark on plum tree concern

I noticed earlier on our plum tree that the bark on one of the limbs is a very slight reddish colour and what look like cracks. You can see the another tree limb on the left that looks fine Any ideas ...
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What's wrong with my apple tree?

Some of the leaves on my apple tree are showing like this. [ Should I be concerned? Also, what's this white stuff? Is it Woolly Aphids? Climate; Istanbul. Hot summers, cold winters. We've recently ...
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Is My Kentia Palm Unhappy?

We bought this plant 2-3 months ago. It is in a place without direct light, and the temperature in the room is 27/30 degrees with a humidity 50-70%. We water with drinking water every 2 weeks. We didn'...
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Areca Palm leaves looking weird

Does anyone know why my Areca’s leaves looks like this?
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Peach trees stopped producing

I have 2 peach trees , approximately 11-12 years old and after 8-9 years of great fruit production this year both trees just stopped producing Not a single flower and or fruit. Any suggestions?
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What's happened to my bugbane?

This bugbane (Actaea racemosa) had been growing very happily for several years. This spring it came up, leafed out and bloomed... and then suddenly last week the leaves and unripe fruits all turned ...
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Help identify what is breaking or eating the branches off my plants?

I have tomato and cucumber plants, and I've observed a few broken branches. Initially, I attributed it to the weather, but it seems that even during a sunny week, more branches have been breaking off. ...
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Any idea why my flamingo plant is dying?

I've had a flamingo plant for about 6 months and recently most of the leaves discoloured and fell off and it looks like the others are going to follow suit. The root of the stems are all discolouring ...
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My rubber fig plant has grown two new leaves recently but both have a mottled camouflage colour to them. It is otherwise healthy and usually great

It usually has shiny green leaves and grows very well in its home. It hasn’t been moved or had anything changed. It’s around 4 years old.
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Green maple tree growing out of red maple tree. Why + any cause for alarm?

I have some red maple trees in a planter on my balcony. One of these branched right at the lowest part of the trunk, almost right after I got it. This branch grew almost to the same size as the ...
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Black spots on gooseberry leaves

I have gooseberry/red currant plant (grafted). A some point black spots appeared on gooseberry leaves. They appear overnight on more mature leaves. Red currant leaves does not seem to be affected in ...
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what's affecting my zinnias?

These are a liliput variety of zinnias that I started from seed during may. Most affected plant They were doing fine when they were on the small germination pots but after repotting them directly to ...
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whats causing these stains on the leaves of my eggplant

recently these dark brown stains started to appear on the new growth of my eggplants leaves and I'd like to find out what's causing it. I started it from seed on early may and moved it to a 10 gallon/...
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Please help with watermelon

Can someone please help me tell me what’s the best soil and fertilizer for water melons? I have heard sand and all kinds of stuff to help my water melons get big. What am I doing wrong?
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Dried out Crassula Tetragona

My crassula tetragona has dried out, it lives on the windowsill and is watered once a week. It’s never been green
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Why don’t the buds in my Shasta Daisy open?

Planted this Shasta daisy from a pot after full flowering last year. We had a very snowy winter, but it came back (cut down near the ground in fall)and seems so healthy. It has many buds, but they ...
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What is going on with my star jasmine?

I purchased a star jasmine plant a few weeks ago and since then the flowers have died and the leaves have either drooped or turned brown. I was hoping it was just transplant shock since I repotted the ...
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Yellowing salvia greggii

I bought an autumn sage a few days ago, it had a few yellow leaves on the bottom but it seemed fine. However now there's yellowing and browning in the flowers too and a lot of the bottom leaves have ...
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Acer leaves turning brown

I recently bought a Japanese jewel green acer and live in the north east of Scotland. Having planted it a week ago it now has brown leaves developing, mainly on the top of the plant. I have attached ...
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What should I do with the secondary stem coming from an orchid's main stem? (not a keiki)

I have run into this weird situation where a second stem1 is coming out of the main one, like in the two following photos. From what I've seen so far this is not a keiki, as a keiki is supposed to be ...
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Brown-ish spots on Bonsai (Carmona) leaves

Today while trimming my bonsai, I've noticed some brown spots on some leaves. Most, if not all yellowed leaves had these spots on them. These spots seem to be "raised" (not flush with the ...
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On my ponytail palm next to the trunk newer leaves are brown. Ive benn peeling them off but its still growing brown leaves. What am i doing wrong?

The leaves in question is growing from top of trunk. They are coming out brown. I've peeled them off, but still producing brown leaves
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Black/gray marks on new leaves of hot pepper plant

A hot pepper plant (either a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion or Ghost Pepper) that I've recently (couple of weeks to a month ago) moved outdoors (weather above 8-10°C @ night) started showing some weird ...
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What is this thing on the mint plant leaves?

I have a pepper mint plant that I grow using growth light in a windowsill. Recently there has ben some wierd thing on the leaves that I don't know what is. Is this an infection? Is it fungii? Is it ...
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Why is my foxtail palm not growing new fronds?

My foxtail palm is no longer growing new fronds. Some of the older ones grew stunted but the fronds are dark green. I replanted a 15ft palm about 2 years ago and fertilize it every 3 months. The ...
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Cactus problem with discolouration

Our 7ft high cactus has started to develop these brown patches & are definitely spreading. It’s located in a conservatory which is quite sunny but not direct & has been there for a number of ...
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Should I have our old maple cut down?

We have a huge sugar maple in our yard that is almost 200 years old. This spring when cleaning up the yard I noticed a lot of bark and smaller limbs have come off the tree and on one side at least, ...
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Acer tree leaves are not growing

I planted my acer tree last year and it bloomed throughout the year very well. i havent moved it at all. this year the leaves start to come, i can see new leaves bloom but they are dying before they ...
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Can anyone identify what’s happening to these leaves? Insects? Rabbits? Chemicals?

Trying to decide what is going wrong here. These are pepper plants. Recently added perlite and oyster shells to improve water drainage and raise PH. Could that result in this problem? Might it be ...
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What is causing my Areca Dypsis to die?

I bought my Areca Dypsis plant a month ago and very quickly I noticed that the leaves were turning yellow, and others weren't really growing. I don't overwater my plant and it doesn't receive direct ...
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Suckers on rose bushes

It looks like I have a bunch of suckers on this rose bush. You can see how they look different from the branch with the true bud. The fat red-leafed branches don’t seem to have any buds at the ends. ...
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