Questions tagged [plant-health]
For questions about how to maintain or assess a plant's health.
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Young mango tree leaves get blackish and fall off
I have planted a mango seed and it was growing fine until a few days ago I noticed that one of the leaves had started going blackish. When I touched it, it fell. Yesterday I noticed that another one ...
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Wondering why my Ocean Spider Plant is not thriving
A friend of mines had given me this Ocean Plant about six months ago. It has not made the long spider babies that normally come out. I was wondering if someone can suggest what Im doing wrong or if ...
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How Can I Turn Granular Mycorrhizae into Effective Liquid?
Looking to turn granulated mycorrhizae (combined with other beneficial bacteria) into a liquid to use. I use a low pressure aeroponics system and would like to use this granular product but unsure ...
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Will vine survive after this?
I have this vine that grew out of a pot, and it’s been wrapping around things.
Then yesterday somebody kicked the pot and the vine “broke” (if that’s the word).
I just stuck the end back in the soil,...
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How to take care of White Sandalwood Plant in the Pot?
Previously, I have posted this question on SE and it was related to Red Sandalwood plant (dead now).
Recently, I have purchased a new White Sandalwood plant. But, I think that the condition of this ...
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Help: New Kentia Palm with Leaves Yellowing/Browning from Leaf Tips
(for some reason it won't upload my pictures, so I will try to add later today; or or look at this link because I was able to post the photos on this site: https://garden.org/thread/view/119484/New-...
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Is our vascular plant alive or not?
We have one vascular plant (Araucaria heterophylla) which asjed about that it before here.
So according the answer to the question, i have triyed to change it's soil by this kind:
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And this GIF :...
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Saving pineapple plant
All my pineapple plants leaves turned yellow, and drying in about a month. My mother most likely over watered it, about 2-3 times a week. It currently has a fruit which is completely yellow now. How ...
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peace lily problem
I have a peace lily which is 6 weeks old (part of a sympathy planter), I transplanted it last week into a larger pot since it was beginning to droop and yellow. I used Miracle Grow potting soil, ...
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Where to place grapevines in the hot Australian sun?
I have three young grapevine cuttings about the size of a 30cm ruler (above ground). They rooted last spring (Australian spring), which was three months ago or so, and had a few leaves growing. I ...
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What is this white growth?
This plant...
Has developed some small white growths on it:
What is this stuff? It looks pretty foul. I did look up mealy bugs on Google Images, but those photos look different.
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Hard Water vs Soft Water for Houseplants
I have read that certain house plants should be watered with soft water. I would like to know if this applies to all house plants and what consequences would be visible when watering with hard water ...
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Indoor Cat Palm looks very sad/dying. Please help!
Got this Cat Palm about 3 weeks ago and in the last week it has started to look very unhappy with yellowing of the fronds to now looking a bit brown-black just dying off. It is in our workspace so ...
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Is this bonsai in trouble?
This is a bonsai fig tree, which I bought maybe two months ago. As you can see in this photo, it's losing leaves at a good clip:
However, a closer look shows that it's also sending up branch ...
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Maintain potted lily?
Last night I bought a small lily plant.
How much sun is it supposed to receive? I’ve read that I can place it in my rooftop for direct sunlight, but I don’t know.
How often should I water it? ...
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The cause of the pine needle fading
We have one vascular plant (Araucaria heterophylla) in my sister room and have this condition :
And this gif type:
My room plants are this kind:
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So my room is better for this vascular plant ...
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Snake Plant Questions
A few months ago I got three snake plants from my school. My horticulture teacher was going to throw them in the garbage, since they weren’t really needed and they were a little on the unsightly side. ...
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The healing of Aloe plant
Our daughter has stabbed the aloe plant about three different times on each stem with a pen.. will it heal itself ? I don’t know how she got the time or what she was thinking but each stem has little ...
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Help! What is happening to my agave?
There are fade marks everywhere and the leaves have started to curl inwards. Not only that, it looks like a completely different plant to what it was when i first got it which had this grey silvery ...
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Gasteria leaf thinning
This is a common problem I encounter. What causes this to happen even if the roots look healthy?
It may happen during mid to late summer, at the peak of the summer's heat . Leaves thinning and ...
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Reusing soil with earthworms in pots?
I have several potted plants, and just today I noticed I have an infestation of small earthworms.
I’ll be washing and repotting all these plants with fresh soil, but I don’t know what to do with the ...
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How large can areca palm grow?
I've been researching to buy plants for my rooftop. We live in the Caribbean, so the plants will receive at least 6 hours of direct sun. The heat is also unbearable.
With that said, I saw an ad where ...
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What kind of disease is this, which is ruining my crop
I have grown castor in 5 acres, Castor is not traditionally grown in our area, but in the last two years my father has been growing this crop, because its price is high in the market.
Last year's ...
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What is causing these circular spots on my pepper's leaves?
I recently posted about a pepper plant that I got from the local market. Lately, I have noticed circular whitish-brown spots on a lot of the leaves and this seems to be gradually spreading to other ...
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What went wrong with my potted creeping fig?
I bought this ice caps creeping fig in September, and it's just not doing very well. The leaves are very dry and brown looking, and I haven't seen any new leaves since shortly after we got it; I'm not ...
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Washing roots to make sure it has no hidden insects?
My red pepper plant isn't doing too great, so I decided to check the soil and it had dark red worms. I took it out of the pot, and removed all the soil from the roots with a water hose (or so I ...
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Anything else I can do to promote growth?
I bought this plant some time ago, but I’ve noticed that it’s not looking that great. I decided to replant it with new soil since the original soil’s garbage.
I decided to take a picture of the plant ...
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Do all desert cacti need a rest period?
Assuming a desert cactus could get all of its needs, light, heat, water... during the growing season met year round, does this cactus need a rest/dormancy period to remain healthy? Flowering does not ...
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Sambac jasmin drying out
BACKGROUND
I have a jasmin plant (jasminum sambac).
Up until about a month ago it was full of green leaves, and had scented white flowers blooming
About a month ago many of its leaves started ...
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My 8ft+ long butternut squash female fruits don't ripen. What am I doing wrong?
I have a long (8ft+) butternut squash vine that seems to be healthy (green leaves) and producing both male and female flowers. It grew all summer and is still alive and healthy. I see many nice ...
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Nerve plant with curly crunchy leaves
I've had this nerve plant for several years. Since moving apartments in June 2018 it's been looking worse and worse. It got very tall and leggy at first, which I assumed was because it wasn't getting ...
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Why does my Choko keep dying off, but then it grows up from the ground again?
A Choko is vine which is supposed to thrive all year round but mine's dying off every winter. It grows in a subtropical area, but the weather is very changeable, sometimes it's as hot as summer other ...
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whats wrong with my my zz plant`s leaves
hi would you please help me what's wrong with my zz plant...
its leaves are rolling as you see in pictures.i water it very carefully but
it was started 1 month ago,after that i repot it. some roots ...
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Pruning small tomato plant?
I bought this tomato plant some time ago, and it grew about 3 small tomatoes.
The tomato plant currently looks like this. I’m not sure if it’s dying, but the tomatoes grew in the dying branches.
Now ...
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Getting rid of mealybugs in geranium/citronella?
I have a small citronella plant that used to look very leafy and green. All of a sudden, the plant started turning brown, and the leaves were dying.
So I looked at it today, and found some white ...
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Avacado tree from seed
I have an almost one year old tree from a seed. It keeps dropping leaves as new growth happens and I can't figure out why. It only holds 3 or 4 leaves at a time.
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White growth on the outside bottom of the pot
I have a question about a peace lily we are currently growing inside. We aren’t really sure what we are doing for this to be caused but there’s a white/yellow growth on the bottom of the pot and also ...
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Young avocado plant moves to soil for a week and leaves are drying and pointing down
Hi guys, am looking for advice for my young avocado plant which has stop growing and leaves curling and pointing downward as in the picture. Moves it from water to soil a week ago and it doesn't get ...
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Bonsai fig displays unnerving lack of thirst
I bought a bonsai maybe ten days ago. The man who sold it to me said that I should check the soil daily and expect to water it every few days. I bought it on a Friday and watered it on the Sunday; ...
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What are those dark spots on my pilea
Since 2 weeks I have noticed that the leaves on my pilea started to have clusters of small dark spots. I'm wondering if it is a bad sign and whether I should do something or change something.
So far, ...
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What are these dots my Marigold have?
I'm new to all gardening related topics so I can appreciate some help. I started to inspect more carefully my plants and I found what the picture show. All the leaves have black dots that look ...
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Why are those leafs drying?
Why are they drying and how can I save them. They are in front of yhe window facing north. There is an apartment across very close. So not too much sunlight but enough I guess. I am in İstanbul.
I ...
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Falling yellow Fiddle fig leaves
My fiddle fig leaves have started to become yellowish and fall. In last one week two leaves have fallen. Not sure why is that. We water it every 15-20 days so as not to over water it. Any how to fix ...
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Is it true that a flower can become stressed?
I am reading a book and author said that if a go a nursery and find a flower that is yellowed or wilted it is probably not sick it can be "STRESSED". I thought this term very awkward. For me it can be ...
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Plant is bending and getting die
Suddenly my plant start bending to one side
I think the stem is weak and from weak stem it is shedding off
Will my plant can thrive again if i cut the upper bending part
Or some other measure should ...
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Pepper tree has dying parts
I can't seem to attach a picture because it's too large but I have a multi trunk pepper tree that has been beautiful for years. All of a sudden I'm noticing the tops of the branches on the right side ...
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What are these spots/pimples/holes/punctures in my succulent's leaves?
My succulent is otherwise healthy as far as I'm aware. I don't know whether this is normal and I never noticed it, or whether it's a sign of something more concerning.
My mother-in-law speculated it ...
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I don’t know what’s happening to my opuntia, can you help me?
I've had this opuntia since may this year and it was growing fine, it had grown three new little opuntia and suddenly it started having this white rod like things, at first I cleaned them up but a ...
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White and yellow stuff in potting soil?
I have a cranberry tree in a planter, and today I noticed this white and yellow stuff in the soil. Here are some pics of the soil:
A few months ago this same plant had tons of scale, and I cleaned it ...
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dark dots on myrtle leaves
I noticed dark dots on some of the leaves which I assume is not a good sign... but at the same time new leaves have been growing and are a beautiful green and spotless, so I am confused. Do you have ...
