I have notice red spots on some leaves of my fiddle leaf fig. Is this bloat? Thrips? I got the plant around two months ago. It had a couple of leaves like this and I chopped them off and it didn’t seem to be an issue since until this week. The plant sits near a south facing window but not in direct sunlight. The pot has drainage and I typically bottom water once a week or so and let it drain out. Appreciate the help!♥️
Edit: noticed a small bug on a leaf, see photo in comments!

Hello I purchased this Hoya online from Home Depot and it looks nothing like I expected. It only took a few days for delivery so its not stress from being shipped. I’ve had it for two days now. I have yet to repot it but I did check the soil and it had lots of millipedes which could just be from moisture. Did I purchase a sick plant with pest?

I have the plant in a bathroom away from my other house plants. I rinsed the plant with light water to see if any residue would go away.

Hi! I would like to introduce you to Franky, a little avocado tree that I recently repotted after he had been living peacefully in water for months. I feel he is going to die soon if I don't do something to help him.

So far, over the last two weeks, I have watered him once when I repotted him and again this week. He receives quite a lot of light where I have put him.

The soil is a mixture of potting soil, perlite, coco coir and tiny pieces of pine bark.

Thanks !

had the plant for like 8 months, in an east facing window with water when it’s almost or fully dry - only noticed these marks today! looks like a leaf miner of some kind but i’m not sure, I’ve only had personal experience dealing with spider mites and this doesn’t look like the damage they did. can’t see any larvae, webbing, bug poop or anything. any thoughts on what it might be? TIA :)

Recently moved to a new place, brought these plants with me. I have an avocado tree (first), a florist kalanchoe (second) and a thyme plant (third). I've recently been trying to get rid of a gnat infestation. The gnats were there before moving, I just had them sitting in a high window and didn't think much of it, but now that I live in a smaller place they're incredibly annoying. I would love to get some new plants, specifically start a herb garden, but not until these are handled.

I got mosquito dunks and bottom watered the plants to hopefully kill the larve, afterward though the plants started getting really wilty and discolored. That said, I watered them around the same time we got the first snow where I live. I live in a dry and cold climate, so that doesn't help either.

The thyme plant I'll likely just chuck and start new, as for the kalanchoe and avocado tree I'm not sure, I know the leaves on my avocado plant won't repair, the kalanchoe I could definitely just take some clippings and reproduce. I'm mainly thinking I just get rid of the soil if nothing else, it was just Walmart brand, which also it's great.

Any advice? Should I wait and see if the mosquito dunks work? Should I just start fresh? Should I trim my avocado tree or just start a new one? Any advice is very appreciated! I really want plants in my place, but I really don't want gnats!

First pic- my white bird of paradise only produces small, thin new leaves, you can see one of its older leaves which is way bigger and wider than its new leaves.

Second pic- examples of how the leaves are long and thin.

This plant sits between a south-east facing window and a south-west window, so it’s in a room that is very bright and gets lots of light.

According to my dehumidifier, the room is usually around 50% humidity in summer, and around 60% in winter.

In the summer I watered it once a week, and fertilised it with an organic fertiliser every two weeks. In winter i probably water it around 2-3 weeks.

No pests on any of my plants, I’ve looked everywhere.

I don’t know what to do! I was thinking of repotting it perhaps, as the last time I repotted it was about a year and a half ago, and I only used 100% indoor houseplant potting mix.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/plantclinic/s/CtB4HDFvsu

My snake plant lived!

I removed the moldy leaves and got rid of the pumice topping and that was it. I didn't even wait that long to water it again.

Ignore the conservatory, it's only been there a couple weeks while we did some DIY where it normally lives. It does quite like the bay window.

2nd pic is what it looked like when I made the original post.

I've had this Pilea Family for 6 years. It started with a small cutting of the now biggest one.

She is obviously quite fertile and growing lots of children (see last pic for the babies on the surface).

A month ago I noticed some leaves turning yellow and dying off. I inspected for pests and couldn't see anything, no strange smell from the soil.

The window she's near is facing south, so she gets quite a lot of sun. As she's been standing there for 3 years now, she is used to it (because she did not get visible damage in the summer).

I water her every other week with tap water and then also refill the ceramic frog. There are draining stones in the bottom of the pot and then a mix of regular indoor soil, succulent soil and clay granules.

She got fertilizer in the summer months.

Do you think this is normal shedding of the bottom leaves or does she need repotting?

Something else?

I'm grateful for every idea and happy to share more info/pics. She's my favorite 🥲

(and I'm sorry for letting her become like that)

I have had this plant for around 6 weeks, but it started looking a little bit unhealthy as soon as I got it. This is the first time I have taken care of a plant and I am wondering if I may have damaged it when putting it in the pot. I have been watering it everyday with just enough to make the top layer of soil damp, and it gets about 6 hours of direct sunlight everyday. The pot does have drainage.
Does this look like perhaps too much sun, not enough water or something else?

This plant has been the troublemaker of the bunch. We have had it for a few years and it was always problematic.

It gets plenty of light, regular watering and is next to a bunch of other healthy plants.

Two stems have already shrivelled and we cut them off, and the main trunk is drying up/shrivelling as well now.

Any ideas?

This cactus sits in my west facing window all day. And I water it as needed!

My concern though is … is this MEALY BUGS? Or spider mites ?! I don’t know. I’ve noticed all of a sudden so much of this weird white stuff, it’s on many of my cacti.

I’ve had the plant for a few months. I think it always was kind of fuzzy but now it seems more so!

I've had this plant for about 6 months. I've been watering it according to care guides, so whenever the top layer is dry. It's on a shelf underneath a grow light, and the other plants under that light are growing well. When I got it, I believe it had root rot because most of it had died off. This plant I believe was a runner from the mother plant and it had survived so I replanted it. For whatever reason, while it has grown some new leaves, they've remained very compact. After a while, a flower appeared, but the leaves have remained tiny and some of them are starting to be discolored. Now it looks like it's growing tons of flowers which I don't think it can support with its small size. I guess I just don't know how flame violets work, and the care guides aren't helping me.

I bought this plant last spring and I haven’t still got a good understanding of what she needs. This trunk has been yellowing in the last 2 weeks or so, it seems already dead(overwatering??) the other trunks might be still alive, but their leaves are curled with crispy ends (underwhelming??) the curling has been a concern for the whole summer. Some sun damage is also to be seen. She stands 1 meter away from a super sunny south window.
Watering happens around once a month, usually in the bad tube until water runs out. Pot has drainage.

So I've been trying to grow Mimosa Pudica plants from seeds, and as you can see, not having much luck 😅

The leaves get yellow, dry-ish looking, and fall before being fully grown. The whole plant look very frail too.

Not enough water? Too much water? Too much or not enough light?!

I water them when the soil get a little dry on the top.

I'm using 3x Barrina LED strips.

What could be the problem?

I’m not quite sure if this is leaf miner on dichondra. Ive had the plant for a month, but begun to notice these trails now. It gets plenty of sunlight. Water every second day. It’s still tubestock that I’ve kept outside. Should I just discard it?

The caption is dramatic. But my mental health and energy is in the lowest points, not actually due to this plant.

It gets a west facing window, but it's a distance from the window, across the room. It never seemed to mind it before. It's a small room, and the window is open all day. At least 8 hours.

Ive had this plant maybe a year? My sense of time isn't great. It's been awhile.

It was hydroponic. In this picture I put it in dirt for the first time.

The lore: this is a clearance lucky bamboo. It was hydroponic, and it stayed so for the entire duration I had it. It always died. Always. It started with 16 or so stalks, and I'm down to two and a half. At first it dropped stalk after stalk one after the other, and I didn't know what to do. Then it settled for a couple months, grew the tall leaves that you see, and seemed to finally be happy. I'd refill the water every 3-5 days. That was the speed it seemed to drink at.

It started yellowing again randomly a few days ago. On the stalk that's been cut, and on the leaves you see. I had a mental crashout because this was utterly unprompted, and went to another sub seeing what to do. I was on the verge of doing nothing at all and just letting it die.

The sub told me that these don't survive hydroponic. I needed to plant it. Well draining soil, and distilled water. No fertilizer. Despite my mental state, I did it just now. Like 2 minutes before typing this. I even found some sticks to hold it up. I put beeswax on the ends, even the ones I didn't cut this time just for the sake of it. (I had to beeswax all the ends before, it was rage inducing, and now I have a lot of extra beeswax.)

Is it finally happy? Or am I still in this death spiral? Can I learn to love this thing?

I've had these plants for a while, and I just don't know how to make them thrive.. please help.

You can see the windows are next to them, they get enough light.

I water them when dry!

Hi all.
I bought this pothos plant one week ago and put it in a nice bright spot beside my west facing window.

However I noticed some leaves turning brown and figured it was ok since it’s adjusting to its new home. I’m now worried it’s getting worse, particularly where the new growth is turning brown.

There is also some discolouration on some leaves which makes me paranoid that it could be a pest like thrips attacking the leaves?

Or else I’m wondering if the brown scorched edges could actually be that there is too much sun/light. I love in Northern Europe and it hasn’t been too hot this week, but we have had a couple of days with a few hours of sunshine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I love the colouring on this little guy and would like to keep him looking a bit healthier.

I haven’t changed its position or the amount of water… actually i changed nothing since its glory days. It gets light from a window on the south side of my room and most of the leaves are still in good condition

I have a FLF that’s been doing well and popping out leaves pretty aggressively (as you can see). The last leaf dried up before unfurling at all.

Do I need to do something to get it back on track or will a new one try to come out?

It’s under a plant light so gets 10+ hours of light a day. I water when the top couple of inches are dry and I give some plant food about once a month.

Thanks!

I rescued this Chinese Money Plant today. It was in VERY soggy soil. From what I gather it was recently watered (overwatered), indoors under artificial office light (not a grow light). The base of the stem is slightly brown but it feels solid and not mushy.

Should I attempt to repot it in better draining soil, or is there a way to propagate / give it a fresh start? I’ve never owned one before.

Thank you!

The leaves are just becoming droopy and lighter. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I water twice a week. I make sure the soil is not soggy before I water. I’ve tried adding fertiliser for micronutrients. It sits outside in around 6-8 hours of direct sun every day and maybe 3-4 hours of shaded sun.

The yellow splotching on the end half of this leaf has developed, at most, in two days. It’s not even close to the oldest leaf, and no abnormal yellowing on other leaves. It gets about 14 hours of light a day, and is watered only when the soil is almost completely dry. It was recently repositioned in its pot with some fresh soil added in. The yellowed parts are notably thinner and compromised.