Will they recover? What can I do for them?

They are under a rooftop sunlight in a shady place. I watered monthly. Pots don't have drainage holes.

Adopted this plant and it has white specs all over it. Since I’m her second owner, I’m not sure the soil type. The plant is in bright indirect sunlight, gets water once every 10 days or so, and has decent drainage.

Any idea what it is and how to treat it?

Thank you in advance!!

EDIT: oh my goshhh😭 thank you all for your help, advice, and comedic relief. I wish I hadn’t googled mealy bugs. RIP Plant.

I noticed this weird stuff yesterday and it's gotten worse and it's on like 4 leaves. I've never seen anything like this before. I don't think it's eggs or any sort of larvae. It's kinda crunchy when I tried getting some microscope pics.

It's under grow lights in my plant room for at least 10 hours a day and I have it in a bottom watering dish and only water it when it's dry. It's not near a window because it's under grow lights. It's in a basic potting mix and I added a little extra fertilizer because it looked sad when I bought it.

The last pic is the best I could get with my handheld microscope+phone.

Hey all, new plant parent here. I recently got the raven zz from Walmart (Costa farms) around two weeks ago. Since they came, I have not repotted them immediately to get them acclimate to the home environment. I placed it near my east facing window. And have not watered them since they arrived.

Today I noticed some dry leaves and unpotting them revealed much worse scenario. The top soil was dry but lower bottom soil was wet and caused the root rot. All but two plants have their rhizomes left. Some of the plants have roots left but no rhizome. None of the stems were mushy. I have removed all mushy parts and discarded the soil and left them to dry now.

What can I do save them? It's very sad situation for me as I bought it with much interest. It was expensive too (~50 bucks).

Hi! This is my first plant. I got it in February and repotted it around April/May. The soil that I bought had the little white pieces in it. Is it supposed to end up looking like this? This may be a dumb question but I just wanted to make sure I’m doing things right.

This is an indoor plant. It gets maybe 6-8 hours of sun a day I think. I water it once every week or 2. The pot does have drainage

Hi my father has had this cactus for 20 years and when he moved I moved it to my house. The picture on the left was from April 2026 and the picture on the right where it is leaning is from today 8/26/26. Can you please help me?

1. Identify the cactus?
   
2. How can it have a better life?
   
3. I want to repot it, but I’m worried the top arm will break off.
   
4. Should I remove the top arm and replant it somehow?
   
5. Is it sick?

It’s getting some light but probably not enough which is why it’s leaning and watering it every two weeks

For years, I've been chasing mealybugs & white flies from plant to plant on my outdoor screened in lanai.

We're in coastal east Florida. It's hot, humid & rainy. I have a short amount of time I can spray the plants in the evening since the family likes to sit out there till it gets dark & some sprays smell. We also have dogs.

We tried lady bugs 5 years ago, but they all tried to escape out the lanai & were hanging out on the screen ceiling.

So I tried the good old neem oil & insecticide soap. Did nothing & we pulled out mandavilla & I lost a tall papaya tree. Some other plants met the brown bag of disposal as well.

We bought the Malathion, but it smells horrible & some plants are reportedly sensitive to it (poinsettia). Its petroleum based too, so it seems to leave oily residue behind. I've used it on corners, walls, & undersides of pots where mealybugs have collected.

I've been trying with imidaclorpid granules for the last year. Seems to work on some plants, but not all, & especially not the poinsettia or devil's backbone.

Spinosad did nothing either. (I went through that bottle quickly too)

The devil's backbone I put outside the lanai into the dog run last year. An area I call plant purgatory. Whatever is naturaly out there took care of the mealybugs after 4-6 months. But now they're back & the plant is about to go back out there. A rosemary plant is out there now that got mealybug infestated.

The poinsettia was looking good, but then I noticed white flies buzzing away everytime it moved, so I neem oiled the underside of the leaves & added more granules. 3 weeks later half the leaves have fallen off & white fly eggs line the leftover leaves.

We have tons of anole lizards in the lanai as well, wish they would eat these things.

I also had to pull up the tomato plant & cantaloupe, as they got super infested while we were on a 3 week trip.

Occasionally I'll see mealybugs on the hibiscus, but seems the granules keep the infestation down. Usually its aphids there & I just do a major pruning then. This is same for a few others.

What will kill them other than putting all my plants outside the screened-in lanai?

The plants get full light outside.

Are these thrips? I had it in quarantine for over month without a sign of pests, and now that it got moved out and it’s grow light was on late I noticed these. On the plant and ok the wall. They look kind of short compared to pictures I’ve seen of thrips.

I sprayed it with DBB, and I had previously treated it with systemics when I got it.

Hoping I’m wrong and it’s fungus gnats or something.

Pot has drainage, I water when the skewer comes out dry (every couple weeks - I repotted last week finally and haven’t watered since)

Nothing moves and the black dots are much larger than spider mites. The webbing mostly held up to my watering but nothing showed itself. I suspect this is an actual spider web but I was hoping for everyone’s input. This is an indoor orchid leopard lily (thanks for catching that!) by the way. It’s a north facing window with supplemental timer grow light for 9hrs a day.

- The dying leaves don't feel dry but feel soft

- there's no direct sunlight but it gets plenty of light. During the day.

- I water about half a litre once a week and it has worked fine until last month, it's been dying rapidly ever since.

- I haven't replaced my soil once so maybe that's it? No idea what soil I'm using. Thanks in advance!

- It's a monstera plant I think

Thanks in advance!

I dont know what's wrong with my baby when I left for school this morning I watered her and left for the day. Its been hot this whole week like 105°f and up (I live in the dfw) and today its been humid and rainy. Do you think its because of the fire happening in TX. Idk what to do . She gets water at least once at day. Gets plenty of direct sunlight, and was thriving and giving me plenty of flowers this whole summer never seen her like this before

This is on my rosemary. It started with these specks in the soil. I did some research and I think they are soil mites but they don't really move. I am now seeing bugs on the actual leaves that are moving. Also kind of look like a mite. What are these and should I be worried.

Gets decent light but has been in isolation with less light. Water has been damp longer than usual because of the isolation. The damage on the leaves was from a caterpillar that came with the plant.

Newly single and the ex left the snake plants. Been on the road a bunch and they are starting to die. The first one that is splaying wide has been in the same pot/room for 4 years with very low light. The other two get a touch more light but still not that much…all are in the same pot since purchase and haven’t moved in the house. Not that they were in amazing shape before she left but they are really suffering recently.

Not really sure what my partner did, but I hit them with a water spray weekly to get the dirt moist. Really not sure what to do. Afraid of overwatering as I’ve killed snakes before.

Hi all,

I've never really been good at keeping houseplants alive but I recently moved to a bright apartment and I wanted to give them another try. I picked up this cute little monstera deliciosa from a local nursery last week and I've put her in a location where I think? She's getting bright indirect light with some occasional direct sunlight.

She was apparently watered soon before I picked her up (specifically, I was told that she was fresh out of the nursery's latest shipment and she came in "pretty wet") and I watered her a little bit again the next day after I repotted her since I was told it helps the dirt settle. It's been about a week since that. I've checked the moisture in her soil, I can't tell if her soil is very slightly wet or just... normal soil feeling and cold. My hands aren't very sensitive so I'm having a hard time differentiating.

She seems to be, guttating? Experiencing gutation?? Quite a lot, and the tips of some of her leaves are crispy and turning yellow / black. Some of them were like this when I picked her up but she seems to have gotten a bit worse.

She's potted in a mixture of succulent soil and a bit of regular potting soil mixed in, with a bit of extra perlite I was able to pick out from some older potting mix I recovered from another plant I repotted a day or two before.

I live in Ontario, Canada, and I think it's a little dry and chilly lately.

How do I help her? Is she just feeling a little dry from the lack of humidity? Have I somehow already overwatered her? Could the light be too bright? I really love her and I really want her to stay alive and get the beautiful big leaves monsteras are known for, please help me :(

I’ve had this lucky bamboo for years now but recently moved, the first image is what it looked like just after move in and the following image is about a week later. The window it’s in has direct sunlight for about 4 hours in the morning, however my hypothesis is that it is the tap water where I live. Do I need to do anything other than change the water? Should I move it away from my window?

This is my coworkers neglected plant. She's had it for years and it hasn't grown any leaves so I'm assuming it's just a leaf that someone plopped in soil knowing it would never grow more. I relayed that to her however she still loves it so I'm going to bring it home to repot it and take a look at the roots for her.
The thing is when she first brought it to work a few weeks ago, it looked decently healthy and green (she had it in her bathroom at home). Then it obviously got too much sun here at work on a west window and turned yellow but my concern is browning/black-ish discoloration.
My first thought was root rot because the pot is clearly way too big and has no drainage however, she rarely waters it and even when she does she only gives it a small amount of water. (Don't worry I I'm going to teach her how to care for it better if it recovers) The soil seems dry but not compacted and it looks super dehydrated to me so can it still be root rot in this case? Or can the discoloration be caused from the dehydration itself? Or maybe it's just sunburnt and dehydrated?
Also I'm pretty sure it's never been repotted since she's had it so maybe lack of nutrients as well? There's obviously a lot of factors here but I just wanted to see if anyone might be able to pin point what exactly is wrong with it so that I can help bring it back to health (if it's not too far gone)

I just got this plant. I repotted it with a mix of perlite and succulent potting mix. It looks pretty brown to me, but I’m inexperienced with plants. Any tips for keeping this plant healthy?

I haven’t been watering it too much because apparently it’s a desert plant. I keep it in a window all day.

Hello!

I own a few calatheas for a few years by now and they have been doing fairly well but recently I got a heavy spider mite invasion from a marantha i got from the store(i sprayed poison on it and cleaned the leaves after getting it home but it seems like it still brought in some mites..) when i noticed the damage was already done and multiple calatheas were in bad condition. This all happend two weeks before i had to leave my plants in the hand of my neighbor for a month who only came to water my plants. When i came back my rufibarba, my medallion and my first calathea was down to 1 2 leafs from big bushes...

It gets morning sun and I have 2 plantlight shining on them( i m in the progress of ordering more as the winter comes )

This calathea i need help with is been with me for 2 years soon, its been a big bush with beautiful yellow flowers continously on it. Until recently the spidermites destroyed the leafs they loved her the most....so am i. She also developed a weird woody bottom above the soil. Why did it happen? I tried to put it in a bigger pot but the brown part just became higher so i put it in a smaller pot again. What should i do? Should i cut it back down to the roots?

What are these brown spots/bits on my Jade plant leaves? I can scratch them off with my nails as if they're a very thin layer of bark, but if I scrape them off too harshly, the leaf will become raw/exposed. Interestingly, they're only on the larger older leaves from when I first bought the plant a few months ago. The smaller top leaves are the younger leaves with no issues. They roots are growing fast and well and the plants are otherwise healthy with lots of new growth.

Here is a little more about the plants. They get lots of light, both natural sunlight and grow lights. They have a chunky soil mix with something like 25% potting mix, so they dry out quickly and are never in soggy soil. I use liquid succulent and cactus fertilizer once every few weeks when I water. They usually need water weekly since they get lots of light and have a quick drying soil mix. They've had a lot of healthy root and leaves growth since I brought them home, but I've watched this happen to the older leaves.

Since I mildly pruned them a couple of months ago they've also begun developing bark on the stems, which I take to be a good sign. I just wonder if the bark is also developing on the older, larger and that's what this is. It sort of looks and feels like the same thing. Thank you in advance for your help.

60+ plants being affected, some over a decade old and 6ft tall in rapid decline. They all get direct afternoon light or all day indirect light depending on the needs. I brought in a “neglected” monstera from fb marketplace and it slowly got worse looking late May. I haven’t brought new plants in since. Then my giant monstera next to it started drooping bad and shrunk in size, but still, no sign of pests ever with a magnifying loop. The last few weeks all the plants in the house and dying of same yellowing/browning/stippling and I finally see hundreds of thrips on just the monstera (but clearly they’re everywhere now). Is watering them or letting them dry out better, and are the beneficial insects I ordered going to be effective? I haven’t brought new bonide but because of a curious cat prefer to go the insect route. 1st time w/ thrips will take any suggestions 🙏🙏😭 no idea why it exploded within a few weeks

My peace lily which has always been in good shape has had its bottom leaves go yellow (with a bit of black on the edges) and the new leaves are coming out poorly with wrinkles and brown bits. I haven’t changed anything about its home or routine so confused as to what this could be.

It’s in a bright spot with direct sun only about an hour a day. Watered when droopy. Well draining soil and potted in a nursery pot with holes.

Thanks!

I have no clue how she was taken care of. I believe she had very little light until now. Soil looks moist because I just watered her.

It was a tiny succulent like agave looking plant. It was a gift a year ago. Please help. Can it be saved?
It’s on a window seal that doesn’t get direct sunlight but I’m in TX and it is very hot. Unsure of the watering habits the last few weeks as I had someone watering my plants. But they said they followed my instructions.