r/plantclinic • • 9h ago

Houseplant What should I do? Is that mold?

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2 seem to be thriving but the others are looking real bad. It gets sunlight through my glass sliding door and I try to water it before the leaves get droopy


r/plantclinic • • 10h ago

Houseplant Help me prune this plant

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So I just received this houseplant from my sister-in-law yesterday (not known how old the plant is), i’m not sure it’s exact variety but it looks like a snake plant or some Dracaena (according to Grok). I’m concerned because the leaves are growing so long, some of the longest leaves are almost 3 to 4 feet. I need to contain this growth because it doesn’t fit in an apartment because it takes up way too much floor space. So my goal is to cut it somewhere at the base or something and nurse it back so it doesn’t grow with such long leaves. However, I don’t know really where to cut it or how to prune it back. And if it’s just a certain type of variety that is certain to grow with these long leaves.

Any help would be great!

The plant can get a lot of light 5 to 7 hours of direct on a day.
I just got it so I don’t have a watering habit but can water it weekly. It’s in a pretty small pond maybe 8-10 inches in diameter and a foot high with drainage. I did notice the roads were growing out of the drainage holes.


r/plantclinic • • 14h ago

Houseplant Is it too late for my fittonia to bounce back? :(

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I've had the plant for a few months now. As it grew big, I noticed that i needed to water it more often. This time, I overestimated it thinking it could survive for a while (was busy) forgot to check and now it looks like this. I'm not sure when I last watered it but I think it was a week and a half ago.

The pot has drainage and I have already bottom watered it. I place it on a window that doesn't really get direct sunlight.

I've placed it away from the window for now.

Most of the leaves are crispy, but there are some that are still soft. The stems are also hard on the bottom but the top parts have shrunk.

Edit: added more details and fixed a sentence


r/plantclinic • • 21h ago

Houseplant What is that??

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What the heck is that!!

Its my dracaena i water it once a week it had mealy bugs but i got rid of them but a few weeks later i see this

It gets indirect sun


r/plantclinic • • 14h ago

Houseplant Is my Pothos dying?

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Hello I've never owned any plant and I tried taking care of this pothos but infortunately it didn't go well as the plant appears to be dying. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong and if it's still salvageable ?

For context:

- I've had this plant for only 4 months 🕐

- I water it every 3 days when it's hot outside and once a week when it's humid/cold (it's currently winter where I live) by placing water in a scoop and then placing the pot in it (About 250mL each times)💧

- I tried different spot and even though it's not directly exposed to the sun it gets plenty of light everyday 🌞

- I've never changed the pot it came into

I'll take take any advice on how to take a better care of it.


r/plantclinic • • 23h ago

Houseplant Should I cut this tall limb? It is leaning against the wall for support.I inherited this cactus a couple years ago. The one really long branch is not standing up on its own. It's still growing. I haven't leaning against the wall. I'm just wondering if I should cut it off?

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r/plantclinic • • 8h ago

Houseplant Found this dracaena (reflexa?) in the trash

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It looks very rough I know. Does it have any chance of survival? I have no idea what it's previous light or watering conditions were like, it was literally in a trashcan.

I will be quarantining it for obvious reasons, but I don't see any sign of pests or pest damage.

It was completely dried out so I gave it a good soaking when I got home. The pot has drainage, but it looks like it is in desperate need of new soil. My instinct is to wait on a repot for the time being as it is already going to be in shock from all the changes, but if I'm wrong please let me know.

I'm going to find the brightest spot on my house to put it, and possibly get a grow light if it needs it, but I would love suggestions for how to care for it to give it the best chance of survival. Thank you in advance!


r/plantclinic • • 1h ago

Other Virus or growlight burns?

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I have a shallow bowl of succulent prop leaves (mix of different types and mystery leaves). I water them carefully with a squirt bottle at the bases of the mother leaves or spray them down if I’m in a hurry. I do this about once a week. Today I noticed that some of the leaves had this weird pattern and I’m not sure if it’s a virus or if it’s growlight burns from when I sprayed them and there were water droplets left on the leaves. Should I get rid of the remaining props in that same bowl? None of the other props have the same markings. There’s even a few of this same type that look completely healthy.

They’re indoors under barrina T8’s for 10 hours a day. They are not at an angle that gives them window light. Soil is succulent soil with a tiny bit of perlite.


r/plantclinic • • 1h ago

Houseplant Help what do I do for my monstera

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Started yellowing not to long ago and then I went a way for a week and returned and it was like this anyone have any advice? Do I trim of the browning leaf? Also another leaf has a tiny bit of brown should I trim off the whole leaf or leave it? The plant is right next to a window so I think it gets enough light there is a fan next to it though and it does get a bit chilly at night. I water it when the top inch of soil is dry but I recently bought it and it had a bit of yellow when I first got it too.


r/plantclinic • • 2h ago

Monstera Is it time to cut the leaf off?

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My mom propagated my first Monstera. As you can tell the original propagated stem leaf looks wilted. Should I cut just the leaf or leave it? She now sits by a window that provides indirect light. She did have burnt crispy leaf tips that I trimmed. I only water when her dirt is dry.

I’m a new plant mom and only acquired a few plants. Nothing compared to the beautiful spaces people here have posted.


r/plantclinic • • 3h ago

Cactus/Succulent Should I cut off the severely affected leaves?

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A month ago I sprayed all my plants 3 times with spinosad because I found a trips on one of my plants.

Today I found another. I sprayed these Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana propagations with 70% isopropyl alcohol and the rest of my plants with a home made spray ( "sexy plant juice" - 2 cups of water, 2 tbsp Neem oil, 1 tbsp peppermint Castile soap and a dash of isopropyl alcohol).

I waited for the alcohol do dry on the Kalanchoe and then I sprayed it again with the home made mix.

I will spray the Kalanchoe every 3 days with alcohol.

❓My question is : should I remove the severely affected leaves? I has 3-4 leaves like the one in the picture, the rest look ok.

❓Should I throw the whole thing away instead?

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-the plant is on a balcony that is facing north. Good indirect light. I also bought a Sansi light 40w, it's on the way.

-terracota pot with drainage

-aroid soil mix not very chunky due to the size of the propagations


r/plantclinic • • 5h ago

Pest Related what are these eggs?

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I just brought this home and noticed these eggs(?) on a new leaf coming in. i am wondering if its thrips? also this plant came in a self watering pot not sure if that’s relevant. photos of over all plant and leaves just for reference. thank you for your help!


r/plantclinic • • 5h ago

Houseplant Everything started doing bad all at once, help?

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All of these plants I bought last spring and immediately repot. All had an initial shock phase before recovering. Ever since, everything had been doing fine, besides the pothos which I think was underfertilized so started yellowing and spotting. I fed everything a few weeks ago to get them ready for winter. Everything is watered about every 10 days, when the top 1-2 inches of soil is dry. They are all in an east facing window in Oregon, so they get a few hours of bright indirect sunlight in the morning. All pots have drainage, and each watering I pour water until it goes out of the drainage holes, let them drain, and put them back. The palm started doing this a week ago. I kinda feel like I can’t take care of them anymore, idk why I’m not having success rn


r/plantclinic • • 6h ago

Houseplant SOS

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I’m not entirely sure what this plant is, the tag when I bought it 10 years ago said lemon lime something. But my phone and a friend of mine both say it’s a corn plant ( I have a GIANT corn plant and it doesn’t look like this). Either way, I have wonderful healthy growth on the bottom and I’d love to chop the tall leggy part and place it in water if that’s possible? This plant right now is over 3 and 1/2 ft tall. I have 3 LED plant bulbs in this small lamp in the corner because this corner is about 12 feet from a window on the opposite wall. I turn on my plant lamps when I get up at noon and leave it one all night until I go to bed around 3am (we’re a second shift house). I water her only when my moisture reader tells me she’s below 4 on the scale. I do a full watering until the water runs through the bottom. And honestly it’s only below a 4 on the meter maybe once every month and a half so it doesn’t dry out much either. Not sure what I can do about that. Can anyone who knows WAY more than me, identify this poor gal and point me in the right direction so I can try to get her thriving!!? I’d love to save the top if that’s possible, and if I can chop it, how far down do it chop it?? I want the growth on the bottom to thrive.
Any information or advice is great appreciated, thanks!😊


r/plantclinic • • 7h ago

Houseplant How bad is this?

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Hi all. I have never had plants but I agreed to care for this one for 5 months for someone in his apartment. He doesn’t know what type of plant it is but said he waters a couple times a week. When we got here 2 months ago it was leaning heavily. It would lose leaves regularly, but the leaning has gotten worse. I moved it slightly to get more sun and now entire branches have fallen (see photo). What do I do?


r/plantclinic • • 8h ago

Houseplant help my beautiful calathea

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my jungle velvet calathea recently started yellowing and turning brown on certain l leaves, and it has only been spreading. the leaves that were growing relatively quickly also have slowed down a lot, they’ve been rolled up for a week or 2.
i thought it might be root rot because it started the day after i watered, but the roots look okay from the outside (and i don’t want to break up the root ball).
i give her filtered water (from the fridge) and bottom water. it might be shock because the water was cold, but she’s still deteriorating so i’m not sure. pretty sure there’s spider mites but i haven’t really seen that many. i also haven’t seen any thrips, even when i wipe it with a paper towel. i got neem oil and tested it on a lower leaf, so hopefully that will turn out okay and i can drench it. i also just got a humidifier yesterday.
she sits a few feet from an east facing window and she is still in her original potting soil from a big box store (i’ve been nervous to repot, i know calatheas can be temperamental). i’ve had her since july and she has been very happy until this…. this started about a week and a half ago.
HELP


r/plantclinic • • 9h ago

Houseplant Help with browning edges on alocasia

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I've only had the plant a week, and I've only watered it once since then since the soil was damp when I got it. I did let it get pretty dry before I watered it though, and after doing some of my own research I've found that Alocasia don't really like that. When I did water it for the first time I did so until it started to come out of the drainage holes.

It's currently sitting in front of a window that gets very little direct sunlight, so I have a grow light set up in front of it as well.

The little hole near the tip of the leaf was there, but the edges definitely did not look like this when I first got it. Could the browning edges be because I let it get too dry before watering? Or did I give it too much water? Or is it something else entirely?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!


r/plantclinic • • 9h ago

Houseplant Please help me save plant :(

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I’m not sure but this may be a Shield Aralia?

I’ve had this plant for almost two years now. I’ve been doing the same routine (water when top inches of soil feels dry), I usually only do bottom up watering but will occasionally flush everything out with a full watering here and there. This plant gets sufficient indoor light from a north window (I only have north facing windows) and it’s been doing okay in its same spot.

I may have left it in water for too long during the last watering but I’m not sure what happened. I see a bit of mold growing on the roots so I sprinkled cinnamon on it.
I tried to soak up excess water by putting some paper towels around the soil. There are drainage holes in the pot.

How can I save this plant? :(( it’s been growing so well but all the leaves are now starting to droop and turn yellow.


r/plantclinic • • 10h ago

Houseplant help me salvage this

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Was gifted this plant about 3 weeks ago, it’s been like this for about half that time and seems chronically dry. It’s a couple feet back from a NW window with the blinds partially opened (was told it needs bright, filtered light). I was watering it until it was dripped through once a week, but that’s when it shriveled up, so I have now been watering it whenever the top is no longer damp. I am horrible with plants so am not sure how to save it!


r/plantclinic • • 10h ago

Houseplant Leggy money tree

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I have had this plant for close to 5 years. It was so small when I got it. It sees some indirect sunlight and I water it twice a week in the summer and once in the winter.

At first I wasn't able to braid it but it was thriving anyway. Last year I left it with a friend who repotted it but I felt the soil was too dense so I redid it to get a better drainage. Then last March I went on a trip for 2 weeks and it hasn't been the same ever since even with fertilization.

At this point I feel it's dying and I don't know what to do to save it!

Help!


r/plantclinic • • 10h ago

Houseplant Fungus on succulent?

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I've got some fuzzy white stuff on my succulent that's shown up in the last couple months. I'm wondering what the best treatment would be, what the heck this actually is, and if I need to worry about it spreading to other indoor plants.

Thanks for any help y'all!

Plant gets 8-10 hours of indirect sunlight and is watered whenever the soil is bone dry.


r/plantclinic • • 11h ago

Outdoor What’s wrong with this Turk’s Cap?

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Central Texas. Plant is about three years old and has always been healthy. It was a tough summer but I watered every 1-2 weeks and it seemed fine. Plant gets dappled sunlight as it’s under a live oak.


r/plantclinic • • 12h ago

Outdoor Porch Mulberry got blighted?

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First picture the leaf did get wet so it may throw off the color. We're trying to figure out whether it's bugs or fungal and what kind. Second picture this either root or fungal rhizome looking structure is at the base that I'm wondering has anything to do with it. Plant gets morning to noon light and watered frequently and when the planter gets light in weight.


r/plantclinic • • 13h ago

Cactus/Succulent What's wrong with my Epiphyllum oxipetalum?

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I noticed these spots a couple days ago and it seems to get worse. I can't rub those "scales" off and I also didn't notice any pests for now. Plant is 1 1/2 years old and didn't have any problems prior to this. I got her in indirect sunlight in cactus soil and I'm watering every 2 weeks, pot got drainage.


r/plantclinic • • 14h ago

Houseplant Help me save those 3 plants 🪴

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Hello,

It’s my first time posting.

I went to my boyfriend work and saw those 3 plants that were dying so I took them home to try to save them but I’m a beginner in plants.
They had a lot of dead leaves that I removed and while doing this, 2 of the plants went out of their pots. The long one broke and I separated the other one.

At my bf work, the plants are in the entry where the side walls are made of glass. The first photo is not in contact with direct sun and the two others are next to the windows.

The plants were not watered regularly lastly.

There is heating in the winter and ac in the summer.
If it can help it’s in the north of France so we don’t have a lot of heat (except this year with several heat waves).

Can you help me save those plants ?

Thank you very much 🙏🏼