Plant Dad or mum
After I purchased it was ashy wanting with brown spots on it. I began spraying neem oil on it.
How do you identify WHEN to water? I comply with the schedule I used to be advised/researched for this plant – as soon as per week.
Describe HOW you water: I totally soak the soil and let extra water drain away.
Evaluation:
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Your plant has a scale infestation.
Neem oil received’t do something towards scale as a result of their arduous shells shield them towards most sprays. You could get a pair of tweezers and choose them off adopted by eradicating any residue (which often comprises scale eggs) from the leaf utilizing masking tape. That is clearly very tedious so I might really start by CUTTING OFF any leaves which might be severely infested (like if there are greater than 6 or 7 scales on the leaf).
Given that you simply don’t have that many leaves, I recommend you deal with the plant within the following methods:
– Lint curler or masking tape: gently go over each leaf floor (back and front) with the lint curler to choose up any grains (that are the eggs) and lively bugs (that are very small and tough to see)
– Insecticidal cleaning soap: spray all the plant with insecticidal cleaning soap (use in response to bundle directions)
Notice: you have to to repeat the above remedies at the least on a weekly foundation till you see no extra scale exercise – it might take a number of months however the subsequent remedies must be a lot faster as you’d have eliminated nearly all of the size bugs with the primary therapy.
Extra on scale HERE.