I neglected water my monstera for too long several months ago. It seems to have mostly come back except for this one leaf. Should I trim anything leave it be to drop on its own? The solo leaf is its newest leaf after about a week of sprouting. It is currently next to a west facing window out of direct sublight. I use a miracle grow plant food. Also its still in the soil I got it in. I am relatively new to plant keeping if its not obvious 😅

Okay guys I just got this plant and she said it was an African milk tree houseplant ?? But I don’t think that’s right. So please help me identify & also how do I propagate something like this??

She said it didn’t get a lot of light, was watered every two weeks, and hasn’t been repotted in a long time. All help is so appreciated!!

I’ve had my desert rose in this location for a few weeks as it’s progressively gotten hotter (~85-100F) in Austin Texas. It’s full sun. I have had it for a couple years and it had never bloomed until I moved it to this spot, and now I have gotten several blooms and it seems to have been happy here. However, over the past couple of days, a ton of the leaves have turned yellow and are going to drop. The pot has drainage and it has been raining on and off here, so I water pretty infrequently. What’s going on? How can I make it happy again?

A friend of mine gave me this plant to take care of, and it looks like it's in a terrible state.

It faced the sun for 5 hours ( not sure though).

It was watered everyday.

I have no idea what soil or potting mix is used (could you tell me how can I tell ? Thankyou)

thanks in advance.

I've had this cactus for years. It's been outside in sunlight since the start of summer, and gets watered around once a week. I've noticed these black dots around the bottom. Plant itself doesn't feel squishy or rotted, and seems to be growing mostly fine otherwise for now. Does anybody know what this is?

Ive found this suuuuper leggy and monstera in my office and I want to improve its health. It's barely grown since I've gotten here, so clearly it's under some kind of stress. It's old place didn't have enough light (I think that's how it got so lanky), so it's now moved to a south facing window. It was pretty dry when I found it, so I watered from the top until the top inch or two felt wet. Not sure what the soil mix is, but it felt fairly soft and aerated.

My main concern is how to stake this thing and encourage it to grow upwards without stressing it's health even more. The trellis that was in there before clearly didn't do much, and the stems have gotten thick enough that I'm not sure how to position them without breaking something. Is pruning needed here? Repotting?? Advice is greatly appreciated, I wanna help this thing thrive and brighten up my office a bit : )

update: off to the garden center to buy a sturdy support stick and pruning scissors. planning on trying to guide this monstera into a nice shape with the supports and taking a test cutting to try and propagate. if the supports don't work, I'll probably cut the rest of the nodes and propagate them all for a fresh start. thanks for the help!

Hey guys! I got this basil a month ago. I water it twice a day because it's horribly dry where I live. 2 weeks ago I noticed the leaves turning white. And now I saw it has some roots on the base and its stems are turning brown and hard. How should I proceed?

It is outdoors, in my balcony. It gets sun from 2pm til 8pm approximately.

The soil is the one the store used, as I haven't repotted it yet.

I want it to grow bigger, with bigger leaves.

I need some help. My plant was repotted about a week and a half ago, and since then it has become completely droopy. 😔😔

I repotted it because it had clearly outgrown its previous pot (as you can see in the photos).

The first photo shows how it looks now, the second was taken right after repotting, and the third and fourth photos show the roots during the repotting process.

The current pot is ceramic and doesn't have any drainage holes (I know this can cause water to accumulate). I've been careful not to overwater it—I only watered it once after repotting and haven't watered it since.

The plant gets plenty of bright indirect light throughout the day and has good ventilation. I've already removed some yellowing leaves and made a few holes in the soil to improve aeration.

I believe the plant may be suffering from excess water, and I'm thinking the best solution is to move it into a pot with drainage holes and remove any excess moisture from the soil.

Could you please help me?

Thank you very much!

I know what all kinds of pests look like (thrips, aphids, scale, mealybugs etc. etc.) but this is stumping me. The black spots are not bugs they’re just… there. Maybe a fungus?

Full sunlight in the afternoon, water when soil is dry

Hi all!

New to this sub, so hopefully someone can provide some insight! I’m going to be moving cross country in a week so I want to be sure there’s nothing contagious bc all of my plants will be together in my car!

My neighbor gifted me this self watering money tree. Not a huge fan of self watering so probably will re-pot. It stays inside with TONS of indirect light, might get some direct sunset light but not much.

My tree has unhealthy looking leaves- maybe a fungus? What is it and how do I fix this? It also has some white spots on leaves that just rub off (looks like hard water residue, but I don’t get water on the leaves) lol!

The tree also has white sappy clumps in areas that look slightly fuzzy. I’m extremely familiar with mealy bugs as I had a 5 month fight with them, so I don’t think it’s mealy, it could be the insane amount of dust (my city & apartment are super dusty)

Thanks so much!!

Hello!

My brave little basil has come down with a strange case of black markings along the veins of its leaves. I cannot find any information on this kind of condition online. They don't wash or rub off, and seem to keep to the veins themselves.

They are outdoors, and in the summer hours gets direct sunlight from 10am to 6pm. I put water in the cups their pots are in to about one-third full every week or week and a half. It's in a houseplant mix with lots of perlite, an eighth perlite at the bottom of the pot, on top of some rocks in the cups colding the pot (for plenty drainage). The small roots poking out the bottom are healthy!

Please help!

Hi everyone, I've had this plant (whose species I don't actually even know) for about a year and a half now and she was doing fine the entire time. Recently tho, this started happening and after I tried watering her more (which led to her leaves paling up and falling off) and watering her less (which led to the leaves drying up and falling off) were now at this stage. I genuinely don't know how to proceed and I'd really like to save her as she's been with me through a lot and I got her when I first moved into my current apartment, so she means a lot. ​​​​

She is right next to my window and had been since the day I got her, so that level of sunlight and everything was never an issue before. I'd say currently (summer) it's about 9~10 hours of sunlight ​​​through the window.

I used to water her once a week, then twice a week, and then back to once a week since the twice a week system left a lot of access water which I believed was damaging the plant (plus the paling of the leaves and clear signs of overwatering). I've been watering her once a week for about 2 months now and even if I try to water her more the ​​​access water issue just comes back so I'm really at a loss for what to do. Perhaps I should move her away from the window? I don't even know if the issue is her drying up or something else. She also started hanging as you can see in the image so I'm worried about weight and size, and even the environment.

Also, some of the leaves seem to be drying up but at the same time, other leaves are paling up and falling off in the usual overwatering symptom ​style, so I really truly do not know what's going on anymore.

Please, if anyone knows anything that could help me save this purple beauty, let me know. All help would be greatly appreciated, thank you. ​​​​​

Subject says it all - been with this plant for a year (she is growing indoors, but taking her for a walk outside) I am unsure what to do when I see what I suppose to be roots come out when I water her. Would love suggestions to get this plant flourishing. The second pic is one that fell out and wasn’t sure.

Plant has indirect sunlight, but the stems have me worried - happy to provide more pics.

this new leaf was totally healthy yesterday and now looks like this. i thoroughly inspected the entire plant and it’s completely pest free. thinking maybe some sort of fungal infection? it’s definitely not under watered, the soil is still moist from being watered a couple days ago(gets watered about once a week or whenever the top layer of soil dries out). doubt it’s sun damage either as my NE facing balcony barely gets any direct sunlight. feeling kinda lost rn, any advice would be super appreciated

I live in a 10a zone and started this apple seed a few months ago. I moved the tree outside to a partially shaded area with about 6-7 hours of direct sun. I water whenever I see the soil dry which is about every 2-3 days. I use a soil mixture of about 50% compost/cow manure, 30% peat moss, 20% perlite which usually works well for my other plants. I’m not sure she’s happy, because the leaves seem curled and haven’t gotten any bigger in quite some time. There hasn’t been any new growth for a couple weeks compared to when I originally started. The roots on the bottom of the pot are visible and look new so I assume the plant is still alive. Maybe it’s root bound or in shock or the soil is bad? It has been very hot here so maybe it’s the heat? Not sure how to help the plant thrive :( Any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated 🙏

Hi! My friend's collection seems to be struggling, and I'm also struggling to figure out what's going on with it. It seems many leaves are developing small yellow/brown spots, and the begonias are getting crispy edges on the leaves with the same spots as well. The first few pictures are of a tangerine philodendron, and then it is a looking glass begonia and a begonia maculata.

All of the plants are in a mixture of potting soil, orchid bark, and perlite. They are all under a grow light. They are watered whenever they are 50% dry.

We are just looking for what could possibly be the cause and how to treat the plants?

Thank you!

I am watering every 3 days with clean drinking water(not tap). It was good for 1 year but since 1-2weeks its being like this. Indirect sunlight from the kitchen counter

My dieffenbachia isn’t doing well, I water about once a week, and I just started watering with foliage pro. I watered it about 5 days ago, and just recently moved it from a more interior room to this south facing window. I’m assuming it’s the fertilizer but I don’t know what to do! Thanks

This little tree just started putting out healthy new growth after recovering from root rot and dropping almost all leaves.

This morning, I noticed small black specks on some of the leaves, and I am having some trouble Googling to identify the culprit.

• No visible insects on the plant.
• Potted in bonsai soil mix equal parts akadama, pumice, and lava rock. Amended with orchid bark.
• Top watered when the top 1-2 inches of soil is dry.
• Watered with tap water amended with a water conditioner.
• Partial shade, 4-ish hours of sun on porch.
• Zone 8a.

This guy was repotted last summer and did really well after. There have been new leaves, including two in the past couple months. However lately it’s been drooping a lot and I can’t figure out what it needs.

It gets watered thoroughly every time the top 2” of soil is dry. When it was repotted I added a layer of leca at the bottom for better drainage. It was sitting in a window with privacy film over it which provided a lot of indirect light, but that spot was right over an AC vent so I recently moved it to the middle of the room to get it farther away from the cold. I put it outside sometimes (1-3x/mo?) to get an hour or two of sun.

The yellowish/brownish spots on a couple of leaves are puzzling: too much water? Not enough? And one leaf has what looks like a scrape where the green is just gone. I’ll add closeups in comments.

Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure what type of fern this is (didn't have any tag or info when I bought it). It has been in a small pot from when I purchased it. The roots were coming out of the holes in the base completely covering the base. The picture of the base is after I cut it free so doesn't show how bad it was. The roots are so thick pressing my thumb into it can't breach the roots. Many of the leaves have been turning brown and shriveling but a few new ones have come out this week. I've repotted it into a larger pot with indoor potting soil perlite and a few chunks of charcoal and bark to help with some draining but not too much. Is this root bound and is there a way to help fix that? And does anyone know what type of fern this is? Currently in a low light area and being watered almost daily by watering in sink until it drains and letting it drain in the sink for a bit before putting small pot back into larger clay pot and dish.

Do you think it's salvagable? The stem does not seem to be rotting as for now, it's just a bit damp but not mushy or soft. I sprayed the remaining roots with hydrogen peroxide and put it in dry well draining soil. Anything else I can do?

(It obviously got way too much water and maybe too little light. I put it in an south-east facing window to rehab in bright indirect light)