It’s becoming a theme!! Plant RU-vidrs I watch are now starting to simmer down and have narrowed their collection down to Plants they truly Love!! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! Always look forward to them! I’ve had more casualties than you this season-and you were gone for the summer ! Hah! It’s all a learning process! Thanks for always sharing!
Definitely always a learning experience!! I grew up with plants in our home and with my Dad and Im still learning! I love it!! The more we learn the more we can share with others and plant the world!! Yesssss!!!
If a plant is under stress, it sends out pheromones or some byproduct of the stress and that signals mealybugs to come and get it. Basically, I'm just suggesting that the bugs are not the main problem here. The root problem is almost certainly a combo of light and watering. I'm assuming your temps are regulated indoors. Obviously, when someone else is put in charge for an extended period, we're at the mercy of their skill in reading plants or lack thereof. Just don't blame the bugs. Control the outbreak then keep your plants happy. Bugs will rarely be an issue then. You'll have more luck adjusting light and water levels than adjusting insecticidal soap levels. Nurseries are often guilty of spray craziness. A chemical for this, a chemical for that. I had an 8 acre retail nursery before I retired. I just controlled bugs with an annual gigantic application of ladybugs (spring). They basically ate anything that lived over the winter, and after that, I just took good care of the plants and they stayed healthy. And that's well over 100,000 plants to keep alive. Sure, a few perished, but it was almost always light or water issues that were identified too late (plant tipped over on its side gets no water, for example). Good luck!
Hi Tate, I like that you are keeping it real and showing how it is sometimes. Plant parenthood is not all about all the new growth and everything being perfectly healthy and happy. Sometimes sht happens and your whole collection gets mealy bugs and few plants die xD I definitely lost some plants this summer too xD
that peperomia looks so easy to save, the tips look perfectly healthy, and maybe if you cut it back into stumps those can branch out again too depending on the state of them.
Very relatable situation. =) I lost a lot of plants while being away from home several times... (even though they were looked after) At first I was really sad about it, I lost some amazing plants.. but now I appreciate the plants that survived even more.
I only had spidermites twice on my plants, but both went to the trashcan way before they were dead. I’m not risking my other plants for a new one that has an infection that I can’t erradicate, just control it. I just don’t propagate, keep or even buy pest magnets online. It’s not only the money but also the potential risk of having 40 infected plants.
I had given my dischidia dragon jade plenty of humidity like in direct stream of my humidifier, lots of light and watered it on a schedule and it bounced back and started growing. Hopefully this helps. Also yeah the peperomia needs and reset and should be easy to save☺️
I have had a thrips attack on one plant and scale on another. My thrips though it has been dealing with on and off sense I got it(didn't see thrips on it when bought). So I might through it out its a spring cactus and I don't like throwing out plants but the thrips won't leave my plant alone. I got control of the scale though thank goodness. edit: I threw out the spring cactus I think I saw webs (which could be spider mites on it), I then believe I saw scale and the thrips eggs in the leafs. Then my cactus with scale is cold hardy for my area so I just put it outside and see what it will look like next spring.
I think that pep that's mushy is rotting. So u can try to prop it. It peps need such little water, or they become mushy and rotted. But u could definitely attempt to prop it!
