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  2. Hi! This info is very helpful.
    Especially the Blumat watering kit since I’m worried about my office plants in this time of COVID-19. I’m hoping you can help identify a pest that’s been eating my Dieffenbachia. It looks like a tiny, black leech and leaves silvery dead patches where it feeds. I remove them manually, but more appear every few days. Oh, and they ‘jump’ when I try to touch them sometimes.
    (I’m in NYC).
    Thanks for any help you can offer.

  3. I have a creeping charlie plant about 5-6 years old. It once was a houseplant but in the last 4 years changed it to outside plant. In the last couple of months I,ve noticed that if you pull a bad leaf off a rust colored fluid that stains your fingers comes out. Also the edged of leaves are slightly yellowing, then some of new leaves are pucking or bubbling instead of flat leaf. I live in the central Arizona about 3300 ft. Can you tell me whats wrong with my plant?

  4. Hi. So ,I have 2 arrowhead plants. ( All indoor) and a curly spider. As well as about 8 basil that my mom potted from her garden last summer. And yes, she rooted them at her house, potted them. They had no pests. Plenty of time went by between her house and mine ,no pests. Anyway, oddly, all my indoor plants started really growing, beginning of fall! Weird, they continued to throu the 1st part of winter. I had baby spider clippings, arrowhead too. Etc etc. All of a sudden. Boom! Spider plant had ,i think mealy bugs? It was dead and manly within ?,couple weeks. The arrowheads, idk. Bronze is leggy. Green is bushy. But the spider plant died. My basil got severely infested too. They were all in a ,either different room, sum just xcrss the room from houseplants. The spider suddenly started regrowing. Nature! I stare, at home 24/7, at them. Idk. Im quickly writing
    I saturated it with soap/water. Then. It’s fine. Then suddenly thyr back! Basil is demolished,I’m actually scared to touch it. Bugs all over. Like all different kinds at once. Spider will be fine. Suddenly, the White little things are back. Sum are yellowish. I am done with plants. Im waiting for mom to take her pots back, but ,i have Nowhere to dump dirt and plant so i go throu process of caring, then bugs are back..
    Im confused.

  5. Yes, bugs can seem to come out of nowhere and do great. damage very quickly! When things get too infested, sometimes the best thing is to pitch the plant and soil; clean and disinfect the pot; and start again. Horticultural oils like neem oil are good preventatives you can spray on your plants to stop an infestation from starting.

  6. I found this post incredibly helpful! I never realized how common spider mites were until you explained their signs. The treatment tips were easy to follow, and I can’t wait to try the neem oil remedy. Thanks for sharing such valuable information!

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