Gardening and Landscaping Stack Exchange
Gardening and Landscaping Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [plant-health]

For questions about how to maintain or assess a plant's health.

Use this tag for general questions about plant health:

  • Is my plant healthy?
  • How can I keep it healthy?
  • What am I doing wrong?

Where appropriate, include symptom specific tags to identify not only your intent but any specific problems you may be having, or that you intend to avoid.

1194 questions
0
votes
0 answers

Is lemon plant dead?

I bought this lemon plant about 1 year ago, and placed it in my rooftop, where it received very harsh sun. The plant's never been super healthy, but Lately it's been looking worse. I replanted it to a clean pot with fresh potting soil, and moved it…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
0 answers

No roots plants stems from big tree

Can any no root plant set alive by putting its bottom part inside a banana and wait for few days to see if roots comes out? Or it can happen to only specific plants and not all plants? if have a plant that has hard broad stems and no roots as i…
Ariaa Reeds
  • 11
  • 2
0
votes
1 answer

How Can I Turn Granular Mycorrhizae into Effective Liquid?

Looking to turn granulated mycorrhizae (combined with other beneficial bacteria) into a liquid to use. I use a low pressure aeroponics system and would like to use this granular product but unsure how long it would have to soak, also would I need…
user3148832
  • 1
0
votes
2 answers

Reusing soil with earthworms in pots?

I have several potted plants, and just today I noticed I have an infestation of small earthworms. I’ll be washing and repotting all these plants with fresh soil, but I don’t know what to do with the soil I have now. Can soil with earthworms be…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
1 answer

Anything else I can do to promote growth?

I bought this plant some time ago, but I’ve noticed that it’s not looking that great. I decided to replant it with new soil since the original soil’s garbage. I decided to take a picture of the plant and the roots. The roots and the way the plant…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
2 answers

Sambac jasmin drying out

BACKGROUND I have a jasmin plant (jasminum sambac). Up until about a month ago it was full of green leaves, and had scented white flowers blooming About a month ago many of its leaves started yellowing and drying out, and now there aren't that many…
orangesomethingorange
  • 231
  • 1
  • 4
  • 9
0
votes
1 answer

Nerve plant with curly crunchy leaves

I've had this nerve plant for several years. Since moving apartments in June 2018 it's been looking worse and worse. It got very tall and leggy at first, which I assumed was because it wasn't getting enough light, so I moved it to a spot with…
kabest
  • 121
  • 1
  • 2
  • 5
0
votes
1 answer

Pruning small tomato plant?

I bought this tomato plant some time ago, and it grew about 3 small tomatoes. The tomato plant currently looks like this. I’m not sure if it’s dying, but the tomatoes grew in the dying branches. Now it’s growing new branches, but I’m not sure how to…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
2 answers

Getting rid of mealybugs in geranium/citronella?

I have a small citronella plant that used to look very leafy and green. All of a sudden, the plant started turning brown, and the leaves were dying. So I looked at it today, and found some white stuff in the roots. I've included some pictures. I…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
1 answer

White growth on the outside bottom of the pot

I have a question about a peace lily we are currently growing inside. We aren’t really sure what we are doing for this to be caused but there’s a white/yellow growth on the bottom of the pot and also burnt/dying leaves. I’m not sure if this is due…
Xphoon
  • 3
  • 1
0
votes
1 answer

Bonsai fig displays unnerving lack of thirst

I bought a bonsai maybe ten days ago. The man who sold it to me said that I should check the soil daily and expect to water it every few days. I bought it on a Friday and watered it on the Sunday; today is the Monday of the following week (so eight…
crmdgn
  • 807
  • 5
  • 9
0
votes
3 answers

Why are those leafs drying?

Why are they drying and how can I save them. They are in front of yhe window facing north. There is an apartment across very close. So not too much sunlight but enough I guess. I am in İstanbul. I don't water the leafs and water them bidaily.
Alper91
  • 259
  • 1
  • 6
0
votes
1 answer

White and yellow stuff in potting soil?

I have a cranberry tree in a planter, and today I noticed this white and yellow stuff in the soil. Here are some pics of the soil: A few months ago this same plant had tons of scale, and I cleaned it up well. These are some pics from many months…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
0
votes
2 answers

dark dots on myrtle leaves

I noticed dark dots on some of the leaves which I assume is not a good sign... but at the same time new leaves have been growing and are a beautiful green and spotless, so I am confused. Do you have an idea of what that could be?
Absurdev
  • 321
  • 2
  • 10
0
votes
1 answer

Identify root growing from tree?

What is this white plant growing from the tree? The host tree (not the white root) is about 30” tall. I was checking the soil from this tree because it was deteriorating pretty fast and I wasn’t sure what the problem was. So I remove it from the…
rbhat
  • 1,869
  • 2
  • 14
  • 17
1 2 3
…
79 80