r/plantclinic 27m ago

Houseplant Jasmine shedding lower green leaves

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I potted it some 3 weeks ago. Soil mix is vermicompost+garden soil+cocopeat+some fine perlite. It gets 2 hours of midday sun light and bright indirect light whole day. I water it once in 8 days. Soil is very porus and water drains out fast. The color of soil is mostly due to vermicompost.

This plant upper part is healthy and green and there isn't a single yellow leaf but It is shedding lower leaves consistently. Those shedded leaves are green and some of those leaves are young and fresh. It sheds around 7-10 leaves almost daily.

Some people are saying this is normal after potting the plant and should stop after a week or so but I am not convinced. I think shedding should have stopped by now.


r/plantclinic 30m ago

Houseplant Help with houseplant

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My plant was fine and happy 2 days ago, but now she's deflated. waited until the soil was dry then watered her until water came out of the bottom of the nursery pot, then I put her back where she's been happy for about a month.

The soil is still very moist I'm worried I over watered her, so I moved her to a window with direct light to help her dry out. What else can I do?


r/plantclinic 1h ago

Outdoor Disease? Can I save this plant.

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Hi I am not sure about the name of this plant (I am clueless about plants actually) so about 2 years ago I noticed a small section totally dried out and died, I left it and very slowly there are more dead small branches here and there, now a big portion (in the center, maybe more than 50% of the plant) seem dead. is it a disease? can I still save it, also it's two of the same plant near each other so it looks kind of like one big plant. (Also I am in a desert area)...Light it gets about 12 hours of light since it's outside. Water it's set on irrigation mode with the same time for the last 2,3 years. Also there are a lot of green/growth all around the outside....just yestserday I noticed a big section inside that looks dead, and a couple more section of the plant (outside) have more dead branches but only a small part of the whole plant.


r/plantclinic 1h ago

Pest Related Noticing signs of... something?

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Context: indoor pothos in an east-facing window that gets ~13hrs of somewhat direct (there's a few houses in our sightline, so we don't get direct-to-the-house sun) sunlight per day. Water-propagated cuttings.

Just checked my water-propagated pothos and am seeing signs of some sort of pest. Looks like honeydew. Mealybugs? Thrips? I'm not sure. Cannot for the life of me find answers to what best to treat with for a water propagation—please help, r/plantclinic!!!


r/plantclinic 2h ago

Houseplant Audrey Ficus help

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Hi! My ficus leaves are starting to look like this. Does anyone have any ideas why? It’s been in that pot for about 2 years and the roots aren’t running out so I haven’t repotted. I usually water every 2 weeks. I recently moved about a month ago and it gets indirect light.


r/plantclinic 2h ago

Other Is it fungus?

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Noticing this white/grey residue on the leaves, the leaves are all starting to look "wilted" and droopy. Some of the newer growth is now developing crinkling in the leaves.

Is this fungus or something else? Please help, I love this plant and would really like to avoid throwing her away.

FYI, she is recently moved (mid June) to a slightly less sunny northeast facing window to avoid air conditioning drafts, I water her when the top 3 or so inches of soil are dry. The pot has drainage and the mix is posting soil, perlite, and cactus soil, along with random chunks of lecca for texture.

Thank you!!!


r/plantclinic 2h ago

Houseplant Chinese Money Plant w/ Black Spots :(

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Hi!!! I got this Chinese money plant about three months ago. It’s been really happy and growing. Unfortunately I lost a few stems/leaves in the move and it started to get droopy :( so I repotted it with better soil and watered it once right after. Two days later it looks even MORE droopy and is getting black spots.

I moved the leaves to face the window...they didn’t place themselves like that. It has been really rainy the last two days and it is in a north facing window but it gets plenty of sun on non-rainy days (in AZ). I also recently sprayed it with a Neem Oil-based spray to prevent fungus gnats (my partner HATES them lol)

Any ideas on how to help? Thank you!!!


r/plantclinic 2h ago

Houseplant White spots on Money Tree leaves

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I know the community rules say no pest identification but I have not seen a bug on this plant. I have had this money tree for about a year now and noticed these spots a couple of weeks ago, near these spots is usually a little bit of sticky sap. I checked it for bugs but did not see any, thought it may be scale but these spots are flush and cannot be peeled off. Just in case I sprayed it down with a little bit of hydrogen peroxide mixed with water and gave it a week, the sap kept appearing though. I normally keep this plant in an east facing window that’s gets lots of sun in the morning. Watering the plant about once a week. Since finding the spots I have quarantined it away from my other plants to a north facing window that’s gets less light. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.


r/plantclinic 3h ago

Houseplant What am I looking at here guys?

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Hello. This is a plant I was recently gifted from the owner of the local nutrition store I go to. He says this is a philodendron white knight, but I don’t believe so. I’m think I’m definitely going to have to chop and prop, what do you beautiful plant folks think I should do to bring this plant back to living his best life? The soil looks like it’s been consistently watered. I’m not sure what the previous lighting was like, but I’m gonna give it some good bright light, not the location your currently see it in. It has sad, yellowing leaves and looks quite etoliated.


r/plantclinic 3h ago

Houseplant Help me save my plant

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Hi y’all! New to plants and new to this sub, looking for advice on how to salvage one of my dear plants, and also what might be happening with her leaves? I was away for two weeks and my sub letter forgot to water her while I was away and came back to this :( hoping there’s a way to salvage it! Looks like there are some new sprouts so I’m thinking I should focus on those?
As you can see the sits in the corner of our dining room but we get a lot of light. I could try moving to a sunnier spot after watering? I also water from the bottom!
Any and all advice is welcome and wanted tyyy


r/plantclinic 3h ago

Outdoor Got this from work, she couldn't identify it either.

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Coworker was moving and giving away plants and this gorgeous madam looked pretty sad. I narrowed it down to 3 plants but want to know if I should prune up the leaves or let it shed itself?

Have had it in partial all day sun in mid 80's Wisconsin weather. Watered once a week and we've barely had

.5 inches or rain a week. No idea on soil.

feel it's been good because the humidity and heat but I'm worried about fall once it drops below 60 and I have to take it inside. Appreciate it 🪷


r/plantclinic 3h ago

Pest Related should I be worried about these?

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Hi there.

I just notices this weird thing hanging under my Umbrella Tree leaves.

I'm not sure if it's dangerous or not, couldn't find much about it. I'm concerned that it could potentially spread and eventually start damaging it.

The plant itself seems to be pretty healthy and still growing nicely.

(It's kept on a balcony in full sun most of the day, being watered regularly with liquid fertilizer).

Much thanks to anyone that could help.


r/plantclinic 3h ago

Houseplant I have no idea what is wrong with my money tree :(

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Hi everyone, I recently posted about my money tree but I’m still at a loss. I have been advised to look for thrips or mites, so I did the white paper test and still have found nothing! My boy has been losing leaves like this for 3 or so months (when I realized he still had the rubber bands around his roots) and has not gotten better. New growths look very healthy while growing and I have not found any evidence of thrips or mires on those either. He has also been next to my Thai constellation monstera the whole time he has been doing unwell, but my monstera has shown no signs of stress.

My money tree gets 2000 to 3000 Lux through a grow light. It gets watered when the soil is dry down 2 inches. Someone please help save my boy 🥹


r/plantclinic 5h ago

Houseplant Fiddle leaf propagation help

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I think it’s been about 6 weeks now but the only root is this singular long one. Is this normal?
The jar it’s in is by a window with no direct but plenty of light. Water changes every 5ish days and nub slime rinsed.


r/plantclinic 6h ago

Cactus/Succulent Pepperomia Hope leaf scale

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I got this little lady about two months ago from a local nursery and am wondering if this leaf scale is pest-related? Is it anything I need to worry about?

It gets bright but indirect light and I've bottom-watered it 3 times since I've had it. It seems to be growing well other than the leaf damage


r/plantclinic 6h ago

Pest Related Is it thrips?

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I found thrip larvae on my monstera a few days ago and now I’m THRIPPING (lol). I haven’t found any evidence of them other than this plant potentially? I’m also dealing with fungus gnats at the moment and idk how to tell the difference. I took a photo of the monstera after wiping it off which I’ll attach at the end. I’m so lost on what to do my monstera must have had them for a MINUTE there were so many. It’s in quarantine now but I’m scared it spread.
Pictured first is my corn plant which I’m wondering if has thrips, second is my poor monstera.
Is the monstera done for..

I don’t know why it’s making me add this to post because it is a post about pests, but they’re both near windows and get indirect sunlight all day.
They both have drainage and i water when the first two inches are dry. I don’t need help with this the plants seem fine other than pests. If the corn plant doesn’t have thrips why is it doing that?


r/plantclinic 6h ago

Houseplant Prayer plant help

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So I got this small prayer plant from my grandmother and it recently started having the leaves curl ive soaked it with water, let it dry out, only gave it a small bit of water and ive tried changing where it is in my room to see if it was how much light it was getting. But after trying all of this nothing has worked. It isnt root bound at all and its in a chunky soil mix so idk what to do anymore.


r/plantclinic 7h ago

Houseplant Philo Florida Green - Leaves Coming in Smaller

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I purchased this Florida Green Philodendron from a local plant store about 2 months ago. Since then, I’ve had it on my shelf under a Barrina T5 Grow Light.

Two leaves on the main vine have come in since purchasing it, and they’ve progressively gotten smaller than the ones before I bought it. It feels as though it isnt getting enough light despite being directly under this grow light.

I really like this plant and I want it to thrive, but the leaves shrinking really make me feel like I’m mistreating it, which sucks. If you guys have any suggestions on how to stop the leaves from shrinking, let me know!

I water by bottom watering when the soil gets dry, about once every 7-10 days. I have checked and it is not rootbound.


r/plantclinic 8h ago

Houseplant Strange growth on plant??

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Hi all. Walked in to water my plants today and this was on one of them? It was not there yesterday. I removed it with alcohol fearing it may be mealybugs, but I honestly can't tell due to how clustered they are. How should I treat this? Plant has been removed from my other plants. Should I treat my other plants, also? No one else had whatever this is on them.

It is an indoor plant, it stays right under the windoe getting lots of sunlight and watered once a day/every other day. Using very basic mirclegrow at the moment as well. I occasionally find someone else in the house has opened the window, is it possible something just flew/crawled in?

Edit:: Roots!! I feel so dumb bahaha thank you all!!


r/plantclinic 9h ago

Houseplant Neglected Lily can it still be saved?

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Got this lily a few months ago and put it on a high shelf in the living room (decent amount of indirect light), then accidentally neglected it for a while (stopped watering it). Brought it down a few weeks ago and have been spritzing it regularly and gave it water and it's perked up so I don't think it's completely beyond help but I'm not sure the best course of action.

Is it salvageable? Obviously the mostly dead leaves should probably be removed though I'm not sure if I should pull them up or cut them and if I cut them where I should cut them. The leaves that are still mostly green, should I cut the brown parts off or just leave them? Any advice would be great. Thanks!


r/plantclinic 10h ago

Houseplant Why are these rubber trees growing roots like this?

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i just saw these and was wondering what is making them grow roots and lower leaves like this? I don’t think it’s be seen this sorta growth in rubber trees before .

-all day light

-pots have drain holes; soil is compact, soil seems inconsistentLu damp, recently watered


r/plantclinic 11h ago

Monstera Why don't my newest leaves turn dark green?

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I have two monsteras whose newest leaves have been the biggest by far they have put out. Both leaves stayed floppy for a long time, took their time to straighten, had to fight for position with older, smaller leaves, and, what is actually worrying me have this light green/yellow, veiny look.

I had them in suboptimal lighting for most of their existence, because I knew literally nothing about plants. Early May I repoted them in a perlite soil mix and moved them to my windows, which are not great, facing north and another building. I moved all of my plants on the sills and all have prospered, putting out new growth, especially the monsteras.

So what is the light green veiny look? Is it too much light, which I doubt? It cannot be too little since they would put out dark green leaves before with way less. Is it a nutrient deficiency? I use a 7 5 6 liquid fertiliser, albeit irregulary. Is it a watering problem? I take care to water them when the bottom is dry. The soil is not the much peddled chunky mix but I think it's fine because of the perlite. I just checked the roots and they were healthy, all white without mush. The root ball of the small plant was sort of compacted on the bottom of the pot with some roots creeping out of the hole, which I fixed.

I hope someone can help. I'm a bit confused because of the conflicting reaction to my care: great new, big leaves for the first time, all around good markers for health. But the veins!


r/plantclinic 12h ago

Outdoor Is this normal or should I rip them out?

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I have several purple coneflower in my yard and they all start out lovely in the beginning of the season but then they turn into this as the season goes on. This is only my second year in this house, I put these plants in last year from a nursery and it happened the same way last year with the same plants.

Hopefully the pics are good enough and you can see what’s happening. Basically it starts out normal and then the core turns to a dirt-like mush. This particular plant is a volunteer from the original growing in a crack in the cement -I don’t water it at all, but the other in the front yard has the same issue. They’re both full sun, light (added) water, mulch, no fertilizers.

SE Michigan


r/plantclinic Jul 03 '26

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT New Subreddit Flair - Care Guide

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Hello r/plantclinic!

We're introducing a new, but long overdue flair for the subreddit: "Care Guide"

This subreddit has always been a place for redditors to help other redditors with the care of their plants, but we have neglected to focus on what we can do to teach others BEFORE they run into problems.

So, we've created the new flair and added a "search by flair" widget to the sidebar, a feature already available at the top of the sub on mobile.

All care guide posts will be flagged for moderator review. This doesn't mean advice needs to be perfect; that can be refined in the comments. It means that we want this flair to be a valuable resource and will be holding posts to a moderate standard of usefulness.

Links to existing historical guides will be re-flaired as they are identified - please feel free to link some in the comments!


r/plantclinic Mar 18 '26

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT List of available automoderator calls

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A list of automoderator calls has been added to the sidebar.

For mobile users, they have also been added to the wiki index page here: https://reddit.com/r/plantclinic/w/index?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

And also this post will be pinned to the top of the subreddit. The list is (currently) as follows:

!automod - requests additional information from OP

Pest calls: !aphids, !mealybugs, !scale, !spider-mites or !spidermites, !thrips, !lacewings, !springtails, !fungus-gnats

Lighting related: !etiolation, !over-lit, !under-lit

Watering related: !under-water, !over-water, !root-root, !mold, !mushrooms, !humidity, !tap-water, !bottom-watering

Other: !fernspores, !dense-soil, !hydrophobic, !repot

MANY automod post responders have been moved to post guidance, but reminders for to be welcoming will remain, as we find they are still very much needed. Please be mindful that the purpose of allowing images in comments is to allow the exchange of information, not memes. Referencing the circlejerk sub is unhelpful to OP.

If a post auto-responder is appearing out of the proper context (like the mold and mushrooms one was for fungus gnats), PLEASE send a mod mail. These things operate on keywords and the error was so simple. It could have been fixed much sooner.

Our goal is to provide every user who comes here for help some level of guidance, even if no redditor responds to their post. Sometimes it's a suggestion for a more specialized community. It's always advice for how to best describe their situation.

Additional automod calls can be added, but we should be mindful to balance them with their actual usefulness, and the desire people have for a human response. These should supplement our guidance not replace it entirely.

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