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Brown spots on rubber plant


Anyone experiences this with their rubber plant before? I suspect it’s some sort of fungus. I have removed it before with a soft, damp cloth but it keeps coming back. Only on a few of the leaves but the ones that have it are covered on the top and bottom side.

I water it twice a week because it has been very hot and the soil is drying out quickly and is usually placed in the corner by the window where it receives indirect sunlight.

by goblingrace

23 Comments

  2. helmfard

    Goodness. Very bad scale infestation.

  3. Daisy23199

    Systemic in the soil. Put rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball to clean them off. Repeat wiping them off each day or two until they stop coming back.

  4. inferno-pepper

    Scale! Use rubbing alcohol and a q-tip to remove those dots. Spray the crap out of your plant religiously with half rubbing alcohol half water solution. Use diatomaceous earth powder on the soil.

    Quarantine this plant from your others. Be okay with losing this plant and just toss it all (pot included) into the trash if you can’t save it.

  5. braindead089

    What a nice… variegation. 😂

  8. BlackRoseInTheGarden

    One of the worst scale infections I have ever seen.

  10. Safe-Site4443

    Time to get out the flame thrower.

  11. Mister_Silk

    I would trash it, honestly. That infestation is severe and a rubber tree plant just isn’t worth the aggravation it would take to fix this level of scale infestation, not to mention the risk to all your other plants.

  13. TransporterAccident_

    Just throw it out and buy a new plant. You’re going to have to put a ton of work and money into getting the scale off and it might come back. Probably a good idea to toss the pot too.

  16. Suicidalsidekick

    Looks like you’ve got some rubber tree in your scale farm!

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