I’m worry she has some kind of plague. She looks healthy, but has this white stuff all over her leaves.
by rosevibe
I’m worry she has some kind of plague. She looks healthy, but has this white stuff all over her leaves.
by rosevibe
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Nooooo I’m so sorry to say this, but it looks like mealybugs. They are almost dang near impossible to get rid of. I had to trash like 10 mature plants that I propagated myself.
I’ve read that dots like that are the plant discharging minerals. Do they move around?
Mealy bugs or salt deposits, spray with water and detergent and really cover it in the stuff. Repeat as many times as you need every 4 days
Definitely minerals. Definitely not mealybugs
Minerals/salts. Jades do that. You may also notice the fully dried up leaves are very flaky, same thing.
It could be mineral deposits from the pores on the leaves. However. The damage to the leaf margins have me wondering if they might be thrips. Have you wiped the leaves down with a damp cloth? If they go away but come back in the same spots it’s mineral deposits.
But if they come off and don’t come back in those spots I would get a systemic pesticide to treat for thrips. Check out thrips damage to succulents on Google images. Leaf margins turning brown, yellowing spots on the leaves, white “dust” on top of the leaves, black spots under the leaves…that’s thrips. They are a huge pain in the ass and my plants would have fared a lot better if I had listened to the person on the plant clinic sub. The white dust I saw on top of the leaves truly looked just like specks of white dust to me so I just wiped the plants down. I should have isolated them and treated immediately. I lost all my pothos and most of my spider plants, along with my portulacaria bonsai that I had hand trimmed over the course of 5 years to look like a gnarled tree, all of my graptosedums, and severely damaged my snake plants. 🙁
A systemic pesticide won’t hurt your plant so if you’re unsure you can treat the plant with the pesticide as a prophylactic.