Some of my rubber plant leaves have taken on this unusually rough texture. Furthermore while I've been writing this out, I've clocked some unusual insects crawling about on the surface of a leave I've plucked out?!
those are the physical manifestations of hell. those are thrips. my honest advice would be to get rid of everything especially that plant. if there are full grown flying adults then the larvae are most likely in multiple plants. depending on where you live determines how good you can treat it. i can’t get bonide systemic where i live so all i have is bug brew and insecticidal soap.
Accomplished_worrier
That’s thrips. Take the plant out of the soil (and get rid of the soil), rinse the whole thing off in your shower or tub and have it dry of there. Remove any really damaged leafs – they lay their eggs in there.
Thoroughly clean the nursery and decorative pot.
Inspect leafs with a flashlight perpendicular to the leaf surface, top and bottom, and remove any white black or brown moving things with a cotton bud or pad soaked in rubbing alcohol. Do a pass during the day and at night. Repot, isolate from all other plants, and do passes every other evening with the rubbing alcohol.
Tanukifan
I have the same type of rubber plant with same thrip damage to the leaves. Been inspecting my plants for any new damage a few times per week, and taking some of them into the shower for a couple of months now. Thrips are such a pain but hopefully I have managed to get rid of them now.
Just gotta keep at it and make sure they don’t get a chance to recover, cause once they reach their adult form they will start laying eggs in the plant tissue and its all back to square one. You can probably expect to find some younger thrips on that same plant in a week or so, even if you shower it
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you’ve got …. thrips!!!! act! now!
!thrips
those are the physical manifestations of hell. those are thrips. my honest advice would be to get rid of everything especially that plant. if there are full grown flying adults then the larvae are most likely in multiple plants. depending on where you live determines how good you can treat it. i can’t get bonide systemic where i live so all i have is bug brew and insecticidal soap.
That’s thrips. Take the plant out of the soil (and get rid of the soil), rinse the whole thing off in your shower or tub and have it dry of there. Remove any really damaged leafs – they lay their eggs in there.
Thoroughly clean the nursery and decorative pot.
Inspect leafs with a flashlight perpendicular to the leaf surface, top and bottom, and remove any white black or brown moving things with a cotton bud or pad soaked in rubbing alcohol. Do a pass during the day and at night. Repot, isolate from all other plants, and do passes every other evening with the rubbing alcohol.
I have the same type of rubber plant with same thrip damage to the leaves. Been inspecting my plants for any new damage a few times per week, and taking some of them into the shower for a couple of months now. Thrips are such a pain but hopefully I have managed to get rid of them now.
Just gotta keep at it and make sure they don’t get a chance to recover, cause once they reach their adult form they will start laying eggs in the plant tissue and its all back to square one. You can probably expect to find some younger thrips on that same plant in a week or so, even if you shower it