r/plantadvice

Kia ora, living in Wellington NZ where it is currently winter. Grew this avocado tree from seed 1.5 years ago and beheaded it when it was getting too leggy. It's since sprouted from the same spot and continued it's leggy journey, should I behead it at the same spot again and let it bush out? Thanks

I have only noticed these marks for the last two days. It gets good indirect light from a nice big window. About an hour of direct light in the afternoon. Watered when feeling dry. I’ve had these for a few months now never had any issues. Just moved to a new home two weeks ago. It’s colder here. I also cut some stems off a few days ago as it was getting very leggy and I wanted to propagate too.

This is my 2.5 year-old potted lemon meyer tree. Does it need to be pruned? And if so, which branches?

It was recently repotted to a larger container, as pictured. So far, it has only produced 1 lemon, about 1.5 years ago.

Thank you in advance for any guidance!

I have an alocasia variegated frydek that just came out with a full white leaf (still unfurling, seen as lime right now). And then I have this flower bud that’s been taking dayssss to bloom.

My alocasia is usually so happy with 7 leaves and all of them are drooping bc of the extra energy. Wondering if I should cut bc of all the wasted energy cause it’s a WHITE leaf :(

Soooo advice: should I cut the white leaf? The flower bud? Both?

Thanks in advance!!

I'm located in Northern California. A few months ago, I thought I'd try to grow some flowers for the first time. I'm no green thumb, but I am trying! 1 pot of dahlias is doing great, but the other pot's leaves are crumbling away. Is it bugs? (I don't ever see any on the leaves or in the dirt, but I could be missing something.) Is it heat? Is the pot too small? Any advice would be so helpful!

(Slide Descriptions: Slide 1 is the dahlia that is suffering, slide 2 & 3 are close ups of the dahlia issue. The chopsticks were for support from a recently windy day. Slide 4 is my other, happy dahlia that isn't suffering.)

Repoted into succulent mix and it now is showing signs of rotting. I thought I was only watering when necessary but I am new to being a plant dad. Any advice would be appreciated!

Had to replant so used seashells a pebbles and water. Never had one , will this work?

The soil is kind of moist like a centimeter down. Tried brighter and less bright spots, but it keeps getting drier in the leaves. I can’t figure out if it’s overwaters or underwatered, but I think because the leaves are so dry it’s underwatered? Right now it gets lots of afternoon light. The pot has drainage, and I was watering about once a week.

What’s the cause of this??? Underside of almost all the leaves!

I’ve had this monstera for 3 years, bought when it was 1/3 this size. It’s been loving the humidity and sun outside during the warmer months (in Georgia) the past 2 years. (Was inside a dark apartment and didnt fertilize the 1st year, I was new to plants) Last year, it was finally putting out some large beautiful leaves with fenestrations, and mid-summer I spent almost 2 hours (typical) repotting and trying to disentangle my monstera. The two stems were facing opposite each other, and I tried to make it so they both face the same way so the backs were matched up. I don’t think I was very successful. They naturally just didn’t want to change their positions. It’s now super lanky and tall and even though I tried to bury the post solidly, it still leans heavily. Over the winter I had it under its first strong grow light and that’s what made the couple newest leaves stand up so tall over the past few months….thought it was a good thing but now all the lower leaves are just drooping. It just put out a new leaf as well last week.

I just brought it back outside yesterday and was looking at it wondering what I should do about it…should I just cut it off at the bigger healthier part of the stems after the topmost few nodes and try to propagate/ start over in water? I saw a video of someone doing that successfully once but I feel like its such a huge risk. What would be the best way to go about that? Should I just try cutting one off first? And yes, that is a little baby one next to her that I propagated a while ago. It’ll be it’s first time outside this year and I hope to grow this one better. Do I give up on the big one and just go for a thai/albo instead? I don’t want to give up on her completely - I worked hard to get it to where it is now, but everything under the healthy, thicker top part is so sad looking. Its definitely time to start fertilizing again and I know it always perks up once it’s been outside for a while, but with how it looks right now, it’s not bringing me much joy anymore. Would i have a shot starting over by water propagating from the biggest healthiest nodes? Please help, any advice is much appreciated!

I got this from someone 2 days back. Is this sunburn, watering issue or some kind of infection?

Right now it is in my south east facing balcony where it gets plenty of bright indirect sunlight (I am avoiding direct light as it is very hot here). Not sure how it has been watered earlier but as of now soil doesn't look too wet.

How do I address this?