u/krazi_kitti

Mum has this dieffenbachia plant, she’s had it a

Few years now there’s never really been many problems with it but this year it started getting wet soggy leaves here and there that end up dying, particularly in the last couple of months which it’s never done before they get so wet and soggy that they stick to the stems and by that point the leaf is dead. gotta peel them off wet or dry there’s only one in the pictures at the moment but it’s obviously not soggy wet but you can tell it’s been wet and dried….. can anyone tell me why it’s randomly started doing this with its leaves? Mum has lost sooo many leaves from it lately.” It hardly ever gets watered (never has) so it’s DEFFO not overwatered.

Bought these plants two days ago they have been in my mum‘s laundry isolated but I’m going home tomorrow and I have not one space to put any plants to isolate as I already have some in the bathroom isolating. I’m only in a really small two bedroom unit with my daughter. I just got rid of Millie bug babies from the last plant I bought to do every single plant in my unit but they are gone that I know of now is there anyway that I would be able to just spray all of these with isopropyl alcohol and then rinse the alcohol off and repot them into NEW medium before I take them home. Would they be safe enough just to put in my unit not isolated?

I’ve never had any experience with hydrangeas at all. This is actually one of MUM‘s plants she got as a gift this year. This is probably going to be a silly question but all those black spots up the stems. Are they supposed to be there or are they a whole lot of scale bug or something? Also I’ve noticed there’s a whole heap of new growth everywhere all over the plant, so what should I do with all the dead stuff? Leave it there or cut it all back.?