Plant
Overwatering vs. underwatering: how to tell two wilts apart
A wilting plant can be bone dry or drowning. Use pot weight, moisture 5 cm down, smell and leaf texture to diagnose it in a minute and apply the right fix.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsYellow leaves on houseplants: read the pattern to find the cause
Which leaves yellow, and how, points to the cause: old-leaf turnover, wet roots, low light, cold, pests or nutrients. A pattern-by-pattern diagnostic guide.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsRoot rot in houseplants: diagnosis, rescue and prevention
Root rot starts with oxygen-starved roots in wet mix and ends with Pythium or Phytophthora. How to confirm it, cut it out, save cuttings and stop it coming back.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsBrown leaf tips: causes, fixes and how to trim them
Brown tips mark where water and salts run out at the leaf’s edge. Trace the cause — salts, fluoride, dry air, irregular watering or damaged roots — and fix it.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsFungus gnats: how to break the four-week breeding cycle in potting mix
Fungus gnat larvae live in the top 5 cm of damp potting mix. Learn their life cycle, how to find the source pot, and how to combine drying, BTi and sticky cards.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsSpider mites on houseplants: catch them before the webbing
Two-spotted spider mites complete a generation in 7–10 days in warm, dry rooms. Learn the early stippling signs, how to confirm them, and a treatment schedule that works.
4 min readRead guide Plant problemsFertilizer burn in houseplants: diagnose it, flush it, recover
Brown leaf margins, dead root tips and a white crust on the mix point to soluble-salt injury. Learn how fertilizer burn happens, how to leach a pot and when to repot.
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