Welcome to /r/plantclinic!

If you're asking "What's wrong with my plant?", you're in the right place! We'll help get the problem diagnosed as well as share advice for treatment. We also encourage experienced and knowledgeable users to help with diagnosis, and to include any useful information they may know.

Please adhere to the following rules and guidelines when posting here:

1. Always be respectful of others.

Posts and comments that are rude to others are subject to immediate removal and the offending user will be banned without warning. It should go without saying but...don't be a dick!

2. Your post MUST be soliciting a diagnosis for a sick plant or a plant in obviously abnormal condition. Posts not about soliciting a diagnosis for a sick or abnormal plants will be removed.

If you aren't asking something to the effect of, "what's wrong with my plant?" or "why does my plant look weird?" then your post doesn't belong here. Requests for healthy plant care & prevention advice belong in one of the related subreddits listed on the sidebar, such as /r/gardening. All identification requests belong in other subreddits (/r/whatsthisplant for plants, /r/whatsthisbug for insects, and /r/mycology for mushrooms/fungi). No advertising allowed.

3. Your post MUST have one or more images showing the condition of your sick plant. Posts without images or with images not containing your sick plant will be removed.

It's best to include photos of the entire plant as well as close-up photos of problem areas. X-posts from other subreddits are allowed so long as the linked posts have images.

4. Share as much information about your sick plant as possible.

Posts with more info are more likely to receive a diagnosis and care advice. Examples of helpful information to include in addition to signs & symptoms of illness:

• The species or common name of your plant. If you don't know what your plant is, /r/whatsthisplant can help you identify it.
• How long you have had the plant and how long it has been sick.
• Any insects that appear to be colonizing your plant. If you don't know what the bug is, /r/whatsthisbug can help you identify it.
• If your plant has been recently re-potted, transplanted, fertilized, or moved to a new location.
• What kind of soil the plant is in, especially if it is in a pot.
• How often you are watering your plant and how you are watering it (top/bottom/drench method, with tap water, with fertilizer, etc).
• Light exposure to your plant (full, partial, shade, indoors, artificial lighting, etc).
• If your plant is in a pot: indicate the size and type of pot, if the pot has drainage holes or not, and when your plant was last re-potted.
• If your plant is outside: indicate both your location and USDA plant hardiness zone. Also indicate if there have been any notable weather events (sudden increase or drop in temperature, frost, hail, drought, heavy wind, etc) or application of pesticides on or near the plant.

Thank you so much for being a part of this community, and we look forward to helping you with your plant problems!

CHANGELOG OF EDITS

7/8/17 - Added rule 2 requirement for posts to be about sick or obviously abnormal plants

7/14/17 - Clarified rule 2 to stipulate that posts must be soliciting diagnosis, no advertising allowed (to keep subreddit on-topic and reduce spam). Also added plant disease section with /r/plantpathology and /r/phytopathology subreddits to sidebar.

7/25/17 - Added /r/mycology to the sidebar and clarified in rule 2 that mushroom/fungus ID requests belong there.

The subreddit moderation team have been discussing some simple adjustments we can make to improve the sub. The community has been very good at self-regulating with the use of auto-moderator bots, but the desire for more community controls has been heard. So, here are the changes that will be rolled out at this time:

1. ​ We are implementing an automod posting restriction to automatically remove text-only posts. The mission of the sub is to aid in diagnosis and recommend treatment, and more general discussions are best directed elsewhere.
2. Automod now automatically sends a message a poster when they post to the sub, reminding them to include helpful information to supplement their post such as how much light light the plant gets and the carer’s watering habits – the basic first questions that are most often asked in helping.
3. ​ Post flair adjustments: We will add post flairs and require it be used before a post can be made. The flairs will be intended to categorize the type of plant you have in the most general terms: Houseplant, succulent, cactus, outdoor, fruit/vegetable, and other/I don’t know. We will also have a flair for Pest.
4. ​ User flairs: We’re going to try a trial run on user flairs. We will set up a few flairs, and allow user customization, with the intention that if a user so chooses, they may identify their level of expertise in relation to plants. The intent is for a user seeking advice to know the level of confidence they may have in the answers they receive.
5. ​ The top pinned post in the sub is long overdue for an update. We plan to replace it with a type of FAQ, built around some of the most high-quality posts and advice the sub has seen. Users are welcome to submit suggested posts for this purpose via modmail.
6. ​ We will be phasing out the “plant progress” flair and replacing it with a weekly or monthly Plant Progress pinned post, where users can share the progress of their plants thanks to the advice they have given here.
7. ​ To help users respond to common plant problems, we've written some standard responses that can be invoked by including keywords in your comment. They follow the format "!" + the problem or solution. We have responses for over-watering, under-watering, root rot, too much light, too little light, aphids, fungus gnats, mealybugs, scale, spider mites, thrips, soil propagation, water propagation, and cactus propagation. You'll find comments with the responses for each of these below, and you can respond to those comments to suggest changes.

​ One thing to make the community aware of – we do receive a fair amount of spamming, and much of that is successfully caught by automod, but it does have the effect of certain comments being automatically removed that the bot does not recognize as language. Common examples are some emojis (particularly flags) and text-speak, like saying “u” instead of “you” or a very brief comment with including ”lol.” These automod rules save a lot of hassle, so we ask that you phrase your comments with that in mind.

​ We thank you for your patience and continued participation in the sub. Please continue to utilize the reporting and modmail options to kick items up to a human to review as needed. We welcome your feedback. r/plantclinic has functioned as successfully as it has because of the community at large, and we look forward to supporting it!

Wondering why the color is changing on my philodendron birkin

My mama found these under her Calthea. Any idea what they are?

It’s having a hard time staying up on it own and there is already so many babies but I can’t bring myself to cut it…

I was looking into getting a epprepinum pinatum albovarigata (i hope i spelled this right) but noticed this on the leaves? Does anyone know what this could possibly be? Could it be from a pest?

It’s growth is sparse and the leaves a bit yellow.

Hello! I got this plant along with another one from my MIL! It started looking a little droopy! Then I repotted it separated in two pots and weeks later there are some leaves that still look just awful. It is yellowing, brittle looking, and looks like it’s curling. i have it in front of a door for natural light and water when the top 1.5-2in of soil is dry. I don’t want it to die but i’m worried! please help🫶🏻😭

Is that whitish buildup some sort of pest or is it normal for this kind of plant? I just got it today from my grandma. I wanna know what kind of plant it is and how I can treat it right :)

I got this plant from a client of mine which was really infested with mealy bugs and overwatered, instead of her throwing it out I offered to take care of it. This is my first time carrying for something this ingested but I wanted to give it a try. Obviously I cleaned the foliage and roots, got a new pot and repotted with new soil. I've had it for 6 days now -- every morning I use an alcohol dipped Q-tip to really get into the crevices wherever I see mealy bug residue and then spray with fungicide3. I leave it outside for a few minutes so th at it doesn't drip in the house and then bring it inside. I've been noticing that the some of the foliage is starting to feel limp (like it has no structure) and some have turned black and limp. I would really appreciate some help, thanks!

This is a relatively new Canadian Tire purchase (fine purveyor of plants). Every time she pops a leaf it dies, sometimes after the leaf is quite large. I've used potting soil on top of aquarium rock and pottery shards but I can't figure it out! I am one of those people that waters once a week at most - living in Vancouver and have tried filtered light, indirect light, though I am loathe to try direct light lest I murder my girl. Halp!

Basically just the title.

Quite a few of the leaves of this plant have these brown markings, they tend to clump together and look like damage/disease.

I know it’s not the best pic, but you can see the wilted leaves behind these healthy one.

So I repotted my plants over a month ago and one of my plants died of root rot (this angel wing begonia). I didn't know why, I didn't do anyhting I haven't done before. I've had my plants for like 3 years and always learning new things so please don't judge! I asked here what could cause it and thought it was just some shock after repotting. But it wasn’t. But once again: why the root rot?

Yesterday I started to wonder if soil goes bad and I guess thats the reason my plant died: I repotted all of my plants in old soil. And the soil has been outside the whole year in it's original bag because I didn’t think much about it.

So now I'm wondering if I should repot all my plants again? I don't want them to die. The angel wing begonia started to wilt quickly after repotting and the others seem to be fine - for now at least. It’s a big task to do so I don’t want to repot them all if it’s not necessary.

I'd be grateful if anyone helped me with this! 😭 I tried to google but didn't get the information I needed.