Why are my leaves so..SAD?
Hi all, been struggling with my Mickey Mouse taro 😩 it had gorgeous big, well variegated leaves. Then I moved it to pon. Then it got spider mites. So I treated it with insecticidal spray and have been using neem as a preventative. The leaves now though are coming out very small and very crinkly. Any ideas how to encourage it to it's former glory?? #taro #alocasia #thatalaskalife (just sprayed, forgive the droplets!)
3ft to light, direct
4” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 years ago
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Though I have no experience with Mickey Mouse Taro, I dooo with Spider annoying Mites 🤦🏻♀️ But first, when you moved it to pon, was it still doing good and liking the new “home”? Now, the spider mites, I would spray the insecticidal spray on a napkin or soft cloth and wipe the leaves and continue to do it every other day. That’s what I’ve done to plants that got spider mites and had little to no damage to the leaves. The other option, which I did to my calathea and now I have 2 beautiful leaves, is to cut the leaves and to let it put energy into giving you a new healthy leaves instead of maintaining the existing damaged one(s).