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Do I just bin it and take cuttings from the babies

I'd definitely do this 👍

Bing-go.
We changed out all the soil and washed the roots.
Then added yellow stickers and sprayed and watered with neem oil.
The yellow stickers are a very satisfying massacre. We still have some of the gnats, but much less. We still water with neem on a regular basis.
Plants seem much happier, they're really growing like the proverbial cabbage.

Just cut the main stem back to near the base, it will shoot out and create a bushier style plant.

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Once you've done this, there is also a decent chance of being able to get the main stem to root again. Essentially the main stem is the cutting not the babies. Prune the top of the main stem back to some living tissue if the top is dead. A bit where it's green not brown

i am pretty sure these are springtails

Hard to tell from the picture but they could be mealybug

Managed to get a couple of better photos.

Most of the photos for mealy bugs look like they’re on stems and leaves where as this is mostly contained to the soil occasionally outside of the pot. I haven’t had any issues with the leaves and seen nothing on the stems. Although just looking at backs of leaves there are little white marks (on 2 of more than 8 infected plants) I didn’t think these were pest related though

@Rodolfo did you have anymore issues with the springtails or unknown pest since reporting removal of soil or just gnats that improved?

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Do you use tap water to water them?

I do!

The pilea white bobbles are just mineral deposits, not bugs. They cannot process the tap minerals and so form these deposits.

Ah thank you / good to know they’re unrelated to those others critters!

Haven't seen the white buggers anymore and have repotted several plants due the aforementioned crazy growth spurts.
They are definitely not mealy bugs, did a Google for the springtails and they looked exactly like that.
Hadn't seen them before repotting which also worked out with the wikiinfo I then got on them.
Neem oil is a great biological cure all though. Apparently makes the plants taste bad and then the pests die a hunger death.
Bit expensive, but worth it.
The yellow stickers kill the adults before they can respawn so nipping their lifecycle in the bud at the beginning and the end.
Work on your zoom enhance btw, I even managed to make those zoomed pictures with my notoriously bad camera china phone.

Anyone know what to do with spider plants that have flowered? Mine's exploded with four multi stemmed tendrils that are all flowering. Should I wait for them to flower and cut or leave them or something else entirely?

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I cut the baby producing stems at the base. The mother plant always looks much healthier afterwards.

Quite pleased with the recovery of this Oxalis and Poinsettia. Both had lost all their leaves but were repotted and placed on the last chance window sill. Turns out that’s a normal part of a Poinsettia’s life cycle and they go dormant after Christmas, I always just thought I was killing them.

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Bought one of these yesterday. My alocasia aren’t happy, turns out even though I don’t water them often and they have free draining soil, it’s still very wet.

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Oxalis will also go dormant. Ours is still happy after several years in the same pot.

About to repot a variegated rubber plant. It has many aerial roots going pretty wild. Should I keep it at the same depth so the aerial roots remain aerial? Should I trim them back? It's in the same small pot it's been in for a few years so I think it's time for a refresh although it seems happy enough.

Does it have a stake? Not the same but with our monstera we wrap the aerial roots around one of those mossy poles and then try to give that a water as well as the base.

I had a ficus (I think) die on me. Top looked okay so I cut it off and trying to propagate it and go again.
Also got another plant which hasn’t look good since the week after I got it. Not 100% sure what it is. Any ideas? I think I read at the time it likes to be watered with rain water. Cheers

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Calithea I think;

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16025288/

Does anyone have a shelving system to store their plants in winter?

The bottom front of our house gets fuck all sun from now till spring and I'm running out of room. It suddenly occured to me that if we had a mini rack of shelves - a bit like those argos shoe racks that fall apart. Then I could double or triple up the plants by our french doors.

Some good sized houseplants looking for a new (puppy-free) home here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/392004

Got this white fungus/mould on the soil of some my indoor pots. Pretty slow growing.

How can I get rid?

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Oak's an interesting choice for indoor plant!

I have three, plus a horse chestnut and two apple trees. I plan to plant them outside somewhere one day.