Thrips!!! In my rubber tree!!

Advice WantedThrips!!! In my rubber tree!!

Posted October 29, 2024 by SatanicPanic in Gardening

My variegated rubber tree I've had for nearly two years was saved from a grocery store and is dear to my heart, and I just realized it has thrips!! It's an office plant, so I've quarantined it with a huge clear, sealed, plastic bag for the moment. Ordered some Bonide Systemic Granules to put in the soil, as I've read that it's one of the few treatments that really works.

I feel terrible I didn't realize this sooner... The poor thing has been getting weird brown leaves for months and I thought it was the lighting. Do rubber tree leaves ever heal? I don't mind either way since I'm committed to this plant, but it would be nice.

Anyone else here had a thrip infestation in their variegated rubber tree?

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a_shrub

August 11, 2023

(Edited August 11, 2023)

I recommend

The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz under the pen name Elizabeth Peters.

*eta: if you can get the audiobooks, the ones read by Barbara Rosenblat are especially good

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carnalflower

September 3, 2023

Amelia Peabody is my absolute fave. I reread the whole series about once a year. And yes the Audiobooks by Rosenblatt are the best!

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Posted October 29, 2024 by SatanicPanic

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