The Dangers of Plant Blogs (A Cautionary Tale)
What started as a normal morning turned into a full spiral involving Google, quarantines, and a pair of scissors I should not have trusted myself with. This post is a cautionary tale about plant parent panic, misinformation, and how reading too many plant blogs can convince you your plant is on the brink of death.
QUIET AT HOME
Valerie
1/31/20264 min read
The day began as usual I arose from bed and started turning on my plant lights waking everyone up for the day. Good morning, Mrs. Peace Lilly, Good morning Mr. Pothos, and then I saw it. Mrs. Pink Princess had this weird looking bumpy Ish discoloration thingy that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. I started inspecting her under a microscope, what is going on? Oh no, there were other patches!! Two others, smaller than this monster on her beautiful new leaf but OMG!
Now my day was full, I began inspecting everyone one by one, my Monstera, beautiful as always, my Birkin, great, my Polly, always a stunner. OK, I started to relax a little and then I saw my White Wizard!! Same exact thing!! awful copperish looking roughish weird looking patches.
I scoured the internet and found everything from thrips to spider mites, to Scale. It could be anything?! So, I did what any good plant owner would do, and I started poisoning them on the regular. 😭😭
This is their survivor’s story.
They were immediately quarantined, separated from the fam and doused with poisons things started looking bleak! And this is where I freaked out, before I realized what I was even doing I started chopping away in some sort of fear induced frenzy and when I came out of it only two leaves were left. A single tear fell from my eye but a part of me deep down knew or thought I knew it needed to be done.
And although we are not quite there yet they have officially been resurrected out of the quarantine closet and are sitting in their rightful place.
Was it thrips, maybe, was it spider mites, maybe was it blight, no, I’m pretty positive that I was wrong there. Which is what brings me to this post. . .when in doubt, put down the scissors, take a breath, hopefully you will heed this warning before you end up chopping one of your best friends into pieces.
My PPP is growing again, The White Wizard is recovering, and I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks for reading
-Valerie 🤍
The Dangers of Plant Blogs
(A Cautionary Tale)
The day began as usual I arose from bed and started turning on my plant lights waking everyone up for the day. Good morning, Mrs. Peace Lilly, Good morning Mr. Pothos, and then I saw it. Mrs. Pink Princess had this weird looking bumpy Ish discoloration thingy that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. I started inspecting her under a microscope, what is going on? Oh no, there were other patches!! Two others, smaller than this monster on her beautiful new leaf but OMG!
Now my day was full, I began inspecting everyone one by one, my Monstera, beautiful as always, my Birkin, great, my Polly, always a stunner. OK, I started to relax a little and then I saw my White Wizard!! Same exact thing!! awful copperish looking roughish weird looking patches.
I scoured the internet and found everything from thrips to spider mites, to Scale. It could be anything?! So, I did what any good plant owner would do, and I started poisoning them on the regular. 😭😭
This is their survivor’s story.
They were immediately quarantined, separated from the fam and doused with poisons things started looking bleak! And this is where I freaked out, before I realized what I was even doing I started chopping away in some sort of fear induced frenzy and when I came out of it only two leaves were left. A single tear fell from my eye but a part of me deep down knew or thought I knew it needed to be done.
And although we are not quite there yet they have officially been resurrected out of the quarantine closet and are sitting in their rightful place.
Was it thrips, maybe, was it spider mites, maybe was it blight, no, I’m pretty positive that I was wrong there. Which is what brings me to this post. . .when in doubt, put down the scissors, take a breath, hopefully you will heed this warning before you end up chopping one of your best friends into pieces.
My PPP is growing again, The White Wizard is recovering, and I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks for reading
-Valerie 🤍
The Dangers of Plant Blogs