What is this on my Aloe Vera ?? I'm about to chuck it !!!

im telling you a good spray and they wont come back or you could divide the rootball and pick a clean pup to plants. keep the vera around its a miracle plan.

mealy bugs are low down on the list of troublesome pests.

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It needs a new home, bigger pot. I have 2 of them (different properties). The other one has had the pups cut off since the other day. This one is intertwined with several others so it would be hard to separate them.

I like the pot it's in for a Mother plant perhaps. Problem is that I've got some MJ on the other side - about 1 M away.

Will Neem work for now? Or that pyrthrum spray is really strong??

What do u think ?

ps. I nearly got sunburnt today so it may come in handy !!

neem or pyrethrin would work. both perhaps, if its needed.

Originally Posted by polyarcturus

neem or pyrethrin would work. both perhaps, if its needed.

Hi, I've got both. I could do a strong Neem solution at 0.5% dilute or a bit less with the pyrethrin spray as it's so strong. I had routinely sprayed it with Neem which may have helped keep them at bay. I'm going to sturate them on the next treatment. Already less present since the last spray.

My 'gardening' friends who have the same in their tent didn't have a clue so thanks for this info, it would have saved them too. They're in their 40's and have been gardening for a couple of decades, and growing MJ for 2 years on a 6 light operation so it was really surprising that they thought it was fungus !!

Been having too much fun catching fungus knats indoors to treat it properly. Like the potato skin trick.

hell yeah im not even a gerdner lol. i barley know what im doing half the time, its just resisting the urge to jump to conclusions.thats main problem instead of acing that moment the key is to experiment a little rather than say fuck it, example,
plants run yellow,so you assume pH, when it was simply over watered for about a month. so they change the pH versus where i would wait several days(i never water when i think things are wrong) to see what happens. theirs gets worse mine gets better. less is more. IMO

Originally Posted by lahadaextranjera

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It needs a new home, bigger pot. I have 2 of them (different properties). The other one has had the pups cut off since the other day. This one is intertwined with several others so it would be hard to separate them.

ps. I nearly got sunburnt today so it may come in handy !!

You could easily divide that aloe into 2 or 3 plants if you needed to.....Perhaps just a huge pot to put it in if you want to keep it?!!?!? Also, be sure to feed it the Bloom Formula and not the Grow formula. But be aware that your aloe will grow super-fast, tho! I use it lightly but regularly!! Only 7 drops of 5-10-5 bloom formula per 32 Oz distilled water every other watering and my aloe just grows and grows! The grow formula will often discolor the plants tips. Mine usually turn a dark color so I never use the grow formula.... Whenever I need to sooth a burn or even give a piece to my Hispanic maids (they eat the kind I grow), it's a great plant to have around!

I wanted to divide it b4 but all the roots were intertwined. I could kill/sacrifice the smaller two?? It definitely needs a bigger pot !!

I bet you could just cut it into 2 and re-pot it in some nice organic soil and it would survive just fine. Just get some heavy duty scissors or garden tool(s) and cut it it right in two! Then put each one in a nice big pot with fresh dirt! Then soak it with water and your off to a new start!

If not, you could trim off a few new plants w/o doing damage to the center of the rootball. Then just re-pot the new ones in small pots and then re-pot the Main plant in a big one! Then soak with water.....

And remember, the bloom formula not the grow formula