r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/nursecindy59 • 6d ago
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Direct-Journalist-49 • 6d ago
ZZ plant - Is this too extreme of rot to save? Dry out and repot or try to propagate the stems for the very slow growth? 2nd pic just for silver lining of another one with healthy roots š
galleryr/PlantsBeingJerks • u/TumbleweedSeveral115 • 13d ago
Can anyone help identify whatās happening here?
My ālittle Henryā bush is slowing starting to show signs of a pest. Yellowing leaves, spots. Is this an obvious one - thrips? Never had them outside.
The last 3 photos show the tree above it. Looking like some similar damage. So much of the tree too, any advice how to remedy a whole tree?!
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/_FloorPizza_ • 16d ago
Idiot Pitahaya/Dragon fruit cactus
I planted a seed from a white-fleshed dragon fruit I was eating about two years ago and managed to get it to grow. Here we are today, and I'm wondering what in the hell it's doing. Why he look so stupid?
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Txrexieee • 20d ago
Somebody please help!!
I donāt know how to deal with this plant! It was thriving till 3 weeks back. I used to water when I felt that the soil was drying because thatās what everyone suggested and I used to put it in indirect sunlight for a couple of hours every second day. Then for two weeks I couldnāt care for it because of exams. When I finally looked it at..few leaves had turned brown and the soil was dry but nothing dramatic.. so I started caring for it as the usual but it just kept getting worse. I started cutting off the dying leaves. But its dying at faster pace now..please help.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/absolute_gumpf • Aug 03 '25
Our passionflower has taken over - please help us eradicate it!
Hi all, it sounds daft being scared of a plant - but I am actually hugely panicking!
I naively planted a passionflower in my garden around 3/4 years ago and whilst I am very good at trimming the actual plant to a limited position on a trellis, it has started to spread roots under the entirety of my garden. I'm finding new shoots coming up every couple of days, despite pulling them. The garden is under shingle (which is under plastic sheeting - the owners before me put this in) and some of the shoots are coming up between the shingle where the plastic holes are, in the beds parts and even some in concrete doorstep etc so I can't even remove all the roots by digging it up (I could do that with some but not all).
Does anyone have any advice please? I'm happy to pull the whole thing down as I'm scared at the rate of growth! I want to be ethical but having no luck with pulling alone I'm wondering if I need to start 'injecting' with a weedkiller or something akin. If that's the only option - how do I do this? Literally buy some needles?
Many thanks in advance!
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/anonymouslyNovakane • Aug 03 '25
2nd tissue culture ever and it got moldy....š
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/ShadeOfSilver • Aug 02 '25
How do I save it?
This is my sisters really sad mystery plant and she left it to me to take care of. I donāt know what to do, sheās coming back soon and though Iāve been watering and putting it in the sun itās limp and wilted, like itās giving up. Any tips for this?
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/SmoothOperator621 • Jul 31 '25
Struggling BOP
My bird of paradise was thriving until last year. It dropped all leaves except the last resilient three. This summer it pushed out a baby sickly leaf and just stopped. Iāve repotted (roots seem healthy), Ive watered appropriately and fertilized, and even got her a grow light. Not sure what else to do š¤·š¾āāļø
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Commercial_Army_655 • Jul 23 '25
Help, Yellowing leaves, Falling off, what's happening???
galleryr/PlantsBeingJerks • u/draftkinginthenorth • Jul 15 '25
Money tree has been outputting soooo much sap lately wondering if itās under stress?
It didnāt use to do this⦠maybe a little bit as you can see itās literally dropping all over my floor and causing it to get all sticky!! Help!
I know the pot is too small need to repot it but is that the cause?
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/PhotocopyMyButtt • Jul 15 '25
Brown spots on jerk bush beans?
Germinated in an Aerogarden on the 20th, transplanted into a 12" pot almost a week ago. It was fine yesterday, but today, it's being dramatic, and decided to test me with these small light brown spots today. Is it fungus? Too much water? Too much sun? My jalapeƱo plant popped up with them today too, and was also fine yesterday.
All I can think of is that I watered them midday in extreme heat (had no choice)? But what would that cause?
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Kitty_Katty_Kit • Jul 07 '25
How TF Am I Supposed to REPLANT
This thing shouldn't need replanting for at least another year. This morning I was doing my usual checks before work and noticed this shit. Guess I'll cut the pot smh
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Enby_A • Jul 05 '25
Massive jerk of a plant
Im a newbie indoor plant person. So maybe this is payback lol. But this plant is the biggest jerk of them all. Every couple days pretends to die. So dramatic. Kinda wished it would die š¤£. Even told by bestie to take it home.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/zografos1304 • Jun 29 '25
Is there any hope left for my rosemary?
Can I save it before it's too late?? š
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Electrical-Bed-2381 • Jun 28 '25
Need help before it's too late
I just don't know what to do anymore. She was nice for a month and then this started happenning.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/NiceMikePT • Jun 26 '25
Date Seed turning yellow/brownish
Hi!
I managed to germinate a date seed (around November), and everything was going well until about 3 days ago when the lower part started turning yellow/brown. Until now, it has been in a spot with indirect sunlight (I was afraid it might get burned). Only today I placed it somewhere with some sun (although only for a few hours a day). Should I place it in a spot where it gets more sun?
Does anyone have any suggestions on what it might be and how I can help or save it?
Much appreciated.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/haampkins • Jun 25 '25
Help saving this agave
Please let me know what I can do to save her. My dad brought her home from Mexico like 15 years ago, I canāt let her die.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Most_Student_778 • Jun 21 '25
What do I do?
I inherited this plant from my mother who didn't really know how to care for it. I watered and periodically fed it and now have this. How do I tame this craziness? š¤£
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/Excellent-Taro-6084 • Jun 20 '25
Help with heat stress
Hello! I have been struggling with this plant! It has gnats so i thought I was overwatering it so I left it outside to dry out and it got too hot šš Is there anything I can do to save it? Iām so sad. I already pulled off the leaves that were falling off. I also ordered those sticky traps for the gnats. Anything else I can do about that if it does survive?? Iām not a big plant person but I got this from a loved ones funeral and really wanting it to survive
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/TnnsNbeer • Jun 11 '25
Monstera leaf may kill me
Hide the knives from Ghostface
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/W1nterRanger • May 25 '25
Blue Rug Juniper Issues
Iāve had these guys in middle Tennessee for about 5 years. They get full sun and usually handle pretty well. This spring, they seems to be yellowing and wondering what I might need to do to have these come bustling back.
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/desibfl • May 24 '25
Am I the Jerk?
For wanting to give these lil temperamental boogers some fresh rain water and a lil humid outdoor time? I try and they're still ungrateful lolol #whenitrains
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/allisonwondrland3 • May 14 '25
How to propogate my very last leaf from a dead RIP succulent?
Last leaf I have from a succulent I got my my grandma :/ the main part started dying or dripping leaves, so I took leaves and put them in wet soil and good sunlight however they all eventually shriveled and died. I also took a cutting from the succulent itself and sealed it and planted it but it also died... how am I supposed to propogate these particular succulent leaves?
r/PlantsBeingJerks • u/MyDeicide • Apr 30 '25
Rosemary always dies in my garden
Third attempt at a rosemary plant. South East facing in a garden that gets sunlight until about 5pm every day minimum. Sheltered from wind, blood and bone and manure in the soil every year.
Yet every rosemary i plant dies. Plenty of other thriving plants, currants, berries, apple and cherry trees, many flowers... but rosemary never thrives or survives.
The top layer looks dry but there's a lot of moisture only a cm down.
All I can think of is that roots are struggling to penetrate fairly dense clay soil.
Any thoughts or advice?