My household has had this cash plant for about 30 years. Currently, most of the vines have dried out and the older leaves have dry brown “spots”. We water the plant day by day and mist it with peppermint-infused water as soon as each two weeks to stop infestations. Does the plant want repotting or is there an infestation? It sits in a Housing Board hall and beforehand thrived in the identical location.
Geetha Kamala Kanthan
Your cash plant (Epipremnum aureum) is badly infested with scale bugs, a sort of sap-sucking pest. Over time, it might weaken and deteriorate. Peppermint water will not be prone to be efficient in coping with the pests.
The plant will develop higher in a spot which will get 4 to 6 hours of filtered daylight. A scarcity of sunshine could make crops extra vulnerable to pests and ailments.
To handle the pests, prune the plant and use a smooth toothbrush to take away as many scale bugs as you possibly can. You’ll be able to then spray the plant with summer season oil, which is an environment-friendly pesticide generally bought in native nurseries. It really works by suffocating the pests, so thorough protection of the plant is required. Repeated functions could also be wanted to eradicate subsequent generations of the pests.
Older crops could also be naked in components. You’ll be able to prepare new vines to develop over such areas to hide them.
- Solutions by Dr Wilson Wong, an NParks-certified practising horticulturist, parks supervisor and ISA-certified arborist. He’s the founding father of Inexperienced Tradition Singapore and an adjunct assistant professor (Meals Science & Know-how) on the Nationwide College of Singapore.
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