Spots on top of leaf - help?

[Shirley]

Originally Posted by addictedcountryman

oooh... someone told me that if you like take a cotton ball with alcohol and wipe the leaf, if you see tiny red things moving (or they could be dead?) then they are thrips.

I believe that, if the "tiny things" are red, they would be spider mite. They tend to take over when conditions are hot and dry.

[addictedcountryman]

lol sorry, sometimes the words escape me- i meant false spider mites.

[hypersparkle]

My sharry baby has some spotting, but it's little brown spots. I can't get them to show up well with my iPhone pictures. I've read that's normal? It looks like something was eating it a little too at Lowe's, but I haven't seen any new holes since it moved in here. It seems pretty healthy. The flowers are dying off now, but it has been 3 weeks and who knows how long it was in bloom before I got it. It does seem to have a little more spotting. o.O I rubbed the spotted spots with some alcohol and a white papertowel. Nothing. NO red spots.

Here's the sharry baby when I first got it home from Lowe's (ignore my messy bathroom..that's where I took the initial picture. Of course it's no longer in the cloth or anything).



Anyways, back to the phal. Here are the roots. Sadly, this is an improvement from a few weeks ago when I repotted it.



What do you think?

[hypersparkle]

My sharry baby has some spotting, but it's little brown spots. I can't get them to show up well with my iPhone pictures. I've read that's normal? It looks like something was eating it a little too at Lowe's, but I haven't seen any new holes since it moved in here. It seems pretty healthy. The flowers are dying off now, but it has been 3 weeks and who knows how long it was in bloom before I got it. It does seem to have a little more spotting. o.O I rubbed the spotted spots with some alcohol and a white papertowel. Nothing. NO red spots.

Here's the sharry baby when I first got it home from Lowe's (ignore my messy bathroom..that's where I took the initial picture. Of course it's no longer in the cloth or anything).



Anyways, back to the phal. Here are the roots. Sadly, this is an improvement from a few weeks ago when I repotted it.



What do you think?

[Singingirl96]

I just had the same problem with one of my phals.. out of the blue it just got those same type spots on it. What I did was drench it in neem oil (you can get it at lowes). You mix it with water and a couple drops of dishwashing soap (non antibacterial). It treated whatever was causing the spots and although the spots have dried up and will permanently be there, they haven't spread. The plant is doing well, it has new roots and a new baby leaf growing.
So try it, it worked for me, it might work for you.

[addictedcountryman]

i think your roots look healthy....