About a year ago I bought, (adopted), a plant who I have named Cupid - Cupid is a Heart -Leaf Philodendron. She was growing and doing great until the time came to upgrade her pot.
I moved her from the plastic green container she came in, into a white ceramic flower pot - I was unaware that my plant needed holes at the bottom of the container she was in so that excess water was able to escape from the soil -
Within a few weeks cupids new leaves were all brown and dying - so I looked up the symptoms that my plant had at the website: http://houseplants-care.blogspot.com/2007/01/heart-leaf-philodendron-plant-care.html
and learned that I had to remove the dead leaves - which I did - and which left Cupid a little bare...
Months later as I was petting Cupid's leaves I noticed that she had gotten infected with spider mites!!! I wanted to throw her in the garbage, I'm not gonna lie......but I went back to the website and learned that I needed to move her into a plastic pot with holes at the bottom, and that I had to spray her with a mixture of mouthwash/dish soap and water every day, and let her soil get completely dry - Which has gotten rid of the nasty spider mites, which are little tiny white spiders that are almost unnoticeable to the naked eye.
A couple months have passed and over the past few weeks I've noticed that Cupid is sprouting new leaves on each of her existing ones and the spider mites are dead and gone. Makes me happy that I held in there and loved her even when she was nasty!
XOX
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